Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Women's uneven bars

Women's assymetric bars competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics was held on August 18 at the Beijing National Indoor Stadium.

The eight competitors (with a maximum of two per nation) with the highest scores in qualifying proceeded to the women's uneven bars finals. There, each gymnast performed again; the scores from the final round (ignoring qualification) determined final ranking.

Medalists

Tiebreaker

During the uneven bar finals Nastia Liukin and He Kexin had a tied score of 16.725 which was followed by a tiebreaking procedure. [http://www.nbcolympics.com/gymnastics/news/newsid=230935.html#tough+math Tough math leaves Liukin silver] "NBC" Retrieved 2008-08-18] In this procedure there are six judges who judge each competitor on a scale of 1-10. When all six scores are finalised, the highest and lowest eliminated and the remaining four are averaged. The first tiebreaking procedure is determined by the B score, the execution score. Since Liukin and Kexin tied with a B score of 9.025, the second tiebreak was required to determine a winner. In this event, the lowest score given to each competitor is dropped. Before this, the remaining scores were:

When the next lowest scores are deducted, the following happens to the averages.

Thus, since Nastia Liukin's average was lower after the second round of score elimination, He Kexin was declared the winner.

References

* [http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/INF/GA/C73I/GAW007101.shtml#GAW007101 Uneven bars final results]
* [http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/INF/GA/C73I/GAW007901.shtml#GAW499D01 Uneven bars qualification results]