Gymnastics / Olympic Games

Gimnasia / Juegos Olímpicos

WOMEN / MUJERES

Women´s Olympic Gimnastics consists of six events: team competition, individual all-around competition, and each of the four apparatuses (side horse vault, uneven (asymmetrical) bars, balance beam and floor exercises). The best 36 competitors from the team competition qualify for the individual all-around competition (with a maximun of three gymnasts per nation). The eight best on each apparatus in the team competition (with a maximun of two gymnasts per nation) qualify for the individual final on that apparatus. In Sydney 2000 the trampoline competition was added.

El programa olímpico de gimnasia femenina consta de seis pruebas: competición por equipos, competición individual y los cuatro aparatos (potro de salto, barras asimétricas, barra de equilibrios y suelo). Las 36 primeras en la competición por equipos se clasifican para la competición individual (con un máximo de tres gimnastas por país). Las ocho primeras en cada aparato en la competición por equipos se clasifican para la final individual en ese aparato (con un máximo de dos gimnastas por país). En Sydney 2000 se ańadió la competición de trampolín.

LONDON 2012 MEDALISTS / MEDALLISTAS LONDRES 2012

Event Gold / Oro CNT Pts. Silver / Plata CNT Pts. Bronze / Bronce CNT Pts.
Horse Vault Sandra Izbasa ROU 15.191 McKayla Maroney USA 15.083 Maria Paseka RUS 15.050
Uneven Bars Aliya Mustafina RUS 16.133 He Kexin CHN 15.933 Elizabeth Tweddle GBR 15.916
Balance Beam Deng Linlin CHN 15.600 Sui Lu CHN 15.500 Aly Raisman USA 15.066
Floor Aly Raisman USA 15.600 Catalina Ponor ROU 15.200 Aliya Mustafina RUS 14.900
All-around Gabby Douglas USA 62.232 Viktoria Komova RUS 61.973 Aliya Mustafina RUS 59.566
Team Gabby Douglas, Jordyn Wieber, Aly Raisman, Kyla Ross, McKayla Maroney USA 183.596 Aliya Mustafina, Viktoria Komova, Ksenia Afanasyeva, Anastaia Grishina, Maria Paseka RUS 178.530 Catalina Ponor, Larisa Iordache, Diana Bulimar, Sandra Izbasa, Diana Chelaru ROU 176.414
Trampoline Rosannagh MacLennan CAN 57.305 Huang Shanshan CHN 56.730 He Wenna CHN 55.950


ALL-TIME MEDALISTS / TODOS LOS MEDALLISTAS


ALL-AROUND / INDIVIDUAL

Year Gold / Oro CNT Pts. Silver / Plata CNT Pts. Bronze / Bronce CNT Pts.
1952 Maria Horokhovska URS 76.78 Nina Bocharova URS 75.94 Margit Korondi HUN 75.82
1956 Larysa Latynina URS 74.933 Ágnes Keleti HUN 74.633 Sofia Muratova URS 74.466
1960 Larysa Latynina URS 77.031 Sofia Muratova URS 76.696 Polina Astakhova URS 76.164
1964 Vera Cáslavská TCH 77.564 Larysa Latynina URS 76.998 Polina Astakhova URS 76.965
1968 Vera Cáslavská TCH 78.25 Zinaida Voronina URS 76.85 Natalya Kuchiskaya URS 76.75
1972 Lyudmila Turischeva URS 77.025 Karin Janz GDR 76.875 Tamara Lazakovich URS 76.85
1976 Nadia Comaneci ROM 79.275 Nelli Kim URS 78.675 Lyudmila Turischeva URS 78.625
1980 Yelena Davidova URS 79.150 Nadia Comaneci (ROM) / Maxi Gnauck (GDR) - 79.075 - - -
1984 Mary Lou Retton USA 79.175 Ecaterina Szabo ROM 79.125 Simona Pauca ROM 78.675
1988 Yelena Shushunova URS 79.662 Daniela Silivas ROM 79.637 Svetlana Boginskaya URS 79.400
1992 Tatyana Gutsu UNT 39.737 Shannon Miller USA 39.725 Lavinia Milosovici ROM 39.687
1996 Lilia Podkopayeva UKR 39.255 Gina Gogean ROM 39.075 Simona Amanar (ROM) / Lavina Milosivici (ROM) - 39.067
2000 Simona Amanar ROM 38.893 Maria Olaru ROM 38.642 Xuan Liu CHN 38.581
2004 Carly Patterson USA 38.387 Svetlana Khorkina RUS 38.211 Nan Zhang CHN 38.049
2008 Nastia Liukin USA 63.325 Shawn Johnson USA 62.725 Yang Yilin CHN 62.650
2012 Gabby Douglas USA 62.232 Viktoria Komova RUS 61.973 Aliya Mustafina RUS 59.566

