The Sports Almanac

Summer Olympics
Gymnastics - Artistic Balance Beam

MEDAL TOTAL LEADERS

SOVIET UNION - 15 Medals
UNITED STATES - 11 Medals
ROMANIA - 10 Medals

Medal Table
Artistic Balance Beam
 Artistic Team All-Around Artistic Individual All-Around
Artistic Floor Exercise Artistic Vault Artistic Horizontal Bar
Artistic Parallel Bars Artistic Pommel Horse Artistic Rings
Artistic Uneven Bars
 Rhythmic Individual All-Around
 Rhythmic Group
Trampolining
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Medal Winners  Medal Total
Through 2024 Paris Games
YEAR
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
1952
 Nina Bocharova - Soviet Union
 Maria Gorokhovskaya - Soviet Union
 Margit Korondi - Hungary
1956
 Ágnes Keleti - Hungary
 Eva Bosáková - Czechoslovakia
Tamara Manina - Soviet Union
 NONE
1960
 Eva Bosáková - Czechoslovakia Larisa Latynina - Soviet Union
 Sofia Muratova - Soviet Union
1964
 Vĕra Čáslavská - Czechoslovakia
 Tamara Manina - Soviet Union Larisa Latynina - Soviet Union
1968
 Natalia Kuchinskaya - Soviet Union
 Vĕra Čáslavská - Czechoslovakia Larisa Petrik - Soviet Union
1972
 Olga Korbut - Soviet Union
 Tamara Lazakovich - Soviet Union
 Karin Janz - East Germany
1976
 Nadia Comăneci - Romania
 Olga Korbut - Soviet Union
 Teodora Ungureanu - Romania
1980
 Nadia Comăneci - Romania Yelena Davydova - Soviet Union
 Natalia Shaposhnikova - Soviet Union
1984
 Ecaterina Szabo - Romania
Simona Păucă - Romania
 NONE
 Kathy Johnson - United States
1988
 Daniela Silivaș - Romania
 Yelena Shushunova - Soviet Union
 Phoebe Mills - United States
Gabriela Potorac - Romania
1992
 Tatiana Lysenko - Unified Team
 Shannon Miller - United States
Lu Li - China
 NONE
1996
 Shannon Miller - United States
 Lilia Podkopayeva - Ukraine
 Gina Gogean - Romania
2000
 Liu Xuan - China
 Yekaterina Lobaznyuk - Russia
 Yelena Produnova - Russia
2004
 Cătălina Ponor - Romania
 Carly Patterson - United States
 Alexandria Eremia - Romania
2008
 Shawn Johnson - United States
 Nastia Liukin - United States
 Cheng Fei - China
2012
 Deng Linlin - China
 Sui Lu - China
 Aly Raisman - United States
2016
 Sanne Wevers - Netherlands
 Laurie Hernandez - United States
 Simone Biles - United States
2020
 Guan Chenchen - China Tang Xijing - China Simone Biles - United States
2024
 Alice D'Amato - Italy
 Zhou Yaqin - China
 Manila Esposito - Italy

Medal Total  Medal Winners
RANK
 COUNTRY
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
 TOTAL
1
 Soviet Union
 3
 8
 4
 15
2
 United States 2
 4
 5
 11
3
 Romania
 6
 0
 4
 10
4
 China
 3
 4
 1
 8
5
 Czechoslovakia
 2
 2
 0
 4
6
 Hungary
 1
 0
 1
 2
7
 Italy
 1
 0
 1
 2
8
 Russia
 0
 1
 1
 2
9
 Netherlands
 1
 0
 0
 1
10
 Unified Team
 1
 0
 0
 1
11
 Ukraine
 0
 1
 0
 1
12
 East Germany
 0
 0
 1
 1