Gymnastics at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Gymnastics at the 1980 Summer Olympics was represented by 14 events: 6 for women and 8 for men. All the events were held at the Sports Palace of the Central Lenin Stadium (at Luzhniki, south-western part of Moscow) from July 20 to July 25.

Women's Events

The Soviet women's gymnastics team finished the 1980 Summer Olympics with 8 medals, the same as in Montreal but less than they had won at any previous Olympics. In percentage terms they won 38% of the medals awarded,less than at any previous Olympics. The USSR won only 1 AA medal. In each Olympics before that they had always won 2 and 1960 Summer Olympics had won all 3. At Olomouc 84 and 1988 Summer Olympics they would win 2 again. The Soviet team won the team gold medal by 1.4 points.They had won team gold in Montreal by 3.2 points. In bars event final 5 of the 6 gymnasts won medals (2 Romanians,2 East Germans,1 Soviet). The unlucky gymnast by 0.05 was a Soviet.

Related Topics:
1980 Summer Olympics - Montreal - USSR - 1960 Summer Olympics - Olomouc - 1988 Summer Olympics

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Romania won 7 medals,the same number as they had won in Montreal. For the first time ever at the Olympics a Romanian gymnast medals on each piece of apparatus in event finals. This they had never achieved before and achieved only once again in the next 6 Olympics. They won 2 gold,1 silver,2 bronze in event finals - only 1 bronze less than the USSR. Of the 7 perfect scores awarded at the 1980 Summer Olympics 4 went to Romanian gymnasts,2 to Soviet and 1 to an East German. At Montreal in 1976 between the team competition and AA finals Nadia Comaneci was deducted 1.2 points from her start values. In Moscow 1980 she was also deducted 1.2 points. Or to put it another way - for the 11 routines Comaneci was deducted 1.2 in Montreal she was deducted 0.7 in Moscow (omitting her team optional bars score where she fell).

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Romania - Montreal - USSR - 1980 Summer Olympics - Nadia Comaneci

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Team Classification

Individual Combined Exercises

Horse Vault

Uneven Parallel Bars

Beam

Floor Exercises

Remark:country names are given in the form they were used in the official documents of the IOC in 1980.

Related Topics:
IOC - 1980

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