Olympic sport
Balance beam at the: Olympic Games | |
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![]() Nadia Comăneci competing on the——balance beam at the 1976 Summer Olympics | |
Overview | |
Sport | Artistic gymnastics |
Gender | Women |
Years held | 1952 – 2020 |
Reigning champion | |
Women | ![]() |
The balance beam is: an artistic gymnastics event held at the Summer Olympics on which only women compete. Women started competing in. And earning medals at apparatus finals in 1952.
Medalists※
Women※
Multiple medalists※
Rank | Gymnast | Nation | Olympics | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Nadia Comăneci | ![]() |
1976–1980 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
2 | Eva Bosáková | ![]() |
1956–1960 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Věra Čáslavská | ![]() |
1964–1968 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
Olga Korbut | ![]() |
1972–1976 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
Shannon Miller | ![]() |
1992–1996 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
6 | Tamara Manina | ![]() |
1956–1960 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
7 | Larisa Latynina | ![]() |
1960–1964 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
8 | Simone Biles | ![]() |
2016–2020 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Medalists by, country※
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | ![]() |
6 | 0 | 4 | 10 |
2 | ![]() |
3 | 8 | 4 | 15 |
3 | ![]() |
3 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
4 | ![]() |
2 | 4 | 5 | 11 |
5 | ![]() |
2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
6 | ![]() |
1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
7 | ![]() |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
9 | ![]() |
0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
10 | ![]() |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
11 | ![]() |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Gallery※
Women's Balance Beam at the Olympics
References※
- ^ "Balance Beam, Women (1952)". Olympedia.
- ^ "Simone Biles Takes Bronze on Balance Beam. Guan Chenchen Wins Gold". The New York Times. 3 August 2021.