TEAM / CONJUNTOS

Year Gold / Oro Silver / Plata Bronze / Bronce
1928 Netherlands Italy Great Britain
1936 Germany Czechoslovakia Hungary
 
1948 Czechoslovakia: Zdenka Honsová, Miloslava Misáková, Vera Ruzickova, Bozena Srncová, Milena Mullerová, Zdenka Vermirovska, Olga Silhanová, Marie Kovárová (445.45) Hungary: Edit Perényi, Maria Kova, Irén Kárpati, Erzébet Gulyás, Erzsébet Balázs, Olga Tass, Anna Fehér, Margit Sandor (440.55) United States: Helen Schifano, Clara Schroth, Meta Elste, Marian Barone, Ladislava Bakanic, Consetta Lenz, Anita Simonis, Dorothy Dalton (422.63)
1952 Soviet Union: Maria Horokhovska, Nina Bocharova, Galina Minaicheva, Galina Urbanovich, Pelageya Danilova, Galina Shamrai, Yekaterina Kalinchuk (527.03) Hungary: Margit Korondi, Agnes Keleti, Edit Perényi, Olga Tass, Erzsébet Guiyás, Maria Zalai, Andrea Bodó, Irén Daruhazi (520.96) Czechoslovakia: Eva Véchtová, Alena Chadimová, Jana Rabasová, Bozena Srncová, Hana Bobková, Matylda Sinová, Vera Vancurová, Alena Reichová (503.32)
1956 Soviet Union: Larysa Latynina, Sofia Muratova, Tamara Manina, Lyukmila Yegorova, Polina Astakhova, Lidiya Kalinina (444.8) Hungary: Agnes Keleti, Olga Tass, Margit Korondi, Andrea Bodó, Erzsébet Gulyás, Aliz Kertész (443.5) Romania: Elena Leustean, Sonia Iovan, Georgeta Hurmuzache, Emilia Vatasoiu, Elena Margarit, Elena Sacalici (438.2)
1960 Soviet Union: Larysa Latynina, Sofia Muratova, Polina Astakhova, Margaryta Nikolayeva, Lidiya Ivanova (Kalinina), Tamara Lyukina (382.320) Czechoslovakia: Vera Cáslavská, eva Bosáková, Ludmila Svédová, Adolfina Tacová, Matylda Matousková (Sinová), Hana Ruzickova (373.323) Romania: Sonia Iovan, Elena Leustean, Emilia Lita (Vatasoiu), atanasia Ionescu, Uta Poreceau, Elena Niculescu (Margarit) (372.053)
1964 Soviet Union: Larysa Latynina, Polina Astakhova, Yelena Volchetskaya, Tamara Zamotailova (Lyukhina), Tmara Manina, Lyudmila Gromova (380.890) Czechoslovakia: Vera Cáslavská, Hana Ruzicková, Jaroslava Sedlacková, Adolfina Tkaciková (Tacová), Mária Krajcirová, Jana Posnerová (379.989) Japan: Keiko Ikeda, Toshiko Aihara, Kiyoko Ono, Taniko Nakamura, Ginko Chiba, Hiroko Tsuji (377.889)
1968 Soviet Union: Zinaida Voronina, Natalya Kuchinskaya, Larissa Petrik, Olga Karasyova, Lyudmila Turischeva, Lyubov Burda (382.85) Czechoslovakia: Vera Cáslavská, Bohumila Rimnácová, Miroslava Sklenicková, Máriana Krajcirová, Hana Lisková, Jana Kubicková (Posnerová) (382.20) East Germany: Erika Zuchold, Karin Janz, Maritta bauerschmidt, Ute Starke, Marianne Noack, Magdalena Schmidt (379.10)
1972 Soviet Union: Lyudmila Turischeva, Olga Korbut, Tamara Lazakovich, Lyubov Burda, Elvira Saadi, Antonina Koshel (380.50) East Germany: Karin Janz, Erika Zuchold, Angelika Hellmann, Irene Abel, Christine Schmitt, Richarda Schmeisser (376.55) Hungary: Ilona Békési, Mónika Császár, Krisztina Medveczky, Anikó Déry, Márta Kelemen, Zsuzsanna Nagy (368.25)
1976 Soviet Union: Nelli Kim, Lyudmila Turischeva, Olga Korbut, Elvira Saadi, Maria Filatova, Svetlana Grozdova (466.00) Romania: Nadia Comaneci, Teodora Ungureanu, Mariana Constantin, Anca Grigoras, Gabriela Trusca, Georgeta Gabor (462.35) East Germany: Gitta Escher, Marion Kische, Kerstin Gerschau, Angelika Hellmann, Steffi Kräker, Carola Dombeck (459.30)
