The Sports Almanac

Summer Olympics
Gymnastics - Artistic Rings

MEDAL TOTAL LEADERS

SOVIET UNION - 15 Medals
CHINA - 9 Medals
JAPAN - 9 Medals

Medal Table
Artistic Rings
 Artistic Team All-Around Artistic Individual All-Around
Artistic Floor Exercise Artistic Vault Artistic Horizontal Bar
Artistic Parallel Bars Artistic Pommel Horse Artistic Balance Beam
Artistic Uneven Bars
 Rhythmic Individual All-Around
 Rhythmic Group
Trampolining
 Discontinued

Medal Winners  Medal Total
Through 2024 Paris Games
YEAR
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
1896
 Ioannis Mitropoulos - Greece
 Hermann Weingärtner - Germany
 Petros Persakis - Greece
1904
 Herman Glass - United States
 William Merz - United States
 Emil Voigt - United States
1924
 Francesco Martino - Italy
 Robert Pražák - Czechoslovakia
 Ladislav Vácha - Czechoslovakia
1928
 Leon Štukelj - Yugoslavia
 Ladislav Vácha - Czechoslovakia Emanuel Löffler - Czechoslovakia
1932
 George Gulack - United States
 Bill Denton - United States
 Giovanni Lattuada - Italy
1936
 Alois Hudec - Czechoslovakia
 Leon Štukelj - Yugoslavia Matthias Volz - Germany
1948
 Karl Frei - Switzerland
 Michael Reusch - Switzerland
 Zdenek Ruzicka - Czechoslovakia
1952
 Hrant Shahinyan - Soviet Union
 Viktor Chukarin - Soviet Union
 Hans Eugster - Switzerland
Dmitri Leonkin - Soviet Union
1956
 Albert Azaryan - Soviet Union
 Valentin Muratov - Soviet Union
 Masao Takemoto - Japan
Masami Kubota - Japan
1960
 Albert Azaryan - Soviet Union Boris Shakhlin - Soviet Union
 Velik Kapsazov - Bulgaria
Takashi Ono - Japan
1964
 Takuji Hayata - Japan
 Franco Menichelli - Italy
 Boris Shakhlin - Soviet Union
1968
 Akinori Nakayama - Japan
 Mikhail Voronin - Soviet Union
 Sawao Kato - Japan
1972
 Akinori Nakayama - Japan Mikhail Voronin - Soviet Union Mitsuo Tsukahara - Japan
1976
 Nikolai Adrianov - Soviet Union
 Alexander Dityatin - Soviet Union
 Danuţ Grecu - Romania
1980
 Alexander Dityatin - Soviet Union Alexander Tkachyov - Soviet Union
 Jiri Tabak - Czechoslovakia
1984
 Kōji Gushiken - Japan
Li Ning - China
 NONE
 Mitch Gaylord - United States
1988
 Holger Behrendt - East Germany
Dmitry Bilozerchev - Soviet Union
 NONE
 Sven Tippelt - East Germany
1992
 Vitaly Scherbo - Unified Team
 Li Jing - China
 Andreas Wecker - Germany
1996
 Jury Chechi - Italy
 Dan Burincă - Romania
Szilveszter Csollány - Hungary
 NONE
2000
 Szilveszter Csollány - Hungary Dimosthenis Tampakos - Greece
 Yordan Yovchev - Bulgaria
2004
 Dimosthenis Tampakos - Greece Yordan Yovchev - Bulgaria Jury Chechi - Italy
2008
 Chen Yibing - China
 Yang Wei - China
 Oleksandr Vorobiov - Ukraine
2012
 Arthur Zanetti - Brazil
 Chen Yibing - China Matteo Morandi - Italy
2016
 Eleftherios Petrounias - Greece
 Arthur Zanetti - Brazil Denis Ablyazin - Russia
2020
 Liu Yang - China You Hao - China Eleftherios Petrounias - Greece
2024
 Liu Yang - China Zou Jingyuan - China
 Eleftherios Petrounias - Greece

Medal Total  Medal Winners
RANK
 COUNTRY
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
 TOTAL
1
 Soviet Union
 6
 7
 2
 15
2
 China 4
 5
 0
 9
3
 Japan
 4
 0
 5
 9
4
 Greece 3
 1
 3
 7
5
 Czechoslovakia
 1
 2
 4
 7
6
 United States
 2
 2
 2
 6
7
 Italy
 2
 1
 3
 6
8
 Switzerland
 1
 1
 1
 3
9
 Germany
 0
 1
 2
 3
10
 Bulgaria
 0
 1
 2
 3
11
 Hungary
 1
 1
 0
 2
12
 Brazil
 1
 1
 0
 2
13
 Yugoslavia
 1
 1
 0
 2
14
 East Germany
 1
 0
 1
 2
15
 Romania
 0
 1
 1
 2
16
 Unified Team
 1
 0
 0
 1
17
 Ukraine
 0
 0
 1
 1
18
 Russia
 0
 0
 1
 1