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{{Infobox Olympic event
| event       = Gymnastics
| games       = 1996 Summer
| image       =
| caption     =
| venue       = [[Georgia Dome]] (artistic)<br />[[Stegeman Coliseum]] (rhythmic)
| dates       = 20 July – 4 August 1996
| competitors =
| nations     =
| prev        = [[Gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics|1992]]
| next        = [[Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics|2000]]
}}
{{GymnasticsAt1996SummerOlympics}}
At the [[1996 Summer Olympics]], two different [[gymnastics]] disciplines were contested: [[artistic gymnastics]] and [[rhythmic gymnastics]].  The artistic gymnastics events were held at the [[Georgia Dome]] from July 20–25 and July 28–29.  The rhythmic gymnastics events were held at [[Stegeman Coliseum]] in nearby Athens, on the campus of the University of Georgia from August 1–4.<ref name="SR">{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1996/GYM/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417040858/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1996/GYM/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Gymnastics at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games |work=Sports Reference |access-date=16 August 2019}}</ref>
The women's rhythmic group all-around was contested for the first time at these Games. This marked the second time that a women's only sport was introduced to the Games.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200418124836/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1996/RGY/womens-group.html Womens Group at Sports Reference]</ref>
[[File:Atlanta skyline with sports complexes.JPEG|thumb|left|[[Georgia Dome]]]]
==Artistic gymnastics==
===Format of competition===
The gymnastics competition at the [[1996 Summer Olympics]] was carried out in three stages:
*Competition I - The team competition/qualification round in which gymnasts, including those who were not part of a team, performed both compulsory and optional exercises. Six of the seven team members performed on each apparatus, while only the five highest scores during each rotation were used to determine the overall team total.  The thirty-six highest scoring gymnasts in the all-around qualified to the individual all-around competition. The eight 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 determined by adding the scores earned by him or her on each of the six apparatuses in the men's competition and each of the four apparatuses in the women's competition.
*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 determined by the score earned by him or her on the apparatus during this competition.
Each country was limited to three gymnasts in the all-around final and two gymnasts in each apparatus final.
===Men's events===
{| {{MedalistTable| width=225|labelwidth=200}}
|-valign="top"
| Team all-around<br/>{{DetailsLink|Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's artistic team all-around}}
| {{FlagIOCteam|RUS|1996 Summer}}<br/>[[Sergei Kharkov]]<br/>[[Nikolai Kryukov (gymnast)|Nikolai Kryukov]]<br/>[[Alexei Nemov]]<br/>[[Yevgeni Podgorny]]<br/>[[Dmitri Trush]]<br/>[[Dmitri Vasilenko]]<br/>[[Alexei Voropaev]]
| {{FlagIOCteam|CHN|1996 Summer}}<br/>[[Fan Bin]]<br/>[[Fan Hongbin]]<br/>[[Huang Huadong]]<br/>[[Huang Liping]]<br/>[[Li Xiaoshuang]]<br/>[[Shen Jian]]<br/>[[Zhang Jinjing]]
| {{FlagIOCteam|UKR|1996 Summer}}<br/>[[Ihor Korobchynskyi]]<br/>[[Oleg Kosyak|Oleg Kosiak]]<br/>[[Grigory Misutin]]<br/>[[Vladimir Shamenko]]<br/>[[Rustam Sharipov]]<br/>[[Olexander Svitlichni]]<br/>[[Yuri Yermakov]]
|-valign="top"
| Individual all-around<br/>{{DetailsLink|Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's artistic individual all-around}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Li Xiaoshuang]]|CHN|1996 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Alexei Nemov]]|RUS|1996 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Vitaly Scherbo]]|BLR|1996 Summer}}
