Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, three disciplines of gymnastics were contested: artistic gymnastics (August 14–23), rhythmic gymnastics (August 26–29) and trampoline (August 20–21). The artistic gymnastics and trampoline events were held at the Olympic Indoor Hall and the rhythmic gymnastics events were held at the Galatsi Olympic Hall.[1]

Gymnastics
at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Pictograms for artistic (left), rhythmic (center), and trampoline (right)
VenueOlympic Indoor Hall (artistic and trampoline)
Galatsi Olympic Hall (rhythmic)
Dates14 – 29 August 2004

Artistic gymnastics

Format of competition

The competition format was largely the same as at the 2000 Summer Olympics. All participating gymnasts, including those who were not part of a team, participated in a qualification round. The results of this competition determined which teams and individuals participated in the remaining competitions, which included:

  • The team competition, in which the eight highest scoring teams from qualifications competed. For the first time, each team of six gymnasts could only have three gymnasts perform on each apparatus, and all three scores counted toward the team total.
  • The all-around competition, in which only the twenty-four highest scoring individuals in the all-around competed. For the first time, each country was limited to only two gymnasts in the all-around final.
  • The event finals, in which the eight highest scoring individuals on each apparatus competed. Each country was limited to two gymnasts in each apparatus final.

Medalists - Men's Events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Individual all-around
Paul Hamm
 United States
Kim Dae-eun
 South Korea
Yang Tae-young
 South Korea
Team all-around
 Japan (JPN)
Takehiro Kashima
Hisashi Mizutori
Daisuke Nakano
Hiroyuki Tomita
Naoya Tsukahara
Isao Yoneda
 United States (USA)
Jason Gatson
Morgan Hamm
Paul Hamm
Brett McClure
Blaine Wilson
Guard Young
 Romania (ROU)
Marian Drăgulescu
Ilie Daniel Popescu
Dan Nicolae Potra
Răzvan Dorin Şelariu
Ioan Silviu Suciu
Marius Urzică
Floor Exercise
Kyle Shewfelt
 Canada
Marian Drăgulescu
 Romania
Yordan Yovchev
 Bulgaria
Horizontal bar
Igor Cassina
 Italy
Paul Hamm
 United States
Isao Yoneda
 Japan
Parallel bars
Valeri Goncharov
 Ukraine
Hiroyuki Tomita
 Japan
Li Xiaopeng
 China
Pommel horse
Teng Haibin
 China
Marius Urzică
 Romania
Takehiro Kashima
 Japan
Rings
Dimosthenis Tampakos
 Greece
Yordan Yovchev
 Bulgaria
Jury Chechi
 Italy
Vault
Gervasio Deferr
 Spain
Jevgēņijs Saproņenko
 Latvia
Marian Drăgulescu
 Romania

Medalists - Women's Events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Individual all-around
Carly Patterson
 United States
Svetlana Khorkina
 Russia
Zhang Nan
 China
Team all-around
 Romania (ROU)
Oana Ban
Alexandra Eremia
Cătălina Ponor
Monica Roşu
Nicoleta Daniela Şofronie
Silvia Stroescu
 United States (USA)
Mohini Bhardwaj
Annia Hatch
Terin Humphrey
Courtney Kupets
Courtney McCool
Carly Patterson
 Russia (RUS)
Ludmila Ezhova
Svetlana Khorkina
Maria Krioutchkova
Anna Pavlova
Elena Zamolodchikova
Natalia Ziganshina
Balance beam
Cătălina Ponor
 Romania
Carly Patterson
 United States
Alexandra Eremia
 Romania
Floor exercises
Cătălina Ponor
 Romania
Nicoleta Daniela Şofronie
 Romania
Patricia Moreno
 Spain
Uneven bars
Émilie Le Pennec
 France
Terin Humphrey
 United States
Courtney Kupets
 United States
Vault
Monica Roşu
 Romania
Annia Hatch
 United States
Anna Pavlova
 Russia

Rhythmic gymnastics

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Individual all-around
Alina Kabaeva
 Russia
Irina Tchachina
 Russia
Anna Bessonova
 Ukraine
Group all-around
 Russia (RUS)
Olesya Belugina
Olga Glatskikh
Tatiana Kurbakova
Natalia Lavrova
Yelena Posevina
Elena Murzina
 Italy (ITA)
Elisa Blanchi
Fabrizia D'Ottavio
Marinella Falca
Daniela Masseroni
Elisa Santoni
Laura Vernizzi
 Bulgaria (BUL)
Zhaneta Ilieva
Eleonora Kezhova
Zornitsa Marinova
Kristina Rangelova
Galina Tancheva
Vladislava Tancheva

Trampoline

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's individual
Yuri Nikitin
 Ukraine
Alexander Moskalenko
 Russia
Henrik Stehlik
 Germany
Women's individual
Anna Dogonadze
 Germany
Karen Cockburn
 Canada
Huang Shanshan
 China

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Romania (ROU)43310
2 United States (USA)2619
3 Russia (RUS)2327
4 Ukraine (UKR)2013
5 Japan (JPN)1124
6 Italy (ITA)1113
7 Canada (CAN)1102
8 China (CHN)1034
9 Germany (GER)1012
 Spain (ESP)1012
11 France (FRA)1001
 Greece (GRE)1001
13 Bulgaria (BUL)0123
14 South Korea (KOR)0112
15 Latvia (LAT)0101
Totals (15 nations)18181854

Participating nations

A total of 252 gymnasts from 45 nations competed at the Athens Games.

Controversies

The gymnastics competition had scoring controversies, most prominently with the South Korean competitor Yang Tae-young.

The Korean team contested Tae-Young's parallel bars score after judges misidentified one of the elements of his routine. The effect of this misidentification was that the start value was recorded as 9.9 rather than 10. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) dismissed the Korean Olympic Committee's appeal on the grounds that the appeal, coming after the end of competition, was made too late, and insufficient evidence of corruption or bad faith on the part of the judges was presented to overturn a strong preference for a "field of play" judgment rather than one made after the fact.[2][3]

Further problems occurred in the men's horizontal bar competition. After performing a routine with six release skills in the high bar event final (including four in a row – three variations of Tkatchev releases and a Gienger), the judges posted a score of 9.725, placing Nemov in third position with several athletes still to compete. This was actually a fair judging decision because he took a big step on landing which was a two tenths deduction. The crowd became unruly on seeing the results and interrupted the competition for almost fifteen minutes. Influenced by the crowd's fierce reaction, the judges reevaluated the routine and increased Nemov's score to 9.762, but this did not improve his placement and he finished without a medal.

The controversies led to the reconstruction of the scoring system which was implemented in 2006. The rule changes are credited as having encouraged more acrobatic activity and increasing difficulties on the high bar apparatus seen in later competitions.[4]

See also

References

  1. "Gymnastics at the 2004 Athens Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 22 August 2019.
  2. "CAS Arbitral Award: Yang Tae-Young v. FIG" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 26 May 2005.
  3. http://www.american-gymnast.com/agtc/index.php/2010/01/22/was-there-another-mistake-made-in-the-2004-mens-olympic-all-around/
  4. Emma John (7 August 2012). "London 2012: Gymnastic gold for true flying Dutchman Epke Zonderland". Guardian. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
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