Artistic Gymnasts Trivia

1. Yelena Produnova is readying herself for the vault, and her vault involves a powerful run, a jump on to the springboard, a forward handspring on to the horse, and two tucked saltos off to land. What skill is this?

From Quiz Skills, Skills, Skills

Answer: Handspring double front

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Produnova, of Russia, was one of the first women to do this incredibly difficult skill well. For her efforts, this vault was named after her.

From Quiz Nadia Comaneci

Answer: Bela Karolyi

Bela Karolyi found Nadia in her first year at school. When he first saw her, she and her friend were pretending to be gymnasts. This was in 1968, less then 10 years before she made history.

From Quiz Women's Artistic Gymnastics

Answer: Spain

Elena was 5th at the 2003 World Championships in the All-Around. She also had the highest score in preliminaries there. In 2002, she was the World Champion on Floor Exercise.

From Quiz Women's Optional Artistic Gymnastics

Answer: three

A "balk" (an approach that does not touch the springboard or table) is considered an attempt. When a gymnast runs and touches the springboard or table, even though she doesn't go over the table, this action is considered a vault and scored a zero.

From Quiz Uneven Bars

Answer: Renske Endel

Endel became the first Dutch gymnast to win an individual World Championships medal in the modern history of the sport.

From Quiz Balance Beam

Answer: aerial back tuck

That aerial back tuck has been shown over and over again in every Olympic history show that you can think of. Korbut's Olympic debut in Munich is considered to be a defining moment in the sport for two reasons: first, because of her use of acrobatics in gymnastics, which was then considered to be more of a balletic sport than an acrobatic one, and second, because she popularized the sport in the West. Millions of little girls who saw her on television immediately wanted gymnastics lessons, and suddenly more people knew what this formerly obscure sport was all about. However, she was not the first gymnast to perform this move in Olympic competition (that honor belongs to Nancy Thies of the USA, who performed some seven hours before the USSR).

From Quiz Nadia Comaneci

Answer: Romania

Olga Korbut, another gymnastics legend, was from the U.S.S.R. (specifically Grodno, in modern-day Belarus). Nadia was Romanian (although she's now an American), and she belonged to the first generation of the gymnastics legends that Romania is now famous for producing.

From Quiz Floor Music

Answer: In The Mood

She was only eleven at this meet, but it was aired on national television, and it was her first big exposure to the gymnastics fan base.

From Quiz Women's Artistic Gymnastics

Answer: Elvire Teza

France is a country not usually noted for its gymnasts. Elvire Teza is originally from the Reunion Islands. Skater Surya Bonaly (who started out as a gymnast) is also from La Reunion. Maybe there's something in the air?

From Quiz It's Your Vault

Answer: A vaulting horse

The vaulting horse was similar in form to the pommel horse (as is still used in the men's Olympic competition of the same name), but without the handles. The women used a horse that was perpendicular to them, while the men used a horse that was parallel to them. After several serious injuries, there was pressure put on the International Gymnastics Federation, who got rid of the horse in favour of the vaulting table, which is broader and more cushioned, with a slope at the side of approach.

From Quiz Skills, Skills, Skills

Answer: Tsukahara

Zamolodchikova, also of Russia, performed a variation of this vault and had it named after her. Her version was a half on, double layout full off. The first Tsukahara was performed by a member of the 1972 Japanese men's team, Mitsuo Tsukahara.

From Quiz Nadia Comaneci

Answer: 6

She retired when she was 21.

From Quiz Women's Artistic Gymnastics

Answer: China

Fan was the 2003 World Champion on Balance Beam.

From Quiz Stars on Bars

Answer: Holly Vise/Chelsie Memmel

Courtney Kupets won in 2002. Katie Heenan won a bronze in 2001.

From Quiz Women's Optional Artistic Gymnastics

Answer: Score the vault performed, disregarding the vault "flashed."

From Quiz Everything Vault

Answer: Elena Zamolotchickova

Elena is a very good vaulter. In 2001 Khorkina won vault.

From Quiz Floor Exercise

Answer: Elena Gomez

Although Gomez had the honor of becoming the first Spanish woman to win a medal on the world stage, many feel that that honor should have gone to Esther Moya. Moya gave a flawless performance in floor exercise finals at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games and yet was still inexplicably scored below the Romanian Simona Amanar, who stepped out of bounds.

