Venue HSBC Arena Competitors 8 from 8 nations | Date 14 August 2016 Winning score 15.966 | |
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.
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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 (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.
Reserves
Notable moments
Simone Biles was the first gymnast since Larisa Latynina at the 1956 Olympics had won team gold, AA gold and vault gold in succession. India made history by making an Olympic final for either men or women' gymnastics. Simone Biles is the first American to have won Olympic gold on the vault. Hong Un-jong tried to perform for the first time in female artistic gymnastic history the TTY (Triple Twisting Yurchenko), but she failed it. It would have been valued with a 6.8 D-Score.