Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's balance beam

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

Women's balance beam at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Venue	HSBC Arena
Date	15 August 2016
Competitors	13 from 9 nations
Winning score	15.466
Medalists
Sanne Wevers  Netherlands Laurie Hernandez  United States Simone Biles  United States

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

Main article: Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's artistic 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 States	6.700	8.933		15.633	Q
2	Laurie Hernandez	United States	6.400	8.966		15.366
3	Flavia Saraiva	Brazil	6.300	8.833		15.133
4	Sanne Wevers	Netherlands	6.300	8.766		15.066
5	Catalina Ponor	Romania	6.200	8.700		14.900
6	Fan Yilin	China	6.400	8.466		14.866
7	Gabby Douglas	United States	6.300	8.533		14.833	–
	Alexandra Raisman
9	Marine Boyer	France	6.200	8.400		14.600	Q
10	Isabela Onyshko	Canada	6.500	8.033		14.533
11	Elissa Downie	Great Britain	5.900	8.600		14.500	R
12	Amy Tinkler		6.200	8.300
13	Tutya Yilmaz	Turkey	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:

•  Gabby Douglas (USA) (T-7th place)
•  Aly Raisman (USA) (T-7th place)

Final

Position	Name	Difficulty	Execution	Penalty	Total
	Sanne Wevers (NED)	6.600	8.866		15.466
	Laurie Hernandez (USA)	6.400	8.933		15.333
	Simone Biles (USA)	6.500	8.233		14.733
4	Marine Boyer (FRA)	6.100	8.500		14.600
5	Flávia Saraiva (BRA)	6.300	8.233		14.533
6	Fan Yilin (CHN)		8.200		14.500
7	Cătălina Ponor (ROU)	5.800	8.200		14.000
8	Isabela Onyshko (CAN)	6.100	7.300		13.400

1. ^ Laurie Hernandez and Marine Boyer appealed against their scores, but both inquiries were rejected.

Gallery

• 
  Sanne Wevers
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  Laurie Hernandez
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  Simone Biles
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  Flávia Saraiva
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  Fan Yilin
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  Cătălina Ponor
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  Isabela Onyshko