# 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.
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 details | Alexander Dityatin Soviet Union | Nikolai Andrianov Soviet Union | Stoyan Deltchev Bulgaria |
| Team all-around details | 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 details | Roland Brückner East Germany | Nikolai Andrianov Soviet Union | Alexander Dityatin Soviet Union |
| Horizontal bar details | Stoyan Deltchev Bulgaria | Alexander Dityatin Soviet Union | Nikolai Andrianov Soviet Union |
| Parallel bars details | Aleksandr Tkachyov Soviet Union | Alexander Dityatin Soviet Union | Roland Brückner East Germany |
| Pommel horse details | Zoltán Magyar Hungary | Alexander Dityatin Soviet Union | Michael Nikolay East Germany |
| Rings details | Alexander Dityatin Soviet Union | Aleksandr Tkachyov Soviet Union | Jiri Tabak Czechoslovakia |
| Vault details | Nikolai Andrianov Soviet Union | Alexander Dityatin Soviet Union | Roland Brückner East Germany |

### Women's events

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Individual all-around details | Elena Davydova Soviet Union | Maxi Gnauck East Germany Nadia Comăneci Romania | none awarded |
| Team all-around details | 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 details | Nadia Comăneci Romania | Elena Davydova Soviet Union | Natalia Shaposhnikova Soviet Union |
| Floor exercise details | Nellie Kim Soviet Union Nadia Comăneci Romania | None awarded | Natalia Shaposhnikova Soviet Union Maxi Gnauck East Germany |
| Uneven bars details | Maxi Gnauck East Germany | Emilia Eberle Romania | Steffi Kräker East Germany Melita Ruhn Romania Maria Filatova Soviet Union |
| Vault details | 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 |
| 4 | Hungary (HUN) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (6 entries) | Totals (6 entries) | 15 | 14 | 16 | 45 |