At just 14 years old, she wowed the entire world with her performance at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, scoring the first perfect 10 in Olympic history on the way to gold medals in the all-around, uneven bars and balance beam to go with a bronze in floor exercise and silver in team all-around. Born: July 13, 1929 (Leningrand, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union), Olympic years: 1956 (Melbourne), 1960 (Rome), Medals: 8 (1956, gold, team all-around/bronze, team PA/bronze, all-around/bronze, uneven bars; 1960, gold, team all-around/silver, all-around/silver, vault/bronze, balance beam). She has become a sports icon in the Philippines . Amanar had the unfortunate luck of finishing as the silver medalist in the 2000 all-around to Romanian teammate Andreea Raducan, who was stripped of her gold medal just one week after the competition because of a failed drug test. She also was the last gymnast to win an Olympic all-around title and gold in an individual event until Simone Biles in 2016 and still remains the only gymnast to win an Olympic gold all-around and not medal in the team competition. Miller, who lives in Florida, beat ovarian cancer in 2011. Born in South Africa, she moved to England as a toddler and began training in gymnastics ate age 7. There was some controversy over Silivas' score in the vault portion of the all-around she only lost the gold medal by .025 but she's refused to talk about it over the years. She spent time in Miami working for the World Olympians Association in 2001 and was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2010. News. Born: Nov. 20, 1976 (Silver Spring, Maryland), Olympic years: 1992 (Barcelona), 1996 (Atlanta), 2000 (Sydney), Medals: 4 (1992, bronze, team all-around; 1996, gold, team all-around/bronze, floor; 2000, bronze, team all-around). Biles holds the record for the most decorated American gymnast with a total of 30 Olympic and World Championship medals. The incident took place at Dunedin Airport on Monday 27 February at 2pm. She also reached the semi-finals of the reality show Strictly Come Dancing at 18, the second-youngest public figure on the show ever. Greatest Women's Gymnasts of All Time By Tony Adame, updated on May 3, 2022 Julio Cortez / AP Photo The world loves women's gymnastics. Gorokhovskaya set the standard by which all other Soviet Union gymnasts would be judged. The UK's biggest display festival promoting gymnastics for all regardless of age, gender, race and ability. Bosakova's biggest contribution to the sport was also in the balance beam, where she is credited as being the first person to ever complete a cartwheel in the event. In 2015, Daniel Purvis and his team won a silver medal at the World Championships, becoming the first British men's team to do so. The "grandfather" of modern gymnastics, Johann Christoph Friedrich Guts Muths (1759-1839), was a leading teacher at the Philanthropinist school in Schnepfenthal. Joe Fraser is an artistic gymnast who became the first and only English gymnast to win gold on Parallel Bars at the world championships when he won the medal at the 2019 World Championships. Ukrainian gymnast Lilla Podkopayeva's amazing run at the 1996 Olympics can't be undersold. Following her retirement from competition, Tourischeva became a coach and one of her proteges, Lillia Podkopayeva, won the Olympic gold medal in the all-around at the 1996 Olympics. Milo's crowning achievement was the 1992 Olympics, where she won gold in the vault and floor exercise, bronze in the all-around and helped lead Romania to silver in the team competition. Her back flip and Korbut flip on the balance beam were daring at the time and are elements still used in womens gymnastics today. In the 2019 European Games, she was the champion on the balance beams and a two-time Belgian national all-around champion . If you continue without changing your settings, we'll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies on the British Gymnastics website. Though she had a short stint as a gymnast, Jennifer Pinches has already represented Britain in the Olympics, helping them gain the sixth position in the 2012 London games. He retired from the sport at age 21. History probably isn't going to be very kind to former U.S. Olympic gymnast Terin Humphrey. Olympic teammate Nastia Liukin, who won gold in the all-around in 2008, is the godmother to her only child. Medals: 6 (1992, gold, vault/gold, floor exercise/silver, team all-around/bronze, all-around; 1996, bronze, team all-around/bronze, all-around). Starting training at age 3, he eventually made it to the British Olympic squad at the Tokyo 2020 games and helped the team secure the fourth place. Sports producer Barbara Slater is also a former gymnast and Olympian. in gymnastics history. British Gymnastics. Bill Drummond. Commonwealth gold-winning British gymnast and Olympian Lisa Mason retired at 19 but got back in the game in full swing at 31. Age: 30 Birthplace: Alicante, Spain Age: 47 Birthplace: Lleida, Spain Age: 36 After Korbut spoke out, several more gymnasts who trained under Knysh revealed they'd been sexually assaulted by him as well. Since. That feat hadnt been accomplished in more than a decade since Dominique Dawes swept the U.S. nationals in 1994. Known as Britains most successful gymnast, Beth Tweddle is a 3-time world champion and a 6-time European champion, apart from being an Olympic bronze medalist. Patterson was advised she may have trouble walking if she didn't retire, and formally walked away from the sport. 