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{{Short description|Olympic event}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2016}}
{{Infobox Olympic event
| event       = Gymnastics
| games       = 2004 Summer
| image       = [[File:Gymnastics (Artistic), Athens 2004.png|90px]] [[File:Gymnastics (Rhythmic), Athens 2004.png|90px]] [[File:Gymnastics (Trampoline), Athens 2004.png|90px]]
| caption     = Pictograms for artistic (left), rhythmic (center), and trampoline (right) 
| venue       = [[Olympic Indoor Hall]] (artistic and trampoline)<br />[[Galatsi Olympic Hall]] (rhythmic)
| dates       = 14 – 29 August 2004
| competitors = 252 
| nations     = 45
| prev        = [[Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics|2000]]
| next        = [[Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics|2008]]
}}
{{GymnasticsAt2004SummerOlympics}}

At the [[2004 Summer Olympics]] in [[Athens]], Greece, three disciplines of [[gymnastics]] were contested: [[artistic gymnastics]] (August 14–23), [[rhythmic gymnastics]] (August 26–29) and [[trampolining|trampoline]] (August 20–21). The artistic gymnastics and trampoline events were held at the [[Olympic Indoor Hall]] and the rhythmic gymnastics events were held at the [[Galatsi Olympic Hall]].<ref name="SR">{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/2004/GYM/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417040915/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/2004/GYM/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Gymnastics at the 2004 Athens Summer Games |work=Sports Reference |access-date=22 August 2019}}</ref>

==Artistic gymnastics==

===Format of competition===
The competition format was largely the same as at the [[Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics|2000 Summer Olympics]].  All [[List of gymnasts at the 2004 Summer Olympics|participating gymnasts]], including those who were not part of a team, participated in a qualification round.  The results of this competition determined which teams and individuals participated in the remaining competitions, which included:

*The team competition, in which the eight highest scoring teams from qualifications competed.  For the first time, each team of six gymnasts could only have three gymnasts perform on each apparatus, and all three scores counted toward the team total.
*The all-around competition, in which only the twenty-four highest scoring individuals in the all-around competed.  For the first time, each country was limited to only two gymnasts in the all-around final.
*The event finals, in which the eight highest scoring individuals on each apparatus competed.  Each country was limited to two gymnasts in each apparatus final.

===Medalists - Men's Events===
{| {{MedalistTable| width=225|labelwidth=200}}
|-valign="top"
| Team all-around<br/>{{DetailsLink|Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's artistic team all-around}}
| {{FlagIOCteam|JPN|2004 Summer}}<br/>[[Takehiro Kashima]]<br/>[[Hisashi Mizutori]]<br/>[[Daisuke Nakano]]<br/>[[Hiroyuki Tomita]]<br/>[[Naoya Tsukahara]]<br/>[[Isao Yoneda]]
| {{FlagIOCteam|USA|2004 Summer}}<br/>[[Jason Gatson]]<br/>[[Morgan Hamm]]<br/>[[Paul Hamm]]<br/>[[Brett McClure]]<br/>[[Blaine Wilson]]<br/>[[Guard Young]]
| {{FlagIOCteam|ROU|2004 Summer}}<br/>[[Marian Drăgulescu]]<br/>[[Ilie Daniel Popescu]]<br/>[[Dan Nicolae Potra]]<br/>[[Răzvan Dorin Şelariu]]<br/>[[Ioan Silviu Suciu]]<br/>[[Marius Urzică]]
|-valign="top"
| Individual all-around<br/>{{DetailsLink|Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's artistic individual all-around}}
| {{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Paul Hamm]]|USA|2004 Summer}}
| {{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Kim Dae-eun]]|KOR|2004 Summer}}
| {{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Yang Tae-young]]|KOR|2004 Summer}}
|-bgcolor=#DDDDDD
|colspan=7|
|-
| Floor Exercise <br/>{{DetailsLink|Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's floor}}
| {{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Kyle Shewfelt]]|CAN|2004 Summer}}
| {{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Marian Drăgulescu]]|ROU|2004 Summer}}
| {{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Yordan Yovchev]]|BUL|2004 Summer}}
|-
| Pommel horse<br/>{{DetailsLink|Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's pommel horse}}
| {{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Teng Haibin]]|CHN|2004 Summer}}
| {{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Marius Urzică]]|ROU|2004 Summer}}
| {{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Takehiro Kashima]]|JPN|2004 Summer}}
|-
| Rings<br/>{{DetailsLink|Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's rings}}
| {{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Dimosthenis Tampakos]]|GRE|2004 Summer}}
| {{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Yordan Yovchev]]|BUL|2004 Summer}}
| {{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Jury Chechi]]|ITA|2004 Summer}}
|-
| Vault<br/>{{DetailsLink|Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's vault}}
| {{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Gervasio Deferr]]|ESP|2004 Summer}}
| {{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Jevgēņijs Saproņenko]]|LAT|2004 Summer}}
| {{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Marian Drăgulescu]]|ROU|2004 Summer}}
|-
| Parallel bars<br/>{{DetailsLink|Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's parallel bars}}
| {{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Valeri Goncharov]]|UKR|2004 Summer}}
| {{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Hiroyuki Tomita]]|JPN|2004 Summer}}
| {{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Li Xiaopeng (gymnast)|Li Xiaopeng]]|CHN|2004 Summer}}
|-
| Horizontal bar<br/>{{DetailsLink|Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's horizontal bar}}
| {{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Igor Cassina]]|ITA|2004 Summer}}
| {{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Paul Hamm]]|USA|2004 Summer}}
| {{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Isao Yoneda]]|JPN|2004 Summer}}
|}

