Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's balance beam
| Women's balance beam at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Beijing National Indoor Stadium | ||||||||||||
| Dates | August 19 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 8 from 5 nations | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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| Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics | ||
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| List of gymnasts Qualification | ||
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| 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 | |
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| Group all-around | women | |
| Individual all-around | women | |
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| Individual | men | women |
Women's balance beam competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics was held on August 19 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 balance beam finals. There, each gymnast performed again; the scores from the final round (ignoring qualification) determined final ranking.
Medalists
 Gold
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 Silver
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 Bronze
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 Shawn Johnson (USA)
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Nastia Liukin (USA)
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 Cheng Fei (CHN)
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Final
| Position | Gymnast | A score | B score | Penalty | Total |
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Shawn Johnson (USA)
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7.000 | 9.225 | 16.225 | |
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Nastia Liukin (USA)
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6.600 | 9.425 | 16.025 | |
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Cheng Fei (CHN)
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6.800 | 9.150 | 15.950 | |
| 4 |  Anna Pavlova (RUS)
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6.800 | 9.100 | 15.900 | |
| 5 |  Gabriela Drăgoi (ROU)
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6.500 | 9.125 | 15.625 | |
| 6 | Li Shanshan (CHN)
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7.000 | 8.300 | 15.300 | |
| 7 | Ksenia Afanasyeva (RUS)
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5.800 | 9.025 | 14.825 | |
| 8 |  Koko Tsurumi (JPN)
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6.300 | 8.150 | 14.450 |
Qualified competitors
| Position | Gymnast | A score[1] | B score | Penalty | Total |
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| 1 | Li Shanshan (CHN)
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7.000 | 9.125 | 16.125 | |
| 2 | Shawn Johnson (USA)
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6.900 | 9.075 | 15.975 | |
| 3 | Nastia Liukin (USA)
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6.600 | 9.375 | 15.975 | |
| 4 | Cheng Fei (CHN)
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6.700 | 9.275 | 0.100 | 15.875 |
| 5 | Anna Pavlova (RUS)
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6.700 | 9.125 | 15.825 | |
| 6 | Ksenia Afanasyeva (RUS)
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6.600 | 9.175 | 15.775 | |
| 7 | Gabriela Drăgoi (ROU)
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6.500 | 8.950 | 15.450 | |
| 8 | Koko Tsurumi (JPN)
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6.500 | 8.925 | 15.425 |
Only two gymnasts per country may advance to an event final. The following gymnasts scored high enough to qualify, but did not do so because two gymnasts from their country had already qualified ahead of them:
Alicia Sacramone (USA) (4th place)
Ksenia Semenova (RUS) (8th place)
Deng Linlin (CHN) (9th place)- Bridget Sloan (USA) (10th place)
- Yang Yilin (CHN) (11th place)
The eventual final qualifier had the 13th highest balance beam score overall during qualification.
References
- ^ 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.