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Note: The International Gymnastics Federation recommended to the IOC that the medals of the Chinese team be stripped, and awarded to the fourth-placed United States team, as it was revealed that Dong Fangxiao was underage (14, with age limit >16) at the time. The IOC upheld the FIG decision in April 2010.
Gymnastics events have been staged at the Olympic Games since 1896. Since then, 30 female gymnasts have won at least five total medals. The country with the most athletes on this list is the Soviet Union, with nine. Romania (6), United States (6), Hungary (4), East Germany (2), Russia (2), and Czechoslovakia (1) are also represented.
The Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina was the first gymnast to have been World Champion in every event. Larisa Latynina and Věra Čáslavská have been a World Champion or Olympic Champion in every event. Lavinia Milosovici is the last gymnast to have been a World Champion or Olympic Champion in every event final. Listed separately are the ...
American female gymnasts have participated in every Olympic Games since 1936, except for 1980. A total of 83 female gymnasts have represented the United States. American women have won 48 medals at the Olympics – 9 in team all-around, 8 in individual all-around, 4 in vault, 8 in uneven bars, 10 in balance beam, and 9 in floor exercise.
Simone Arianne Biles Owens [4] ( née Biles; born March 14, 1997) [5] is an American artistic gymnast. Her nine Olympic medals and 30 World Championship medals make her the most decorated gymnast in history, [6] and she is widely considered one of the greatest gymnasts of all time. [7] With nine Olympic medals, she is the fifth-most decorated ...
Trampoline. Individual. men. women. v. t. e. This is a list of the gymnasts who are set to represent their respective countries at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France from 27 July – 10 August 2024. Gymnasts across three disciplines ( artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics and trampoline) will participate in the Games.
Oksana Chusovitina has competed at 8 Olympic Games, the most of any female artistic gymnast. Women have competed in artistic gymnastics at the Olympic Games since 1928. While many women artistic gymnasts have competed in multiple Olympic Games, only five have competed in at least four separate Games: Oksana Chusovitina (8), Daniele Hypólito (5), Olga Tass (4), Vanessa Ferrari (4), and Ellie ...
Women artistic gymnasts are women who participate in the sport of gymnastics, specifically artistic gymnastics. [1] Women first competed in Gymnastics at the Summer Olympics in 1928. [2] This list is of those who are considered to be notable in women's artistic gymnastics. See gymnasium (ancient Greece) for the origin of the word gymnast from ...