REPORT - Women's Balance Beam Finial

Tan Sixin of China showed her excellent execution and difficult routine; ff, two foot ff, layout back, Korbut; switch ring leap; tucked punch front; front aerial to sheep jump; piked side somi; ff, two foot ff, two and a half twist dismount. She missed some connections at the qualification but today she wobbled only in switch ring jump. She absolutely deserved the gold. Japan's Teramoto took her third medal placing second. Her dismount, triple twist, was just amazingly stuck.

The final saw a lot of falls from many gymnasts but Uzbekistan's Abdusalimova had a solid execution except a balance check after layout back to take a bronze, the first medal for Uzbekistan.

by Toshiaki Fujii