Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Gymnastics at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Venue	Georgia Dome (artistic) Stegeman Coliseum (rhythmic)
Dates	20 July – 4 August 1996
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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. ^[1]

The women's rhythmic group all-around was contested for the first time at these Games. ^[2]

Georgia Dome

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 determine 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 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

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team all-around details	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 Hrihoriy Misyutin Vladimir Shamenko Rustam Sharipov Olexander Svitlichni Yuri Yermakov
Individual all-around details	Li Xiaoshuang   China	Alexei Nemov   Russia	Vitaly Scherbo   Belarus
Floor exercise details	Ioannis Melissanidis   Greece	Li Xiaoshuang   China	Alexei Nemov   Russia
Pommel horse details	Li Donghua   Switzerland	Marius Urzică   Romania	Alexei Nemov   Russia
Rings details	Yuri Chechi   Italy	Szilveszter Csollány   Hungary Dan Burincă   Romania	none awarded
Vault details	Alexei Nemov   Russia	Yeo Hong-Chul   South Korea	Vitaly Scherbo   Belarus
Parallel bars details	Rustam Sharipov   Ukraine	Jair Lynch   United States	Vitaly Scherbo   Belarus
Horizontal bar details	Andreas Wecker   Germany	Krasimir Dunev   Bulgaria	Fan Bin   China Alexei Nemov   Russia Vitaly Scherbo   Belarus

Women's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team all-around details	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 Kochetkova Yevgeniya Kuznetsova Oksana Liapina	Romania  (ROU) Simona Amânar Gina Gogean Ionela Loaieș Alexandra Marinescu Lavinia Miloșovici Mirela Țugurlan
Individual all-around details	Lilia Podkopayeva   Ukraine	Gina Gogean   Romania	Simona Amânar   Romania Lavinia Miloșovici   Romania
Vault details	Simona Amânar   Romania	Mo Huilan   China	Gina Gogean   Romania
Uneven bars details	Svetlana Khorkina   Russia	Amy Chow   United States Bi Wenjing   China	none awarded
Balance beam details	Shannon Miller   United States	Lilia Podkopayeva   Ukraine	Gina Gogean   Romania
Floor exercise details	Lilia Podkopayeva   Ukraine	Simona Amânar   Romania	Dominique Dawes   United States

Rhythmic gymnastics

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual all-around details	Ekaterina Serebrianskaya   Ukraine	Yanina Batyrchina   Russia	Elena Vitrichenko   Ukraine
Group all-around details	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

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	Germany  (GER)	1	0	0	1
	Greece  (GRE)	1	0	0	1
	Italy  (ITA)	1	0	0	1
	Spain  (ESP)	1	0	0	1
	Switzerland  (SUI)	1	0	0	1
11	Bulgaria  (BUL)	0	2	0	2
12	Hungary  (HUN)	0	1	0	1
	South Korea  (KOR)	0	1	0	1
14	Belarus  (BLR)	0	0	4	4
Totals (14 entries)		16	18	17	51

See also

• Gymnastics at the 1994 Asian Games
• Gymnastics at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
• Gymnastics at the 1995 Pan American Games
• 1995 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

References

1. "Gymnastics at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
2. Womens Group at Sports Reference

External links

• Official Olympic Report
• www.gymnasticsresults.com