Women's uneven bars competition at the
2008 Summer Olympics
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was held on August 18 at the
Beijing National Indoor Stadium
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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.
Final
The final scores work as per the normal scoring procedure: the A score measures the difficulty of the routine and the B score measures how well it was executed. The B score has a maximum of 10.000 and is reduced for each deduction (for every error in the performance).
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.
[Tough math leaves Liukin silver](_blank)
''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 are eliminated and the remaining four are averaged.
The first tiebreaking procedure is determined by the E score, the execution score. Since Liukin and He tied with an E score of 9.025, the second tiebreaking procedure 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 were deducted, the averages became:
Thus, since Nastia Liukin's average was lower after the second round of score elimination, He Kexin was declared the winner.
Qualified competitors
References
Uneven bars final resultsUneven bars qualification results
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