Women's uneven bars at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Ariake Gymnastics Centre | ||||||||||||
Dates | 25 July 2021 (qualifying) 1 August 2021 (final) | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 8 from 6 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning score | 15.200 | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics | ||
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List of gymnasts Qualification | ||
Artistic | ||
Qualification | men | women |
Team all-around | men | women |
Individual all-around | men | women |
Vault | men | women |
Floor | men | women |
Pommel horse | men | |
Rings | men | |
Parallel bars | men | |
Horizontal bar | men | |
Uneven bars | women | |
Balance beam | women | |
Rhythmic | ||
Group all-around | women | |
Individual all-around | women | |
Trampoline | ||
Individual | men | women |
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]
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.
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]
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.
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.
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]
Date | Time | Round | Subdivision |
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25 July | 10:00 | Qualification | Subdivision 1 |
11:50 | Subdivision 2 | ||
15:10 | Subdivision 3 | ||
17:05 | Subdivision 4 | ||
20:20 | Subdivision 5 | ||
1 August | 19:30 | Final | – |
All times are local time (UTC+09:00). |
Rank | Gymnast | D Score | E Score | Pen. | Total | Results |
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1 | Nina Derwael (BEL) | 6.7 | 8.666 | 15.366 | Q | |
2 | Sunisa Lee (USA) | 6.6 | 8.600 | 15.200 | Q | |
3 | Anastasia Ilyankova (ROC) | 6.4 | 8.566 | 14.966 | Q | |
4 | Angelina Melnikova (ROC) | 6.3 | 8.633 | 14.933 | Q | |
5 | Vladislava Urazova (ROC) | 6.3 | 8.566 | 14.866 | – | |
6 | Viktoria Listunova (ROC) | 6.4 | 8.366 | 14.766 | – | |
7 | Lu Yufei (CHN) | 6.2 | 8.500 | 14.700 | Q | |
Elisabeth Seitz (GER) | 6.2 | 8.500 | 14.700 | Q | ||
9 | Fan Yilin (CHN) | 6.3 | 8.300 | 14.600 | Q | |
10 | Simone Biles (USA) | 6.2 | 8.366 | 14.566 | Q W [4] | |
11 | Mélanie de Jesus dos Santos (FRA) | 6.4 | 8.166 | 14.566 | R1 S | |
12 | Jonna Adlerteg (SWE) | 6.3 | 8.233 | 14.533 | R2 | |
13 | Tang Xijing (CHN) | 6.0 | 8.433 | 14.433 | – | |
14 | Zsófia Kovács (HUN) | 6.3 | 8.133 | 14.433 | R3 |
The reserves for the women's uneven bars final were:
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:
Oldest and youngest competitors
Name | Country | Date of birth | Age | |
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Youngest | Sunisa Lee | United States | 9 March 2003 | 18 years, 4 months and 23 days |
Oldest | Elisabeth Seitz | Germany | 4 November 1993 | 27 years, 8 months and 28 days |
Rank | Gymnast | D Score | E Score | Pen. | Total |
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Nina Derwael (BEL) | 6.7 | 8.500 | 15.200 | ||
Anastasia Ilyankova (ROC) | 6.3 | 8.533 | 14.833 | ||
Sunisa Lee (USA) | 6.2 | 8.300 | 14.500 | ||
4 | Lu Yufei (CHN) | 6.0 | 8.400 | 14.400 | |
5 | Elisabeth Seitz (GER) | 6.2 | 8.200 | 14.400 | |
6 | Mélanie de Jesus dos Santos (FRA) | 6.1 | 7.933 | 14.033 | |
7 | Fan Yilin (CHN) | 6.4 | 7.500 | 13.900 | |
8 | Angelina Melnikova (ROC) | 5.9 | 7.166 | 13.066 |
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).
Aliya Farkhatovna Mustafina is a retired Russian artistic gymnast and current coach. She is the 2010 all-around world champion, the 2013 European all around champion, the 2012 and 2016 Olympic uneven bars champion, and a seven-time Olympic medalist, tied with Simone Biles for the most Olympic medals in the last 20 years of any women’s artistic gymnast.
Viktoria Aleksandrovna Komova is a former Russian artistic gymnast. She is a two-time Olympic medalist, having won silver medals in the all-around and team events at the 2012 Olympics. She is also the 2011 world uneven bars champion and all-around silver medalist, and the 2015 co-world champion on uneven bars. At the junior level, she was the 2010 Youth Olympics all-around champion, uneven bars champion, vault champion, and floor exercise bronze medalist. Komova is known for her fluidity, form and old school Soviet style.
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Elisabeth Seitz is a German artistic gymnast. She is the 2018 World bronze medalist on the uneven bars. She is one of the only female gymnasts in history to compete the Def release, and her eponymous skill, a full-twisting Maloney. Seitz has also had success in the individual all-around event, where she is the 2011 European silver medalist and an eight-time German national champion. She is a three-time Olympian, representing Germany at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, where she led her team to a sixth-place finish and placed fourth in the uneven bars final, and the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
Angelina Romanovna Melnikova is a Russian artistic gymnast. With eleven Olympic and World medals, she is the joint third-most decorated Russian gymnast of all time. At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, she led the Russian Olympic Committee to gold in the team competition. She previously represented Russia at the 2016 Summer Olympics, winning a silver medal in the team competition. She was also a member of the gold medal-winning Russian teams at the 2016 and 2018 European Championships, and the silver medal-winning Russian teams at the 2018 and 2019 World Championships.
Anastasia Andreyevna Ilyankova is a Russian artistic gymnast. She is the 2020 Olympic silver medalist and 2019 European champion on the uneven bars.
Daria Sergeyevna Nagornaya née Spiridonova is a Russian former artistic gymnast. Primarily an uneven bars specialist, she is the 2015 World Champion, the 2015 European Champion, the 2014 World bronze medalist, and a four-time Russian national (2014-17) champion on the apparatus. She represented Russia at the 2016 Summer Olympics, winning a silver medal in the team competition. She was also a member of the gold-medal-winning team at the 2016 European Championships, the silver-medal-winning teams at the 2018 and 2019 World Championships, and the bronze-medal-winning teams at the 2014 World and 2014 European championships. She is married to Russian gymnast Nikita Nagornyy.
Natalia Alexeyevna Kononenko is a retired Ukrainian artistic gymnast who competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She is a two-time European bronze medalist on the uneven bars.
Fan Yilin is a Chinese artistic gymnast and uneven bars specialist. She is a two-time world champion on the uneven bars and the 2015 Asian champion on balance beam. At the 2015 World Championships, she was part of the first ever four-way tie along with Viktoria Komova, Daria Spiridonova, and Madison Kocian. Domestically, she is a four-time Chinese national uneven bars champion. She was a member of the Chinese team at the 2016 Summer Olympics, where she won a bronze medal in the team competition, and competed at the 2020 Olympic Games.
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