Yevgeniya Kanayeva Russia (RUS)
Friedrich Jahn invented gymnastics and the first person to get a gold medal was Nadia Comaneci
Daria DmitrievaRussia (RUS)Daria DmitrievaRussia (RUS)
Rhythmic gymnastics grew out of the ideas of I.G. Noverre (1722-1810), Francois Delsart (1811-1871), and R. Bode (1881), who all believed in movement expression, where one used dance to express oneself and exercise various body parts.
No, not only has Chile not won a gymnastics medal ... they have never sent an athlete to the Olympics to compete in gymnastics.
Beth Tweddle was 12 when she started gymnastics
There were actually a few events introduced as full medal sports in the 1984 Summer Olympics. These included: * the marathon for women (Joan Benoit of the USA takes its first gold) * synchronized swimming (Duet won by the USA) * rhythmic gymnastics (Lori Fung of Canada wins first gold) * wind surfing (various)
Russia Ksenia Dudkina Alina Makarenko Uliana Donskova Anastasia Bliznyuk Karolina Svastyanova Anastasia Nazarenko
Belarus Maryna Hancharova Anastasiya Ivankova Nataliya Leshchyk Aliaksandra Narkevich Kseniya Sankovich Alina Tumilovich
Beth Tweddle was 12 when she started gymnastics
Through the 2008 Games in Beijing: Badminton, Handball, Field Hockey, Judo, Rhythmic Gymnastics, Table Tennis, Trampoline, Triathlon, Modern Pentathlon.
It was Nastia Luikin who won the all-around gold medal for woman's artistic gymnastics!