# Gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics

At the 1984 Summer Olympics, two different gymnastics disciplines were contested. In addition to the fourteen artistic gymnastics events contested, for the first time at the Olympics, a rhythmic gymnastics event was contested–the women's individual all-around. All of the gymnastics events were held at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles from July 29 through August 11. Several countries who had qualified to compete were absent as a result of the 1984 Summer Olympics boycott, including the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, and North Korea.
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 other Soviet Bloc (Cuba, North Korea, Poland and Hungary) nations competed.

## Artistic gymnastics
### Format of competition

The artistic gymnastics competition at the 1984 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 eight 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.

### Men's events

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 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 |
| Floor exercise details | Li Ning China | Lou Yun China | Philippe Vatuone France |
| Pommel horse details | Li Ning China | none awarded | Timothy Daggett United States |
| Pommel horse details | Peter Vidmar United States | none awarded | Timothy Daggett United States |
| Rings details | Koji Gushiken Japan | none awarded | Mitchell Gaylord United States |
| Rings details | Li Ning China | none awarded | Mitchell Gaylord United States |
| Vault details | Lou Yun China | Mitchell Gaylord United States | none awarded |
| Vault details | Lou Yun China | Koji Gushiken Japan | none awarded |
| Vault details | Lou Yun China | Shinji Morisue Japan | none awarded |
| Vault details | Lou Yun China | Li Ning China | none awarded |
| 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 |

### Women's events

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Team all-around details | Romania (ROU) Lavinia Agache Laura Cutina Cristina Elena Grigoraș Simona Păucă Ecaterina Szabo Mihaela Stănuleț | United States (USA) Pamela Bileck Michelle Dusserre Kathy Johnson Julianne McNamara Mary Lou Retton Tracee Talavera | China (CHN) Chen Yongyan Huang Qun Ma Yanhong Wu Jiani Zhou Ping Zhou Qiurui |
| Individual all-around details | Mary Lou Retton United States | Ecaterina Szabo Romania | Simona Păucă Romania |
| Vault details | Ecaterina Szabo Romania | Mary Lou Retton United States | Lavinia Agache Romania |
| Uneven bars details | Ma Yanhong China | none awarded | Mary Lou Retton United States |
| Uneven bars details | Julianne McNamara United States | none awarded | Mary Lou Retton United States |
| Balance beam details | Simona Păucă Romania | none awarded | Kathy Johnson United States |
| Balance beam details | Ecaterina Szabo Romania | none awarded | Kathy Johnson United States |
| Floor exercise details | Ecaterina Szabo Romania | Julianne McNamara United States | Mary Lou Retton United States |

## Rhythmic gymnastics

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Individual all-around details | Lori Fung Canada | Doina Staiculescu Romania | Regina Weber West Germany |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 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 |
| 6 | West Germany (FRG) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (7 entries) | Totals (7 entries) | 19 | 14 | 15 | 48 |