Vault is an event in men's and women's artistic gymnastics.
Front handspring vaults are characterized by straight forward flight from the springboard to vault table, a handstand on the vault table, and forward repulsion or somersault off. Vaults with a full twist onto the table are also considered handsprings. Vaults with 1/2 twist (forwards or backwards) on but no somersault off are grouped with handsprings in the women's code of points but not men's. Handsprings are usually grouped with Yamashita vaults (named for the first performer), in which the gymnast pikes as he or she flies off the board without a somersault (salto).
Handspring and Yamashita vaults are group III in the men's code of points. Handspring and Yamashita vaults and vaults with round-off onto the board with or without a twist onto the table and without saltos are group I in the women's code of points. Handsprings with or without full twist onto the table are group II in the women's code of points.
Handsprings without saltos
- Handspring: Men's difficulty score: 3.0; Women's difficulty score: 2.4
- Handspring with 1/2 twist off: Men 3.4; Women 2.8
- Handspring with full twist off: Men 3.8; Women 3.2
- Handspring with 1 1/2 twist off: Men 4.2; Women 3.6
- Handspring with double full twist off: Men 4.6; Women 4.0
Yamashita
- Yamashita: Men 3.0; Women 2.6
- Yamashita with 1/2 twist off: Men 3.4; Women 3.0
- Yamashita with full twist off: Men 3.8; Women 3.4
- Yamashita with 1 1/2 twist off: Men 4.2
- Yamashita with double full twist off: Men 4.6
Handsprings with full twists
- Full twist on, straight off: Men 3.4; Women 3.2
- Full twist on, 1/2 twist off: Men 2.8
- Full twist on, full twist off: Men 4.2; Women 4.0
- Full twist on, front salto tucked off: Men 4.6
- Full twist on, front salto tucked with 1/2 twist off: Men 5.0
- Full twist on, front salto piked off: Men 5.4
Handsprings with saltos
- Handspring with tucked salto off: Men 3.8; Women 4.4
- Handspring with tucked salto 1/2 twist off or 1/2 twist to backward salto off (Cuervo): Men 4.2; Women 4.8
- Handspring with tucked salto full twist off or Cuervo plus 1/2 twist: Men 4.6; Women 5.3
- Handspring with tucked salto 1 1/2 twist off or Cuervo plus full twist: Men 5.0; Women 5.7
- Handspring with tucked salto double twist off or Cuervo plus 1 1/2 twist: Men 5.4
- Handspring with piked salto off: Men 4.2; Women 4.6
- Handspring with piked salto 1/2 twist off or Cuervo piked: Men 4.6; Women 5.0
- Handspring with piked salto full twist or Cuervo piked plus 1/2 twist: Men 5.0; Women 5.5
- Handspring with piked salto 1 1/2 twist or Cuervo piked plus full twist: Men 5.4; Women 5.9
- Handspring with full twist and then front salto tucked: Men 5.4
- Handspring with full twist and then front salto piked: Men 5.8
- Handspring with front salto stretched (layout) off: Men 5.0; Women 5.0
- Handspring with layout 1/2 twist off or Cuervo stretched: Men 5.4; Women 5.4
- Handspring with layout full twist off or Cuervo stretched plus half twist: Men 5.8; Women 5.9
- Handspring with layout 1 1/2 twist off or Cuervo stretched plus full twist: Men 6.2; Women 6.3
- Handspring with double twist off or Cuervo stretched plus 1 1/2 twist: Men 6.6
- Handspring with 2 1/2 twist off or Cuervo plus double twist: Men 7.0
- Handspring with double front salto tucked: Men 6.6; Women 7.1
- Handspring with double front salto tucked with 1/2 twist (Dragulescu) or front salto tucked 1/2 twist to back salto tucked (Zimmerman): Men 7.0
- Handspring with double front salto piked (Blanik): Men 7.0
- Handspring with double front salto piked with 1/2 twist (Dragulescu piked): Men 7.2