Highest-scoring balance beam routines in Olympic & World Championships history

[Iminhanoi]

Highest-scoring balance beam routines in Olympic & World Championships history (only count routines in the finals, qualifications not counted).


FIG 10.0 scoring system period (before 2006):


Nadia Comaneci 10.0 - team optional balance beam final, Olympic 1976

Nadia Comaneci 10.0 - individual all around balance beam final, Olympic 1976

Nadia Comaneci 10.0 - balance beam final, Olympic 1976

Nadia Comaneci 10.0 - team compulsory balance beam, Olympic 1980

Ecaterina Szabo 10.0 - individual all around balance beam final, Olympic 1984

Simona Păucă 10.0 - team optional balance beam final, Olympic 1984

Daniela Silivaș - team optionals balance beam final, Olympic 1988

Natalia Yurchenko 10.0 - team optional balance beam final, World Championships 1983

Olga Mostepanova 10.0 - team compulsory balance beam, World Championships 1985

Daniela Silivaș 10.0 - balance beam event final, World Championships 1985

Aurelia Dobre 10.0 - team optional balance beam final, World Championships 1987

Aurelia Dobre 10.0 - balance beam event final, World Championships 1987

Daniela Silivaș 10.0 - team compulsory balance beam, World Championships 1987.

Olesya Dudnik 10.0 - team optional balance beam, World Championships 1989



FIG code of points 2006-2008:

Li Shanshan 16.275: team final balance beam, World Championships 2007 (difficulty score 7.3)

Shawn Johnson 16.225: Balance Beam event final Olympic 2008 (difficulty score 7.0)

Shawn Johnson 16.175: team final balance beam, Olympic 2008

Nastia Liukin 16.175: individual all around balance beam, Olympic 2008

Li Shanshan 16.05: team final balance beam, Olympic 2008 (difficulty score 7.1)

Shawn Johnson 16.05: individual all around balance beam, Olympic 2008 (difficulty score 7.0)

Nastia Liukin 16.025: balance beam event final, Olympic 2008 (difficulty score 6.6)

Xiao Sha 16.025: team final balance beam, World Championships 2007



FIG code of points 2009-2012:

Sui Lu 15.866 - balance beam event final, World Championships 2011 (difficulty score 6.6)

Sui Lu 15.666 - team final balance beam , World Championships 2011

Deng Linlin 15.6 - balance beam event final, Olympic 2012 (difficulty score 6.6)

Sui Lu 15.5 - balance beam event final, Olympic 2012 (difficulty score 6.5)

Gabby Douglas 15.5 - individual all around balance beam, Olympic 2012

Viktoria Komova 15.441 - individual all around balance beam, Olympic 2012

Ana Porgras 15.433 - individual all around balance, World Championships 2010

Cătălina Ponor 15.416 - team final balance beam, Olympic 2012

Sui Lu 15.366 - team final balance beam, Olympic 2012

Ana Porgras - 15.366 balance beam event final, World Championships 2010 (difficulty score 6.5)



FIG code of points 2013-2016

Larisa Iordache 15.5 - team final balance beam, World Championships 2014 (difficulty score 6.5)

Sanne Wevers 15.466 - balance beam event final, Olympic 2016 (difficulty score 6.6)

Simone Biles 15.433 - individual all around balance beam, Olympic 2016

Simone Biles 15.358 - balance beam event final, World Championships 2015 (difficulty score 6.4)

Laurie Hernandez 15.333 - balance beam event final, Olympic 2016 (difficulty score 6.4)

Simone Biles 15.3 - team final balance beam, Olympic 2016


FIG code of points 2017-2020 (used till 2021)

Simone Biles 15.066 - balance beam event final, World Championships 2019 (difficulty score 6.4)

Simone Biles 14.633 - individual all around balance beam, World Championships 2019

Guan Chenchen 14.633 - balance beam event final, Olympic 2020 (difficulty score 6.6)

Tang Xijing 14.6 - individual all around balance beam, World Championships 2019

Liu Tingting 14.533 - balance beam event final, World Championships 2018 (difficulty score 6.3)