1980 Soviet Union: Natalya Shaposhnikova, Yelena Davydova, Nelli Kim, Maria Filatova, Stella Zakharova, Yelena Naimushina (394.90) Romania: Emilia Eberle, Nadia Comaneci, Rodica Dunca, Melita Rühn, Cristina Grigoras, Dumitrita Turner (393.50) East Germany: Maxi Gnauck, Katharina Rensch, Steffi Kräker, Birgit Süss, Silvia Hindorff, Karola Sube (392.55)
1984 Romania: Ecaterina Szabó, Laura Cutina, Simona Pauca, Cristina Grigoras, Mihaela Stanulet, Lavinia Agache (392.02) United States: Mary Lou Retton, Julianne McNamara, Kathy Johnson, Michelle Dusserre, Tracee talavera, Pamela Bileck (391.20) China: Ma Yanhong, Wu Jiani, Chen Yongyan, Zhou Ping, Zhou Qiurui, Huang Qun (388.60)
1988 Soviet Union: Yelena Shushunova, Svetlana Boginskaya, Natalija Lascenova, Svetlana Baitova, Yelena Shevchenko, Olga Strazheva (395.475) Romania: Daniela Silivas, Gabriela Potorac, Aurelia Dobre, Celestina Popa, Eugenia Golea, Camelia Voinea (394.125) East Germany: Dagmar Kersten, Dörte Thümmler, Ulrike Klotz, Gabriele Fähnrich, Betti Schieferdecker, Martina Jentsch (390.875)
1992 Unified Team: Svetlana Boginskaya, Tatyana Lysenko, Rozalya Galiyeva, Tatyana Gutsu, Yelena Grudneva, Oksana Chusovitina (395.666) Romania: Cristina Bontas, Lavinia Milosovici, Gina Gogean, Vanda Hadarean, Maria Neculisa, Mirela Pasca (395.079) United States: Shannon Miller, Elizabeth Okino, Kim Zmeskal, Kerri Strug, Dominique Dawes, Wendy Bruce (394.704)
1996 United States: Jaycie Phelps, Amy Chow, Shannon Miller, Dominique Dawes, Dominique Moceanu, Kerri Strug (389.225) Russia: Oksana Liapina, Elena Grosheva, Svetlana Khorkina, Elena Dolgopolova, Dina Kochetkova, Rozalia Galiyeva (388.404) Romania: Ionela Loaies, Mirela Tugurlan, Gina Gogean, Alexandra Marinescu, Lavinia Milosovici, Simona Amanar (388.246)
2000 Romania: Claudia Presacan, Andreea Raducan, Andreea Isarescu, Loredana Boboc, María Olaru, Simona Amanar (154.608) Russia: Elena Zamolodtchikova, Anna Tchepeleva, Elena Prodounova, Ekaterina Lobazniouk, Anastassia Kolesnikova, Svetlana Khorkina (154.403) *United States: Amy Chow, Elise Ray, Jamie Dantzscher, Kristin Maloney, Tasha Schwikert, Dominique Dawes (152.933)
2004 Romania: Oana Ban, Alexandra Eremia, Catalina Ponor, Monica Rosu, Nicoleta Sofronie, Silvia Stroescu (114.283) United States: Mohini Bhardwaj, Annia Hatch, Terin Humphrey, Courtney Kupets, Courtney McCool, Carly Patterson (113.584) Russia: Liudmila Ezhova, Svetlana Khorkina, Maria Krioutchkova, Anna Pavlova, Elena Zamolodchikova, Natalia Ziganchina (113.235)
2008 China: Cheng Fei, He Kexin, Jiang Yuyuan, Li Shanshan, Yang Yiling, Deng Linlin (188.900) United States: Shawn Johnson, Nastia Liukin, Chellsie Memmel, Samantha Peszek, Alicia Sacramone, Bridget Sloan (186.525) Romania: Steliana Nistor, Sandra Izbasa, Andreea Acatrinei, Andreea Grigore, Gabriela Dragoi, Anamaria Tamirjan (181.525)
2012 United States: Gabby Douglas, Jordyn Wieber, Aly Raisman, Kyla Ross, McKayla Maroney (183.596) Russia: Aliya Mustafina, Viktoria Komova, Ksenia Afanasyeva, Anastaia Grishina, Maria Paseka (178.530) Romania: Catalina Ponor, Larisa Iordache, Diana Bulimar, Sandra Izbasa, Diana Chelaru (176.414)

