Gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics
At the 1984 Summer Olympics, two different gymnastics disciplines were contested. In addition to the fourteen artistic gymnastics events contested, for the first time at the Olympics, a rhythmic gymnastics event was contested–the women's individual all-around. All of the gymnastics events were held at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles from July 29 through August 11. Several teams who had qualified to compete were absent as a result of the 1984 Summer Olympics boycott, including the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, and North Korea.[1]
| Gymnastics at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad | |
|---|---|
| Venue | Pauley Pavilion |
| Dates | 29 July – 11 August 1984 |
| Gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics | ||
|---|---|---|
| Artistic | ||
| Team all-around | men | women |
| Individual all-around | men | women |
| Vault | men | women |
| Floor | men | women |
| Pommel horse | men | |
| Rings | men | |
| Parallel bars | men | |
| Horizontal bar | men | |
| Uneven bars | women | |
| Balance beam | women | |
| Rhythmic | ||
| Individual all-around | women | |
This was the first time in Olympic competition that eight gymnasts were allowed to move onto an apparatus final, instead of the previous six.
The USSR and other satellite countries organized an 'Alternate Olympics' where the USSR, East Germany, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and other Soviet Bloc nations competed.[2]
Artistic gymnastics
Format of competition
The artistic gymnastics competition at the 1984 Summer Olympics was carried out in three stages:
- Competition I - The team competition/qualification round in which all gymnasts, including those who were not part of a team, performed both compulsory and optional exercises. The combined scores of all team members determined the final score of the team. The thirty-six highest scoring gymnasts in the all-around qualified to the individual all-around competition. The eight highest scoring gymnasts on each apparatus qualified to the final for that apparatus.
- Competition II - The individual all-around competition, in which those who qualified from Competition I performed exercises on each apparatus. The final score of each gymnast was composed of half the points earned by that gymnast during Competition I and all of the points earned by him or her in Competition II.
- Competition III - The apparatus finals, in which those who qualified during Competition I performed an exercise on the individual apparatus on which he or she had qualified. The final score of each gymnast was composed of half the points earned by that gymnast on that particular apparatus during Competition I and all of the points earned by him or her on that particular apparatus in Competition III.
Each country was limited to three gymnasts in the all-around final and two gymnasts in each apparatus final.
Men's events
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Individual all-around |
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Peter Vidmar |
Li Ning |
| Team all-around |
Bart Conner Timothy Daggett Mitchell Gaylord James Hartung Scott Johnson Peter Vidmar |
Li Ning Li Xiaoping Li Yuejiu Lou Yun Tong Fei Xu Zhiqiang |
Koji Gushiken Noritoshi Hirata Nobuyuki Kajitani Shinji Morisue Koji Sotomura Kyoji Yamawaki |
| Floor exercise |
Li Ning |
Lou Yun |
Koji Sotomura |
Philippe Vatuone | |||
| Horizontal bar |
Shinji Morisue |
Tong Fei |
Koji Gushiken |
| Parallel bars |
Bart Conner |
Nobuyuki Kajitani |
Mitchell Gaylord |
| Pommel horse |
Li Ning |
none awarded | Timothy Daggett |
| Peter Vidmar | |||
| Rings |
Koji Gushiken |
none awarded | Mitchell Gaylord |
| Li Ning | |||
| Vault |
Lou Yun |
Mitchell Gaylord |
none awarded |
| Koji Gushiken | |||
| Shinji Morisue | |||
| Li Ning |
Women's events
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Individual all-around |
Mary Lou Retton |
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Simona Păucă |
| Team all-around |
Lavinia Agache Laura Cutina Cristina Elena Grigoraş Simona Păucă Ecaterina Szabo Mihaela Stănuleţ |
Pamela Bileck Michelle Dusserre Kathy Johnson Julianne McNamara Mary Lou Retton Tracee Talavera |
Chen Yongyan Huang Qun Ma Yanhong Wu Jiani Zhou Ping Zhou Qiurui |
| Balance beam |
Simona Păucă |
none awarded | Kathy Johnson |
| Ecaterina Szabo | |||
| Floor exercise |
Ecaterina Szabo |
Julianne McNamara |
Mary Lou Retton |
| Uneven bars |
Ma Yanhong |
none awarded | Mary Lou Retton |
| Julianne McNamara | |||
| Vault |
Ecaterina Szabo |
Mary Lou Retton |
Lavinia Agache |
Rhythmic gymnastics
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Individual all-around |
Lori Fung |
Doina Staiculescu |
Regina Weber |
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | 5 | 5 | 6 | 16 |
| 2 | | 5 | 4 | 2 | 11 |
| 3 | | 5 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
| 4 | | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| 5 | | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (7 nations) | 19 | 14 | 15 | 48 | |
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See also
References
- "Gymnastics at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
- https://qz.com/747060/a-brief-history-of-countries-that-shunned-the-olympics-and-did-their-own-thing-instead/
External links
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