Gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics

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VenuePauley Pavilion
Dates29 July – 11 August 1984
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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]

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[]

Games Gold Silver Bronze
Individual all-around
details
Koji Gushiken
 Japan
Peter Vidmar
 United States
Li Ning
 China
Team all-around
details
 United States (USA)
Bart Conner
Timothy Daggett
Mitchell Gaylord
James Hartung
Scott Johnson
Peter Vidmar
 China (CHN)
Li Ning
Li Xiaoping
Li Yuejiu
Lou Yun
Tong Fei
Xu Zhiqiang
 Japan (JPN)
Koji Gushiken
Noritoshi Hirata
Nobuyuki Kajitani
Shinji Morisue
Koji Sotomura
Kyoji Yamawaki
Floor exercise
details
Li Ning
 China
Lou Yun
 China
Koji Sotomura
 Japan
Philippe Vatuone
 France
Horizontal bar
details
Shinji Morisue
 Japan
Tong Fei
 China
Koji Gushiken
 Japan
Parallel bars
details
Bart Conner
 United States
Nobuyuki Kajitani
 Japan
Mitchell Gaylord
 United States
Pommel horse
details
Li Ning
 China
none awarded Timothy Daggett
 United States
Peter Vidmar
 United States
Rings
details
Koji Gushiken
 Japan
none awarded Mitchell Gaylord
 United States
Li Ning
 China
Vault
details
Lou Yun
 China
Mitchell Gaylord
 United States
none awarded
Koji Gushiken
 Japan
Shinji Morisue
 Japan
Li Ning
 China

Women's events[]

Games Gold Silver Bronze
Individual all-around
details
Mary Lou Retton
 United States
Ecaterina Szabo
 Romania
Simona Păucă
 Romania
Team all-around
details
 Romania (ROU)
Lavinia Agache
Laura Cutina
Cristina Elena Grigoraș
Simona Păucă
Ecaterina Szabo
Mihaela Stănuleț
 United States (USA)
Pamela Bileck
Michelle Dusserre
Kathy Johnson
Julianne McNamara
Mary Lou Retton
Tracee Talavera
 China (CHN)
Chen Yongyan
Huang Qun
Ma Yanhong
Wu Jiani
Zhou Ping
Zhou Qiurui
Balance beam
details
Simona Păucă
 Romania
none awarded Kathy Johnson
 United States
Ecaterina Szabo
 Romania
Floor exercise
details
Ecaterina Szabo
 Romania
Julianne McNamara
 United States
Mary Lou Retton
 United States
Uneven bars
details
Ma Yanhong
 China
none awarded Mary Lou Retton
 United States
Julianne McNamara
 United States
Vault
details
Ecaterina Szabo
 Romania
Mary Lou Retton
 United States
Lavinia Agache
 Romania

Rhythmic gymnastics[]

Games Gold Silver Bronze
Individual all-around
details
Lori Fung
 Canada
Doina Staiculescu
 Romania
Regina Weber
 West Germany

Medal table[]

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States (USA)55616
2 China (CHN)54211
3 Romania (ROU)5229
4 Japan (JPN)3339
5 Canada (CAN)1001
6 France (FRA)0011
 West Germany (FRG)0011
Totals (7 nations)19141548

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Gymnastics at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
  2. ^ https://qz.com/747060/a-brief-history-of-countries-that-shunned-the-olympics-and-did-their-own-thing-instead/

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