The women's vault competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The event was held at the HSBC Arena on 14 August.

The medals were presented by Larry Probst IOC member, and Nellie Kim, FIG Women's Artistic Gymnastics Technical Committee President.

Competition format The top eight qualifiers in the qualification phase (limit two per NOC) advanced to the apparatus final. Qualification scores were then ignored, with only final round scores counting. Each gymnast performed two vaults.

Qualification

Rank Gymnast Vault 1 Vault 2 Total Score 1 Score 2 1 6.300 9.700 16.000 6.400 9.700 16.100 16.050 2 6.300 9.466 15.766 6.400 9.200 15.600 15.683 3 6.200 9.400 15.600 5.800 9.133 14.933 15.266 4 6.400 8.633 -0.300 14.733 6.300 9.066 15.366 15.049 5 6.200 8.966 15.166 6.000 8.833 14.833 14.999 6 6.300 9.000 15.300 5.900 8.700 14.600 14.950 7 6.000 8.933 14.933 6.200 8.866 −0.100 14.966 14.949 8 7.000 8.100 15.100 6.000 8.600 14.600 14.850

Reserves

Final Name Country Date of birth (Age) Youngest competitor Shallon Olsen (age 16) Oldest competitor Oksana Chusovitina (age 41)

Rank Gymnast Vault 1 Vault 2 Total Score 1 Score 2 6.300 9.600 15.900 6.400 9.633 16.033 15.966 6.400 8.966 −0.100 15.266 6.300 8.941 15.241 15.253 6.200 9.333 15.533 5.800 9.100 14.900 15.2164 6.000 8.866 14.866 7.000 8.266 15.266 15.0665 6.000 8.866 14.866 6.200 8.933 15.133 14.9996 6.400 9.000 15.400 6.300 8.200 −0.100 14.400 14.9007 7.000 7.933 14.933 6.000 8.833 −0.100 14.733 14.8338 6.300 8.666 14.966 5.900 8.766 14.666 14.816

Notable moments Simone Biles was the first gymnast since Larisa Latynina at the 1956 Olympics to win team gold, AA gold and vault gold in succession. Dipa Karmakar made history as the first ever Indian gymnastics event finalist, male or female. Simone Biles is the first American to have won Olympic gold on the vault. Giulia Steingruber's bronze was the first Olympic medal for a native Swiss gymnast in 64 years, and the very first one for the country in women's gymnastics.

Hong Un-jong tried to perform the TTY (Triple Twisting Yurchenko) for the first time in female artistic gymnastic history, but she fell and was only credited with the 2.5 twist, or Amanar. It would have been valued with a 6.8 D-Score.

References

https://www.olympic.org/rio-2016/gymnastics-artistic/vault-women bbc.co.uk