Gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics | ||||
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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 |
At the 1984 Summer Olympics, two different gymnastics disciplines were contested. In addition to the fourteen artistic gymnastics events contested–eight for men and six for women, 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.
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 |
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Team all-around |
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 |
Individual all-around |
Koji Gushiken Japan |
Peter Vidmar United States |
Li Ning China |
Floor exercise |
Li Ning China |
Lou Yun China |
Koji Sotomura Japan |
Philippe Vatuone France | |||
Horizontal bar |
Shinji Morisue Japan |
Tong Fei China |
Koji Gushiken Japan |
Parallel bars |
Bart Conner United States |
Nobuyuki Kajitani Japan |
Mitchell Gaylord United States |
Pommel horse |
Li Ning China |
none awarded | Timothy Daggett United States |
Peter Vidmar United States | |||
Rings |
Koji Gushiken Japan |
none awarded | Mitchell Gaylord United States |
Li Ning China | |||
Vault |
Lou Yun China |
Mitchell Gaylord United States |
none awarded |
Koji Gushiken Japan | |||
Shinji Morisue Japan | |||
Li Ning China |
Women's events
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Team all-around |
Romania (ROU) Lavinia Agache Laura Cutina Cristina Elena Grigoraş Simona Păucă Ecaterina Szabo Mihaela Stănuleţ |
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 |
Individual all-around |
Mary Lou Retton United States |
Ecaterina Szabo Romania |
Simona Păucă Romania |
Balance beam |
Simona Păucă Romania |
none awarded | Kathy Johnson United States |
Ecaterina Szabo Romania | |||
Floor exercise |
Ecaterina Szabo Romania |
Julianne McNamara United States |
Mary Lou Retton United States |
Uneven bars |
Ma Yanhong China |
none awarded | Mary Lou Retton United States |
Julianne McNamara United States | |||
Vault |
Ecaterina Szabo Romania |
Mary Lou Retton United States |
Lavinia Agache Romania |
Rhythmic gymnastics
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Individual all-around |
Lori Fung Canada |
Doina Staiculescu Romania |
Regina Weber West Germany |
Medal table
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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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 |
West Germany (FRG) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Total | 19 | 14 | 15 | 48 |
See also
- Olympic medalists in gymnastics (men)
- Olympic medalists in gymnastics (women)
- 1983 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
- Gymnastics at the Friendship Games