2. Apart from being a 3-time World champion and a 4-time European champion, Max Whitlock has also earned 6 Olympic medals, 3 of them gold. That means she rotates around an axis going . Lemhenyi-Tass medaled in three of those Olympics but only won gold once, in the now-shelved team/portable apparatus event in 1956. Milosovici was banned from any association with the Romanian national team for five years after she performed gymnastics topless for two Japanese DVDs and posed nude in a Japanese magazine. She's been the vice president of the Romanian Gymnastics Federation since the mid-2000s. Scottish Gymnastics' Roles and Responsibilities Monitor membership and participation levels in Scotland. Daniela Silivas added her name to the long line of Romanian Olympic standouts in 1988, when she was the only medalist, male or female, to medal in every single event and posted seven perfect 10 scores throughout the competition. Caslavska went into hiding for over a decade after the incident, but returned to help train younger gymnasts in the early 2000s. Alicia Sacramone was an Olympic favorite heading into the 2008 games, but she came up short in the team competition, falling in two events that some said cost the U.S. the gold medal. Szabo led her team to a gold medal in 1987 at the World Championships. Following her recovery, Gnauck spent time as a gymnastics coach in Germany and in Switzerland since 2005. Szabo was the favorite headed into the 1984 Olympics and thought to be the next coming of Comaneci, but despite winning four gold medals, Szabo was upstaged by her loss to Mary Lou Retton in the all-around by just .05. The drama was ratcheted up when it was revealed that Retton had knee surgery just five weeks before the Olympics. She moved to the United States and has run a gymnastics club in Illinois since the 1980s. Dawes' crowning achievement in Olympic competition as part of the "Magnificent Seven" in 1996, when she led the U.S. to the gold medal in the team competition and was the only gymnast to see her scores in all eight events count toward the final score. Her amazing record includes two gold (2015,2019) and one silver (2013) from the FIG World Cup, two gold (2016) from the Pacific Rim Championships. Her father is 1988 Olympic gold medalist Valeri Liukin, and mother is 1987 world clubs champion in rhythmic gymnastics Anna Kotchneva. She followed those wins by taking the all-around gold medal in Rio. After the Olympics, Hernandez became the youngest contestant (and winner) on "Dancing with the Stars" in 2016. Among those mentioned, they wrote some of the most famous novels in the English . Raisman was one of the many gymnasts who received the Arthur Ashe Courage Award following their bravery in uncovering the USA Gymnastics sexual abuse scandal. Silivas moved to the United States and has been a gymnastics coach in the Atlanta area since the early 1990s. Latynina retired from competition in 1966 and was just as good as a coach, leading the Soviet Union to team gold in 1968, 1972 and 1976, then overseeing the entire 1980 Olympics gymnastics competition in Moscow. Ellie Downie wrote in her joint statement with Becky that she was consistently told she was too heavy from around age 14. Born: Aug. 15, 1978 (Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union), Medals: 3 (gold, all-around/ gold, floor exercise/ silver, balance beam). [8][9], List of Olympic female artistic gymnasts for Great Britain, Last edited on 5 September 2022, at 18:13, "Great Britain Gymnastics Women's Team All-Around Results", "Great Britain Gymnastics Women's Individual All-Around Results", "Great Britain Gymnastics Women's Uneven Bars Results", "Rio Olympics 2016: Bryony Page wins trampoline silver for Great Britain", "Women's artistic gymnastics team named for Tokyo Olympics", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Olympic_female_artistic_gymnasts_for_Great_Britain&oldid=1108676150, This page was last edited on 5 September 2022, at 18:13. Apart from winning a team bronze at the 2012 London Olympics, British gymnast Sam Oldham is also a Youth Olympic and Commonwealth champion. Olympian Brinn Bevan scripted history when he became part of the first World Championship medal-winning British mens gymnastics team, when the team won a silver in 2015. In 2002, she became the youngest gymnast ever inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. Onodi married U.S. Olympic pentathlete Jimbo Haley and is now a U.S. citizen. She's also not the only Olympic medalist in her family. She emigrated to Israel in 1957 and spent the next four decades working as a physical education instructor and gymnastics coach. Beginning in 1972, Astakhova worked as a national coach for the Ukrainian gymnastics team. But Caslavska's real story is that of a political dissident and hero to the people of her native Czechoslovakia. Karin