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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.
The only gymnast for Team USA to compete in all four events in the final, she contributed an all-around score of 61.833 (15.933 on vault, 14.800 on bars, 15.300 on beam, and 15.800 on floor) as the Americans won the gold with a score of 184.897, over 8 points ahead of the silver medal Russian team.
With a total of six Olympic and World Championship medals, she is the eleventh most decorated U.S. female gymnast of all time. As a public figure, Douglas' gymnastics successes have led to her life story adaptation in the 2014 Lifetime biopic film, The Gabby Douglas Story , [ 8 ] as well as the acquisition of her own reality television series ...
Getty. Gabby Douglas made history in 2012 when she became the first black gymnast to win an individual gold medal, as well as the first woman of color of any nationality to win the event.
Biles, the most decorated American Olympic gymnast of all time, appeared to have put together another stunning performance but landing out of bounds twice cost the US star six-tenths of a point ...
In June 2007, Gaylord was named the seventh-best U.S. gymnast of all time by Yahoo Sports. [27] In 1990, he was inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. [28] He was also named to the UCLA Hall of Fame in 1995, the US Olympic Hall of Fame in 2005, and the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2009. [29] [30]
The gymnasts met again at the 2019 U.S. National Championships, where Biles and Skinner qualified for the U.S. Women’s Senior National Team, per USA Gymnastics. September 2019
Gymnastics events have been staged at the Olympic Games since 1896. [1] 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), Brazil (1), and Czechoslovakia (1) are also ...