Sunisa Lee
After sharing the top scores and the top international scores of 2021 yesterday, I wanted to put together an overview of the best international scores throughout the entire quad (technically a “quint” this time due to the extra COVID year!) from when the updated code of points kicked into gear in 2017 until the end of the line in 2021. I included the top 100 all-around scores, as well as the top 10 scores on each apparatus (one per athlete, using each athlete’s highest international score).
Though she opted to withdraw from the Olympic all-around final to prioritize her mental health, Simone Biles still posted the highest score of the past five years with a 60.965 in qualifications at world championships in 2018, which is 3.532 points higher than the second highest, her teammate Sunisa Lee‘s all-around gold medal score of 57.433. Biles also topped the vault and floor rankings, with her qualification vaults from worlds in 2018 setting the record, while her floor in the 2019 worlds team final was the best by over seven tenths.
Fun fact – though I only included one score per athlete, Biles actually had the top EIGHT international all-around scores of the quad, and if you include domestic meets, she has the top 17!
Lee and Olympic bars champion Nina Derwael led that event with a matching 15.4, which both earned in the team final at the Olympic Games in 2021, and Liu Tingting, the world beam champion in 2018, had the best score there with a 15.3 at Asian Championships in 2017.
Best All-Around Scores
Best Vault Average Scores
Best Uneven Bars Scores
Best Balance Beam Scores
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Year | Meet | Score |
| 1 | Liu Tingting | China | 2017 | Asian Championships AA | 15.300 |
| 2 | Kara Eaker | United States | 2019 | Pan American Games EF | 15.266 |
| 3 | Li Qi* | China | 2017 | Junior Japan International AA | 15.250 |
| 4 | Simone Biles | United States | 2019 | World Championships EF | 15.066 |
| 5 | Li Shijia | China | 2019 | Zhaoqing Challenge Cup EF | 15.050 |
| 6 | Larisa Iordache | Romania | 2017 | Paris Challenge Cup QF | 15.000 |
| 7 | Guan Chenchen | China | 2021 | Olympic Games QF | 14.933 |
| 8 | Chen Yile | China | 2018 | Asian Games QF | 14.800 |
| 9 | Luo Huan | China | 2017 | Asian Championships AA | 14.750 |
| 10 | Flavia Saraiva | Brazil | 2018 | Pan Am Championships TF | 14.667 |
Best Floor Exercise Scores
* Athlete was a junior at the time of this competition
Article by Lauren Hopkins