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The performances included Olympic disciplines such as floor exercise, pommel horse, rings, parallel bars, horizontal bar, uneven bars, balance beam, rhythmic gymnastics and trampoline gymnastics; non-Olympic discipline such as tumbling and acrobatic; and art performances such as dancing, martial art, instrument performance and chorus.
This is a list of the gymnasts who represented their country at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing from 8–24 August 2008. Gymnasts across three disciplines ( artistic gymnastics , rhythmic gymnastics , and trampoline ) participated in the Games.
The women's artistic team all-around competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics was held at the Beijing National Indoor Stadium on August 13, 2008. Teams qualified through the general artistic qualification performances. Each team was composed of six gymnasts.
These photos show how much Olympic gymnastics has evolved through the years from 1920s teams to Kerri Strug and now record-breaking gymnast Simone Biles.
She was a member of the U.S. women's gymnastics team at the 2008 Summer Olympics, which won silver. [1] Following her elite gymnastics career, Peszek competed for the UCLA Bruins. She is a 17-time All-American, [2] the 2011 and 2015 NCAA balance beam champion, [2] and the 2015 NCAA all-around co-champion with Kytra Hunter. [3]
Women's artistic individual all-around competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics was held on August 15. at the Beijing National Indoor Stadium. [1] For each competitor in the women's qualification, the scores [2] for all four apparatus were summed to give an all-around qualification score. The top 24 competitors moved on to the individual all ...
The women of the 2008 and 2012 Olympics US Gymnastics teams are no longer the sweet-faced teens you watched on TV. ... Gabby Douglas and other incredible women from the victorious 2008 and 2012 ...
Qualification for the men's artistic gymnastics in 2008 was based entirely on the 2007 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. The top 12 teams at the world championships could send a full team of 6 gymnasts to the Olympics. The next 3 teams (#13 through #15) could send 2 gymnasts. The 3 teams after that (#16 through #18) could send 1 gymnast.