Gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's uneven bars

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Women's uneven bars
at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
Gymnastics (artistic) pictogram.svg
Olympic artistic gymnastics
Venue Ariake Gymnastics Centre
Dates25 July 2021 (qualifying)
1 August 2021 (final)
Competitors8 from 6 nations
Winning score15.200
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Nina Derwael Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium
Silver medal icon.svg Anastasia Ilyankova Russian Olympic Committee flag.svg  ROC
Bronze medal icon.svg Sunisa Lee Flag of the United States.svg  United States
  2016
2024  

The women's uneven bars event at the 2020 Summer Olympics was held on 25 July and 1 August 2021 at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre. [1] Approximately 90 gymnasts from 53 nations (of the 98 total gymnasts) competed on the uneven bars in the qualifying round. [2]

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Two-time world champion and favorite Nina Derwael of Belgium won the competition to earn Belgium's first Olympic medal in artistic gymnastics. Derwael's medal was also the first gold for Belgium at the 2020 Olympics. ROC's Anastasia Ilyankova earned silver for her first Olympic medal. Sunisa Lee of the United States took the bronze, her third medal of the 2020 Olympics.

Background

This was the 19th appearance of the event, after making its debut at the 1952 Summer Olympics. Two-time defending champion Aliya Mustafina of Russia retired prior to the 2020 Summer Olympics. [3]

Qualification

A National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter up to 6 qualified gymnasts: a team of 4 and up to 2 specialists. A total of 98 quota places are allocated to women's gymnastics.

The 12 teams that qualify will be able to send 4 gymnasts in the team competition, for a total of 48 of the 98 quota places. The top three teams at the 2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships (the United States, Russia, and China) and the top nine teams (excluding those already qualified) at the 2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships (France, Canada, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Japan, and Spain) earned team qualification places.

The remaining 50 quota places are awarded individually. Each gymnast can only earn one place, except that gymnasts that competed with a team that qualified are eligible to earn a second place through the 2020 All Around World Cup Series. Some of the individual events are open to gymnasts from NOCs with qualified teams, while others are not. These places are filled through various criteria based on the 2019 World Championships, the 2020 FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup series, continental championships, a host guarantee, and a Tripartite Commission invitation.

Each of the 98 qualified gymnasts are eligible for the uneven bars competition, but many gymnasts do not compete in each of the apparatus events.

The COVID-19 pandemic delayed many of the events for qualifying for gymnastics. The 2018 and 2019 World Championships were completed on time, but many of the World Cup series events were delayed into 2021.

Competition format

The top 8 qualifiers in the qualification phase (limit two per NOC) advanced to the apparatus final. The finalists performed on the uneven bars again. Qualification scores were then ignored, with only final round scores counting.

Schedule

The competition was held over two days, 25 July and 1 August. The qualifying round (for all women's gymnastics events) was the first day with the uneven bars final on the first day of individual event finals. [1]

DateTimeRoundSubdivision
25 July10:00QualificationSubdivision 1
11:50Subdivision 2
15:10Subdivision 3
17:05Subdivision 4
20:20Subdivision 5
1 August19:30Final
All times are local time (UTC+09:00).

Results

Qualifying

RankGymnastD ScoreE ScorePen.TotalResults
1Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Nina Derwael  (BEL)6.78.66615.366Q
2Flag of the United States.svg  Sunisa Lee  (USA)6.68.60015.200Q
3Russian Olympic Committee flag.svg  Anastasia Ilyankova  (ROC)6.48.56614.966Q
4Russian Olympic Committee flag.svg  Angelina Melnikova  (ROC)6.38.63314.933Q
5Russian Olympic Committee flag.svg  Vladislava Urazova  (ROC)6.38.56614.866
6Russian Olympic Committee flag.svg  Viktoria Listunova  (ROC)6.48.36614.766
7Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Lu Yufei  (CHN)6.28.50014.700Q
Flag of Germany.svg  Elisabeth Seitz  (GER)6.28.50014.700Q
9Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Fan Yilin  (CHN)6.38.30014.600Q
10Flag of the United States.svg  Simone Biles  (USA)6.28.36614.566Q W [4]
11Flag of France.svg  Mélanie de Jesus dos Santos  (FRA)6.48.16614.566R1 S
12Flag of Sweden.svg  Jonna Adlerteg  (SWE)6.38.23314.533R2
13Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Tang Xijing  (CHN)6.08.43314.433
14Flag of Hungary.svg  Zsófia Kovács  (HUN)6.38.13314.433R3
Reserves

The reserves for the women's uneven bars final were:

  1. Flag of France.svg  Mélanie de Jesus dos Santos  (FRA)called up after Simone Biles' withdrawal [4]
  2. Flag of Sweden.svg  Jonna Adlerteg  (SWE)
  3. Flag of Hungary.svg  Zsófia Kovács  (HUN)

Only two gymnasts from each country may advance to the event final. Gymnasts who did not qualify for the final because of the quota, but had high enough scores to do so were:

Final

Oldest and youngest competitors

NameCountryDate of birthAge
Youngest Sunisa Lee Flag of the United States.svg  United States 9 March 200318 years, 4 months and 23 days
Oldest Elisabeth Seitz Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 4 November 199327 years, 8 months and 28 days
RankGymnastD ScoreE ScorePen.Total
Gold medal icon.svgFlag of Belgium (civil).svg  Nina Derwael  (BEL)6.78.50015.200
Silver medal icon.svgRussian Olympic Committee flag.svg  Anastasia Ilyankova  (ROC)6.38.53314.833
Bronze medal icon.svgFlag of the United States.svg  Sunisa Lee  (USA)6.28.30014.500
4Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Lu Yufei  (CHN)6.08.40014.400
5Flag of Germany.svg  Elisabeth Seitz  (GER)6.28.20014.400
6Flag of France.svg  Mélanie de Jesus dos Santos  (FRA)6.17.93314.033
7Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Fan Yilin  (CHN)6.47.50013.900
8Russian Olympic Committee flag.svg  Angelina Melnikova  (ROC)5.97.16613.066

Fourth- and fifth-place finishers Lu Yufei and Elisabeth Seitz, respectively, finished with identical scores of 14.400. According the FIG's tie-breaking procedure, Lu earned the higher placement due to higher E-score (8.400 vs 8.200).

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