Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's vault


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, United States and Nellie Kim, FIG Women's Artistic Gymnastics Technical Committee President.

Format competition

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

Qualification

Reserves

NameCountryDate of birth
Youngest competitorShallon Olsen
Oldest competitorOksana Chusovitina

Notable moments

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 for the first time in female artistic gymnastic history, but she failed it. It would have been valued with a 6.8 D-Score.