Floor at the Olympics

Floor at the Olympic Games
Floor at the 2012 Olympic Games
Overview
Sport	Artistic gymnastics
Gender	Men and women
Years held	Men: 1932–2024 Women: 1952–2024
Reigning champion
Men	Carlos Yulo (PHI)
Women	Rebeca Andrade (BRA)

The floor (or floor exercise) is an artistic gymnastics event held at the Summer Olympics. The event was first held for men at the 1932 Olympic Games.^[1] For women it was first held in 1952.

Medalists

Men

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1932 Los Angeles details	István Pelle  Hungary	Georges Miez  Switzerland	Mario Lertora  Italy
1936 Berlin details	Georges Miez  Switzerland	Josef Walter  Switzerland	Konrad Frey  Germany Eugen Mack  Switzerland
1948 London details	Ferenc Pataki  Hungary	János Mogyorósi-Klencs  Hungary	Zdenek Ruzicka  Czechoslovakia
1952 Helsinki details	William Thoresson  Sweden	Jerzy Jokiel  Poland Tadao Uesako  Japan	none awarded
1956 Melbourne details	Valentin Muratov  Soviet Union	Nobuyuki Aihara  Japan Viktor Chukarin  Soviet Union William Thoresson  Sweden	none awarded
1960 Rome details	Nobuyuki Aihara  Japan	Yuri Titov  Soviet Union	Franco Menichelli  Italy
1964 Tokyo details	Franco Menichelli  Italy	Yukio Endo  Japan Viktor Lisitsky  Soviet Union	none awarded
1968 Mexico City details	Sawao Kato  Japan	Akinori Nakayama  Japan	Takeshi Katō  Japan
1972 Munich details	Nikolai Andrianov  Soviet Union	Akinori Nakayama  Japan	Shigeru Kasamatsu  Japan
1976 Montreal details	Nikolai Andrianov  Soviet Union	Vladimir Marchenko  Soviet Union	Peter Kormann  United States
1980 Moscow details	Roland Brückner  East Germany	Nikolai Andrianov  Soviet Union	Alexander Dityatin  Soviet Union
1984 Los Angeles details	Li Ning  China	Lou Yun  China	Koji Sotomura  Japan
			Philippe Vatuone  France
1988 Seoul details	Sergei Kharkov  Soviet Union	Vladimir Artemov  Soviet Union	Yukio Iketani  Japan
			Lou Yun  China
1992 Barcelona details	Li Xiaoshuang  China	Yukio Iketani  Japan Hrihoriy Misyutin  Unified Team	none awarded
1996 Atlanta details	Ioannis Melissanidis  Greece	Li Xiaoshuang  China	Alexei Nemov  Russia
2000 Sydney details	Igors Vihrovs  Latvia	Alexei Nemov  Russia	Yordan Yovchev  Bulgaria
2004 Athens details	Kyle Shewfelt  Canada	Marian Drăgulescu  Romania	Yordan Yovchev  Bulgaria
2008 Beijing details	Zou Kai  China	Gervasio Deferr  Spain	Anton Golotsutskov  Russia
2012 London details	Zou Kai  China	Kōhei Uchimura  Japan	Denis Ablyazin  Russia
2016 Rio de Janeiro details	Max Whitlock  Great Britain	Diego Hypólito  Brazil	Arthur Mariano  Brazil
2020 Tokyo details[2]	Artem Dolgopyat  Israel	Rayderley Zapata  Spain	Xiao Ruoteng  China
2024 Paris details	Carlos Yulo  Philippines	Artem Dolgopyat  Israel	Jake Jarman  Great Britain

Multiple medalists

Rank	Gymnast	Nation	Olympics	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Nikolai Andrianov	Soviet Union (URS)	1972–1980	2	1	0	3
2	Zou Kai	China (CHN)	2008–2012	2	0	0	2
3	Artem Dolgopyat	Israel (ISR)	2020–2024	1	1	0	2
	Georges Miez	Switzerland (SUI)	1932–1936	1	1	0	2
	William Thoresson	Sweden (SWE)	1952–1956	1	1	0	2
	Li Xiaoshuang	China (CHN)	1992–1996	1	1	0	2
7	Franco Menichelli	Italy (ITA)	1960–1964	1	0	1	2
8	Akinori Nakayama	Japan (JPN)	1968–1972	0	2	0	2
9	Yukio Iketani	Japan (JPN)	1988–1992	0	1	1	2
	Lou Yun	China (CHN)	1984–1988	0	1	1	2
	Alexei Nemov	Russia (RUS)	1996–2000	0	1	1	2
12	Yordan Yovchev	Bulgaria (BUL)	2000–2004	0	0	2	2

Medalists by country

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	4	6	1	11
2	China (CHN)	4	2	2	8
3	Japan (JPN)	2	7	4	13
4	Hungary (HUN)	2	1	0	3
5	Switzerland (SUI)	1	2	1	4
6	Israel (ISR)	1	1	0	2
	Sweden (SWE)	1	1	0	2
8	Italy (ITA)	1	0	2	3
9	Great Britain (GBR)	1	0	1	2
10	Canada (CAN)	1	0	0	1
	East Germany (GDR)	1	0	0	1
	Greece (GRE)	1	0	0	1
	Latvia (LAT)	1	0	0	1
	Philippines (PHI)	1	0	0	1
15	Spain (ESP)	0	2	0	2
16	Russia (RUS)	0	1	3	4
17	Brazil (BRA)	0	1	1	2
18	Poland (POL)	0	1	0	1
	Romania (ROU)	0	1	0	1
	Unified Team (EUN)	0	1	0	1
21	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	0	2	2
22	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	0	1	1
	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	Germany (GER)	0	0	1	1
	United States (USA)	0	0	1	1