*China: Yun Yang, Xuan Liu, Jie Ling, Mandan Huang, Yuanyuan Kui, Fangxiao Dong (154.008). The Chinese team of 2000 was stripped of its bronze medal in April 2010 after an investigation found that Dong Fangxiao was underage (16) at the time.
*El equipo chino de 2000 fue desposeído en 2010 de su medalla de bronce tras descubrirse que Dong Fangxiao no llegaba a la edad límite (16) en esa época

TEAM EXERCISE WITH PORTABLE APPARATUS / EJERCICIO POR EQUIPOS CON APARATOS PORTÁTILES

Year Gold / Oro Silver / Plata Bronze / Bronce
1952 Sweden Soviet Union Hungary
1956 Hungary Sweden Soviet Union & Poland


APPARATUSES / APARATOS (Gold Medalists / Medallas de Oro)

Year Side Horse Vault / Potro de Salto Uneven Bars / Barras Asimétricas Balance Beam / Barra de Equilibrios Floor / Suelo
1952 Yekaterina Kalinchuk URS Margit Korondi HUN Nina Bocharova URS Ágnes Keleti HUN
1956 Larysa Latynina URS Ágnes Keleti HUN Ágnes Keleti HUN Ágnes Keleti HUN / Larysa Latynina URS
1960 Margaryta Nikolayeva URS Polina Astahkova URS Eva Bosáková-Vechtová TCH Larysa Latynina URS
1964 Vera Cáslavská TCH Polina Astahkova URS Vera Cáslavská TCH Larysa Latynina URS
1968 Vera Cáslavská TCH Vera Cáslavská TCH Natalya Kuchinskaya URS Vera Cáslavská TCH / Larissa Petrik URS
1972 Karin Janz GDR Karin Janz GDR Olga Korbut URS Olga Korbut URS
1976 Nelli Kim URS Nadia Comaneci ROM Nadia Comaneci ROM Nelli Kim URS
1980 Natalya Shaposhnikova URS Maxi Gnauck GDR Nadia Comaneci ROM Nadia Comaneci ROM / Nelli Kim, URS
1984 Ecaterina Szabó ROM Ma Yanhong CHN / Julianne McNamara USA Simona Pauca ROM / Ecaterina Szabo ROM Ecaterina Szabó ROM
1988 Svetlana Boginskaya URS Daniela Silivas ROM Daniela Silivas ROM Daniela Silivas ROM
Year Side Horse Vault / Potro de Salto Uneven Bars / Barras Asimétricas Balance Beam / Barra de Equilibrios Floor / Suelo
1992 Lavinia Milosovici ROM / Henrietta Ónodi HUN Lu Li CHN Tatyana Lysenko UNT Lavinia Milosovici ROM
1996 Simona Amanar ROM Svetlana Khorkina RUS Shannon Miller USA Lilia Podkopayeva UKR
2000 Elena Zamolodtchikova RUS Svetlana Khorkina RUS Xuan Liu CHN Elena Zamolodtchikova RUS
2004 Monica Rosu ROM Emilie Lepennec FRA Catalina Ponor ROM Catalina Ponor ROM
2008 Hong Un Jong PRK He Kexin CHN Shawn Johnson USA Sandra Izbasa ROU
2012 Sandra Izbasa ROU Aliya Mustafina RUS Deng Linlin CHN Aly Raisman USA

