Gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics
| Gymnastics at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad | |
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| Venue | Pauley Pavilion |
| Dates | 29 July – 11 August 1984 |
| Gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics | ||
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| List of gymnasts | ||
| 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
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.[1]
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 '
Soviet Bloc nations competed.[2]
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 | |||
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| Team all-around |
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 China (CHN)Li Ning Li Xiaoping Li Yuejiu Lou Yun Tong Fei Xu Zhiqiang |
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| Individual all-around |
Peter Vidmar United States
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Li Ning China
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| Floor exercise |
Li Ning China
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Lou Yun China
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Koji Sotomura Japan
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Philippe Vatuone France
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| Pommel horse |
Li Ning China
|
none awarded | ||||
| Peter Vidmar United States
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| Rings |
none awarded | |||||
| Li Ning China
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| Vault |
Lou Yun China
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none awarded | ||||
| Shinji Morisue Japan
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| Li Ning China
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| Parallel bars |
Bart Conner United States
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Nobuyuki Kajitani Japan
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| Horizontal bar |
Shinji Morisue Japan
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Tong Fei China
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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 |
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China (CHN) Chen Yongyan Huang Qun Ma Yanhong Wu Jiani Zhou Ping Zhou Qiurui | |||
| Individual all-around |
Mary Lou Retton United States
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Ecaterina Szabo Romania
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Simona Păucă Romania
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| Vault |
Ecaterina Szabo Romania
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Mary Lou Retton United States
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Lavinia Agache Romania
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| Uneven bars |
Ma Yanhong China
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none awarded | Mary Lou Retton United States
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| Julianne McNamara United States
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| Balance beam |
Simona Păucă Romania
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none awarded | Kathy Johnson United States
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| Ecaterina Szabo Romania
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| Floor exercise |
Ecaterina Szabo Romania
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Julianne McNamara United States
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Mary Lou Retton United States
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Rhythmic gymnastics
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Individual all-around |
Lori Fung Canada
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Regina Weber West Germany
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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
References
- ^ "Gymnastics at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
- ^ "A brief history of countries that shunned the Olympics and did their own thing instead".
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