In artistic events, both individual and team, men compete in floor, pommel horse, rings, vault, parallel bars and horizontal bars.
Female gymnasts compete on the vault, uneven bars, balance beam and floor.
The vaulting horse is 1.35 metres high, 1.6 metres long and 35cm high and is reached by a runway 1m wide and up to 25 metres long for men. The horizontal bar is 2.55 metres high and 2.5 metres long The parallel bars have two wooden rails that sit on supports 1.75 metres from floor level. The pommel horse is 1.05 metres high, 1.6 metres long, and its two handles are 40 to 45cm apart. The rings are wooden and are suspended from the roof to a point 2.55 metres above floor level. The uneven bars sit 2.45 metres above floor level and 1.65 metres above floor level and the distance between them can be adjusted.