Gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics
| Gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics |
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| Team all-around | men | women | ||
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| Individual all-around | men | women | ||
| Vault | men | women | ||
| Floor | men | women | ||
| Pommel horse | men | |||
| Rings | men | |||
| Parallel bars | men | |||
| Horizontal bar | men | |||
| Uneven bars | women | |||
| Balance beam | women | |||
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| Individual all-around | women | |||
At the 1984 Summer Olympics, two different gymnastics disciplines were contested. In addition to the fourteen artistic gymnastics events contested–eight for men and six for women, 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 teams 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.
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 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.
Men's events
Women's events
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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| Team all-around |
 Romania (ROU)Lavinia Agache Laura Cutina Cristina Elena Grigoraş Simona Păucă Ecaterina Szabo Mihaela Stănuleţ |
 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 |
Mary Lou Retton United States (USA) |
Ecaterina Szabo Romania (ROU) |
Simona Păucă Romania (ROU) |
| Vault |
Ecaterina Szabo Romania (ROU) |
Mary Lou Retton United States (USA) |
Lavinia Agache Romania (ROU) |
| Uneven bars |
Ma Yanhong China (CHN) |
none awarded | Mary Lou Retton United States (USA) |
| Julianne McNamara United States (USA) |
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| Balance beam |
Simona Păucă Romania (ROU) |
none awarded | Kathy Johnson United States (USA) |
| Ecaterina Szabo Romania (ROU) |
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| Floor |
Ecaterina Szabo Romania (ROU) |
Julianne McNamara United States (USA) |
Mary Lou Retton United States (USA) |
Rhythmic gymnastics
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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| Individual all-around |
 Lori FungCanada (CAN) |
Doina Staiculescu Romania (ROU) |
 Regina WeberWest Germany (FRG) |
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 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 |
| West Germany (FRG) |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Total | 19 | 14 | 15 | 48 | |
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