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Olympic Gymnastics Medalists

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Kyle Shewfelt (Canada), receives the gold medal on floor at the 2004 Olympics

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The Olympic men’s floor medalists from 1932 (the first year individual competition on floor was held) through 2008.

  • 1932 (Los Angeles, USA)
    GOLD Istvan Pelle, Hungary
    SILVER Georges Miesz, Switzerland
    BRONZE Mario Lertora, Italy

  • 1936 (Berlin, Germany)
    GOLD Georges Miesz, Switzerland
    SILVER Josef Walter, Switzerland
    BRONZE (tie) Konrad Frey, Germany; Eugene Mack, Switzerland

  • 1948 (London, Great Britain)
    GOLD Ferenc Pataki, Hungary
    SILVER Janos Mogyorossy-Klencs, Hungary
    BRONZE Zdenek Ruzicka, Czechoslovakia

  • 1952 (Helsinki, Finland)
    GOLD Karl Thoresson , Sweden 19.25
    SILVER (tie) Jerzy Jokiel, Poland 19.15; Tadeo Uesako, Japan 19.15

  • 1956 (Melbourne, Australia)
    GOLD Valentin Muratov, USSR 19.20
    SILVER (tie) Nobuyuki Aihara, 19.10; William Thoresson, Sweden 19.10; Viktor Chukarin, USSR 19.10

  • 1960 (Rome, Italy
    GOLD Nobuyuki Aihara, Japan 19.450
    SILVER Yuri Titov, USSR 19.325
    BRONZE Franco Menichelli, Italy 19.275

  • 1964 (Tokyo, Japan)
    GOLD Franco Menichelli, Italy 19.450
    SILVER (tie) Yukio Endo 19.350; Victor Lisitsky, USSR 19.350

  • 1968 (Mexico City, Mexico)
    GOLD Sawao Kato, Japan 19.475
    SILVER Akinori Nakayama, Japan 19.400
    BRONZE Takeshi Kato, Japan 19.275

  • 1972 (Munich, Germany)
    GOLD Nikolai Andrianov, USSR 19.175
    SILVER Akinori Nkayama, Japan 19.125
    BRONZE Shigeru Kasamatsu, Japan 19.025

  • 1976 (Montreal, Canada)
    GOLD Nikolai Andrianov, USSR 19.450
    SILVER Vladimir Marchenko, USSR 19.425
    BRONZE Peter Kormann, USA 19.300

  • 1980 (Moscow, USSR)
    GOLD Roland Brückner, East Germany 19.750
    SILVER Nikolai Andrianov, USSR 19.725
    BRONZE Alexander Dityatin, USSR 19.700

  • 1984 (Los Angeles, USA)*
    GOLD Li Ning, China 19.925
    SILVER Lou Yun, China 19.775
    BRONZE (tie) Koji Sotomura, Japan 19.700; Philippe Vatuone, France 19.700

  • 1988 (Seoul, Korea)
    GOLD Sergei Kharkov, USSR 19.925
    SILVER Vladimir Artemev, USSR 19.900
    BRONZE (tie) Yukio Iketani, Japan 19.850; Lou Yun, China 19.850

  • 1992 (Barcelona, Spain)
    GOLD Li Xiaoshuang, China 9.925
    SILVER (tie) Yukio Iketani, Japan 9.787; Grigory Misutin, The Unified Team** 9.787

  • 1996 (Atlanta, USA)
    GOLD Ioannis Melissanidis, Greece 9.850
    SILVER Li Xiaoshuang, China 9.837
    BRONZE Alexei Nemov, Russia 9.800

  • 2000 (Sydney, Australia)
    GOLD Igors Vihrovs, Latvia 9.812
    SILVER Alexei Nemov, Russia 9.800
    BRONZE Jordan Jovtchev, Bulgaria 9.787

  • 2004 (Athens, Greece)
    GOLD Kyle Shewfelt, Canada 9.787
    SILVER Marian Dragulescu, Romania 9.787***
    BRONZE Jordan Jovtchev, Bulgaria, 9.775

  • 2008 (Beijing, China)
    GOLD Zou Kai, China 16.050
    SILVER Gervasio Deferr, Spain 15.775
    BRONZE Anton Golotsutkov, Russia 15.725


* In 1984, the USSR -- one of the most dominant teams of the era -- boycotted the Games, possibly affecting the results

** In 1992, the former USSR competed as the Unified Team, then split into independent republics starting in 1996

*** Tie was broken


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