TRAMPOLINE / TRAMPOLÍN

Year Gold / Oro CNT Pts. Silver / Plata CNT Pts. Bronze / Bronce CNT Pts.
2000 Irina Karavaeva RUS 38.90 Oxana Tsyhuleva UKR 37.70 Karen Cockburn CAN 37.40
2004 Anna Dogonadze GER 39.60 Karen Cockburn CAN 39.20 Shanshan Huang CHN 39.00
2008 He Wenna CHN 37.80 Karen Cockburn CAN 37.00 Ekaterina Khilko UZB 36.90
2012 Rosannagh MacLennan CAN 57.305 Huang Shanshan CHN 56.730 He Wenna CHN 55.950


Statistics / Estadísticas

Before 1952 only one event was held in Women's Gymnastics: Team Combined Exercises in 1928, 1936 and 1948. The current schedule started in 1952 and has remained the same ever since, with the only exception of 1952 and 1956, when there was a "TEAM EXERCISE WITH PORTABLE APPARATUS". In 2000, Trampoline was added. All these events are included in the table below.

El programa actual de la gimnasia femenina comenzó en 1952 y ha permanecido invariable desde entonces. Hasta ese ańo, sólo se había disputado una prueba: el concurso por equipos en 1928, 1936 y 1948. Además, en 1952 y 1956 se disputó el "EJERCICIO POR EQUIPOS CON APARATOS PORTÁTILES". El trampolín se ańadió en 2000. Todas estas pruebas se incluyen en las tablas de abajo.

Medal Table (Team Competition) / Medallero (Competición por Equipos)

Ps. Country / País CNT G S B Tot.
1. Soviet Union URS 10 - - 10
2. Romania ROM 3 4 5 12
3. United States USA 2 3 3 8
4. Czechoslovakia TCH 1 4 1 6
5. China CHN 1 - 1 2
6. Holland HOL 1 - - 1
7. Germany GER 1 - - 1
8. Hungary HUN - 3 2 5
9. Russia RUS - 3 1 4
10. East Germany GDR - 1 4 5
11. Italy ITA - 1 - 1
12. Great Britain GBR - - 1 1
. Japan JPN - - 1 1
 
13     19 19 19 57

Medal Table (Individual All-Around) / Medallero (Competición Individual)

Ps. Country / País G S B Tot.
1. Larysa Latynina, URS 56 60 64 - 3
2. Vera Cáslavská, TCH 64 68 - - 2
3. Nadia Comaneci, ROM 76 80 - 2
4. Lyudmila Turischeva, URS 72 - 76 2
. Simona Amanar, ROM 00 - 96= 2
Medal Table (All Events) / Medallero (Todas las Pruebas)
*Shared medals are considered as two (or three) medals, even when the gymnasts are from the same country. Trampoline is also included. / *Las medallas compartidas se consideran como dos (o tres) medallas, aunque los gimnastas sean del mismo país. El trampolín también está incluído.
Ps. Country / País CNT G S B Tot.
1. Soviet Union URS 36 30 28 94
2. Romania ROU 24 16 22 62
3. United States USA 10 16 13 39
4. Czechoslovakia TCH 9 6 1 16
5. China CHN 7 7 10 24
6. Hungary HUN 7 6 10 23
7. Russia RUS 6 7 7 20
8. East Germany FRG 3 10 7 20
9. Ukraine UKR 2 2 0 4
. Germany GER 2 2 0 4
11. Canada CAN 1 2 1 4
12. Sweden SWE 1 1 1 3
13. Netherlands NED 1 0 0 1
. France FRA 1 0 0 1
. North Korea PRK 1 0 0 1
16. Italy ITA 0 1 0 1
17. Great Britain GBR 0 0 2 2
18. Poland POL 0 0 1 1
. Japan JPN 0 0 1 1
. Bulgaria BUL 0 0 1 1
. Spain ESP 0 0 1 1
. Uzbekistan UZB 0 0 1 1
 