===Medalists - Women's Events===
{| {{MedalistTable| width=225|labelwidth=200}}
|-valign="top"
| Team all-around<br/>{{DetailsLink|Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's artistic team all-around}}
| {{FlagIOCteam|ROU|2004 Summer}}<br/>[[Oana Ban]]<br/>[[Alexandra Eremia]]<br/>[[Cătălina Ponor]]<br/>[[Monica Roșu]]<br/>[[Nicoleta Daniela Șofronie]]<br/>[[Silvia Stroescu]]
| {{FlagIOCteam|USA|2004 Summer}}<br/>[[Mohini Bhardwaj]]<br/>[[Annia Hatch]]<br/>[[Terin Humphrey]]<br/>[[Courtney Kupets]]<br/>[[Courtney McCool]]<br/>[[Carly Patterson]]
| {{FlagIOCteam|RUS|2004 Summer}}<br/>[[Ludmila Ezhova]]<br/>[[Svetlana Khorkina]]<br/>[[Maria Krioutchkova]]<br/>[[Anna Pavlova (gymnast)|Anna Pavlova]]<br/>[[Elena Zamolodchikova]]<br/>[[Natalia Ziganshina]]
|-valign="top"
| Individual all-around<br/>{{DetailsLink|Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's artistic individual all-around}}
| {{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Carly Patterson]]|USA|2004 Summer}}
| {{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Svetlana Khorkina]]|RUS|2004 Summer}}
| {{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Zhang Nan (gymnast)|Zhang Nan]]|CHN|2004 Summer}}
|-bgcolor=#DDDDDD
|colspan=7|
|-
| Vault<br/>{{DetailsLink|Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's vault}}
| {{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Monica Roșu]]|ROU|2004 Summer}}
| {{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Annia Hatch]]|USA|2004 Summer}}
| {{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Anna Pavlova (gymnast)|Anna Pavlova]]|RUS|2004 Summer}}
|-
| Uneven bars<br/>{{DetailsLink|Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's uneven bars}}
| {{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Émilie Le Pennec]]|FRA|2004 Summer}}
| {{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Terin Humphrey]]|USA|2004 Summer}}
| {{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Courtney Kupets]]|USA|2004 Summer}}
|-
| Balance beam<br/>{{DetailsLink|Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's balance beam}}
| {{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Cătălina Ponor]]|ROU|2004 Summer}}
| {{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Carly Patterson]]|USA|2004 Summer}}
| {{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Alexandra Eremia]]|ROU|2004 Summer}}
|-
| Floor exercises<br/>{{DetailsLink|Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's floor}}
| {{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Cătălina Ponor]]|ROU|2004 Summer}}
| {{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Nicoleta Daniela Șofronie]]|ROU|2004 Summer}}
| {{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Patricia Moreno]]|ESP|2004 Summer}}
|}

==Rhythmic gymnastics==
{| {{MedalistTable| width=225|labelwidth=200}}
|-valign="top"
| Individual all-around<br />{{DetailsLink|Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's rhythmic individual all-around}}
| {{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Alina Kabaeva]]|RUS|2004 Summer}}
| {{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Irina Tchachina]]|RUS|2004 Summer}}
| {{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Anna Bessonova]]|UKR|2004 Summer}}
|-valign="top"
| Group all-around<br />{{DetailsLink|Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's rhythmic group all-around}}
| {{FlagIOCteam|RUS|2004 Summer}}<br />[[Olesya Belugina]]<br />[[Olga Glatskikh]]<br />[[Tatiana Kurbakova]]<br />[[Natalia Lavrova]]<br />[[Yelena Posevina]]<br />[[Elena Murzina]]
| {{FlagIOCteam|ITA|2004 Summer}}<br />[[Elisa Blanchi]]<br />[[Fabrizia D'Ottavio]]<br />[[Marinella Falca]]<br />[[Daniela Masseroni]]<br />[[Elisa Santoni]]<br />[[Laura Vernizzi]]
| {{FlagIOCteam|BUL|2004 Summer}}<br />[[Zhaneta Ilieva]]<br />[[Eleonora Kezhova]]<br />[[Zornitsa Marinova]]<br />[[Kristina Rangelova]]<br />[[Galina Tancheva]]<br />[[Vladislava Tancheva]]
|}

