List of top female medalists at major artistic gymnastics events

This page lists statistics about female artistic gymnasts who have achieved notable results at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships and the Olympic Games.

Individual females who won eight or more medals

World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

The years listed for each gymnast only include World Championships where they won medals. American gymnast Simone Biles holds the record for the most World Championship medals (25), as well as the most gold medals (19) in World Championship history for an athlete of any gender.

Rank Gymnastics Nation Years Gold Silver Bronze Total Ref.
1 Simone Biles United States2013–2019193325[1]
2 Svetlana Khorkina Russia1994–200398320[2]
3 Gina Gogean Romania1993–199792415[3]
4 Larisa Latynina Soviet Union1954–196694114[4]
5 Lavinia Miloșovici Romania1991–199653513[5]
6 Aliya Mustafina Russia2010–201834512
7 Ludmilla Tourischeva Soviet Union1970–197472211[6]
8 Nellie Kim Soviet Union1974–197954211[7]
8 Yelena Shushunova Soviet Union1985–198754211[8]
10 Oksana Chusovitina Uzbekistan
formerly  Germany
and  Soviet Union
1991–201134411
11 Eva Bosáková Czechoslovakia1954–196228111
12 Daniela Silivaș Romania1985–198972110[9]
13 Simona Amânar Romania1994–199964010[10]
14 Věra Čáslavská Czechoslovakia1958–196645110[11]
15 Alicia Sacramone United States2005–201144210[12]
16 Ecaterina Szabo Romania1983–198726210[13]
17 Svetlana Boginskaya Soviet Union1987–19925319[14]
17 Shannon Miller United States1991–19955319[15]
19 Maxi Gnauck East Germany1979–19835139[16]
20 Nastia Liukin United States2005–20074509[17]
21 Tamara Manina Soviet Union1954–19625128
21 Andreea Răducan Romania1999–20015128[18]

Individual females who won medals in every event

This section lists the female artistic gymnasts who have won at least one medal in every event (team final, all-around, vault, uneven bars, balance beam, and floor exercise) at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. The years listed refer to the World Championships at which the gymnast won her first medal in the event; the dates of any subsequent medals she may have won in the same event are not listed.

The Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina was the first and so far the only gymnast to have been World Champion in every event. Larisa Latynina and Věra Čáslavská have been a World Champion or Olympic Champion in every event. Lavinia Milosovici is the last gymnast to have been a World Champion or Olympic Champion in every event final.

Listed separately are the gymnasts who have at some point in their career won medals in every event either in the World Championships or in the Olympic Games; gymnasts who have won medals in all six events at the same World Championships; and the gymnasts who have won medals in all six events at the same Olympic Games.

Medaled in every event over their career

Gymnasts who won medals in every event at the World Championships
Gymnast Nation TF AA VT UB BB FX Year Accomplished Ref.
Larisa Latynina Soviet Union1954195819581958195819581958[19]
Natalia Kuchinskaya Soviet Union1966196619661966196619661966[20]
Ludmilla Tourischeva Soviet Union1970197019701970197419701974[21]
Olga Korbut Soviet Union1974197419741974197419741974[22]
Ecaterina Szabo Romania1983198319831983198519831985[23]
Yelena Shushunova Soviet Union1985198519851987198519851987[24]
Lavinia Miloșovici Romania1991199419911992199119941994[25]
Svetlana Khorkina Russia1994199519941994199719971997[26]
Aliya Mustafina Russia2010201020102010201320102013[27]
Simone Biles United States2014201320132018201320132018[28]
Gymnasts who won medals in every event at World Championships or Olympic Games [lower-alpha 1]
Gymnast Nation TF AA VT UB BB FX Year Accomplished Ref.
Maria Gorokhovskaya Soviet Union1954195219521952195219541954[29]
Helena Rakoczy Poland1956[lower-alpha 2]195019501950195019501956[30]
Věra Čáslavská Czechoslovakia1958196219621968196619621968[31]
Nadia Comăneci Romania1978197619781976197819761978[32]
Maxi Gnauck East Germany1979197919811979198119801981[33]
Daniela Silivaş Romania1987198719881987198519871987[34]
  1. The years in which the medals were won in the Olympic Games are in bold.
  2. Rakoczy did not win a Team Final medal at the Olympics or World Championships. Poland did however win the bronze in the Team Portable Apparatus

Medaled in every event at a single edition

See also

References

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