Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's artistic individual all-around

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Women's artistic individual all-around
at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Podiumbeijing2008.jpg
Medal ceremony
Venue Beijing National Indoor Stadium
Date15 August 2008
Competitors24 from 14 nations
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Nastia Liukin Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Silver medal icon.svg Shawn Johnson Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Bronze medal icon.svg Yang Yilin Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
  2004
2012  

Women's artistic individual all-around competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics was held on August 15. at the Beijing National Indoor Stadium. [1]

For each competitor in the women's qualification, the scores [2] for all four apparatus were summed to give an all-around qualification score. The top 24 competitors moved on to the individual all-around final, though nations were limited to two competitors each even if more qualified. In the individual all-around final, each gymnast competed on each apparatus again. Only scores from the final were used to determine final rankings.

Qualifying

Final round results

PositionGymnastCountryVaultUneven
Bars
Balance
Beam
FloorTotal
Gold medal icon.svg Nastia Liukin Flag of the United States.svg  United States 15.025 (7)16.650 (2)16.125 (1)15.525 (1)63.325
Silver medal icon.svg Shawn Johnson Flag of the United States.svg  United States 15.875 (1)15.275 (10)16.050 (2)15.525 (1)62.725
Bronze medal icon.svg Yang Yilin Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 15.175 (5)16.725 (1)15.750 (6)15.000 (5)62.650
4 Ksenia Semenova Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 14.750 (14)16.475 (3)15.925 (4)14.775 (6)61.925
5 Steliana Nistor Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 15.025 (7)15.975 (4)15.550 (8)14.500 (10)61.050
6 Jiang Yuyuan Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 14.825 (13)15.875 (5)15.425 (10)14.775 (6)60.900
7 Anna Pavlova Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 15.275 (4)14.525 (18)15.975 (3)15.050 (4)60.825
8 Sandra Izbaşa Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 15.075 (6)14.300 (20)15.875 (5)15.500 (3)60.750
9 Oksana Chusovitina Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 15.750 (2)14.900 (14)14.875 (16)14.600 (8)60.125
10 Jade Barbosa Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 15.025 (7)15.075 (12)15.500 (9)13.950 (20)59.550
11 Vanessa Ferrari Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 14.700 (16)15.200 (11)15.600 (7)13.950 (17)59.450
12 Becky Downie Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain 15.025 (7)15.625 (6)14.700 (17)14.100 (16)59.450
13 Georgia Bonora Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 14.850 (12)14.625 (16)15.100 (14)14.375 (14)58.950
14 Lia Parolari Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 13.950 (24)15.350 (8)15.125 (13)14.500 (10)58.925
15 Shona Morgan Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 14.650 (17)14.625 (16)15.100 (14)14.425 (12)58.800
16 Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 14.875 (11)15.425 (7)14.150 (22)13.925 (18)58.375
17 Koko Tsurumi Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 14.075 (21)14.950 (13)15.400 (11)13.675 (22)58.100
18 Ariella Kaslin Civil Ensign of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland 15.350 (3)14.275 (21)14.425 (19)13.950 (20)58.000
19 Marine Petit Flag of France.svg  France 14.725 (15)14.400 (19)14.275 (20)14.575 (9)57.975
20 Kyoko Oshima Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 14.575 (18)14.675 (15)13.975 (23)14.400 (13)57.625
21 Kristýna Pálešová Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 14.075 (21)15.350 (8)14.650 (17)12.900 (24)56.975
22 Ana Silva Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 14.175 (20)14.175 (23)14.175 (21)14.350 (15)56.875
23 Laetitia Dugain Flag of France.svg  France 14.275 (19)14.275 (21)15.225 (12)13.000 (23)56.775
24 Gaelle Mys Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium 14.000 (23)12.875 (24)13.100 (24)13.975 (19)53.950

Source: The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad [3]

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References

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  2. Scoring in artistic gymnastics is based on two separate scores that are then combined in order to come to the final score. The A score measures the difficulty of each element (and combinations of elements) within the routine, while the B score evaluates the performance, ie, the "execution, composition and artistry" of the routine. For further information, please see the Code of Points article.
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