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4,459 gymnasts with full profile pages, 137 countries, 131 years of gymnastics.

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Eras that changed the sport

1896 – 1936
The Origins
Athens 1896 → Berlin 1936. Hermann Weingärtner, the first Olympic champion. George Eyser, six medals in St. Louis 1904 with a wooden leg. Forty years before the modern AA — before WAG and MAG were even separate codes.
1948 – 1956
Post-war Recovery
London 1948 picks the sport back up after twelve dark years. Ágnes Keleti, Holocaust survivor, takes four golds in Melbourne at 35. Helsinki 1952: USSR debuts; Viktor Chukarin returns from the gulag with seven medals.
1956 – 1968
Latynina + Čáslavská
Larisa Latynina's 18 Olympic medals (9 gold, 5 silver, 4 bronze) — a record that stood until Phelps. Tokyo '64 + Mexico City '68: Věra Čáslavská wins back-to-back all-arounds and bows her head during the Soviet anthem on the podium.
1976 – 1984
The Romanian Golden Age
Comăneci, Szabó, Dumitrița Turner. The country that answered the Soviet school with its own voice.
1972 – 1991
The Soviet Dynasty†
Korbut, Tourischeva, Shakhlin, Artemov, Nemov. USSR/Unified Team rollup documented on /medals/.
2004 – 2016
The Post-Karolyi USA Run
Liukin, Raisman, Douglas, Biles. Four Olympic cycles, six Worlds titles, one changed sport.
2013 – 2025
The Biles Era
30 World Championship medals. Four eponymous elements in the Code. A generational gap we may not see closed.
2009 – present
Rise of Asian MAG
Uchimura's six straight AA titles, then China's rebuild, then Japan's — and the tension between them.
2003 – present
Brazil Arrives
Daiane dos Santos' 2003 Worlds floor gold opens the door; Rebeca Andrade — three ACL surgeries, six Olympic medals — walks through it. Paris 2024: AA silver, vault silver, floor gold over Biles, and a team bronze with Saraiva, Barbosa, Oliveira, Soares. Brazil's first Olympic team gymnastics medal.

Names everyone knows

USA · WAG · 2013 – present

Simone Biles

30 worlds medals5 named elements
Romania · WAG · 1976 – 1980

Nadia Comăneci

7 perfect 10s9 olympic medals2 named elements
Japan · MAG · 2008 – 2021

Kōhei Uchimura

6 AA world titles2 olympic AA golds
Brazil · WAG · 2016 – present

Rebeca Andrade

6 olympic medals1 paris AA
USA · WAG · 2005 – 2008

Nastia Liukin

1 olympic AA5 worlds medals4 named elements
Unified Team → Belarus · MAG · 1992 – 1996

Vitaly Scherbo

6 barcelona goldsunified → blr1 named element

Worth discovering

Career arcs the headlines missed
Unified Team · WAG · 1992 – 2013

Oksana Chusovitina

8 olympicsfive federations
Netherlands · WAG · 2013 – present

Sanne Wevers

rio bb goldone-medal legend
Great Britain · MAG · 2012 – present

Max Whitlock

ph specialist3 olympic golds
Romania · WAG · 1985 – 1989

Daniela Silivas

6 medals · seoul 1988comăneci's heir2 named elements
Soviet Union · MAG · 1972 – 1980

Nikolay Andrianov

9 olympic goldsbefore korbut
Romania · WAG · 1992 – 1996

Lavinia Corina Milosovici

barcelona's perfect 101992 floor gold
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