Buttner-Janz turned in one of the greatest performances in an Olympic Games in 1972, when she won five medals, including two gold medals in individual events. It's called a triple-double. As of April 2022, 9 new gymnasts have been added to Pantheon including Mariana Constantin, Lavinia Agache, and Gabriela Potorac. Patterson's win was overshadowed by her struggles in the team competition, where the Americans failed to defend their gold medal. How popular was Kuchinskaya in 1968? Sofia Muratova died in 2006, followed just months later by her husband. Tickets to the artistic gymnastics competition are some of the hottest at any Olympic Games. Edinburgh may be the famous capital city, with its historical castle and picturesque cobbled streets, but Glasgow is the fiesta little sister - sassy and creative. In 2017, she auctioned off her Olympic medals for close to $340,000 dollars. Before the International Gymnastics Federation changed the code of points in 2006 to an open ended system, 41 perfect scores were recorded in Olympic womens artistic gymnastics competition. The story of Agnes Keleti's path to Olympic glory is unlike any athlete in Olympic history, and probably in all of sports. She wrote her autobiography "Finding My Shine" in 2015, which was the same year she was the grand marshal for the Indy 500. And she did it twice. The list is in no particular order! She effectively retired from gymnastics in 2000, but had a brief, unsuccessful return to the sport in 2006. Artistic Gymnastics is a core sport on the Commonwealth Games programme. It would have been easy for Raducan to become bitter about having her gold medal taken away, but she bounced back and won three gold medals at the 2001 World Championships. With teammates Aly Raisman, Gabby Douglas, Laurie Hernandez, and Madison Kocian, she helped Team USA win its second-straight team gold medal at the Games. Patterson had a brief recording career following her retirement from gymnastics and in 2009 had one of her songs feature don the ABC show "Make It Or Break It" about a family of gymnasts trying to make the Olympics. The Romanians doctored her birth certificate and spotted her one year, saying she was born in 1977. Her performance at the 1972 Olympics redefined gymnastics from the sport it had been, with older, less mobile athletes to younger, more acrobatic athletes. 1 Beth Tweddle (Retired British Artistic Gymnast ) 42 12 Birthdate: April 1, 1985 Sun Sign: Aries Birthplace: Johannesburg, South Africa Known as Britain's most successful gymnast, Beth Tweddle is a 3-time world champion and a 6-time European champion, apart from being an Olympic bronze medalist. "An old liar told me here Chusovitina was so popular in Uzbekistan they put her on a stamp. A co-founder of Gymnasts for Change, she also campaigns against abuse. a set of moves that no other female has ever performed in competition. Every four years at the Olympics, millions of fans enjoy the high-flying acrobatics and the drama (the drama!) Olympic medals: 7 (1992, silver, all-around/silver, balance beam/bronze, team all-around/bronze, uneven bars/bronze, floor exercise; 1996, gold, team all-around/gold, balance beam). Korbut's life following her Olympic glory has been tinged with sadness, including her revelation that former coach Renald Knysh sexually assaulted her. While competing into the late teenage years and early twenties not to mention Uzbekistans Oksana Chusovitina who has competed into her forties is commonplace again today, Korbut marks the beginning of an age of gymnastics dominated for decades by youngsters. In 2000, she was the first German gymnast inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. Korondi stacked medals in other events as well, picking up two silver medals and four bronze medals. Lemhenyi-Tass wasn't the only Olympian in her family. Though Shannon Miller remains the USAs most decorated Olympic gymnast with seven, Biles needs only to collect three medals in Tokyo to add that superlative to her resume. Coming in at number-20 are a lot of gymnasts. Sacramone married former NFL quarterback Brady Quinn in 2014, and the couple have three daughters together. She is now a successful trainer and a single mother. Romanian gymnast Andreea Raducan was at the center of one of the biggest Olympic controversies of all time. All-in-all, she left Rio with four gold medals and a bronze, as well as superstar status. Following her competitive career, Gulyaz-Koteles taught physical education and worked as an administrator for several gymnastics academies. Born: Sept. 5, 1976 (Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union), Medals: 4 (gold, team all-around/ gold, all-around/ silver, uneven bars/ bronze, floor exercise). Amanar, who also won a gold medal in vault in 1996, initially refused to accept the medal after it was discovered Raducan's failed test wasn't even her fault, but accepted the medal eventually in order to share it with Romanian fans. Since 1975, she's been a professor at the Saint Petersburg State Art-Industrial Academy. Along with her twin sister, gymnast Jennifer Gadirova, British-born Azerbaijani gymnast Jessica Gadirova has created quite a stir in the gymnastics circuit. Raducan was