Gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Gymnastics at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad
Venue	Pauley Pavilion
Dates	29 July – 11 August 1984

At the 1984 Summer Olympics, two different gymnastics disciplines were contested. In addition to the fourteen artistic gymnastics events contested, 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 countries 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.

This was the first time in Olympic competition that eight gymnasts were allowed to move onto an apparatus final, instead of the previous six.

The USSR and other satellite countries organized an 'Alternate Olympics' where the USSR, East Germany, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and other Soviet Bloc (Cuba, North Korea, Poland and Hungary) nations competed.

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

Games	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
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
Parallel bars	Bart Conner  United States	Nobuyuki Kajitani  Japan	Mitchell Gaylord  United States
Horizontal bar	Shinji Morisue  Japan	Tong Fei  China	Koji Gushiken  Japan

Women's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team all-around	Romania (ROU) Lavinia Agache Laura Cutina Cristina Elena Grigoraș Simona Păucă Ecaterina Szabo Mihaela Stănuleț	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
Vault	Ecaterina Szabo  Romania	Mary Lou Retton  United States	Lavinia Agache  Romania
Uneven bars	Ma Yanhong  China	none awarded	Mary Lou Retton  United States
	Julianne McNamara  United States
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

Rhythmic gymnastics

Games	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
Totals (7 entries)		19	14	15	48

See also

• Gymnastics at the 1982 Asian Games
• Gymnastics at the 1983 Pan American Games
• 1983 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• Gymnastics at the Friendship Games

External links

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