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How many Olympic medals are in gymnastics?

How many Olympic medals are in gymnastics?

She won six medals in each Olympic Games that she competed in, winning the individual all-around titles in 1956 and 1960. Astakhova won two medals in 1956, four medals in 1960, and four medals in 1964. She won the uneven bars golds in 1960 and 1964….List of Olympic medal leaders in women’s gymnastics.

Gymnast Ágnes Keleti
Years 1952, 1956
Gold 5
Silver 3
Bronze 2

Has any gymnast won 6 gold medals?

No woman has ever won five Olympic gold medals in gymnastics at a single Games, though five, including Biles, have won four. Two men have won five or more, with the Unified Team’s Vitaly Scherbo taking six at Barcelona 1992 and American Anton Heida collecting five at the 1904 Games in St. Louis.

Who has the most medals as a gymnast?

gymnast Simone Biles
World Artistic Gymnastics Championships 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 either sex.

What female gymnast has the most gold medals?

U.S. gymnast Simone Biles poses with her five gold medals at the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany. With her wins, she becomes the most decorated gymnast ever at the world championships, with 25 total medals. Simone Biles is the greatest gymnast of our time – or any time in history.

How many gymnastics medals are there?

Basics. There are 14 medal events in Olympic gymnastics: men’s team event, women’s team event, men’s all-around, women’s all-around, and 10 event finals (six for men, four for women). All routines are scored by two judging panels.

Who is most decorated gymnast of all time?

Simone Biles
Simone Biles is the most decorated gymnast, woman or man, in World Championship history, and she could easily rack up the greatest number of combined Olympic and world medals in artistic gymnastics – she has a total of 30 right now and needs four more in this summer’s Tokyo Games to surpass Vitaly Scherbo from Belarus.

Who is the most famous person in gymnastics?

Simone Biles, the greatest gymnast of all time Simone Biles dominated women’s gymnastics in the lead up to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, winning three straight World all-around titles – a first by a woman – from 2013-2015. She followed those wins by taking the all-around gold medal in Rio.

Who was the youngest gymnast?

In 1995, at the age of 13, she became the youngest gymnast to win the senior all-around title at the U.S. National Championships….

Dominique Moceanu
Discipline Women’s artistic gymnastics
Level Senior international elite
Years on national team 1992–2000, 2004–2006 (USA)