==Trampoline==
{| {{MedalistTable| width=225|labelwidth=200}}
|-
| Men's individual<br/>{{DetailsLink|Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's trampoline}}
| {{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Yuri Nikitin (trampolinist)|Yuri Nikitin]]|UKR|2004 Summer}}
| {{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Alexander Moskalenko]]|RUS|2004 Summer}}
| {{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Henrik Stehlik]]|GER|2004 Summer}}
|-
| Women's individual<br/>{{DetailsLink|Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's trampoline}}
| {{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Anna Dogonadze]]|GER|2004 Summer}}
| {{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Karen Cockburn]]|CAN|2004 Summer}}
| {{FlagIOCmedalist|[[Huang Shanshan]]|CHN|2004 Summer}}
|}

==Medal table==
{{Medals table
 | caption        = 
 | host           = 
 | flag_template  = FlagIOCteam
 | event          = 2004 Summer
 | team           = 
 | gold_ROU = 4 | silver_ROU = 3 | bronze_ROU = 3
 | gold_USA = 2 | silver_USA = 6 | bronze_USA = 1
 | gold_RUS = 2 | silver_RUS = 3 | bronze_RUS = 2
 | gold_UKR = 2 | silver_UKR = 0 | bronze_UKR = 1
 | gold_ITA = 1 | silver_ITA = 1 | bronze_ITA = 1
 | gold_JPN = 1 | silver_JPN = 1 | bronze_JPN = 2
 | gold_CAN = 1 | silver_CAN = 1 | bronze_CAN = 0
 | gold_CHN = 1 | silver_CHN = 0 | bronze_CHN = 3
 | gold_GER = 1 | silver_GER = 0 | bronze_GER = 1
 | gold_ESP = 1 | silver_ESP = 0 | bronze_ESP = 1
 | gold_FRA = 1 | silver_FRA = 0 | bronze_FRA = 0
 | gold_GRE = 1 | silver_GRE = 0 | bronze_GRE = 0
 | gold_BUL = 0 | silver_BUL = 1 | bronze_BUL = 2
 | gold_KOR = 0 | silver_KOR = 1 | bronze_KOR = 1
 | gold_LAT = 0 | silver_LAT = 1 | bronze_LAT = 0
}}

==Participating nations==
<!-- These figures don't include the rhythmics team members (6 per team, though 1 may have competed individually on the other rhythmic event, thus being already counted) --->
A total of 252 gymnasts from 45 nations competed at the Athens Games.

{{div col|colwidth=22em}}
*{{FlagIOC|ARG|2004 Summer|1}}
*{{FlagIOC|AUS|2004 Summer|9}}
*{{FlagIOC|AZE|2004 Summer|1}}
*{{FlagIOC|BLR|2004 Summer|8}}
*{{FlagIOC|BEL|2004 Summer|1}}
*{{FlagIOC|BOL|2004 Summer|1}}
*{{FlagIOC|BRA|2004 Summer|7}}
*{{FlagIOC|BUL|2004 Summer|5}}
*{{FlagIOC|CAN|2004 Summer|15}}
*{{FlagIOC|CPV|2004 Summer|1}}
*{{FlagIOC|CHN|2004 Summer|15}}
*{{FlagIOC|COL|2004 Summer|1}}
*{{FlagIOC|CUB|2004 Summer|3}}
*{{FlagIOC|CZE|2004 Summer|2}}
*{{FlagIOC|DEN|2004 Summer|1}}
*{{FlagIOC|FRA|2004 Summer|13}}
*{{FlagIOC|GEO|2004 Summer|2}}
*{{FlagIOC|GER|2004 Summer|11}}
*{{FlagIOC|GBR|2004 Summer|9}}
*{{FlagIOC|GRE|2004 Summer|7}}
*{{FlagIOC|HUN|2004 Summer|2}}
*{{FlagIOC|ISL|2004 Summer|1}}
*{{FlagIOC|ISR|2004 Summer|2}}
*{{FlagIOC|ITA|2004 Summer|10}}
*{{FlagIOC|JPN|2004 Summer|10}}
*{{FlagIOC|KAZ|2004 Summer|2}}
*{{FlagIOC|LAT|2004 Summer|2}}
*{{FlagIOC|MAS|2004 Summer|1}}
*{{FlagIOC|MEX|2004 Summer|2}}
*{{FlagIOC|NED|2004 Summer|4}}
*{{FlagIOC|PRK|2004 Summer|8}}
*{{FlagIOC|POR|2004 Summer|2}}
*{{FlagIOC|PUR|2004 Summer|1}}
*{{FlagIOC|ROU|2004 Summer|12}}
*{{FlagIOC|RUS|2004 Summer|18}}
*{{FlagIOC|SVK|2004 Summer|2}}
*{{FlagIOC|RSA|2004 Summer|2}}
*{{FlagIOC|KOR|2004 Summer|7}}
*{{FlagIOC|ESP|2004 Summer|13}}
*{{FlagIOC|SWE|2004 Summer|1}}
*{{FlagIOC|SUI|2004 Summer|4}}
*{{FlagIOC|TUN|2004 Summer|1}}
*{{FlagIOC|UKR|2004 Summer|16}}
*{{FlagIOC|USA|2004 Summer|14}}
*{{FlagIOC|UZB|2004 Summer|2}}
{{div col end}}

