Gymnastics is an event at the Island Games, the biennial multi-sports event for island nations, territories and dependencies.
Gymnastics at the Island Games began in 1989 with Men joining the event from 1991.
Women's competitions
Men's competitions
Minimum age - 13 [1]
| Event | III 1989 | IV 1991 | V 1993 | VI 1995 | VII 1997 | VIII | IX 2001 | X 2003 | XI 2005 | XII 2007 | XIII 2009 | XIV | XV 2013 | XVI | XVII 2017 | XVIII | XIX | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||
| Individual all-around | X | X | X | X | X | |||||||||||||
| Floor | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||||||
| Vault | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||||||
| High bar | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||||||
| Parallel bars | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||||||
| Rings | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||||||||
| Pommel horse | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||||||||
| Tumbling | X | |||||||||||||||||
| Women's gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||
| Individual all-around | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||||||||||
| Floor | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||||||
| Vault | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||||||
| Uneven bars | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||||||
| Balance beam | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||||||
| Tumbling | X | |||||||||||||||||
| Gold Medals | Total Medals | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No: | Team | No: | Team | |
| Men's Compulsory | 21 |  Isle of Man | 42 | Isle of Man |
| Men's Team | 5 | Isle of Man | 9 |  Faroe Islands |
| Men's Individual Apparatus | 20 | Isle of Man | 55 | Isle of Man |
| Women's Compulsory | 11 | Isle of Man | 32 | Isle of Man |
| Women's Team | 7 | Isle of Man | 10 | Isle of Man |
| Women's Individual Apparatus | 14 | Isle of Man | 40 | Isle of Man |
| Year | Games | Host | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
| 1993 | V |  IOW |  Iceland | Iceland | Iceland |
| 1995 | VI |  Gibraltar | IOM | Faroe Islands |  Ynys Môn |
| 1997 | VII |  Jersey | Jersey | Faroe Islands | Jersey |
| 2005 | XI |  Shetland | Jersey | Faroe Islands | IOM |
| Year | Games | Host | Event | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | Silver | Bronze | ||||
| 1997 | VII | Jersey | Jersey | Faroe Islands | Gibraltar | |
| 2001 | IX | Isle of Man | IOM | Faroe Islands | Jersey | |
| 2003 | X |  Guernsey | IOM | Faroe Islands | Ynys Môn | |
| 2005 | XI | Shetland | Floor & Vault Floor Vault | IOM IOM Faroe Islands Jersey | Faroe Islands Faroe Islands | Jersey Jersey IOM |
| 2009 | XIII |  Åland | IOM | Faroe Islands | ||
| 2013 | XV |  Bermuda | Faroe Islands | IOM | ||
| 2017 | XVII |  Gotland | Faroe Islands | Jersey | Isle of Man | |
| Year | Games | Host | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
| 1993 | V | Isle of Wight | Iceland | Jersey | Isle of Wight |
| Year | Games | Host | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
| 1989 | III | Faroe Islands | Isle of Wight | Jersey | Jersey |
| 1991 | IV | Åland | Åland | Iceland | Jersey |
| 1993 | V | Isle of Wight | Iceland | Iceland | Åland |
| 1995 | VI | Gibraltar | Isle of Man | Åland Åland | not awarded |
| 2005 | XI | Shetland | Isle of Man | Bermuda Bermuda Isle of Man Isle of Man | not awarded |
| Year | Games | Host | Event | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | Silver | Bronze | ||||
| 1995 | VI | Gibraltar | Iceland Jersey | Isle of Man | ||
| 1997 | VII | Jersey | Jersey | Åland | Isle of Man | |
| 2001 | IX | Isle of Man | Isle of Man | Åland | Jersey | |
| 2003 | X | Guernsey | Isle of Man | Bermuda | Jersey | |
| 2005 | XI | Shetland | Floor & Vault Floor Vault | Isle of Man Isle of Man Isle of Man | Bermuda Bermuda Bermuda | Faroe Islands Åland Faroe Islands Faroe Islands |
| 2009 | XIII | Åland | Bermuda | Isle of Man | Faroe Islands | |
| 2013 | XV | Bermuda | Isle of Man [3] | Bermuda | Faroe Islands | |
| 2019 | XVII | Gotland | Isle of Man | Bermuda | Faroe Islands | |
| Year | Games | Host | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
| 1993 | V | Isle of Wight | Iceland | Åland | Isle of Wight |
Gymnastics is a type of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and endurance. The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, shoulders, back, chest, and abdominal muscle groups. Gymnastics evolved from exercises used by the ancient Greeks that included skills for mounting and dismounting a horse, and from circus performance skills.
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Claudia Fragapane is a British artistic gymnast. She came to prominence at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, where she was the first English woman to win four gold medals in a single Games since 1930. In 2015, Fragapane was part of the women's gymnastics team that won Great Britain's first-ever team medal, a bronze, at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, before winning an individual world championship bronze on floor two years later.
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The men's vault competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics was held at the Waldbühne on 10 August. It was the sixth appearance of the event. There were 110 competitors from 14 nations, with each nation sending a team of up to 8 men. The event was won by Alfred Schwarzmann of Germany, the nation's first victory in the event since 1896 and second overall. Eugen Mack of Switzerland earned silver, the first man to win multiple medals in the event. Another member of the host German team, Matthias Volz, took bronze.
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