| Gymnastics at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad | |
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| Venue | Olympic Indoor Hall (artistic and trampoline) Galatsi Olympic Hall (rhythmic) |
| Dates | 14 – 29 August 2004 |
| Competitors | 252 from 45 nations |
| Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics | ||
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| List of gymnasts | ||
| 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 the2004 Summer Olympics inAthens, Greece, three disciplines ofgymnastics were contested:artistic gymnastics (August 14–23),rhythmic gymnastics (August 26–29) andtrampoline (August 20–21). The artistic gymnastics and trampoline events were held at theOlympic Indoor Hall and the rhythmic gymnastics events were held at theGalatsi Olympic Hall.[1]
The competition format was largely the same as at the2000 Summer Olympics. Allparticipating 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:
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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| Men's individual details | Yuri Nikitin Ukraine | Alexander Moskalenko Russia | Henrik Stehlik Germany |
| Women's individual details | Anna Dogonadze Germany | Karen Cockburn Canada | Huang Shanshan China |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |  Japan (JPN) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 6 |  Italy (ITA) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 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 |
| Totals (15 entries) | 18 | 18 | 18 | 54 | |
A total of 252 gymnasts from 45 nations competed at the Athens Games.
Argentina (1)
Australia (9)
Azerbaijan (1)
Belarus (8)
Belgium (1)
Bolivia (1)
Brazil (7) Bulgaria (5) Canada (15)
Cape Verde (1) China (15)
Colombia (1)
Cuba (3)
Czech Republic (2)
Denmark (1) France (13)
Georgia (2) Germany (11)
Great Britain (9) Greece (7)
Hungary (2)
Iceland (1)
Israel (2) Italy (10) Japan (10)
Kazakhstan (2) Latvia (2)
Malaysia (1)
Mexico (2)
Netherlands (4)
North Korea (8)
Portugal (2)
Puerto Rico (1) Romania (12) Russia (18)
Slovakia (2)
South Africa (2) South Korea (7) Spain (13)
Sweden (1)
Switzerland (4)
Tunisia (1) Ukraine (16) United States (14)
Uzbekistan (2)The gymnastics competition had scoring controversies, most prominently with the South Korean competitorYang Tae-young.
The Korean team contested Tae-Young's parallel bars score after judges misidentified one of the elements of his routine. The effect of this misidentification was that the start value was recorded as 9.9 rather than 10. TheCourt of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) dismissed the Korean Olympic Committee's appeal on the grounds that the appeal, coming after the end of competition, was made too late, and insufficient evidence of corruption or bad faith on the part of the judges was presented to overturn a strong preference for a "field of play" judgment rather than one made after the fact.[2][3]
Further problems occurred in themen's horizontal bar competition. After performing a routine with six release skills in the high bar event final (including four in a row – three variations ofTkatchev releases and aGienger), the judges posted a score of 9.725, placing Nemov in third position with several athletes still to compete. This was actually a fair judging decision because he took a big step on landing which was a two tenths deduction. The crowd became unruly on seeing the results and interrupted the competition for almost fifteen minutes. Influenced by the crowd's fierce reaction, the judges reevaluated the routine and increased Nemov's score to 9.762, but this did not improve his placement and he finished without a medal.
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.[4]
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