Back to index / Volver al sumarioRhythmic Gimnastics is only for women and there are only two events within the Olympic Program: individual all-around competition (introduced in 1984) and team competition (introduced in 1996). There are five different accessories (hoop, rope, clubs, ball, and ribbon), but individual routines are performed with only four of those five. The all-around competition consists of a qualifying round and a semifinal round; the ten best gymnast in the semifinals advance to the final. In the team competition, all five accessories are used.
La gimnasia rítmica es un deporte exclusivamente femenino. En el programa olímpico sólo hay dos pruebas: competición individual (desde 1984) y competición por equipos (desde 1996). Hay cinco aparatos diferentes (aro, cuerda, mazas, pelota y lazo), pero en los ejercicios individuales sólo se utilizan cuatro de ellos. La competición individual consta de ronda clasificatoria y semifinales, donde las diez mejores gimnastas pasan a la final. En la competición por equipos se utilizan todos los aparatos.
| Year | Gold / Oro | CNT | Pts. | Silver / Plata | CNT | Pts. | Bronze / Bronce | CNT | Pts. |
| 1984 | Lori Fung | CAN | 57.950 | Doina Staiculescu | ROM | 57.900 | Regina Weber | GER | 57.700 |
| 1988 | Marina Lobach | URS | 60.000 | Adriana Dunavska | BUL | 59.950 | Alexandra Tymoshenko | URS | 59.875 |
| 1992 | Aleksandra Tymoshenko | UNT | 59.037 | Carolina Pascual Gracia | ESP | 58.100 | Oksana Skaldina | UNT | 57.912 |
| 1996 | Ekaterina Serebryanskaya | UKR | 39.683 | Ianina Batyrchina | RUS | 39.382 | Elena Vitrichenko | UKR | 39.331 |
| 2000 | Yulia Barsukova | RUS | 39.632 | Yulia Raskina | BLR | 39.548 | Alina Kabaeva | RUS | 39.466 |
| 2004 | Alina Kabaeva | RUS | 108.400 | Irina Tchachina | RUS | 107.325 | Anna Bessonova | UKR | 106.700 |
| 2008 | Evgeniya Kanaeva | RUS | 75.500 | Inna Zhukova | BLR | 71.925 | Anna Bessonova | UKR | 71.875 |
| Year | Gold / Oro | Silver / Plata | Bronze / Bronce |
| 1996 | Spain: Marta Baldo; Nuria Cabanillas; Estela Giménez; Lorena Guréndez; Tania Lamarca; Estíbaliz Martínez (38.933) | Bulgaria: Ivelina Taleva; Valentina Kevlian; Ina Deltcheva; Maja Tabakova; Maria Koleva; Vjara Vatachka (38.866) | Russia: Evguenia Botchkareva; Irina Dziouba; Angelina Iouchkova; Olga Chtyrenko; Elena Krivochei; Ioulia Ivanova (38.365) |
| 2000 | Russia: Irina Belova, Elena Chalamova, Natalia Lavrova, Maria Netessova, Vera Shimanskaya, Irina Zilber (39.500*) | Belarus: Tatyana Ananko, Tatyana Belan, Anna Glazkoya, Irina Ilyenkova, Maria Lazuk, Olga Puzhevich (39.500*) | Greece: Eirini Aindili, Evangelia Christodoulou, Maria Georgatou, Zacharoula Karyami, Charikleia Pantazi, Anna Pollatou (39.283) |
| 2004 | Russia: Olesia Beluguina, Olga Glatskikh, Tatiana Kurbakova, Natalia Lavrova, Elena Murzina, Elena Posevina (51.100) | Italy: Elisa Blanchi, Fabrizia D´Ottavio, Marinella Falca, Daniela Masseroni, Elisa Santoni, Laura Vernizzi (49.450) | Bulgaria: Zhaneta Ilieva, Eleonora Kezhova, Zornitsa Marinova, Kristina Ranguelova, Galina Tancheva, Vladislava Tancheva (48.600) |
| 2008 | Russia: Margarita Aliychuk, Anna Gavrilenko, Tatiana Gorbunova, Elena Posevina, Daria Shkurikhina, Natalia Zueva (35.550) | China: Cai Tongtong, Chou Tao, Lu Yuanyang, Sui Jianshuang, Sun Dan, Zhang Shuo (35.225) | Belarus: Olesya Babushkina, Anastasia Ivankova, Zinaida Lunina, Glafira Martinovich, Ksenia Sankovich, Alina Tumilovich (34.900) |
| Ps | Country | CNT | G | S | B | Tot. |
| 1. | Russia | RUS | 6 | 2 | 2 | 10 |
| 2. | Soviet Union | URS | 2 | - | 2 | 4 |
| 3. | Spain | ESP | 1 | 1 | - | 2 |
| 4. | Ukraine | UKR | 1 | - | 3 | 4 |
| 5. | Canada | CAN | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| 6. | Belarus | BLR | - | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 7. | Bulgaria | BUL | - | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 8. | Romania | ROM | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| . | Italy | ITA | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| . | China | CHN | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| 11. | Germany | GER | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| . | Greece | GRE | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | TOTAL | 11 | 11 | 11 | 33 |
Gymnasts with more than one individual medal / Gimnastas con más de una medalla individual
| Gymnast | G | S | B | Tot. |
| Aleksandra Tymoshenko, URS | 92 | 88 | 2 | |
| Alina Kabaeva, RUS | 04 | 00 | 2 | |
| Anna Bessonova, UKR | 04 08 | 2 |
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