| | Top level | Event type
Horse Vault, Women – Qualification
| Date | 7 August 2016 — 09:30 | |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Arena Olímpica do Rio, Parque Olímpico da Barra, Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro | |
| Format | Top eight (maximum two per nation) qualified for the final. Mean score of two final jumps determined placement. | |
| Difficulty Judge 1 | Zhu Jieya |  CHN |
| Difficulty Judge 2 | Anca Grigoraș |  ROU |
| Execution Judge 1 | Lisbet Heino |  FIN |
| Execution Judge 2 | Mairéad Kavanagh |  IRL |
| Execution Judge 3 | Patricia Chadwick |  RSA |
| Execution Judge 4 | Anabeth Vargas |  PAN |
| Execution Judge 5 | Nikolina Tankusheva |  BUL |
| Execution Reference Judge 1 | Vesna Stare Crnjac |  SLO |
| Execution Reference Judge 2 | Oksana Omelianchyk-Ziurkalova |  UKR |
| Line Judge | Eliane Martins |  BRA |
| Pos | Nr | Gymnast | NOC | Points | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | – | Simone Biles |  USA | 16.050 | |||
| 2 | – | Hong Un-Jong |  PRK | 15.683 | |||
| 3 | – | Giulia Steingruber |  SUI | 15.266 | |||
| 4 | – | Mariya Paseka |  RUS | 15.049 | |||
| 5 | – | Oksana Chusovitina |  UZB | 14.999 | |||
| 6 | – | Shallon Olsen |  CAN | 14.950 | |||
| 7 | – | Wang Yan | CHN | 14.949 | |||
| 8 | – | Dipa Karmakar |  IND | 14.850 | |||
| 9 | – | Brittany Rogers | CAN | 14.783 | |||
| 10 | – | Seda Tutkhalyan | RUS | 14.733 | |||
| 11 | – | Ellie Downie |  GBR | 14.683 | |||
| 12 | – | Alexa Moreno |  MEX | 14.633 | |||
| 13 | – | Courtney McGregor |  NZL | 14.533 | |||
| 14 | – | Zsófia Kovács |  HUN | 14.512 | |||
| 15 | – | Ellie Black | CAN | 14.499 | |||
| 16 | – | Sae Miyakawa |  JPN | 14.366 | |||
| 17 | – | Phan Thị Hà Thanh |  VIE | 14.233 | |||
| 18 | – | Marcia Vidiaux |  CUB | 14.183 | |||
| 19 | – | Teja Belak | SLO | 13.650 |