| Gymnastics at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad | |
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| Venue | Pauley Pavilion |
| Dates | 29 July – 11 August 1984 |
| Gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics | ||
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| List of gymnasts | ||
| Artistic | ||
| 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 | ||
| Individual all-around | women | |
At the1984 Summer Olympics, two differentgymnastics disciplines were contested. In addition to the fourteenartistic gymnastics events contested, for the first time at the Olympics, arhythmic gymnastics event was contested–the women's individual all-around. All of the gymnastics events were held atUCLA'sPauley Pavilion inLos Angeles from July 29 through August 11. Several countries who had qualified to compete were absent as a result of the1984 Summer Olympics boycott, including theSoviet Union,Bulgaria,Cuba,Czechoslovakia,East Germany,Hungary, andNorth 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 otherSoviet Bloc (Cuba, North Korea, Poland and Hungary) nations competed.[2]
The artistic gymnastics competition at the1984 Summer Olympics was carried out in three stages:
Each country was limited to three gymnasts in the all-around final and two gymnasts in each apparatus final.
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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| Team all-around details |  United States (USA)Bart Conner Timothy Daggett Mitchell Gaylord James Hartung Scott Johnson Peter Vidmar |  China (CHN)Li Ning Li Xiaoping Li Yuejiu Lou Yun Tong Fei Xu Zhiqiang |  Japan (JPN)Koji Gushiken Noritoshi Hirata Nobuyuki Kajitani Shinji Morisue Koji Sotomura Kyoji Yamawaki | |||
| Individual all-around details | Koji Gushiken Japan | Peter Vidmar United States | Li Ning China | |||
| Floor exercise details | Li Ning China | Lou Yun China | Koji Sotomura Japan | |||
Philippe Vatuone France | ||||||
| Pommel horse details | Li Ning China | none awarded | Timothy Daggett United States | |||
| Peter Vidmar United States | ||||||
| Rings details | Koji Gushiken Japan | none awarded | Mitchell Gaylord United States | |||
| Li Ning China | ||||||
| Vault details | Lou Yun China | Mitchell Gaylord United States | none awarded | |||
| Koji Gushiken Japan | ||||||
| Shinji Morisue Japan | ||||||
| Li Ning China | ||||||
| Parallel bars details | Bart Conner United States | Nobuyuki Kajitani Japan | Mitchell Gaylord United States | |||
| Horizontal bar details | Shinji Morisue Japan | Tong Fei China | Koji Gushiken Japan | |||
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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| Individual all-around details | Lori Fung Canada | Doina Staiculescu Romania | Regina Weber West Germany |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 | United States (USA) | 5 | 5 | 6 | 16 |
| 2 | China (CHN) | 5 | 4 | 2 | 11 |
| 3 | Romania (ROU) | 5 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
| 4 | Japan (JPN) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| 5 | Canada (CAN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | France (FRA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| West Germany (FRG) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (7 entries) | 19 | 14 | 15 | 48 | |
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