22     111 106 107 324

Medal Table (Gimnasts) / Medallero (Gimnastas)

Pos Gymnast G S B Total  
1. +Larysa Latynina, URS 9 5 4 18 56: ALL-TM-HV-FL=; 60: ALL-TM-FL; 64: TM-FL / 56: UB; 60: UB-BB; 64: ALL-HV= / 56: TWPA=; 60: HV; 64: BB-UB
2. *Vera Cáslavská, TCH 7 4 0 11 64: ALL-HV-BB; 68: ALL-HV-UB-FL= / 60: TM; 64: TM; 68: TM-BB / None
3. Ágnes Keleti, HUN 5 3 2 10 52: FL; 56: UB-BB-FL=-TWPA / 52: TM; 56: ALL-TM / 52:TWPA-UB
4. Nadia Comaneci, ROM 5 3 1 9 76: ALL-UB-BB; 80: BB-FL= / 76: TM; 80: ALL=-TM / 76: FL
5. Polina Astahkova, URS 5 2 3 10 56: TM; 60: TM-UB; 64: TM-UB / 60: FL; 64: FL / 56: TWPA; 60: ALL; 64: ALL
6. Nelli Kim, URS 5 1 0 6 76: TM-HV-FL; 80: TM-FL= / 76: ALL / None
7. Lyudmila Turischeva, URS 4 3 2 9 68: TM; 72: ALL-TM; 76: TM / 72: FL; 76: HV=-FL / 72: HV; 76: ALL
8. Olga Korbut, URS 4 2 0 6 72: TM-BB-FL; 76: TM / 72: UB; 76: BB / None
9. Ekaterina Szabo, ROM 4 1 0 5 84: TM-HV-BB=-FL / 84: ALL / None
10. *Daniela Silivas, ROM 3 2 1 6 88: UB-BB-FL / 88: ALL-TM / 88: HV
11. Simona Amanar, ROM 3 1 3 7 96: HV; 00: ALL-TM / 96: FL / 96: ALL=-TM; 00: FL
12. Svetlana Boginskaya, URS 3 1 1 5 88: TM-HV; 92: TM / 88: FL / 88: ALL
. Catalina Ponor, ROU 3 1 1 5 04: TM-BB-FL / 12: FL / 12: TM
14. Svetlana Khorkina, RUS 2 4 1 7 96: UB; 00: UB / 96: TM; 00: TM-FL; 04: ALL / 04: TM
15. Shannon Miller, USA 2 2 3 7 96: TM-BB / 92: ALL-BB= / 92: TM-UB-FL=
+Larysa Latynina held the record of medals won by any athlete in any sport in Olympic History until Michael Phelps beat it in 2012.
+Larysa Latynina tenía el récord de medallas ganadas en la historia de las olimpiadas en cualquier deporte hasta que Michael Phelps lo batió en 2012.
 
*Vera Cáslavská (1968) & Daniela Silivas (1988) are the only gymnasts to obtain medals in all 6 events of one edition.
*Vera Cáslavská (1968) y Daniela Silivas (1988) son las únicas gimnastas que han ganado medalla en las seis pruebas de una misma edición.

*: LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS / LISTA DE ABREVIATURAS

ABR Event Prueba ABR Event Prueba
ALL Individual all-around Individual TM Team Conjuntos
HV Side Horse Vault Caballo de Salto UB Uneven Bars Barras Asimétricas
BB Balance Beam Barra de Equilibrios FL Floor Suelo
= Shared Medal Medalla Compartida      
TWPA Team Exercise with Portable Apparatus (52, 56) Conjuntos con Aparatos Portátiles (52,56)


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