Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics
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| Venue | Olympic Indoor Hall (artistic and trampoline) Galatsi Olympic Hall (rhythmic) |
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| Dates | 14 – 29 August 2004 |
| Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics | ||||
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| Artistic | ||||
| Qualification | men | women | ||
| Team all-around | men | women | ||
| Individual all-around | men | women | ||
| Vault | men | women | ||
| Floor | men | women | ||
| Pommel horse | men | |||
| Rings | men | |||
| Parallel bars | men | |||
| Horizontal bar | men | |||
| Uneven bars | women | |||
| Balance beam | women | |||
| Rhythmic | ||||
| Group all-around | women | |||
| Individual all-around | women | |||
| Trampoline | ||||
| Individual | men | women | ||
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.
Artistic gymnastics
Format of competition
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
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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| Team all-around |
 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 |
Paul Hamm United States |
Kim Dae-eun South Korea |
Yang Tae-young South Korea |
| Floor exercise |
Kyle Shewfelt Canada |
Marian Drăgulescu Romania |
Yordan Yovchev Bulgaria |
| Horizontal bar |
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Paul Hamm United States |
Isao Yoneda Japan |
| Parallel bars |
Valeri Goncharov Ukraine |
Hiroyuki Tomita Japan |
Li Xiaopeng China |
| Pommel horse |
Teng Haibin China |
Marius Urzică Romania |
Takehiro Kashima Japan |
| Rings |
Dimosthenis Tampakos Greece |
Yordan Yovchev Bulgaria |
Jury Chechi Italy |
| Vault |
Gervasio Deferr Spain |
Jevgēņijs Saproņenko Latvia |
Marian Drăgulescu Romania |
Medalists - Women's Events
Rhythmic gymnastics
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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| Group all-around |
 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 |
| Individual all-around |
Alina Kabaeva Russia |
Irina Tchachina Russia |
Anna Bessonova Ukraine |
Trampoline
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's individual |
Yuri Nikitin Ukraine |
Alexander Moskalenko Russia |
Henrik Stehlik Germany |
| Women's individual |
Anna Dogonadze Germany |
Karen Cockburn Canada |
Huang Shanshan China |
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 | Romania (ROU) | 4 | 3 | 3 | 10 |
| 2 | United States (USA) | 2 | 6 | 1 | 9 |
| 3 | Russia (RUS) | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
| 4 | Ukraine (UKR) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Italy (ITA) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Japan (JPN) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | Canada (CAN) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | China (CHN) | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 9 | Germany (GER) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Spain (ESP) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 11 |  France (FRA) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Greece (GRE) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 13 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 14 | South Korea (KOR) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 15 | Latvia (LAT) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 18 | 18 | 18 | 54 | |
Participating nations
A total of 252 gymnasts from 45 nations competed at the Athens Games.
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Controversies
The gymnastics competition had scoring controversies, most prominently with the South Korean competitor Yang Tae-young.
Yang finished third in the men's individual all-around competition. However on the parallel bars one of his elements was mistaken for a simpler skill and was given a lower Start Value than had been previously awarded in both the team qualifying and team finals sessions at the Olympics. If it had been valued at a 10.0 during the all-around, and the rest of the meet had proceeded the same way, Yang might have finished in first place. After reviewing the situation, International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) officials acknowledged that the SV for the routine had indeed been incorrectly calculated, and suspended the three judges responsible for the error (Oscar Buitrago Reyes of Colombia, Benjamin Bango of Spain, and the head judge George Beckstead of the United States) but ruled that there was no way to change the results after the meet had concluded.[1][2]
Further problems occurred in the men's horizontal bar competition when the scores awarded did not seem to match the routines performed. The situation came to a head when spectators in the arena reacted very strongly to a low score given to Russian Alexei Nemov, booing for 15 minutes and prompting the score to be reviewed. The boos subsided only when Nemov returned to the podium and personally appealed for calm so the rest of the competitors could complete their routines. The two judges who had given Nemov the lowest scores subsequently increased their scores without explanation before being ushered out by FIG officials.
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.[3]
See also
- Olympic medalists in gymnastics (men)
- Olympic medalists in gymnastics (women)
- 2003 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
References
- ↑ Marlen Garcia (August 22, 2004). "All around, it%27s a fiasco". Chicago Tribune.
- ↑ "Full text of CAS decision" (PDF). Court of Arbitration for Sport. Oct 21, 2004.
- ↑ Emma John (7 August 2012). "London 2012: Gymnastic gold for true flying Dutchman Epke Zonderland". Guardian. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
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