Gymnastics at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's vault

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Women's vault
at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Svetlana Boginskaya Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union
Silver medal icon.svg Gabriela Potorac Flag of Romania (1965-1989).svg  Romania
Bronze medal icon.svg Daniela Silivaş Flag of Romania (1965-1989).svg  Romania
  1984
1992  

These are the results of the women's vault competition, one of six events for female competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. The qualification and final rounds took place on September 19, 21 and 25th at the Olympic Gymnastics Hall.

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Results

Qualification

The team competition was also the qualifying competition for the all-around and apparatus events. Eighty-six gymnasts competed in the vault event during the compulsory and optional rounds (of the team event) on September 19 and 21. In the compulsory round each gymnast had one vault, while in the optionals, each had two, with only the best one to count. The gymnasts best optional vault was added to her compulsory vault to give the total preliminary (prelim) score (maximum 20.00). The eight highest scoring gymnasts advanced to the final on September 25. Each country was limited to two competitors in the final. Each gymnast carried over half of her preliminary points to the final. This constitutes the "prelim" score. In the final each gymnast had two vaults which had to be different, with the gymnasts score being the average of the two. This final score was then added to her prelim score to give the final result.

Final

RankGymnastCOC+OPrelimFinalTotal
Gold medal icon.svg Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Svetlana Boginskaya  (URS)9.9009.97519.8759.9379.96819.905
Silver medal icon.svg Flag of Romania (1965-1989).svg  Gabriela Potorac  (ROU)9.8009.97519.7759.8879.94319.830
Bronze medal icon.svg Flag of Romania (1965-1989).svg  Daniela Silivaş  (ROU)9.9009.90019.8009.9009.91819.818
4Flag of Bulgaria (1971-1990).svg  Boriana Stoyanova  (BUL)9.8509.97519.8259.9129.86819.780
5Flag of the United States.svg  Brandy Johnson  (USA)9.8509.80019.6509.8259.94919.774
6Flag of East Germany.svg  Dagmar Kersten  (GDR)9.8009.95019.7509.8759.88119.756
7Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Wang Xiaoyan  (CHN)9.7759.90019.6759.8379.89319.730
8Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Elena Shushunova  (URS)10.00010.00020.00010.0009.71219.712

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