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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.
Men's and women's gymnastics are drastically different events under the same umbrella.
Artistic gymnastics is usually divided into men's and women's gymnastics. Men compete on six events: floor exercise, pommel horse, still rings, vault, parallel bars, and horizontal bar, while women compete on four: vault, uneven bars, balance beam, and floor exercise.
The event was first held for men at the third modern Olympics in 1904 but was only contested by teams from the United States. In 1908 and onwards it was contested by multiple different nations. [1] The women's competition was added in 1928, [2] skipped in 1932, [3] and was re-added in 1936. [4] It has been contested at every Olympic Games since.
Those selections will be made for the U.S. Olympic gymnastics squad this weekend at trials in Minneapolis, with the men’s team set to be named Saturday and the women’s team Sunday.
Saturday, June 1: Men's gymnastics Day 2 – juniors at 1:30 p.m. and seniors at 7:00 p.m. Sunday, June 2: Women's gymnastics Day 2 – juniors/seniors session 1 at 12:45 p.m. and seniors session 2 at 5:45 p.m. The event was broadcast on NBC Sports and CNBC and live-streamed on USA Gymnastics' YouTube channel and Peacock.
Days after an injury scare, Simone Biles and her U.S. women's artistic gymnastics teammates took home the gold in the team finals. It was their first medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics and marked an ...
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.