Competition Dates
20 to 25 Jul, 28 to 29 Jul 1996; Gala exhibition 30 Jul 1996
Venue
Georgia Dome
Capacity: 35,400
Events/Disciplines
14 Events | |
Men | Women |
Team | Team |
Individual All-around | Individual All-around |
Floor Exercise | Vault |
Pommel Horse | Uneven Bars |
Rings | Balance Beam |
Vault | Floor Exercise |
Parallel Bars | |
Horizontal Bar |
Number of Athletes
113 men, 110 women, 223 total
Changes Since Barcelona
Added: Gala exhibition
Qualifications
Based on 1995 World Championships and wild card selections. Each NOC selects the specific athletes, usually through Olympic trials in the year prior to the Games.
Competition Format
Team: Twelve teams of six gymnasts compete in compulsory exercises along with individuals, and are then ranked before competing in optional exercises.
Individual All-around: The top 36 athletes from the compulsory round advance to the individual all-around finals. All scores start at zero.
Individual Apparatus Finals: The top eight gymnasts on each apparatus in the compulsory round advance to the finals, and all scores start at zero.
Gala: Performance by all artistic medalists and selected rhythmic gymnasts.
If a tie occurs, the principle of the same placing for the same number of points applies; the tied gymnasts share a placing, and the following place is not awarded.
Olympic Debut
Men: 1896
Women: 1928
Olympic History
Gymnastics has produced some of the most successful Olympic athletes of all time. Larisa LATYNINA and Nikolay ANDRIANOV of the former Soviet Union have won more medals (18 and 15, respectively) than anyone in Olympic history. The former Soviet Union has won more than twice as many gymnastics medals (184) as any other country and the Soviet women have won nine of the last 10 team all-around titles.
1996 U.S. Gymnastics Trials. Video Clips Courtesy of NBC.
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| The volunteer staff of the 1996 Olympic Games totaled 50,152. They worked an estimated 850,000 shifts. |