From Quiz Uneven Bars

Answer: Natalia Yurchenko

She accomplished this feat with a Tkatchev-Deltchev combination at the 1983 World Championships in Budapest, Hungary.

From Quiz Balance Beam

Answer: she competed a one-handed routine

She had seemed to be in great shape to win Worlds after the compulsory part of the team competition. Unfortunately, she had scratched herself on a palm guard, and by the time the stoic Nadia told anyone about it, she had blood poisoning up the arm and had to have her arm bandaged. She was supposed to sit out the rest of the meet. The rest of Karolyi's team was made up of very young, untried gymnasts, but by the time they got to beam, they had set themselves up to win the team competition anyway. Then Emilia Eberle fell and it seemed that all was lost. Nadia got up and performed a perfect one-handed beam routine, securing her place in gymnastics history yet again and clinching the team gold medal. She scored a 9.950 on it. By the way, the Romanian team actually did walk out of a competition after a scoring controversy involving Nadia. That was at the event finals of the 1977 European Championships. The Romanian Gymnastics Federation forced them to walk out with two events left to go because they felt that Nadia had been cheated out of her vault gold.

From Quiz Nadia Comaneci

Answer: Onesti

During its Communist years, Onesti was officially renamed Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, but to its residents it was still Onesti. After the Romanian revolution, it took back its old name. Onesti was where the Karolyis (Bela and Marta) established the program that would turn Romania into a gymnastics superpower. Deva was where the Karolyis were forced to start over after persecution by the Romanian government in the late 1970s, but they turned their luck around and in the process Deva became a nationally-recognized institution that still stands today. Little girls all over Romania dream of being asked to train with the national team at the club that the Karolyis built, CSS (Clubul Sportiv Scolar) Cetate Deva. Incidentally, the experimental gymnastics school in Onesti where Nadia began her career is still going strong - it's also traditionally been the place where the junior national team trains, although in 1999, the junior team was transferred to Deva.

From Quiz Floor Music

Answer: The Barber of Seville and Marriage of Figaro

She had the last routine of the night, and she won the all-around gold medal with this routine. A few days later, she would pick up an individual gold medal on floor with it as well.

From Quiz Artistic Gymnastics

Answer: Nadia Comaneci

Nadia scored her first Olympic 10.0 at the 1976 Summer Olympic games. At those games, she scored 7 perfect 10's, received 3 gold medals, one silver, and one bronze.

From Quiz Nadia Comaneci

Answer: Bart Conner

She met Bart after she defected to the USA in 1989.

From Quiz Women's Artistic Gymnastics

Answer: United States

Holly tied for the 2003 World Championship title on Uneven Bars.

From Quiz Stars on Bars

Answer: chalk

In addition to chalk, gymnasts also use grips on the uneven bars.

From Quiz Women's Optional Artistic Gymnastics

Answer: None at all.

Actually, it is required the the athletes leotard touch the beam sometime during the performance of the routine, so the correct action by the judges is to score the routine normally.

From Quiz Floor Exercise

Answer: Nelli Kim

Comaneci actually had performed the skill before in several meets prior to the 1976 Olympic Games, but she had a sore ankle in Montreal and chose to leave the double salto out of her routine. In that same Games, Russian gymnast Nelli Kim, the second woman ever to score a perfect ten in Olympic competition, had the first double salto in an Olympic Games with her tuck double-back.

From Quiz Nadia Comaneci

Answer: no, she fluffed her beam routine

She was only nine then, and she made a mess of it - she fell off the balance beam three times. Bela Karolyi noted that she fell off, got back on, and promptly fell off the other side. Despite this, the Onesti team won Nationals. Nadia finished 13th.

From Quiz Floor Music

Answer: Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy

She also scored the most recent perfect ten in women's Olympic gymnastics with that music and routine - she got it in the individual event finals at that Games. It obviously picked her up the gold in that event - to go with her gold on vault from earlier in the night.

From Quiz Women's Artistic Gymnastics

Answer: Lavinia Milosovici

Milosovici's accomplishments speak for themselves. Olympics: 2 Gold, 1 Silver, 3 Bronze - World Championships: 5 Gold, 3 Silver, 4 Bronze - European Championships: 4 Gold, 1 Silver, 2 Bronze.

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