Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Gymnastics at the 1996 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
Group all-around				women
Individual all-around				women

At the 1996 Summer Olympics, two different gymnastics disciplines were contested: artistic gymnastics and rhythmic gymnastics. The artistic gymnastics events were held at the Georgia Dome from July 20–25 and July 28–29. The rhythmic gymnastics events were held at Stegeman Coliseum in nearby Athens, on the campus of the University of Georgia from August 1–4. In artistic gymnastics, this was the last major competition to include compulsory exercises, which was then replaced by prelims.

Artistic gymnastics

Format of competition

The gymnastics competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics was carried out in three stages:

• Competition I - The team competition/qualification round in which gymnasts, including those who were not part of a team, performed both compulsory and optional exercises. Six of the seven team members performed on each apparatus, while only the five highest scores during each rotation were used to determined the overall team total. 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 determined by adding the scores earned by him or her on each of the six apparatuses in the men's competition and each of the four apparatuses in the women's competition.

• 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 determined solely by the score earned by him or her on the apparatus during this competition.

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	Russia (RUS) Sergei Kharkov Nikolai Kryukov Alexei Nemov Yevgeni Podgorny Dmitri Trush Dmitri Vasilenko Alexei Voropaev	China (CHN) Fan Bin Fan Hongbin Huang Huadong Huang Liping Li Xiaoshuang Shen Jian Zhang Jinjing	Ukraine (UKR) Ihor Korobchynskyi Oleg Kosiak Grigory Misutin Vladimir Shamenko Rustam Sharipov Oleksandr Svetlichny Yuri Yermakov
Individual all-around	Li Xiaoshuang  China	Alexei Nemov  Russia	Vitaly Scherbo  Belarus
Floor exercise	Ioannis Melissanidis  Greece	Li Xiaoshuang  China	Alexei Nemov  Russia
Horizontal bar	Andreas Wecker  Germany	Krasimir Dunev  Bulgaria	Vitaly Scherbo  Belarus
			Fan Bin  China
			Alexei Nemov  Russia
Parallel bars	Rustam Sharipov  Ukraine	Jair Lynch  United States	Vitaly Scherbo  Belarus
Pommel horse	Li Donghua  Switzerland	Marius Urzică  Romania	Alexei Nemov  Russia
Rings	Yuri Chechi  Italy	Szilveszter Csollány  Hungary	none awarded
		Dan Burincă  Romania
Vault	Alexei Nemov  Russia	Yeo Hong-Chul  South Korea	Vitaly Scherbo  Belarus

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team all-around	United States (USA) Amanda Borden Amy Chow Dominique Dawes Shannon Miller Dominique Moceanu Jaycie Phelps Kerri Strug	Russia (RUS) Elena Dolgopolova Rozalia Galiyeva Elena Grosheva Svetlana Khorkina Dina Kotchetkova Yevgeniya Kuznetsova Oksana Liapina	Romania (ROU) Simona Amânar Gina Gogean Ionela Loaieş Alexandra Marinescu Lavinia Miloşovici Mirela Ţugurlan
Individual all-around	Lilia Podkopayeva  Ukraine	Gina Gogean  Romania	Simona Amânar  Romania
			Lavinia Miloşovici  Romania
Balance beam	Shannon Miller  United States	Lilia Podkopayeva  Ukraine	Gina Gogean  Romania
Floor exercise	Lilia Podkopayeva  Ukraine	Simona Amânar  Romania	Dominique Dawes  United States
Uneven bars	Svetlana Khorkina  Russia	Bi Wenjing  China	none awarded
		Amy Chow  United States
Vault	Simona Amânar  Romania	Mo Huilan  China	Gina Gogean  Romania

Rhythmic gymnastics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Group all-around	Spain (ESP) Estela Giménez Cid Marta Baldó Marín Nuria Cabanillas Provencio Lorena Guréndez García Estíbaliz Martínez Yerro Tania Lamarca Celada	Bulgaria (BUL) Ina Delcheva Valentina Kevlian Maria Koleva Maja Tabakova Ivelina Taleva Vjara Vatachka	Russia (RUS) Yevgeniya Bochkaryova Irina Dzyuba Yuliya Ivanova Yelena Krivoshey Olga Shtyrenko Angelina Yushkova
Individual all-around	Ekaterina Serebrianskaya  Ukraine	Yanina Batyrchina  Russia	Elena Vitrichenko  Ukraine

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Ukraine (UKR)	4	1	2	7
2	Russia (RUS)	3	3	4	10
3	United States (USA)	2	2	1	5
4	Romania (ROU)	1	4	5	10
5	China (CHN)	1	4	1	6
6	Spain (ESP)	1	0	0	1
	Germany (GER)	1	0	0	1
	Greece (GRE)	1	0	0	1
	Italy (ITA)	1	0	0	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	1	0	0	1
11	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	2	0	2
12	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	0	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	0	1
14	Belarus (BLR)	0	0	4	4
Total		16	18	17	51

See also

• Olympic medalists in gymnastics (men)
• Olympic medalists in gymnastics (women)
• 1995 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

References

• Official Olympic Report
• www.gymnasticsresults.com