Famous Gymnasts
This American gymnast won 4 gold medals at her first Olympic games.
Who is Simone Biles?
The balance beam is this wide.
What is 4 in. or 10 cm.?
The first fully-attended Olympics that the U.S. team won gold at.
What is Atlanta 1996?
A no-handed cartwheel.
What is an aerial?
The No. 1 team right now.
What is Florida?
This American gymnast went to 2 Olympics, won 3 gold medals, 2 silver medals, and 1 bronze medal.
Who is Aly Raisman?
Nadia Comaneci scored the first perfect 10 on this event and a total of 5 perfect 10s on this event in her first Olympics.
What is uneven bars?
Nadia Comaneci scored the first perfect 10 at this Olympics.
What is Montreal 1976?
Many gymnasts do this as a part of their beam series.
What is a back handspring(step-out)?
This Olympic gold medalist now coaches the Arkansas gymnastics team.
Who is Jordyn Weiber?
This Russian-born American gymnast won the all-around in 2008 and a total of 5 medals.
Who is Nastia Liukin?
These events are competed on by both men and women.
What are floor and vault?
What is Athens 2004?
Many gymnasts do a double back in the tucked position with their knees bent. Some do a more difficult version in this position with their knees straight.
What is a piked position?
This freshman from LSU is ranked No. 8 in the all-around, No. 3 on floor, and No. 5 on vault.
Who is Haleigh Bryant?
This gymnast from Des Moines Iowa won 3 silvers and 1 gold at the Olympics when she was just 16.
Who is Shawn Johnson?
In elite gymnastics, this score, a.k.a. the D score, adds up the point values of the skills in the routine.
What is the difficulty score?
At the 2016 games in Rio, Sanne Wevers became the first woman from this country to win an Olympic medal when she won gold on the balance beam.
What is the Netherlands?
This is the first skill that a gymnast does in their bar routine to get them on top of the bar.
What is a kip?
This team won the national championship in 2018, making them 7-time national champions.
What is UCLA?
This Russian gymnast went to 2 Olympic games and won gold on bars, bronze in the all-around, and silver in the team twice in a row.
Who is Aliya Mustafina?
In elite gymnastics, this score, a.k.a. the E score, starts from a 10.0 and deducts points for every mistake.
What is the execution score?
Ksenia Semenova, Anna Pavlova, Ekaterina Kramarenko, Svetlana Klyukina, Ludmila Ezhova, and Ksenia Afanasyeva competed for Russia at this Olympics.
What is Beijing 2008?
This type of vault is when the gymnast does a round-off onto the springboard and a back handspring onto the vault table.
What is a Yurchenko?
This gymnast is known for her viral 10.0 floor routine in 2019.
Who is Katelyn Ohashi?