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The individual all-around is an artistic gymnastics event held at the Summer Olympics. The event was first held for men at the second modern Olympics in 1900, and has been held every Games since. The women's competition was added in 1952.
All five events were won by different athletes. Lee is the first women's individual all-around champion of Asian descent, the first Asian-American individual Olympic champion in women's artistic gymnastics, and the first Hmong-American Olympic champion in any sport. [3]
Women's events at the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships [1] [2] were first held in 1934 at the 10th World Championships. Only the All-Around and Team events were held. In 1950, at the 12th World Championships, the other apparatus events were added. The women's individual all-around event was not held in 1992, 1996, and 2002.
Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different types of apparatus. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which assigns the Code of Points used to score performances and regulates all aspects of elite international competition.
The women's artistic individual all-around competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro was held at the Arena Olímpica do Rio on 11 August. Simone Biles and Aly Raisman of the United States finished first and second in qualifications and then won the gold and silver medals in the final. It was the fourth consecutive Olympic gold ...
Simone Biles won gold in Paris in the women's gymnastics individual all-around on Thursday after the disappointment of Tokyo, while fellow American Suni Lee took bronze. Brazil's Rebeca Andrade ...
Biles became just the third woman to ever win two all-around golds, and the first since 1968, when it was a much different sport. Andrade would take a proud silver. Lee fought back herself to win ...
The top 24 competitors in the qualification round (with a limit of two per country), based on combined scores on the four apparatuses, advanced to the individual all-around final. In the final, gymnasts performed on each apparatus again.