Gymnastics at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Gymnastics at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Palace of Sports of the Central Lenin Stadium as it appears today
Venue	Palace of Sports
Dates	20 July – 25 July 1980
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At the 1980 Summer Olympics, fourteen different artistic gymnastics events were contested, eight for men and six for women. All events were held at the Sports Palace of the Central Lenin Stadium in Moscow 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, Canada, China, Japan, South Korea, and West Germany. ^[1]

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 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.

Medal summary

Men's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team all-around details	Soviet Union  (URS) Nikolai Andrianov Eduard Azaryan Alexander Dityatin Bogdan Makuts Vladimir Markelov Aleksandr Tkachyov	East Germany  (GDR) Ralf-Peter Hemmann Lutz Hoffmann Lutz Mack Michael Nikolay Andreas Bronst Roland Brückner	Hungary  (HUN) Ferenc Donáth György Guczoghy Zoltán Kelemen Péter Kovács Zoltán Magyar István Vámos
Individual all-around details	Alexander Dityatin   Soviet Union	Nikolai Andrianov   Soviet Union	Stoyan Deltchev   Bulgaria
Floor exercise details	Roland Brückner   East Germany	Nikolai Andrianov   Soviet Union	Alexander Dityatin   Soviet Union
Pommel horse details	Zoltán Magyar   Hungary	Alexander Dityatin   Soviet Union	Michael Nikolay   East Germany
Rings details	Alexander Dityatin   Soviet Union	Aleksandr Tkachyov   Soviet Union	Jiri Tabak   Czechoslovakia
Vault details	Nikolai Andrianov   Soviet Union	Alexander Dityatin   Soviet Union	Roland Brückner   East Germany
Parallel bars details	Aleksandr Tkachyov   Soviet Union	Alexander Dityatin   Soviet Union	Roland Brückner   East Germany
Horizontal bar details	Stoyan Deltchev   Bulgaria	Alexander Dityatin   Soviet Union	Nikolai Andrianov   Soviet Union

Women's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team all-around details	Soviet Union  (URS) Elena Davydova Maria Filatova Nellie Kim Yelena Naimushina Natalia Shaposhnikova Stella Zakharova	Romania  (ROU) Nadia Comăneci Rodica Dunca Emilia Eberle Cristina Elena Grigoraș Melita Ruhn Dumitrița Turner	East Germany  (GDR) Maxi Gnauck Silvia Hindorff Steffi Kräker Katharina Rensch Karola Sube Birgit Süss
Individual all-around details	Elena Davydova   Soviet Union	Maxi Gnauck   East Germany Nadia Comăneci   Romania	None awarded
Vault details	Natalia Shaposhnikova   Soviet Union	Steffi Kräker   East Germany	Melita Ruhn   Romania
Uneven bars details	Maxi Gnauck   East Germany	Emilia Eberle   Romania	Steffi Kräker   East Germany Melita Ruhn   Romania Maria Filatova   Soviet Union
Balance beam details	Nadia Comăneci   Romania	Elena Davydova   Soviet Union	Natalia Shaposhnikova   Soviet Union
Floor exercise details	Nellie Kim   Soviet Union Nadia Comăneci   Romania	None awarded	Natalia Shaposhnikova   Soviet Union Maxi Gnauck   East Germany

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union  (URS)	9	8	5	22
2	East Germany  (GDR)	2	3	6	11
3	Romania  (ROU)	2	3	2	7
4	Bulgaria  (BUL)	1	0	1	2
	Hungary  (HUN)	1	0	1	2
6	Czechoslovakia  (TCH)	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		15	14	16	45

See also

• Olympic medalists in gymnastics (men)
• Olympic medalists in gymnastics (women)
• 1979 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

References

1. "Gymnastics at the 1980 Moscow Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 August 2019.

External links

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