Gymnastics at the 1980 Summer Olympics

At the 1980 Summer Olympics, fourteen different artistic gymnastics events were contested, eight for men and six for women. All events were held at the Sports Palace of the Central Lenin Stadium in Moscow from July 20 through 25th. Several teams who had qualified to compete were absent as a result of the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott, including the United States, Canada, China, Japan, South Korea, and West Germany.

Gymnastics at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Palace of Sports of the Central Lenin Stadium as it appears today
Venue	Palace of Sports
Dates	20 July – 25 July 1980

For the first time in Olympic competition, in event finals for the vault an average of two vaults was used as the final score, rather than the best of two vaults.

Format of competition

The gymnastics competition at the 1980 Summer Olympics was carried out in three stages:

• Competition I - The team competition/qualification round in which all gymnasts, including those who were not part of a team, performed both compulsory and optional exercises. The combined scores of all team members determined the final score of the team. The thirty-six highest scoring gymnasts in the all-around qualified to the individual all-around competition. The six highest scoring gymnasts on each apparatus qualified to the final for that apparatus.
• Competition II - The individual all-around competition, in which those who qualified from Competition I performed exercises on each apparatus. The final score of each gymnast was composed of half the points earned by that gymnast during Competition I and all of the points earned by him or her in Competition II.
• Competition III - The apparatus finals, in which those who qualified during Competition I performed an exercise on the individual apparatus on which he or she had qualified. The final score of each gymnast was composed of half the points earned by that gymnast on that particular apparatus during Competition I and all of the points earned by him or her on that particular apparatus in Competition III.

Each country was limited to three gymnasts in the all-around final and two gymnasts in each apparatus final.

Medal summary

Men's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual all-around	Alexander Dityatin  Soviet Union	Nikolai Andrianov  Soviet Union	Stoyan Deltchev  Bulgaria
Team all-around	Soviet Union (URS) Nikolai Andrianov Eduard Azaryan Alexander Dityatin Bogdan Makuts Vladimir Markelov Aleksandr Tkachyov	East Germany (GDR) Ralf-Peter Hemmann Lutz Hoffmann Lutz Mack Michael Nikolay Andreas Bronst Roland Brückner	Hungary (HUN) Ferenc Donáth György Guczoghy Zoltán Kelemen Péter Kovács Zoltán Magyar István Vámos
Floor exercise	Roland Brückner  East Germany	Nikolai Andrianov  Soviet Union	Alexander Dityatin  Soviet Union
Horizontal bar	Stoyan Deltchev  Bulgaria	Alexander Dityatin  Soviet Union	Nikolai Andrianov  Soviet Union
Parallel bars	Aleksandr Tkachyov  Soviet Union	Alexander Dityatin  Soviet Union	Roland Brückner  East Germany
Pommel horse	Zoltán Magyar  Hungary	Alexander Dityatin  Soviet Union	Michael Nikolay  East Germany
Rings	Alexander Dityatin  Soviet Union	Aleksandr Tkachyov  Soviet Union	Jiri Tabak  Czechoslovakia
Vault	Nikolai Andrianov  Soviet Union	Alexander Dityatin  Soviet Union	Roland Brückner  East Germany

Women's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual all-around	Elena Davydova  Soviet Union	Maxi Gnauck  East Germany Nadia Comăneci  Romania	none awarded
Team all-around	Soviet Union (URS) Elena Davydova Maria Filatova Nellie Kim Yelena Naimushina Natalia Shaposhnikova Stella Zakharova	Romania (ROU) Nadia Comăneci Rodica Dunca Emilia Eberle Cristina Elena Grigoraș Melita Ruhn Dumitrița Turner	East Germany (GDR) Maxi Gnauck Silvia Hindorff Steffi Kräker Katharina Rensch Karola Sube Birgit Süss
Balance beam	Nadia Comăneci  Romania	Elena Davydova  Soviet Union	Natalia Shaposhnikova  Soviet Union
Floor exercise	Nellie Kim  Soviet Union Nadia Comăneci  Romania	None awarded	Natalia Shaposhnikova  Soviet Union Maxi Gnauck  East Germany
Uneven bars	Maxi Gnauck  East Germany	Emilia Eberle  Romania	Steffi Kräker  East Germany Melita Ruhn  Romania Maria Filatova  Soviet Union
Vault	Natalia Shaposhnikova  Soviet Union	Steffi Kräker  East Germany	Melita Ruhn  Romania

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	9	8	5	22
2	East Germany (GDR)	2	3	6	11
3	Romania (ROU)	2	3	2	7
4	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	0	1	2
	Hungary (HUN)	1	0	1	2
6	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		15	14	16	45

See also

• Olympic medalists in gymnastics (men)
• Olympic medalists in gymnastics (women)
• 1979 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

External links

• Official Olympic Report
• www.gymnasticsresults.com
• www.gymn-forum.net