Gymnastics at the 1980 Summer Olympics

At the 1980 Summer Olympics

1980 Summer Olympics

The 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event celebrated in Moscow in the Soviet Union. In addition, the yachting events were held in Tallinn, and some of the preliminary matches and the quarter-finals of the football tournament...

, fourteen different artistic gymnastics

Artistic gymnastics

Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics where gymnasts perform short routines on different apparatus, with less time for vaulting . The sport is governed by the Federation Internationale de Gymnastique , which designs the Code of Points and regulates all aspects of international elite...

events were contested, eight for men and six for women. All events were held at the Sports Palace of the Central Lenin Stadium

Luzhniki Palace of Sports

Luzhniki Palace of Sports, formerly the Palace of Sports of the Central Lenin Stadium, is a sports palace in Moscow, Russia, a part of the Luzhniki Sports Complex. Built in 1956, it originally had a spectator capacity of 13,700...

in Moscow

Moscow

Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

from July 20 through 25th. Several teams who had qualified to compete were absent as a result of the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott, including the United States

United States at the Olympics

The United States of America has sent athletes to every celebration of the modern Olympic Games, except the 1980 Summer Olympics, which it boycotted.The United States Olympic Committee is the National Olympic Committee for the United States....

, Canada

Canada at the Olympics

Canada has sent athletes to every Winter Olympic Games and almost every Summer Olympic Games, the exceptions the 1896 Summer Olympics in which it did not compete, and the 1980 Summer Olympics, which it boycotted. Canada has won at least one medal at every Olympics in which it has competed...

, China

China at the Olympics

The People's Republic of China first competed at the Olympic Games in 1952, at the Summer Games in Helsinki, although they only arrived in time to participate in one event...

, Japan

Japan at the Olympics

Japan first participated at the Olympic Games in 1912, and has competed at almost every Games since then. The nation was not invited to the 1948 Games after World War II, and Japan was part of the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.Japan has hosted the Games on three...

, South Korea

South Korea at the Olympics

Republic of Korea first participated at the Olympic Games in 1948, and has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games since then, except for 1980 which they boycotted...

, and West Germany.

For the first time in Olympic competition, in event finals for the vault an average of two vaults was used as the final score, rather than the best of two vaults.

Format of competition

The gymnastics competition at the 1980 Summer Olympics

1980 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

Team all-around	Nikolai Andrianov Nikolai Andrianov Nikolai Yefimovich Andrianov was a Soviet/Russian gymnast. He held the record for men for the most Olympic medals at 15 until Michael Phelps surpassed him at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics... Eduard Azaryan Alexander Dityatin Alexander Dityatin Alexander Nikolaevich Dityatin is a Russian gymnast, three-time Olympic Champion, and Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR. Winning eight medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics, he set the record for achieving the most medals of any type at a single Olympic Games. The American swimmer Michael Phelps... Bogdan Makuts Vladimir Markelov Alexander Tkachev	Ralf-Peter Hemmann Lutz Hoffmann Lutz Hoffmann Lutz Hoffmann was an East German gymnast and Olympic silver medalist.-Early life and training:... Lutz Mack Michael Nikolay Michael Nikolay Michael Nikolai is a German gymnast and competed for the SC Dynamo Berlin/ Sportvereinigung Dynamo, and competed for East Germany. He won the world champion title.-References:... Andreas Bronst Roland Brückner Roland Brückner Roland Brückner is a multichampion in gymnastics, who won many titles of the world, in his era and competed for the SC Dynamo Berlin/ Sportvereinigung Dynamo. He is still now a trainer in Switzerland by the NKL Liestal with Maxi Gnauck.-External links:***-References:...	Ferenc Donáth György Guczoghy Zoltán Kelemen Péter Kovács Zoltán Magyar Zoltan Magyar Zoltán Magyar was the premier pommel horse gymnast in the world in the 1970s... István Vámos
Individual all-around
Floor
Pommel horse
Rings
Vault
Parallel bars
Horizontal bar

Women's events

The Soviet women's gymnastics team finished the 1980 Summer Olympics

1980 Summer Olympics

with 8 medals, the same as in Montreal

1976 Summer Olympics

The 1976 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event celebrated in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in 1976. Montreal was awarded the rights to the 1976 Games on May 12, 1970, at the 69th IOC Session in Amsterdam, over the bids of Moscow and...

but less than they had won at any previous Olympics. In percentage terms they won 38% of the medals awarded, less than at any previous Olympics. The USSR won only 1 AA medal. In each Olympics before that they had always won 2 and 1960 Summer Olympics

1960 Summer Olympics

The 1960 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held from August 25 to September 11, 1960 in Rome, Italy...

had won all 3. At Olomouc

Olomouc

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84 and 1988 Summer Olympics

1988 Summer Olympics

The 1988 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad, were an all international multi-sport events celebrated from September 17 to October 2, 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. They were the second summer Olympic Games to be held in Asia and the first since the 1964 Summer Olympics...

they would win 2 again. The Soviet team won the team gold medal by 1.4 points. They had won team gold in Montreal by 3.2 points. In bars event final 5 of the 6 gymnasts won medals (2 Romanians, 2 East Germans, 1 Soviet). The unlucky gymnast by 0.05 was a Soviet.

Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

won 7 medals, the same number as they had won in Montreal

1976 Summer Olympics

. For the first time ever at the Olympics a Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

n gymnast medals on each piece of apparatus in event finals. They won 2 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze in event finals - only 1 bronze less than the USSR. Of the 7 perfect scores awarded at the 1980 Summer Olympics

1980 Summer Olympics

, 4 went to Romanian gymnasts, 2 to Soviet gymnasts and 1 to an East German gymnast. At Montreal in 1976 between the team competition and AA finals Nadia Comăneci

Nadia Comaneci

Nadia Elena Comăneci is a Romanian gymnast, winner of three Olympic gold medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and the first female gymnast ever to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event. She is also the winner of two gold medals at the 1980 Summer...

was deducted 1.2 points from her start values. In Moscow 1980 she was also deducted 1.2 points. Or to put it another way - for the 11 routines Comaneci was deducted 1.2 in Montreal she was deducted 0.7 in Moscow (omitting her team optional bars score where she fell).

Team all-around	Elena Davydova Maria Filatova Maria Filatova Maria Evgenievna Filatova is a retired Soviet gymnast who competed at the 1976 and 1980 Olympics.Filatova began competing for the USSR junior team in 1974... Nellie Kim Nellie Kim Nellie Vladimirovna Kim is a retired Soviet gymnast who won three gold medals and a silver medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, and two gold medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics... Elena Naimushina Natalia Shaposhnikova Natalia Shaposhnikova Natalia Vitalyevna Shaposhnikova , , married name Natalia Sout, was a Soviet gymnast, two-time Olympic Champion, Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR. She was born in Rostov on Don, Russian SFSR. She was known for her risky and original skills along with her expressive choreography, especially on... Stella Zakharova Stella Zakharova Stella Zakharova is a retired gymnast who competed internationally for the former Soviet Union between 1977 and 1982. She was an Olympic and World Championship gold medalist in team competitions, and won individual all-around titles at other events.Zakharova won her first all-around championship...	Nadia Comăneci Nadia Comaneci Nadia Elena Comăneci is a Romanian gymnast, winner of three Olympic gold medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and the first female gymnast ever to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event. She is also the winner of two gold medals at the 1980 Summer... Rodica Dunca Rodica Dunca Rodica Dunca Köszegi is a Romanian artistic gymnast who represented Romania at the 1980 Olympic Games. She is an Olympic silver medalist and a world gold medalist with the team. Individually she won a continental bronze medal on beam.-External links:*... Emilia Eberle Emilia Eberle Gertrude Emilia Eberle , was a Romanian gymnast of ethnic Hungarian - German descent who was of European, World, and Olympic calibre.Eberle, a pupil of the famous fellow ethnic Hungarian husband-wife coaching team Béla Károlyi and Márta Károlyi before they defected from Romania to the United... Cristina Elena Grigoraş Cristina Elena Grigoras Cristina Elena Grigoraş is a retired Romanian artistic gymnast. She is a two-time Olympic medalist with the team . Individually, she won four medals at the 1981 European Championships... Melita Ruhn Melita Ruhn Melita Ruhn is a retired Romanian artistic gymnast who represented Romania at the 1980 Summer Olympics.She won three olympic medals for Romania and scored a perfect ten for the vault optionals in the team competition of the 1980 Olympic Games...	Maxi Gnauck Maxi Gnauck Maxi Gnauck is a retired Artistic Gymnast. With a total of 27 medals at the Olympic Games, World Championships, World Cups, and European Championships she is considered one of the most successful woman gymnast that Germany has ever produced.Her parents were expecting a boy and they planned to name... Silvia Hindorff Steffi Kraker Steffi Kraker Stefanie "Steffi" Kraker is a retired East German gymnast who competed at the 1976 and 1980 Olympic Games.Kraker began competing on the GDR national team in 1976... Katharina Rensch Karola Sube Karola Sube Karola Sube is a German gymnast and competed for the SC Dynamo Berlin/ Sportvereinigung Dynamo. She won international at competition. - References :... Birgit Süss
Individual all-around			none awarded
Individual all-around			none awarded
Vault
Uneven bars


Balance beam
Floor		none awarded
Floor		none awarded

Medal table

1	9	8	5	22
2	2	3	6	11
3	2	3	2	7
4	1	0	1	2
4	1	0	1	2
5	0	0	1	1
Total	15	14	16	45

Format of competition

Men's events

Women's events

Medal table

See also