GymnasticsAn overview of the events that make up the gymnastics portion of the Olympic Games, with highlights of great athletes and moments. |
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HELSINKI 1952TOKYO 1964 | 18 |
MOSCOW 1980SEOUL 1988 | 34 |
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Aleksandr Dityatin all-round competition all-round event all-round title American Angeles in 1984 athlete audiences awarded balance beam became Bela Karoli bronze medal Caslavska coach competitor crowd Czech Davydova dominated East German Eastern bloc final floor exercise floor routine gold medal Gold-medal-winning gymnastics competitions Helsinki high bar Hungarian included individual apparatus individual events Japanese team Julianne McNamara Larissa Latynina long horse vault Lyudmila Tourischeva Melbourne men's team Miroslav Cerar Moscow moves Munich Nadia Comaneci Nelli Kim Olga Korbut Olympic Games Olympic gymnastic Olympic history Olympic medals optional exercises overall parallel bars perform piece of apparatus pommel horse rhythmic gymnastics Romanian Sawao Sawao Kato Seoul Shoushounova Simona Pauca somersault Soviet girl Soviet gymnasts Soviet team Soviet Union sport swing Szabo team competition team event teammate three gold took the gold Tsukahara uneven bars Vera Caslavska women's competition women's gymnastics women's team won a total won the gold Zoltan Magyar