cleared of any wrongdoing, but the gold went to teammate Simona Amanar, and the doctor was suspended for four years. Moceanu was emancipated from her parents when she was 17 years old after accusing them of squandering most of the money earned during her time as an Olympic gymnast. The aspiring ballet dancer turned Olympic star was nicknamed "The Bride of Mexico" and "Mexico's Sweetheart" during the games and there was even a folk song, "Natalie," about her that became popular. When Melanie Coleman, a gymnast at Southern Connecticut State University, died after falling off the uneven bars, veterans of the sport were stunned. Born: Oct. 7, 1952 (Grozny, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union), Olympic years: 1968 (Mexico City), 1972 (Munich), 1976 (Montreal), Medals: 9 (1968, gold, team all-around; 1972, gold, team all-around/gold, all-around/gold, team all-around/silver, floor exercise/bronze, vault; 1976, silver, vault/silver, floor exercise/bronze, all-around). Born: Jan. 24, 1968 (Fairmont, West Virginia), Medals: 5 (1984, gold, all-around/silver, team all-around/silver, vault/bronze, uneven bars/bronze, floor exercise). '. He also has 3 Northern European Championship gold medals in his kitty. Stoic and tough, Gina Gogean was actually only 13 years old when she participated in the 1992 Olympics. She and her sister had taken up gymnastics at age 6. She won gold in one individual event, floor, in 2008, then won gold in a totally different event, vault, in 2012. Artistic gymnast and Olympian Ruby Harrold has won Britain a Commonwealth team gold, apart from 2 European Championship silver medals and a World Championship gold. Medals: 10 (1952, gold, floor exercise/silver, team all-around/bronze, uneven bars/bronze, team, portable; 1956, gold, uneven bars/gold, balance beam/gold, team, portable/gold, floor exercise/silver, all-around/silver, team all-around). Podkopayeva won the Ukrainian version of "Dancing With The Stars" in 2007 and finished third in the Eurovision Dance Contest in 2008. She didn't make her Olympic debut until 1952, at 31 years old, when she won four medals and then came back to win four gold medals at the 1956 Olympics, when she was 35 years old. She pulled off the (somewhat surprising) rare feat of winning an all-around world championship one year and being all-around Olympic champion the next. At Tokyo 2020, billions around the world will tune in to watch the top gymnasts on the planet, including arguably the greatest female of all time, displaying their physical and technical brilliance in pursuit of a gold medal and with a special place in history guaranteed for any athlete who innovates and breaks records on the biggest stage. 6 Amazing Black GymnastsThis video features 6 of my favorite black gymnasts who, in many cases, paved the way for other black gymnasts who came later.In ligh. Gulyaz-Koteles died in 2019, at 94 years old. The world loves women's gymnastics. Romanian gymnast Simona Amanar has a complicated Olympic legacy, which isn't necessarily her fault. Born: Feb. 17, 1952 (Lubben, East Germany), Olympic years: 1968 (Mexico City), 1972 (Munich), Medals: 7 (1968, silver, uneven bars/bronze, team all-around; 1972, gold, vault/gold, uneven bars/silver, all-around/silver, team all-around/bronze, team all-around/bronze, balance beam). She also brought a performance value that was mesmerizing both on and off the apparatus. Larisa Latynina's nine gold medals are the most for any Olympic gymnast and the second-most gold medals for any Olympian, ever. Astakhova died of pneumonia, in 2005, at 68 years old. Comaneci was. Her career was halted by World War II, when her father was killed by the Nazis and her family hid in a "Swedish House.". She added another gold medal in 1956 in the now-defunct team apparatus event. Her unique style on the uneven bars helped her dominate the event for nearly a decade. Alison Carroll is a British gymnast, actress, and model. It was first included in 1978 and, after a gap of two Games, has featured in every Games since Auckland in 1990. One of our most traditional and famous dishes is haggis, neeps and tatties, which is made up of hearty haggis, of course, neeps (turnips) and tatties (potatoes) and is usually served up with a dram, or two, of Scotch whisky. Izbasa eventually backed off her training when she realized there wasn't enough time to prepare her routine to qualify. Maroney was one of the key witnesses to testify against Dr. Larry Nassar, who worked for Michigan State and sexually abused Maroney and scores of other gymnasts for years. Born into a family with a footballer father and a cricketer uncle, she was destined to step into sports. He had ADHD as a child and later also won a choral scholarship but chose to focus on gymnastics instead. Want to know something else really cool? This list may not reflect recent changes ( learn more ). Born: Sept. 30, 1994 (Yegoryevsk, Russia), Medals: 7 (2012, gold, uneven bars/silver, team all-around; 2016, gold uneven bars/silver, team all-around/bronze, all-around/bronze, all-around/bronze, floor exercise). Both men and women compete for medals in the All-Around competition, Individual Apparatus finals and the Team Event.