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Women artistic gymnasts are women who participate in the sport of gymnastics, specifically artistic gymnastics. [1] Women first competed in Gymnastics at the Summer Olympics in 1928. [2] This list is of those who are considered to be notable in women's artistic gymnastics. See gymnasium (ancient Greece) for the origin of the word gymnast from ...
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.
Hertha Feist (1896–1990), expressionist dancer, combining gymnastics, nudity and dance; Stefanie Frohberg (born 1991), ice dancer; Yvonne Georgi (1903–1975), ballerina, choreographer, ballet mistress; Valeska Gert (1892–1978), cabaret dancer, film actress, also in the United States; Tatjana Gsovsky (1901–1993), see Russia
As of December 2023, Biles was ranked as the 16th highest-paid female athlete in the world at $7.1 million, according to Forbes, making her the first gymnast to be among the top-paid female ...
From gold medals to grown-up and gorgeous! The women of the 2008 and 2012 Olympics US Gymnastics teams are no longer the sweet-faced teens you watched on TV.
Women have competed in artistic gymnastics at the Olympic Games since 1928. [1] While many women artistic gymnasts have competed in multiple Olympic Games, only five have competed in at least four separate Games: Oksana Chusovitina (8), Daniele Hypólito (5), Olga Tass (4), Vanessa Ferrari (4), [2] and Ellie Black (4).
This section lists the female Artistic Gymnasts who have won at least one medal in every event (team final, all-around, Vault, Uneven Bars, Balance Beam, and Floor Exercise) at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. The years listed refer to the World Championships at which the gymnast won her first medal in the event; the dates of any ...
The Associated Press named her Female Athlete of the Year, while Time magazine nominated her for 2016 Person of the Year. After the Olympics, Biles decided to take some time off before continuing ...