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 Total 1Simone Biles 6.700 8.933 15.633 Q 2Laurie Hernandez 6.400 8.966 15.366 3Flavia Saraiva 6.300 8.833 15.133 4Sanne Wevers 6.300 8.766 15.066 5Catalina Ponor 6.200 8.700 14.900 6Fan Yilin 6.400 8.466 14.866 7Gabby Douglas 6.300 8.533 14.833 –Alexandra Raisman 9Marine Boyer 6.200 8.400 14.600 Q 10Isabela Onyshko 6.500 8.033 14.533 11Elissa Downie 5.900 8.600 14.500 R 12Amy Tinkler 6.200 8.300 13Tutya Yilmaz 6.300 8.200
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:
(T-7th place) (T-7th place)
Final Position Name Difficulty Execution Penalty Total 6.600 8.866 15.466 6.400 8.933 15.333 6.500 8.233 14.7334 6.100 8.500 14.6005 6.300 8.233 14.5336 8.200 14.5007 5.800 8.200 14.0008 6.100 7.300 13.400
Laurie Hernandez and Marine Boyer appealed against their scores, but both inquiries were rejected.
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