Gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Gymnastics
at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad
Gymnastics; at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad
Venue	Pauley Pavilion
Dates	29 July – 11 August 1984
	← 1980 1988 →

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
Floor exercise details	Li Ning China	Lou Yun China	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
Pommel horse details	Peter Vidmar United States	none awarded	Timothy Daggett United States
Rings details	Koji Gushiken Japan	none awarded	Mitchell Gaylord United States
Rings details	Li Ning China	none awarded	Mitchell Gaylord United States
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
Balance beam details	Ecaterina Szabo Romania	none awarded	Kathy Johnson United States
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
Uneven bars details	Julianne McNamara United States	none awarded	Mary Lou Retton 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[]


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	5	5	6	16
2	China (CHN)	5	4	2	11
3	Romania (ROU)	5	2	2	9
4	Japan (JPN)	3	3	3	9
5	Canada (CAN)	1	0	0	1
6	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
6	West Germany (FRG)	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 nations)		19	14	15	48

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[]

[SR-1] "Gymnastics at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 August 2019.

[2] ttps://qz.com/747060/a-brief-history-of-countries-that-shunned-the-olympics-and-did-their-own-thing-instead/

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