|-bgcolor=#DDDDDD
|colspan=7|
|-valign="top"
| Floor exercise<br/>{{DetailsLink|Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's floor}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Ioannis Melissanidis]]|GRE|1996 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Li Xiaoshuang]]|CHN|1996 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Alexei Nemov]]|RUS|1996 Summer}}
|-valign="top"
| Pommel horse<br/>{{DetailsLink|Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's pommel horse}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Li Donghua]]|SUI|1996 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Marius Urzică]]|ROU|1996 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Alexei Nemov]]|RUS|1996 Summer}}
|-
| valign="top" | Rings<br/>{{DetailsLink|Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's rings}}
| valign="top"| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Yuri Chechi]]|ITA|1996 Summer}}
| valign="top"| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Szilveszter Csollány]]|HUN|1996 Summer}}<hr>{{flagIOCmedalist|[[Dan Burincă]]|ROU|1996 Summer}}
| valign="center" | ''none awarded''
|-valign="top"
| Vault<br/>{{DetailsLink|Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's vault}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Alexei Nemov]]|RUS|1996 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Yeo Hong-Chul]]|KOR|1996 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Vitaly Scherbo]]|BLR|1996 Summer}}
|-valign="top"
| Parallel bars<br/>{{DetailsLink|Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's parallel bars}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Rustam Sharipov]]|UKR|1996 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Jair Lynch]]|USA|1996 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Vitaly Scherbo]]|BLR|1996 Summer}}
|-valign="top"
| Horizontal bar<br/>{{DetailsLink|Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's horizontal bar}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Andreas Wecker]]|GER|1996 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Krasimir Dunev]]|BUL|1996 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Fan Bin]]|CHN|1996 Summer}}<hr>{{flagIOCmedalist|[[Alexei Nemov]]|RUS|1996 Summer}}<hr>{{flagIOCmedalist|[[Vitaly Scherbo]]|BLR|1996 Summer}}
|}
===Women's events===
{| {{MedalistTable| width=225|labelwidth=200}}
|-valign="top"
| Team all-around<br/>{{DetailsLink|Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's artistic team all-around}}
| {{FlagIOCteam|USA|1996 Summer}}<br/>[[Amanda Borden]]<br/>[[Amy Chow]]<br/>[[Dominique Dawes]]<br/>[[Shannon Miller]]<br/>[[Dominique Moceanu]]<br/>[[Jaycie Phelps]]<br/>[[Kerri Strug]]
| {{FlagIOCteam|RUS|1996 Summer}}<br/>[[Elena Dolgopolova]]<br/>[[Rozalia Galiyeva]]<br/>[[Elena Grosheva]]<br/>[[Svetlana Khorkina]]<br/>[[Dina Kochetkova]]<br/>[[Evgeniya Kuznetsova|Yevgeniya Kuznetsova]]<br/>[[Oksana Liapina]]
| {{FlagIOCteam|ROU|1996 Summer}}<br/>[[Simona Amânar]]<br/>[[Gina Gogean]]<br/>[[Ionela Loaieș]]<br/>[[Alexandra Marinescu]]<br/>[[Lavinia Miloșovici]]<br/>[[Mirela Țugurlan]]
|-valign="top"
|Individual all-around<br/>{{DetailsLink|Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's artistic individual all-around}}
|{{flagIOCmedalist|[[Lilia Podkopayeva]]|UKR|1996 Summer}}
|{{flagIOCmedalist|[[Gina Gogean]]|ROU|1996 Summer}}
|{{flagIOCmedalist|[[Simona Amânar]]|ROU|1996 Summer}}<hr>{{flagIOCmedalist|[[Lavinia Miloșovici]]|ROU|1996 Summer}}
|-bgcolor=#DDDDDD
|colspan=7|
|-valign="top"
| Vault<br/>{{DetailsLink|Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's vault}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Simona Amânar]]|ROU|1996 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Mo Huilan]]|CHN|1996 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Gina Gogean]]|ROU|1996 Summer}}
