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 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
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
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
Individual all-around	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
	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