Section 13 · Vault

Vault: One Vault or Two

Two vaults from different groups for the Vault Final, and their average. Also repeats, extra runs and warm-up vaults.

Unofficial summary. The FIG Code of Points and its newsletters are the authority; every rule links to its page there.

−0.1−0.3−0.5−1.0small · medium · large · fall — the colours the Code uses

The gymnast

How Many Vaults

Qualifications, Team Final, All-Around FinalOne vault
Qualification for the Vault Final, and the Vault FinalTwo, from different groups

Team and all-around totals: In Qualifications, the first vault's score.
Final Score: In the Qualification for the Vault Final and in the Vault Final, the average of the two vaults.

After the first vault, he returns without delay to the start.
He performs the second vault at D1's signal.
His coach may advise him in between.

A vault with a fall cannot be repeated for credit.

Code 13.1, p. 81 · Code 13.2.2, p. 82 · Code 13.2.2, p. 83 · Code 6.2, p. 14 · Code 3.1, p. 9 · Code 9.2.5, p. 18

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Repeats

The first vault repeated as the second0.00 for the vault
The second vault from the same group as the first−2.0From the 2nd vault

Code 13.2.2, p. 82 · Code 13.3, p. 83

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Run Approaches

If the gymnast runs but does not touch the springboard or the apparatus, it is an empty run. He may run again, with a deduction. He may make one more approach than the number of vaults required.

A second approach, when one vault is required−1.0From the vault concerned
A third approach, when two vaults are required−1.0From the vault concerned
A third approach when one vault is required, or a fourth when two are requiredNot permitted

The Code gives no consequence for an approach that is not permitted. It also does not say how to judge a run that touches the board but ends in no vault.

Code 13.2.2, p. 83 · Code 13.3, p. 83

D1 · from the Final Score

Warm-Up Vaults

At most two warm-up vaults in any phase where the warm-up is on the podium.
He has the right to both, even when the warm-up time has run out.
Standing on the horse to jump or salto off counts as a warm-up turn.

More than two warm-up vaults−0.3

The line judge counts the warm-up vaults. When two vaults are performed (Qualifications and Apparatus Finals), Section 13 takes the deduction from the first vault.

Code 13.2.2, p. 83 · Code 13.3, p. 83 · Code 2.4.1, p. 8 · Code 5.5, p. 13