==Controversies==
{{see also|Yang Tae-young|Alexei Nemov}}
The gymnastics competition had scoring controversies, most prominently with the South Korean competitor [[Yang Tae-young]].

The Korean team contested Tae-Young's parallel bars score after judges misidentified one of the elements of his routine. The effect of this misidentification was that the start value was recorded as 9.9 rather than 10. The [[Court of Arbitration for Sport]] (CAS) dismissed the Korean Olympic Committee's appeal on the grounds that the appeal, coming after the end of competition, was made too late, and insufficient evidence of corruption or bad faith on the part of the judges was presented to overturn a strong preference for a "field of play" judgment rather than one made after the fact.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.hamm-twins.com/sch/award_704.PDF |title=CAS Arbitral Award: Yang Tae-Young v. FIG |access-date=26 May 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930012019/http://www.hamm-twins.com/sch/award_704.PDF |archive-date=30 September 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.american-gymnast.com/agtc/index.php/2010/01/22/was-there-another-mistake-made-in-the-2004-mens-olympic-all-around/|title = Was there ANOTHER MISTAKE MADE in the 2004 men's Olympic all-around???|date = 22 January 2010}}</ref>

Further problems occurred in the [[Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's horizontal bar|men's horizontal bar competition]]. After performing a routine with six release skills in the high bar event final (including four in a row – three variations of [[Alexander Vasilyevich Tkachyov|Tkatchev]] releases and a [[Gienger]]), the judges posted a score of 9.725, placing Nemov in third position with several athletes still to compete. This was actually a fair judging decision because he took a big step on landing which was a two tenths deduction. The crowd became unruly on seeing the results and interrupted the competition for almost fifteen minutes. Influenced by the crowd's fierce reaction, the judges reevaluated the routine and increased Nemov's score to 9.762, but this did not improve his placement and he finished without a medal. 

The controversies led to the reconstruction of the scoring system which was implemented in 2006. The rule changes are credited as having encouraged more acrobatic activity and increasing difficulties on the high bar apparatus seen in later competitions.<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2012/aug/07/london-2012-gymnastic-gold-epke-zonderland |title= London 2012: Gymnastic gold for true flying Dutchman Epke Zonderland |author= Emma John |publisher=Guardian |date=7 August 2012 |access-date=9 August 2012 }}</ref>

==See also==

*[[Gymnastics at the 2002 Asian Games]]
*[[Gymnastics at the 2002 Commonwealth Games]]
*[[Gymnastics at the 2003 African Games]]
*[[Gymnastics at the 2003 Pan American Games]]
*[[2003 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://digital.la84.org/digital/api/collection/p17103coll8/id/57718/download Official result book – Gymnastics Artistic]
* [https://digital.la84.org/digital/api/collection/p17103coll8/id/57546/download Official result book – Gymnastics Rhythmic]
* [https://digital.la84.org/digital/api/collection/p17103coll8/id/57546/download Official result book – Gymnastics Trampoline]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120731114223/http://www.gymnasticsresults.com/olympics.html gymnasticsresults.com]
* [http://www.gymn-forum.net/Results/oly-results.html gymn-forum.net]
* {{SR/Olympics sport at games|sport=Artistic Gymnastics|archive=20151214174830}}
* {{SR/Olympics sport at games|sport=Rhythmic Gymnastics|archive=20160304123640}}
* {{SR/Olympics sport at games|sport=Trampoline|archive=20151122141551}}

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