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Women's uneven 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.

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).

Position	Gymnast	Country	A Score	B Score	Penalty	Total
	He Kexin	China	7.700	9.025		16.725
	Nastia Liukin	United States
	Yang Yilin	China		8.950		16.650
4	Beth Tweddle	Great Britain	7.800	8.825		16.625
5	Anastasia Koval	Ukraine	7.300	9.075		16.375
6	Ksenia Semenova	Russia	7.400	8.925		16.325
7	Steliana Nistor	Romania	7.000	8.575		15.575
8	Dariya Zgoba	Ukraine	7.100	7.875	0.100	14.875

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. 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

Position	Gymnast	A Score	B Score	Penalty	Total
1	Yang Yilin (CHN)	7.700	8.950		16.650
2	Ksenia Semenova (RUS)	7.400	9.075		16.475
3	Anastasia Koval (UKR)	7.300	9.025		16.325
4	Steliana Nistor (ROU)		8.675		15.975
5	Nastia Liukin (USA)	7.700	8.250		15.950
6	He Kexin (CHN)	7.500	8.225		15.725
7	Dariya Zgoba (UKR)	6.900	8.875	0.100	15.675
8	Beth Tweddle (GBR)	7.600	8.050		15.650

References

1. ^ Tough math leaves Liukin silver Archived 2016-10-21 at the Wayback Machine NBC Retrieved 2008-08-18
2. 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.

• Uneven bars final results
• Uneven bars qualification results

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