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 – 2020 |
Reigning champion | |
Women | ![]() |
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 | ![]() | 1976–1980 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
2 | Eva Bosáková | ![]() | 1956–1960 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Věra Čáslavská | ![]() | 1964–1968 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
Olga Korbut | ![]() | 1972–1976 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
Shannon Miller | ![]() | 1992–1996 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
6 | Tamara Manina | ![]() | 1956–1960 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
7 | Larisa Latynina | ![]() | 1960–1964 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
8 | Simone Biles | ![]() | 2016–2020 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Medalists by country
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | ![]() | 6 | 0 | 4 | 10 |
2 | ![]() | 3 | 8 | 4 | 15 |
3 | ![]() | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
4 | ![]() | 2 | 4 | 5 | 11 |
5 | ![]() | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
6 | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
7 | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
![]() | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
9 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
10 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
11 | ![]() | 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)
1984Simona 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)