Women’s artistic gymnastics (often shortened to just “women’s gymnastics”) attracts the most participants and is generally the most well-known type of gymnastics. It’s also one of the first tickets to sell out at the Olympic Games.
The events: In women’s artistic gymnastics, athletes compete on four apparatus (vault, uneven bars, balance beam and floor exercise).
Competition: The Olympic competition consists of:
- Team: Five athletes are on a team. (In the future, that will change to just four.) In preliminaries, four athletes compete on each event and three scores count. In finals, three athletes compete on each event and every score counts towards the team total.
- Individual all-around: An athlete competes in all four events and the total score is added up.
- Individual events: An event champion is named on each apparatus.
