Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Gymnastics at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad | |
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![]() ![]() ![]() Pictograms for artistic (left), rhythmic (center), and trampoline (right) | |
Venue | Olympic Indoor Hall (artistic and trampoline) Galatsi Olympic Hall (rhythmic) |
Dates | 14 – 29 August 2004 |
Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics | ||
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Artistic | ||
Qualification | men | women |
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 | ||
Group all-around | women | |
Individual all-around | women | |
Trampoline | ||
Individual | men | women |
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, three disciplines of gymnastics were contested: artistic gymnastics (August 14–23), rhythmic gymnastics (August 26–29) and trampoline (August 20–21). The artistic gymnastics and trampoline events were held at the Olympic Indoor Hall and the rhythmic gymnastics events were held at the Galatsi Olympic Hall.[1]
Artistic gymnastics[]
Format of competition[]
The competition format was largely the same as at the 2000 Summer Olympics. All participating gymnasts, including those who were not part of a team, participated in a qualification round. The results of this competition determined which teams and individuals participated in the remaining competitions, which included:
- The team competition, in which the eight highest scoring teams from qualifications competed. For the first time, each team of six gymnasts could only have three gymnasts perform on each apparatus, and all three scores counted toward the team total.
- The all-around competition, in which only the twenty-four highest scoring individuals in the all-around competed. For the first time, each country was limited to only two gymnasts in the all-around final.
- The event finals, in which the eight highest scoring individuals on each apparatus competed. Each country was limited to two gymnasts in each apparatus final.
Medalists - Men's Events[]
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Individual all-around |
Paul Hamm![]() |
Kim Dae-eun![]() |
Yang Tae-young![]() |
Team all-around |
![]() Takehiro Kashima Hisashi Mizutori Daisuke Nakano Hiroyuki Tomita Naoya Tsukahara Isao Yoneda |
![]() Jason Gatson Morgan Hamm Paul Hamm Brett McClure Blaine Wilson Guard Young |
![]() Marian Drăgulescu Ilie Daniel Popescu Dan Nicolae Potra Răzvan Dorin Şelariu Ioan Silviu Suciu Marius Urzică |
Floor Exercise |
Kyle Shewfelt![]() |
Marian Drăgulescu![]() |
Yordan Yovchev![]() |
Horizontal bar |
Igor Cassina![]() |
Paul Hamm![]() |
Isao Yoneda![]() |
Parallel bars |
Valeri Goncharov![]() |
Hiroyuki Tomita![]() |
Li Xiaopeng![]() |
Pommel horse |
Teng Haibin![]() |
Marius Urzică![]() |
Takehiro Kashima![]() |
Rings |
Dimosthenis Tampakos![]() |
Yordan Yovchev![]() |
Jury Chechi![]() |
Vault |
Gervasio Deferr![]() |
Jevgēņijs Saproņenko![]() |
Marian Drăgulescu![]() |
Medalists - Women's Events[]
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Individual all-around |
Carly Patterson![]() |
Svetlana Khorkina![]() |
Zhang Nan![]() |
Team all-around |
![]() Oana Ban Alexandra Eremia Cătălina Ponor Monica Roșu Nicoleta Daniela Șofronie Silvia Stroescu |
![]() Mohini Bhardwaj Annia Hatch Terin Humphrey Courtney Kupets Courtney McCool Carly Patterson |
![]() Ludmila Ezhova Svetlana Khorkina Maria Krioutchkova Anna Pavlova Elena Zamolodchikova Natalia Ziganshina |
Balance beam |
Cătălina Ponor![]() |
Carly Patterson![]() |
Alexandra Eremia![]() |
Floor exercises |
Cătălina Ponor![]() |
Nicoleta Daniela Șofronie![]() |
Patricia Moreno![]() |
Uneven bars |
Émilie Le Pennec![]() |
Terin Humphrey![]() |
Courtney Kupets![]() |
Vault |
Monica Roșu![]() |
Annia Hatch![]() |
Anna Pavlova![]() |
Rhythmic gymnastics[]
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Individual all-around |
Alina Kabaeva![]() |
Irina Tchachina![]() |
Anna Bessonova![]() |
Group all-around |
![]() Olesya Belugina Olga Glatskikh Tatiana Kurbakova Natalia Lavrova Yelena Posevina Elena Murzina |
![]() Elisa Blanchi Fabrizia D'Ottavio Marinella Falca Daniela Masseroni Elisa Santoni Laura Vernizzi |
![]() Zhaneta Ilieva Eleonora Kezhova Zornitsa Marinova Kristina Rangelova Galina Tancheva Vladislava Tancheva |
Trampoline[]
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men's individual |
Yuri Nikitin![]() |
Alexander Moskalenko![]() |
Henrik Stehlik![]() |
Women's individual |
Anna Dogonadze![]() |
Karen Cockburn![]() |
Huang Shanshan![]() |
Medal table[]
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | ![]() | 4 | 3 | 3 | 10 |
2 | ![]() | 2 | 6 | 1 | 9 |
3 | ![]() | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
4 | ![]() | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
5 | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
6 | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
7 | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
8 | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
9 | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
![]() | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
11 | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
![]() | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
13 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
14 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
15 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Totals (15 nations) | 18 | 18 | 18 | 54 |
Participating nations[]
A total of 252 gymnasts from 45 nations competed at the Athens Games.