|-
| valign="top" | Uneven bars<br/>{{DetailsLink|Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's uneven bars}}
| valign="top" | {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Svetlana Khorkina]]|RUS|1996 Summer}}
| valign="top"| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Amy Chow]]|USA|1996 Summer}}<hr>{{flagIOCmedalist|[[Bi Wenjing]]|CHN|1996 Summer}}
| valign="center" | ''none awarded''
|-
|Balance beam<br/>{{DetailsLink|Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's balance beam}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Shannon Miller]]|USA|1996 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Lilia Podkopayeva]]|UKR|1996 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Gina Gogean]]|ROU|1996 Summer}}
|-
| Floor exercise<br/>{{DetailsLink|Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's floor}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Lilia Podkopayeva]]|UKR|1996 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Simona Amânar]]|ROU|1996 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Dominique Dawes]]|USA|1996 Summer}}
|}
==Rhythmic gymnastics==
{| {{MedalistTable| width=225|labelwidth=200}}
|-valign="top"
| Individual all-around<br />{{DetailsLink|Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's rhythmic individual all-around}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Ekaterina Serebrianskaya]]|UKR|1996 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Yanina Batyrchina]]|RUS|1996 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Elena Vitrichenko]]|UKR|1996 Summer}}
|-valign="top"
| Group all-around<br />{{DetailsLink|Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's rhythmic group all-around}}
|{{FlagIOCteam|ESP|1996 Summer}}<br />[[Estela Giménez|Estela Giménez Cid]]<br />[[Marta Baldó Marín]]<br />[[Nuria Cabanillas Provencio]]<br />[[Lorena Guréndez García]]<br />[[Estíbaliz Martínez Yerro]]<br />[[Tania Lamarca Celada]]
|{{FlagIOCteam|BUL|1996 Summer}}<br />[[Ina Delcheva]]<br />[[Valentina Kevlian]]<br />[[Maria Koleva (gymnast)|Maria Koleva]]<br />[[Maja Tabakova]]<br />[[Ivelina Taleva]]<br />[[Vjara Vatachka]]
|{{FlagIOCteam|RUS|1996 Summer}}<br />[[Yevgeniya Bochkaryova]]<br />[[Irina Dzyuba]]<br />[[Yuliya Viktorovna Ivanova|Yuliya Ivanova]]<br />[[Yelena Krivoshey]]<br />[[Olga Shtyrenko]]<br />[[Angelina Yushkova]]
|}
==Medal table==
{{Medals table
| caption        =
| host           =
| flag_template  = FlagIOCteam
| event          = 1996 Summer
| team           =
| gold_UKR = 4 | silver_UKR = 1 | bronze_UKR = 2
| gold_RUS = 3 | silver_RUS = 3 | bronze_RUS = 4
| gold_USA = 2 | silver_USA = 2 | bronze_USA = 1
| gold_ROU = 1 | silver_ROU = 4 | bronze_ROU = 5
| gold_CHN = 1 | silver_CHN = 4 | bronze_CHN = 1
| gold_ESP = 1 | silver_ESP = 0 | bronze_ESP = 0
| gold_GER = 1 | silver_GER = 0 | bronze_GER = 0
| gold_GRE = 1 | silver_GRE = 0 | bronze_GRE = 0
| gold_ITA = 1 | silver_ITA = 0 | bronze_ITA = 0
| gold_SUI = 1 | silver_SUI = 0 | bronze_SUI = 0
| gold_BUL = 0 | silver_BUL = 2 | bronze_BUL = 0
| gold_KOR = 0 | silver_KOR = 1 | bronze_KOR = 0
| gold_HUN = 0 | silver_HUN = 1 | bronze_HUN = 0
| gold_BLR = 0 | silver_BLR = 0 | bronze_BLR = 4
}}
==See also==
*[[Gymnastics at the 1994 Asian Games]]
*[[Gymnastics at the 1994 Commonwealth Games]]
*[[Gymnastics at the 1995 Pan American Games]]
*[[1995 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships]]
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070612020125/http://www.la84foundation.org/5va/reports_frmst.htm Official Olympic Report]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120731114223/http://www.gymnasticsresults.com/olympics.html www.gymnasticsresults.com]
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