Giulia Steingruber
In the women’s individual all-around finals, Steingruber scored 15.366 on the vault and ranked 10th becoming the first Swiss woman to attain this high an all-around rank. This was already an improvement upon her 15.266 vault score in the qualifying round.
Steingruber is a versatile vaulter with a wide range in her command. While she has displayed an astonishingly clean Amanar in recent competitions, 2013 and 2014 saw her execute layout Rudis and Tsukaharas with equal measure of skill.
Unlike Hong and Karmakar, Steingruber keeps to vaults with relatively lower D-scores and instead makes up with her high 9 execution score. Virtually flawless, her execution scores (9.4 and 9.133) in the Olympics prelims have been almost a point more than Karmakar’s (8.1 and 8.6).
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