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The 2016 Olympics were the most successful games to date for the United States in women's gymnastics, with four golds, four silvers, and one bronze medal overall. For the 2020 Olympics (held in 2021 due to COVID-19), the U.S. women's team earned the team silver medal.
The performances included Olympic disciplines such as floor exercise, pommel horse, rings, parallel bars, horizontal bar, uneven bars, balance beam, rhythmic gymnastics and trampoline gymnastics; non-Olympic discipline such as tumbling and acrobatic; and art performances such as dancing, martial art, instrument performance and chorus.
The United States of America (USA), represented by the United States Olympic Committee (USOC), competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.U.S. athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games in the modern era, except the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, which was boycotted by the American team and 65 other countries in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
United States: Women's 200 m details: Veronica Campbell-Brown Jamaica: Allyson Felix United States: Kerron Stewart Jamaica: Men's 400 m details: LaShawn Merritt United States: Jeremy Wariner United States: David Neville United States: Women's 400 m details: Christine Ohuruogu Great Britain: Shericka Williams Jamaica: Sanya Richards United ...
The group is also the most diverse the U.S. has ever fielded in women's gymnastics, a sport that until recently hadn't featured many women of color. ... 2008 individual all-around Olympic champion ...
This is a list of the gymnasts who represented their country at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing from 8–24 August 2008. Gymnasts across three disciplines ( artistic gymnastics , rhythmic gymnastics , and trampoline ) participated in the Games.
The USA Gymnastics women have won the Olympic Gold four times, in 1996, 2012, 2016, and 2024 Summer Olympics. These successes led to the nicknames Magnificent Seven, Fierce Five, Final Five, and Golden Girls, respectively. They won four silvers in 1984, 2004, 2008, and 2020 [1] and three bronzes in 1948, 1992 and 2000. [2]
Team USA finished with a score of 171.296, nearly six points more than second place. In winning gold, Biles also became the most-decorated American gymnast in history with eight medals.