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Nadia Comăneci – First Olympics Perfect 10 (Uneven Bars) – Montreal 1976 Olympics – The Olympic Channel, 2015 Nadia Comăneci – Selections from all of her routines – Montreal 1976 Olympics (overview) – The Olympic Channel , 2012
These are the results of the women's individual all-around competition, one of six events for female competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR. The qualification and final rounds took place on July 21, 23 and 24 at the Sports Palace of the Central Lenin Stadium. [1]
Nadia Comăneci poses beside the scoreboard that recorded her perfect 10 as 1.00 (with no Olympic precedent, the sign was incapable of displaying a 10.00).. A perfect 10 is a score of 10.000 for a single routine in artistic gymnastics, which was once thought to be unattainable—particularly at the Olympic Games—under the code of points set by the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG).
Bela Karolyi coached Nadia Comaneci to the first Olympics perfect 10 and Mary Lou ... later after criticizing the judging at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. ... to include video and new information. ...
Bela Karolyi, the legendary and controversial Romanian American gymnastics coach who helped lead Mary Lou Retton, Nadia Comaneci and Kerri Strug to Olympic gold, has died, USA Gymnastics announced.
Several teams who had qualified to compete were absent as a result of the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott, including the United States, Canada, China, Japan, South Korea, and West Germany. [1] For the first time in Olympic competition, in event finals for the vault an average of two vaults was used as the final score, rather than the best of two ...
She remains the only gymnast, male or female, to have won an Olympic gold medal in each individual event. [9] Nadia Comăneci, who competed for Romania in 1976 and 1980, won nine medals. In 1976, she became the first gymnast to earn a perfect 10 at the Olympic Games and eventually achieved that mark seven times during the Games.
Spike Lee, Michael Phelps and former ace gymnast Nadia Comaneci were also in the crowd to witness the return to the top of the U.S. women after Serena Williams, Nicole Kidman and other A-list ...