Argentina (1)
Australia (9)
Azerbaijan (1)
Belarus (8)
Belgium (1)
Bolivia (1)
Brazil (7)
Bulgaria (5)
Canada (15)
Cape Verde (1)
China (15)
Colombia (1)
Cuba (3)
Czech Republic (2)
Denmark (1)
France (13)
Georgia (2)
Germany (11)
Great Britain (9)
Greece (7)
Hungary (2)
Iceland (1)
Israel (2)
Italy (10)
Japan (10)
Kazakhstan (2)
Latvia (2)
Malaysia (1)
Mexico (2)
Netherlands (4)
North Korea (8)
Portugal (2)
Puerto Rico (1)
Romania (12)
Russia (18)
Slovakia (2)
South Africa (2)
South Korea (7)
Spain (13)
Sweden (1)
Switzerland (4)
Tunisia (1)
Ukraine (16)
United States (14)
Uzbekistan (2)
Controversies[]
The gymnastics competition had scoring controversies, most prominently with the South Korean competitor Yang Tae-young.
The Korean team contested Tae-Young's parallel bars score after judges misidentified one of the elements of his routine. The effect of this misidentification was that the start value was recorded as 9.9 rather than 10. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) dismissed the Korean Olympic Committee's appeal on the grounds that the appeal, coming after the end of competition, was made too late, and insufficient evidence of corruption or bad faith on the part of the judges was presented to overturn a strong preference for a "field of play" judgment rather than one made after the fact.[2][3]
Further problems occurred in the men's horizontal bar competition. After performing a routine with six release skills in the high bar event final (including four in a row – three variations of Tkatchev releases and a Gienger), the judges posted a score of 9.725, placing Nemov in third position with several athletes still to compete. This was actually a fair judging decision because he took a big step on landing which was a two tenths deduction. The crowd became unruly on seeing the results and interrupted the competition for almost fifteen minutes. Influenced by the crowd's fierce reaction, the judges reevaluated the routine and increased Nemov's score to 9.762, but this did not improve his placement and he finished without a medal.
The controversies led to the reconstruction of the scoring system which was implemented in 2006. The rule changes are credited as having encouraged more acrobatic activity and increasing difficulties on the high bar apparatus seen in later competitions.[4]
See also[]
- Gymnastics at the 2002 Asian Games
- Gymnastics at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- Gymnastics at the 2003 Pan American Games
- 2003 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
References[]
- ^ "Gymnastics at the 2004 Athens Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 22 August 2019.
- ^ "CAS Arbitral Award: Yang Tae-Young v. FIG" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 26 May 2005.
- ^ "Was there ANOTHER MISTAKE MADE in the 2004 men's Olympic all-around???". 22 January 2010.
- ^ Emma John (7 August 2012). "London 2012: Gymnastic gold for true flying Dutchman Epke Zonderland". Guardian. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
External links[]
- Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- 2004 in gymnastics
- 2004 Summer Olympics events
- Gymnastics at the Summer Olympics
- International gymnastics competitions hosted by Greece
- Galatsi Olympic Hall events