Gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics

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

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 six 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
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 (JPN)	Peter Vidmar United States (USA)	Li Ning China (CHN)
Floor	Li Ning China (CHN)	Lou Yun China (CHN)	Koji Sotomura Japan (JPN)
			Philippe Vatuone France (FRA)
Pommel horse	Li Ning China (CHN)	none awarded	Timothy Daggett United States (USA)
	Peter Vidmar United States (USA)
Rings	Koji Gushiken Japan (JPN)	none awarded	Mitchell Gaylord United States (USA)
	Li Ning China (CHN)
Vault	Lou Yun China (CHN)	Mitchell Gaylord United States (USA)	none awarded
		Koji Gushiken Japan (JPN)
		Shinji Morisue Japan (JPN)
		Li Ning China (CHN)
Parallel bars	Bart Conner United States (USA)	Nobuyuki Kajitani Japan (JPN)	Mitchell Gaylord United States (USA)
Horizontal bar	Shinji Morisue Japan (JPN)	Tong Fei China (CHN)	Koji Gushiken Japan (JPN)

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team all-around	Romania (ROU) Lavinia Agache Laura Cutina Cristina Elena Grigoraş Simona Păucă Ecaterina Szabo Anca E. Zotta	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 (USA)	Ecaterina Szabo Romania (ROU)	Simona Păucă Romania (ROU)
Vault	Ecaterina Szabo Romania (ROU)	Mary Lou Retton United States (USA)	Lavinia Agache Romania (ROU)
Uneven bars	Ma Yanhong China (CHN)	none awarded	Mary Lou Retton United States (USA)
	Julianne McNamara United States (USA)
Balance beam	Simona Păucă Romania (ROU)	none awarded	Kathy Johnson United States (USA)
	Ecaterina Szabo Romania (ROU)
Floor	Ecaterina Szabo Romania (ROU)	Julianne McNamara United States (USA)	Mary Lou Retton United States (USA)

Rhythmic gymnastics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual all-around	Lori Fung Canada (CAN)	Doina Staiculescu Romania (ROU)	Regina Weber West Germany (FRG)

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
	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

References

• Official Olympic Report
• www.gymnasticsresults.com
• www.gymn-forum.net