Balance beam at the Olympics
Olympic sport
Balance beam at the Olympic Games | |
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Nadia Comăneci competing on the balance beam at the 1976 Summer Olympics | |
Overview | |
Sport | Artistic gymnastics |
Gender | Women |
Years held | 1952 – 2024 |
Reigning champion | |
Women | Alice D'Amato (ITA) |
The balance beam is an artistic gymnastics event held at the Summer Olympics on which only women compete. Women started competing in and earning medals at apparatus finals in 1952.[1]
Medalists
Women
Multiple medalists
Rank | Gymnast | Nation | Olympics | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Nadia Comăneci | Romania (ROU) | 1976–1980 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
2 | Eva Bosáková | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 1956–1960 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Věra Čáslavská | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 1964–1968 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
Olga Korbut | Soviet Union (URS) | 1972–1976 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
Shannon Miller | United States (USA) | 1992–1996 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
6 | Tamara Manina | Soviet Union (URS) | 1956–1960 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
7 | Larisa Latynina | Soviet Union (URS) | 1960–1964 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
8 | Simone Biles | United States (USA) | 2016–2020 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Medalists by country
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Romania (ROU) | 6 | 0 | 4 | 10 |
2 | Soviet Union (URS) | 3 | 8 | 4 | 15 |
3 | China (CHN) | 3 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
4 | United States (USA) | 2 | 4 | 5 | 11 |
5 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
6 | Hungary (HUN) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Italy (ITA) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
8 | Netherlands (NED) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Unified Team (EUN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
10 | Russia (RUS) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
11 | Ukraine (UKR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
12 | East Germany (GDR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Gallery
Women's Balance Beam at the Olympics
References
- ^ "Balance Beam, Women (1952)". Olympedia.
- ^ "Simone Biles Takes Bronze on Balance Beam. Guan Chenchen Wins Gold". The New York Times. 3 August 2021.
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Olympic champions in artistic gymnastics – Women's balance beam
Summary
- 1952: Nina Bocharova
- 1956: Ágnes Keleti (HUN)
- 1960: Eva Bosáková (TCH)
- 1964: Věra Čáslavská (TCH)
- 1968: Natalia Kuchinskaya (URS)
- 1972: Olga Korbut (URS)
- 1976: Nadia Comăneci (ROU)
- 1980: Nadia Comăneci (ROU)
- 1984: Ecaterina Szabo (ROU)
1984 Simona Păucă (ROU) - 1988: Daniela Silivaș (ROU)
- 1992: Tatiana Lysenko (EUN)
- 1996: Shannon Miller (USA)
- 2000: Liu Xuan (CHN)
- 2004: Cătălina Ponor (ROU)
- 2008: Shawn Johnson (USA)
- 2012: Deng Linlin (CHN)
- 2016: Sanne Wevers (NED)
- 2020: Guan Chenchen (CHN)
- 2024: Alice D'Amato (ITA)