Simone Biles 14.433 - team final balance beam, World Championships 2019

Liu Tingting 14.433 - balance beam event final, World Championships 2019 (difficulty score 6.2)

Viktoria Listunova 14.333 - team final balance beam, Olympic 2020

Kara Eaker 14.333 - team final balance beam, World Championships 2018

Li Shijia 14.3 - balance beam event final, World Championships 2019 (difficulty score 6.1)

Li Shijia 14.266 - team final balance beam, World Championships 2019

Tang Xijing 14.233 - balance beam event final, Olympic 2020 (difficulty score 6.0)

Vladislava Urazova 14.2 - individual all around balance beam, Olympic 2020

Sunisa Lee 14.133 - team final balance beam, Olympic 2020




FIG code of points 2022-2024:

Simone Biles 14.8 - balance beam event final, World Championships 2023 (difficulty score 6.5)

Zhou Yaqin 14.7 - balance beam event final, World Championships 2023 (difficulty score 6.5)

Qiu Qiyuan 14.6 - team final balance beam, Olympic 2024

Sunisa Lee 14.6 - team final balance beam, Olympic 2024

Simone Biles 14.566 - individual all around balance beam, Olympic 2024

Zhou Yaqin 14.533 - team final balance beam, World Championships 2023

Qiu Qiyuan 14.5 - individual all around balance beam, Olympic 2024

Simone Biles 14.433 - individual all around balance beam, World Championships 2024

 

[Sanzhirovka]

Remember when Hardy Fink forced the move to an open-ended code and Grandi was all like "Now we'll have real world records! What a benefit for drawing in new fans!"

 

[RedBirdie]

I think about that every single time they change the code that results in lower D and E scores.

 

[irichluck21]

Nastia Liukin might not have the Olympic gold on bars, but she's got the World record for highest Uneven Bars score. I am sure she treasures the World record over an Olympic silver medal.

 

[makam]

I think about that every single time they change the code that results in lower D and E scores.

Opposite of Figure Skating, eh? Seems like every time they adjust their rules it is to make the scores higher. In gymnastics, at the rate they are going, we might get back to 10s...

 

[Iminhanoi]

Nastia Liukin might not have the Olympic gold on bars, but she's got the World record for highest Uneven Bars score. I am sure she treasures the World record over an Olympic silver medal.

16.9 in team final Uneven Bars at Olympic Beijing 2008

 

[Hatsumomo]

Didn't Nastia get a 17 at 2008 US Nationals?

 

[Iminhanoi]

Opposite of Figure Skating, eh? Seems like every time they adjust their rules it is to make the scores higher. In gymnastics, at the rate they are going, we might get back to 10s...

if FIG remove Element Group Requirement and Connection Value from Difficulty score, then downgrade the maximum E score to 6.0; we will get back to 10s

 

[irichluck21]

I would like the 10.0 back to be honest.
They can do an open ended CoP with a 10.0 quite easily IMO.

 

[irichluck21]

Didn't Nastia get a 17 at 2008 US Nationals?

She did, but I don't think Grandi was talking about domestic meets as part of world records. I believe he meant FIG sanctioned events.

 

[Denn]

if FIG remove Element Group Requirement and Connection Value from Difficulty score, then downgrade the maximum E score to 6.0; we will get back to 10s

It's even easier than that.

Vault: Add 3.6 to all D-scores so the Biles II is a 10.0.

Other events: Make the values of elements something like this:

A = 0.3, B = 0.5, C = 0.7, D = 0.8, E = 0.9 etc.​

Most D-scores will go up 3.2 points, and max out near 10.0 based on top scores last cycle.

Deduct from there.

 

[Iminhanoi]

Didn't Nastia get a 17 at 2008 US Nationals?

I only count Olympic and World Championships. The scores from many other tournaments are higher.

In Chinese National Gymnastics Championships 2008, Sui Lu won balance beam event with 16.575.

Li Shanshan fell from the beam and placed 5th, with score of 16.125

 

[Iminhanoi]

Larisa Iordache scored 15.5 during the team final at World Championships, which became the highest scoring beam routine in the Olympic/World Championships during FIG code of point 2013-2016 period.

It’s the last bb routine in the Olympic/World Championships with E score not lower than 9.0