Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, three disciplines of gymnastics were contested: artistic gymnastics (August 14–23), rhythmic gymnastics (August 26–29) and trampoline (August 20–21). The artistic gymnastics and trampoline events were held at the Olympic Indoor Hall and the rhythmic gymnastics events were held at the Galatsi Olympic Hall.[1]

Gymnastics
at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Pictograms for artistic (left), rhythmic (center), and trampoline (right)
VenueOlympic Indoor Hall (artistic and trampoline)
Galatsi Olympic Hall (rhythmic)
Dates14 – 29 August 2004
Competitors252 from 45 nations
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Artistic gymnastics

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Format of competition

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The competition format was largely the same as at the 2000 Summer Olympics. All participating gymnasts, including those who were not part of a team, participated in a qualification round. The results of this competition determined which teams and individuals participated in the remaining competitions, which included:

  • The team competition, in which the eight highest scoring teams from qualifications competed. For the first time, each team of six gymnasts could only have three gymnasts perform on each apparatus, and all three scores counted toward the team total.
  • The all-around competition, in which only the twenty-four highest scoring individuals in the all-around competed. For the first time, each country was limited to only two gymnasts in the all-around final.
  • The event finals, in which the eight highest scoring individuals on each apparatus competed. Each country was limited to two gymnasts in each apparatus final.

Medalists - Men's Events

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
Team all-around
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  Japan (JPN)
Takehiro Kashima
Hisashi Mizutori
Daisuke Nakano
Hiroyuki Tomita
Naoya Tsukahara
Isao Yoneda
  United States (USA)
Jason Gatson
Morgan Hamm
Paul Hamm
Brett McClure
Blaine Wilson
Guard Young
  Romania (ROU)
Marian Drăgulescu
Ilie Daniel Popescu
Dan Nicolae Potra
Răzvan Dorin Şelariu
Ioan Silviu Suciu
Marius Urzică
Individual all-around
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Paul Hamm
  United States
Kim Dae-eun
  South Korea
Yang Tae-young
  South Korea
Floor Exercise
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Kyle Shewfelt
  Canada
Marian Drăgulescu
  Romania
Yordan Yovchev
  Bulgaria
Pommel horse
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Teng Haibin
  China
Marius Urzică
  Romania
Takehiro Kashima
  Japan
Rings
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Dimosthenis Tampakos
  Greece
Yordan Yovchev
  Bulgaria
Jury Chechi
  Italy
Vault
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Gervasio Deferr
  Spain
Jevgēņijs Saproņenko
  Latvia
Marian Drăgulescu
  Romania
Parallel bars
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Valeri Goncharov
  Ukraine
Hiroyuki Tomita
  Japan
Li Xiaopeng
  China
Horizontal bar
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Igor Cassina
  Italy
Paul Hamm
  United States
Isao Yoneda
  Japan

Medalists - Women's Events

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
Team all-around
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  Romania (ROU)
Oana Ban
Alexandra Eremia
Cătălina Ponor
Monica Roșu
Nicoleta Daniela Șofronie
Silvia Stroescu
  United States (USA)
Mohini Bhardwaj
Annia Hatch
Terin Humphrey
Courtney Kupets
Courtney McCool
Carly Patterson
  Russia (RUS)
Ludmila Ezhova
Svetlana Khorkina
Maria Krioutchkova
Anna Pavlova
Elena Zamolodchikova
Natalia Ziganshina
Individual all-around
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Carly Patterson
  United States
Svetlana Khorkina
  Russia
Zhang Nan
  China
Vault
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Monica Roșu
  Romania
Annia Hatch
  United States
Anna Pavlova
  Russia
Uneven bars
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Émilie Le Pennec
  France
Terin Humphrey
  United States
Courtney Kupets
  United States
Balance beam
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Cătălina Ponor
  Romania
Carly Patterson
  United States
Alexandra Eremia
  Romania
Floor exercises
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Cătălina Ponor
  Romania
Nicoleta Daniela Șofronie
  Romania
Patricia Moreno
  Spain

Rhythmic gymnastics

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
Individual all-around
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Alina Kabaeva
  Russia
Irina Tchachina
  Russia
Anna Bessonova
  Ukraine
Group all-around
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  Russia (RUS)
Olesya Belugina
Olga Glatskikh
Tatiana Kurbakova
Natalia Lavrova
Yelena Posevina
Elena Murzina
  Italy (ITA)
Elisa Blanchi
Fabrizia D'Ottavio
Marinella Falca
Daniela Masseroni
Elisa Santoni
Laura Vernizzi
  Bulgaria (BUL)
Zhaneta Ilieva
Eleonora Kezhova
Zornitsa Marinova
Kristina Rangelova
Galina Tancheva
Vladislava Tancheva

Trampoline

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
Men's individual
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Yuri Nikitin
  Ukraine
Alexander Moskalenko
  Russia
Henrik Stehlik
  Germany
Women's individual
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Anna Dogonadze
  Germany
Karen Cockburn
  Canada
Huang Shanshan
  China

Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Romania (ROU)43310
2  United States (USA)2619
3  Russia (RUS)2327
4  Ukraine (UKR)2013
5  Japan (JPN)1124
6  Italy (ITA)1113
7  Canada (CAN)1102
8  China (CHN)1034
9  Germany (GER)1012
  Spain (ESP)1012
11  France (FRA)1001
  Greece (GRE)1001
13  Bulgaria (BUL)0123
14  South Korea (KOR)0112
15  Latvia (LAT)0101
Totals (15 entries)18181854

Participating nations

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A total of 252 gymnasts from 45 nations competed at the Athens Games.

Controversies

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The gymnastics competition had scoring controversies, most prominently with the South Korean competitor Yang Tae-young.

The Korean team contested Tae-Young's parallel bars score after judges misidentified one of the elements of his routine. The effect of this misidentification was that the start value was recorded as 9.9 rather than 10. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) dismissed the Korean Olympic Committee's appeal on the grounds that the appeal, coming after the end of competition, was made too late, and insufficient evidence of corruption or bad faith on the part of the judges was presented to overturn a strong preference for a "field of play" judgment rather than one made after the fact.[2][3]

Further problems occurred in the men's horizontal bar competition. After performing a routine with six release skills in the high bar event final (including four in a row – three variations of Tkatchev releases and a Gienger), the judges posted a score of 9.725, placing Nemov in third position with several athletes still to compete. This was actually a fair judging decision because he took a big step on landing which was a two tenths deduction. The crowd became unruly on seeing the results and interrupted the competition for almost fifteen minutes. Influenced by the crowd's fierce reaction, the judges reevaluated the routine and increased Nemov's score to 9.762, but this did not improve his placement and he finished without a medal.

The controversies led to the reconstruction of the scoring system which was implemented in 2006. The rule changes are credited as having encouraged more acrobatic activity and increasing difficulties on the high bar apparatus seen in later competitions.[4]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Gymnastics at the 2004 Athens Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 22 August 2019.
  2. ^ "CAS Arbitral Award: Yang Tae-Young v. FIG" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 26 May 2005.
  3. ^ "Was there ANOTHER MISTAKE MADE in the 2004 men's Olympic all-around???". 22 January 2010.
  4. ^ Emma John (7 August 2012). "London 2012: Gymnastic gold for true flying Dutchman Epke Zonderland". Guardian. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
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