Olympic History

Olympic History

Gymnastics is one of the only sports to have appeared at every modern Olympic games since the first competition in 1896. Men's artistic gymnastics was the first to appear, followed by the women's artistic events in 1928. According to the British Olympic Association, the first games involved athletes from five countries competing on six apparatus, including the horizontal bar, parallel bars, pommel horse, rings, vault, and rope climbing. Despite the fact that it was not until the late 1950s that the competition structure in place today was evident. Rhythmic gymnastics, an elegant discipline using hand-held apparatus, was first included in the 1984 LA Games, and the most recent Olympic gymnastics discipline is trampolining, which appeared at the Sydney Games in 2000.

                                                   -Katie