Uneven bars at the Olympics

The uneven bars is an artistic gymnastics event held at the Summer Olympics on which only women compete. Women started competing in and earning medals at apparatus finals in 1952.

Uneven bars at the Olympic Games
Karin Janz competing on the uneven bars at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Overview
Sport	Artistic gymnastics
Gender	Women
Years held	1952 – 2024
Reigning champion
Women	Kaylia Nemour (ALG)

Medalists

Women

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1952 Helsinki	Margit Korondi  Hungary	Maria Gorokhovskaya  Soviet Union	Ágnes Keleti  Hungary
1956 Melbourne	Ágnes Keleti  Hungary	Larisa Latynina  Soviet Union	Sofia Muratova  Soviet Union
1960 Rome	Polina Astakhova  Soviet Union	Larisa Latynina  Soviet Union	Tamara Lyukhina  Soviet Union
1964 Tokyo	Polina Astakhova  Soviet Union	Katalin Makray  Hungary	Larisa Latynina  Soviet Union
1968 Mexico City	Věra Čáslavská  Czechoslovakia	Karin Janz  East Germany	Zinaida Voronina  Soviet Union
1972 Munich	Karin Janz  East Germany	Olga Korbut  Soviet Union Erika Zuchold  East Germany	none awarded
1976 Montreal	Nadia Comăneci  Romania	Teodora Ungureanu  Romania	Marta Egervari  Hungary
1980 Moscow	Maxi Gnauck  East Germany	Emilia Eberle  Romania	Maria Filatova  Soviet Union Steffi Kräker  East Germany Melita Ruhn  Romania
1984 Los Angeles	Ma Yanhong  China Julianne McNamara  United States	none awarded	Mary Lou Retton  United States
1988 Seoul	Daniela Silivaș  Romania	Dagmar Kersten  East Germany	Yelena Shushunova  Soviet Union
1992 Barcelona	Lu Li  China	Tatiana Gutsu  Unified Team	Shannon Miller  United States
1996 Atlanta	Svetlana Khorkina  Russia	Amy Chow  United States Bi Wenjing  China	none awarded
2000 Sydney	Svetlana Khorkina  Russia	Ling Jie  China	Yang Yun  China
2004 Athens	Émilie Le Pennec  France	Terin Humphrey  United States	Courtney Kupets  United States
2008 Beijing	He Kexin  China	Nastia Liukin  United States	Yang Yilin  China
2012 London	Aliya Mustafina  Russia	He Kexin  China	Beth Tweddle  Great Britain
2016 Rio de Janeiro	Aliya Mustafina  Russia	Madison Kocian  United States	Sophie Scheder  Germany
2020 Tokyo	Nina Derwael  Belgium	Anastasia Ilyankova  ROC	Sunisa Lee  United States
2024 Paris	Kaylia Nemour  Algeria	Qiu Qiyuan  China	Sunisa Lee  United States

Multiple medalists

Rank	Gymnast	Nation	Olympics	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Polina Astakhova	Soviet Union (URS)	1960–1964	2	0	0	2
	Svetlana Khorkina	Russia (RUS)	1996–2000	2	0	0	2
	Aliya Mustafina	Russia (RUS)	2012–2016	2	0	0	2
4	He Kexin	China (CHN)	2008–2012	1	1	0	2
	Karin Janz	East Germany (GDR)	1968–1972	1	1	0	2
6	Ágnes Keleti	Hungary (HUN)	1952–1956	1	0	1	2
7	Larisa Latynina	Soviet Union (URS)	1956–1964	0	2	1	3
8	Sunisa Lee	United States (USA)	2020–2024	0	0	2	2

Medalists by country

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	4	0	0	4
2	China (CHN)	3	4	2	9
3	Soviet Union (URS)	2	4	6	12
4	East Germany (GDR)	2	3	1	6
5	Romania (ROU)	2	2	1	5
6	Hungary (HUN)	2	1	2	5
7	United States (USA)	1	4	5	10
8	Algeria (ALG)	1	0	0	1
	Belgium (BEL)	1	0	0	1
	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	0	0	1
	France (FRA)	1	0	0	1
12	ROC	0	1	0	1
	Unified Team (EUN)	0	1	0	1
14	Germany (GER)	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1

Gallery

Bep Ipenburg, 1960

Nadia Comăneci, 1976

Nastia Liukin, 2008

Jade Barbosa, 2016

Women's Uneven Bars at the Olympics