Women's Team OptionalsBest finish in the history of American gymnastics: women's team wins the gold medal!
Results from Atlanta:
Final Team Standings
1 USA 389.225 2 Russia 388.404 3 Romania 388.246 4 China 385.867 5 Ukraine 385.841 6 Belarus 381.263 7 Spain 378.081 8 France 377.715 9 Hungary 377.464 10 Australia 375.415 11 Greece 371.291 12 Japan 367.062Individual All-Around Qualifiers
Thirty-six gymnasts qualify to the all-around.
1 Lilia Podkopayeva UKR 78.061 2 Shannon Miller USA 78.028 3 Dina Kochetkova RUS 77.986 4 Lavinia Milosovici ROM 77.841 5 Gina Gogean ROM 77.823 6 Dominique Dawes USA 77.786 7 Kerri Strug USA 77.735 8 Rozalia Galiyeva RUS 77.723 9 Svetlana Khorkina RUS 77.648 10 Alexandra Marinescu ROM 77.536 11 Dominique Moceanu USA 77.523* 12 Simona Amanar ROM 77.436* 13 Mo Huilan CHN 77.261 14 Elena Grosheva RUS 77.024* 15 Mirela Tugulan ROM 76.835* 16 Yelena Piskun BLR 76.786 17 Jaycie Phelps USA 76.772* 18 Mao Yanling CHN 76.698 18 Svetlana Zelepoukina UKR 76.698 20 Alena Polozkova BLR 76.647 21 Lioubov Sheremeta UKR 76.523 21 Anna Mirgorodskaia UKR 76.523* 23 Ionela Loaies ROM 76.497* 24 Vasiliki Tsavdaridou GRE 76.249 25 Svetlana Boguinskaia BLR 76.223 26 Isabelle Severino FRA 76.173 27 Monica Martin ESP 76.062 28 Adrienn Varga HUN 75.923 29 Qiao Ya CHN 75.835 30 Oksana Chusovitina UZB 75.822 31 Joana Juarez ESP 75.811 32 Adrienn Nyeste HUN 75.810 33 Elvire Teza FRA 75.797 34 Mercedes Pacheco ESP 75.736 35 Ludivine Furnon FRA 75.474 36 Emilie Volle FRA 75.335* 37 Lisa Skinner AUS 75.086 38 Anastasia Dzyundzyak UZB 74.974 39 Yvonne Tousek CAN 74.774 40 Diana Plaza ESP 74.773* 41 Risa Sugawara JPN 74.760 42 Elisabeth Valle ESP 74.686* 43 Joanna Hughes AUS 74.536 44 Ruth Moniz AUS 74.499 45 Cecile Canqueteau FRA 74.461* 46 Giordana Rocchi ITA 74.373 47 Olga Yurkina BLR 74.285* 48 Nikolett Krausz HUN 74.173* These gymnasts do not advance to the all-around because only three athletes per country may advance.
Individual Event Qualifiers
The USA qualified two competitors on each apparatus, the maximum that a country can advance to each apparatus final!
Top 8 qualify; other USA results also listed.
Vault
1 Simona Amanar ROM 19.675 2 Gina Gogean ROM 19.637 3 Lavinia Milosovici ROM 19.574** 4 Mo Huilan CHN 19.574 5 Kerri Strug USA 19.524 6 Rozalia Galieva RUS 19.512 7 Elena Grosheva RUS 19.500 8 Dominique Dawes USA 19.487 9 Svetlana Boguinskaya BLR 19.474 -- 10 Shannon Miller USA 19.462 11 Amy Chow USA 19.412 21 Jaycie Phelps USA 19.249 48 Dominique Moceanu USA 18.862Bars
1 Simona Amanar ROM 19.675 2 Svetlana Khorkina RUS 19.662 2 Lilia Podkopayeva UKR 19.662 4 Dina Kochetkova RUS 19.625 5 Dominique Dawes USA 19.612 6 Amy Chow USA 19.599 7 Lavinia Milosovici ROM 19.587 8 Bi Wenjing CHN 19.575 -- 9 Shannon Miller USA 19.562 11 Dominique Moceanu USA 19.537 13 Jaycie Phelps USA 19.499 14 Kerri Strug USA 19.462Beam
1 Shannon Miller USA 19.599 2 Dominique Moceanu USA 19.537 3 Dina Kochetkova RUS 19.500 3 Lilia Podkopayeva UKR 19.500 5 Rozalia Galieva RUS 19.462 6 Svetlana Khorkina RUS 19.312** 7 Gina Gogean ROM 19.262 8 Lavinia Milosovici ROM 19.225 9 Alexandra Marinescu ROM 19.200** 10 Olga Teslenko UKR 19.175 -- 11 Dominique Dawes USA 19.150 15 Kerri Strug USA 19.087 19 Amanda Borden USA 19.037 38 Jaycie Phelps USA 18.612Floor
1 Kerri Strug USA 19.662 2 Lilia Podkopayeva UKR 19.612 3 Simona Amanar ROM 19.599 4 Dominique Moceanu USA 19.587 4 Ji Liya CHN 19.587 6 Gina Gogean ROM 19.562 7 Dominique Dawes USA 19.537** 8 Mo Huilan CHN 19.525 8 Elena Grosheva RUS 19.525 -- 10 Amanda Borden USA 19.474 15 Jaycie Phelps USA 19.412 18 Shannon Miller USA 19.405** These gymnasts do not advance to event finals because only two athletes per country may advance.
Notes
For the first time in Olympic or World Championship history, the USA women's team won the gold medal. The USA entered the team finals in second place, trailing Russia by .127. A near-perfect effort on bars swung the team into first place, which they held through the remaining three rotations to become the new Olympic champions. Second went to Russia, who won the men's team title the night before. Third place went to the current world champions, the Romanian team, who competed with only six gymnasts because of an injury to Anamaria Bican the previous week in training.
Kerri Strug was the last competitor for the USA team, and punctuated the victory with one of the most heroic moments thus far in the history of American gymnastics. Strug fell on the landing of her first vault, a Yurchenko with one and a half twists, injuring her left ankle. The USA already had one low vault score, thus putting the pressure on Strug to hit her second vault. In a dramatic finish, Strug vaulted a clean Yurchenko with one and a half twists, landing with both feet but immediately lifting her left leg in pain. Balancing on her right foot, she turned to salute the judges, and then fell to the floor until the coaches were able to reach her and carry her off the podium. Following the awarding of the medals, for which she was carried onto and off the stage by her coach, Bela Karolyi, Strug was taken to a Crawford Long Hospital for x-rays. According to U.S. team medical staff, the x-rays were negative; Strug suffered a third-degree lateral ankle sprain.
The top three women for the USA who advance to all-around finals are Shannon Miller (78.028, 2nd), Dominique Dawes (77.786, 6th), and Kerri Strug (77.735, 7th). Other preliminary all-around results include Dominique Moceanu (77.523, 11th) and Jaycie Phelps (76.772, 17th). If Kerri Strug is unable to compete, then Moceanu is next in line for an all-around slot. Strug, Dawes, and Moceanu have each qualified for two events finals, while Amy Chow and Miller have each qualified for one. If Strug is not able to compete in her two event finals, then she will be replaced by Miller on vault and Dawes on floor.
First place in the preliminary all-around was Lilia Podkopayeva of Ukraine with 78.061.
Congratulations to our fine women's gymnastics team!
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