Gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Gymnastics
at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad
VenuePauley Pavilion
Dates29 July – 11 August 1984
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Gymnastics at the
1984 Summer Olympics
List of gymnasts
Artistic
Team all-aroundmenwomen
Individual all-aroundmenwomen
Vaultmenwomen
Floormenwomen
Pommel horsemen
Ringsmen
Parallel barsmen
Horizontal barmen
Uneven barswomen
Balance beamwomen
Rhythmic
Individual all-aroundwomen

At the 1984 Summer Olympics, two different gymnastics disciplines were contested. In addition to the fourteen artistic gymnastics events contested, for the first time at the Olympics, a rhythmic gymnastics event was contested–the women's individual all-around. All of the gymnastics events were held at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles from July 29 through August 11. Several teams who had qualified to compete were absent as a result of the 1984 Summer Olympics boycott, including the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, and North Korea.[1]

This was the first time in Olympic competition that eight gymnasts were allowed to move onto an apparatus final, instead of the previous six.

The USSR and other satellite countries organized an 'Alternate Olympics' where the USSR, East Germany, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and other Soviet Bloc nations competed.[2]

  1. ^ "Gymnastics at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
  2. ^ "A brief history of countries that shunned the Olympics and did their own thing instead".