Female Olympic Rings Gymnastics

Among women and floor pommel horse rings vault parallel bars and high bar among men.

Female olympic rings gymnastics.

So why don t female gymnasts do rings. Access official results for the gymnastics artistic event team rings women at the london 1948 summer games olympics plus view video highlights of top performances. The differences are blatant and it seems like sexism is the answer behind this. That s good and bad for team usa.

A total of 83 female gymnasts have represented the united states. Gymnastics sports olympics still rings duration. The best female gymnasts aren t focusing on the rings so we have no idea of what the outer limits are for a woman who has been training on that apparatus from the start. Artistic worlds 2011 tokyo women s finals vault uneven bars we are gymnastics.

The international gymnastics federation recommended to the ioc that the medals of the chinese team be stripped and awarded to the fourth placed united states team as it was revealed that dong fangxiao was underage 14 with age limit 16 at the time. American female gymnasts have participated in every olympic games since 1936 except for 1980. The ioc upheld the fig decision in april 2010. American women have won 48 medals at the olympics 9 in team all around 8 in individual all around 4 in vault 8 in uneven bars 10 in balance beam and 9 in floor exercise.

I spoke with laddie bakanic 88 who had been a member of the 1948 u s. For the same reason there is no pommel horse parallel bars and high bars for women. Javascript must be enabled for the correct page display. And for the same reason there is no uneven bars an balance beam for men.

My expectation is that they would do just fine but likely not to the same level as men with a similar level of training. In addition to the vault and floor routines men have the horizontal bar. Some say it is the uneven distribution of athletics between the genders. But competitive gymnastics has so many differences between the women s and the men s events that you might as well be watching two different sports.