Women

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1952 Helsinki details	Ágnes Keleti  Hungary	Maria Gorokhovskaya  Soviet Union	Margit Korondi  Hungary
1956 Melbourne details	Ágnes Keleti  Hungary Larisa Latynina  Soviet Union	none awarded	Elena Leuşteanu  Romania
1960 Rome details	Larisa Latynina  Soviet Union	Polina Astakhova  Soviet Union	Tamara Lyukhina  Soviet Union
1964 Tokyo details	Larisa Latynina  Soviet Union	Polina Astakhova  Soviet Union	Anikó Ducza  Hungary
1968 Mexico City details	Věra Čáslavská  Czechoslovakia Larisa Petrik  Soviet Union	none awarded	Natalia Kuchinskaya  Soviet Union
1972 Munich details	Olga Korbut  Soviet Union	Ludmilla Tourischeva  Soviet Union	Tamara Lazakovich  Soviet Union
1976 Montreal details	Nellie Kim  Soviet Union	Ludmilla Tourischeva  Soviet Union	Nadia Comăneci  Romania
1980 Moscow details	Nadia Comăneci  Romania	none awarded	Maxi Gnauck  East Germany
	Nellie Kim  Soviet Union		Natalia Shaposhnikova  Soviet Union
1984 Los Angeles details	Ecaterina Szabo  Romania	Julianne McNamara  United States	Mary Lou Retton  United States
1988 Seoul details	Daniela Silivaș  Romania	Svetlana Boginskaya  Soviet Union	Diana Dudeva  Bulgaria
1992 Barcelona details	Lavinia Miloșovici  Romania	Henrietta Ónodi  Hungary	Cristina Bontaș  Romania Tatiana Gutsu  Unified Team Shannon Miller  United States
1996 Atlanta details	Lilia Podkopayeva  Ukraine	Simona Amânar  Romania	Dominique Dawes  United States
2000 Sydney details	Elena Zamolodchikova  Russia	Svetlana Khorkina  Russia	Simona Amânar  Romania
2004 Athens details	Cătălina Ponor  Romania	Nicoleta Daniela Șofronie  Romania	Patricia Moreno  Spain
2008 Beijing details	Sandra Izbașa  Romania	Shawn Johnson  United States	Nastia Liukin  United States
2012 London details	Aly Raisman  United States	Cătălina Ponor  Romania	Aliya Mustafina  Russia
2016 Rio de Janeiro details	Simone Biles  United States	Aly Raisman  United States	Amy Tinkler  Great Britain
2020 Tokyo details[3]	Jade Carey  United States	Vanessa Ferrari  Italy	Angelina Melnikova  ROC Mai Murakami  Japan
2024 Paris details	Rebeca Andrade  Brazil	Simone Biles  United States	Ana Bărbosu  Romania

Multiple medalists

Rank	Gymnast	Nation	Olympics	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Larisa Latynina	Soviet Union (URS)	1956–1964	3	0	0	3
2	Ágnes Keleti	Hungary (HUN)	1952–1956	2	0	0	2
	Nellie Kim	Soviet Union (URS)	1976–1980	2	0	0	2
4	Simone Biles	United States (USA)	2016, 2024	1	1	0	2
	Cătălina Ponor	Romania (ROU)	2004, 2012	1	1	0	2
	Aly Raisman	United States (USA)	2012–2016	1	1	0	2
7	Nadia Comăneci	Romania (ROU)	1976–1980	1	0	1	2
8	Polina Astakhova	Soviet Union (URS)	1960–1964	0	2	0	2
	Ludmilla Tourischeva	Soviet Union (URS)	1972–1976	0	2	0	2
10	Simona Amânar	Romania (ROU)	1996–2000	0	1	1	2

Medalists by country

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	7	6	4	17
2	Romania (ROU)	6	3	5	14
3	United States (USA)	3	4	4	11
4	Hungary (HUN)	2	1	2	5
5	Russia (RUS)	1	1	1	3
6	Brazil (BRA)	1	0	0	1
	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	0	0	1
	Ukraine (UKR)	1	0	0	1
9	Italy (ITA)	0	1	0	1
10	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	0	1	1
	East Germany (GDR)	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	0	1	1
	ROC	0	0	1	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	0	1	1
	Unified Team (EUN)	0	0	1	1

Gallery

Nobuyuki Aihara, 1960

Takashi Ono, 1964

Diego Hypólito, 2016

Jeffrey Wammes, 2016

Illia Kovtun, 2020

Men's Floor at the Olympics

Anikó Ducza, 1964

Nellie Kim, 1980

Shawn Johnson, 2008

Ksenia Afanasyeva, 2012

Sandra Izbașa, 2012

Aly Raisman, 2016

Women's Floor at the Olympics

References

1. "1932 Olympics Gymnastics Medalists".
2. "Israel's golden pair: Linoy Ashram and Artem Dolgopyat". The Jerusalem Post. 13 September 2021.
3. "Carey golden on floor exercise at 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games". USA Gymnastics. 2 August 2021. Archived from the original on 23 February 2022. Retrieved 27 September 2021.