Women's balance beam
at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
VenueHSBC Arena
Date15 August 2016
Competitors13 from 9 nations
Winning score15.466
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Sanne Wevers  Netherlands
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Laurie Hernandez  United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Simone Biles  United States

The women's balance beam competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics was held at the HSBC Arena on 15 August.

Competition format

The top 8 qualifiers in the qualification phase (limit two per NOC), based on combined score of each apparatus, advanced to the individual all-around final. The finalists performed on each apparatus again. Qualification scores were then ignored, with only final round scores counting.

Qualification

The gymnasts who ranked top eight qualified for final round. In cases where there were more than two gymnasts in the same NOC, the last ranked among them would not qualify to the final round. The next best ranked gymnast would qualify instead.

Position Gymnast Nation D Score E Score Penalty Total Qualification
1 Simone Biles United States6.7008.93315.633Q
2 Laurie Hernandez United States6.4008.96615.366
3 Flavia Saraiva Brazil6.3008.83315.133
4 Sanne Wevers Netherlands6.3008.76615.066
5 Catalina Ponor Romania6.2008.70014.900
6 Fan Yilin China6.4008.46614.866
7 Gabby Douglas United States6.3008.53314.833–
Alexandra Raisman
9 Marine Boyer France6.2008.40014.600 Q
10 Isabela Onyshko Canada6.5008.03314.533
11 Elissa Downie Great Britain5.9008.60014.500R
12 Amy Tinkler6.2008.300
13 Tutya Yilmaz Turkey6.3008.200

Only two gymnasts from each country may advance to the balance beam final. Therefore, in some cases, a third and/or fourth placed high enough to qualify, but did not advance to the final because of the quota. Gymnasts who did not advance to the final, but had high enough scores to do so were:

Final

PositionNameDifficultyExecutionPenaltyTotal
1st place, gold medalist(s) Sanne Wevers (NED)6.6008.86615.466
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Laurie Hernandez (USA)6.4008.93315.333
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Simone Biles (USA)6.5008.23314.733
4 Marine Boyer (FRA)6.1008.50014.600
5 Flávia Saraiva (BRA)6.3008.23314.533
6 Fan Yilin (CHN)8.20014.500
7 Cătălina Ponor (ROU)5.8008.20014.000
8 Isabela Onyshko (CAN)6.1007.30013.400
  1. ^ Laurie Hernandez and Marine Boyer appealed against their scores, but both inquiries were rejected.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Rio Event Finals – Balance Beam, The Couch Gymnast, 15 Aug 2016, retrieved 17 Aug 2016
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