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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.
not included in the Olympic program: 1904 St. Louis details: George Eyser United States: Anton Heida United States: John Duha United States: 1908–1920: not included in the Olympic program: 1924 Paris details: August Güttinger Switzerland: Robert Pražák Czechoslovakia: Giorgio Zampori Italy: 1928 Amsterdam details: Ladislav Vácha ...
[3] [4] Latynina has the most medals of any female athlete in Olympic history, with 18. She won six medals in each Olympic Games that she competed in, winning the individual all-around titles in 1956 and 1960. [3] Astakhova won two medals in 1956, four medals in 1960, and four medals in 1964. She won the uneven bars golds in 1960 and 1964. [4]
Total medals Gymnast Nation Years Gold Silver Bronze Rank 15 Nikolai Andrianov Soviet Union 1972, 1976, 1980: 7: 5: 3: 1 13 Boris Shakhlin Soviet Union 1956, 1960, 1964: 7: 4: 2: 2 ...
American female gymnasts have participated in every Olympic Games since 1936, except for 1980. [2] A total of 90 female gymnasts have represented the United States. American women have won 62 medals at the Olympics – 11 in team all-around, 11 in individual all-around, 7 in vault, 10 in uneven bars, 11 in balance beam, and 12 in floor exercise.
Gymnastics events have been contested at every Summer Olympic Games since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. For 32 years, only men were allowed to compete. Beginning at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, women were allowed to compete in artistic gymnastics events as well.
Czech gymnast Věra Čáslavská, who followed Latynina to become a two-time Olympic all-around champion, was 22 before she started winning gold medals at the highest level of the sport, and won her final Olympic all-around title at the age of 26. [3] In the 1970s, the average age of Olympic gymnastics competitors began to gradually decrease.
Gymnastics: Men's artistic individual all-around: August 18 Gold: Kimberly Rhode: Shooting: Women's double trap: August 18 Gold: Lindsay Benko * Natalie Coughlin Rhi Jeffrey * Rachel Komisarz * Carly Piper Kaitlin Sandeno Dana Vollmer: Swimming: Women's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay: August 18 Gold: Carly Patterson: Gymnastics: Women's artistic ...