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.

Competition format

The top 8 qualifiers in the qualification phase, 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.
RankGymnastNationTotal
1Simone Biles6.7008.93315.633Q
2Laurie Hernandez6.4008.96615.366Q
3Flavia Saraiva6.3008.83315.133Q
4Sanne Wevers6.3008.76615.066Q
5Catalina Ponor6.2008.70014.900Q
6Fan Yilin6.4008.46614.866Q
7Gabby Douglas6.3008.53314.833–
7Alexandra Raisman6.3008.53314.833–
9Marine Boyer6.2008.40014.600 Q
10Isabela Onyshko6.5008.03314.533 Q
11Elissa Downie5.9008.60014.500R
12Amy Tinkler6.2008.30014.500R
13Tutya Yilmaz6.3008.20014.500R

Final

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