Gymnastics 1980

Gymnastics at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held from 20 to 25 July 1980 at the Luzhniki Palace of Sports.

Medal Table[]

Event
Team all-around	Soviet Union Nikolai Andrianov Eduard Azarian Aleksandr Ditiatin Bogdan Makuts Vladimir Markelov Aleksandr Tkachev	East Germany Andreas Bronst Roland Bruckner Ralf-Peter Hemmann Lutz Hoffmann Lutz Mack Michael Nikolay	Hungary Ferenc Donath Gyorgy Guczoghy Zoltan Kelemen Peter Kovacs Zoltan Magyar Istvan Vamos
Individual all-around	Aleksandr Ditiatin	Nikolai Andrianov	Stoian Delchev
Floor	Roland Bruckner	Nikolai Andrianov	Aleksandr Ditiatin
Pommel horse	Zoltan Magyar	Aleksandr Ditiatin	Michael Nikolay
Rings	Aleksandr Ditiatin	Aleksandr Tkachev	Jiri Tabak
Vault	Nikolai Andrianov	Aleksandr Ditiatin	Roland Bruckner
Parallel bars	Aleksandr Tkachev	Aleksandr Ditiatin	Roland Bruckner
Horizontal bar	Stoian Delchev	Aleksandr Ditiatin	Nikolai Andrianov

Event
Team all-around	Soviet Union Elena Davydova Maria Filatova Nelli Kim Elena Naimushina Natalia Shaposhnikova Stella Zakharova	Romania Nadia Comaneci Rodica Dunka Emilia Eberle Cristina Elena Grigoras Melita Ruhn Dumitrita Turner	East Germany Maxi Gnauck Silvia Hindorff Steffi Kraker Katharina Rensch Karola Sube Birgit Suss
Individual all-around	Elena Davydova	Maxi Gnauck Nadia Comaneci	—
Vault	Natalia Shaposhnikova	Steffi Kraker	Melita Ruhn
Uneven bars	Maxi Gnauck	Emilia Eberle	Steffi Kraker Melita Ruhn Maria Filatova
Balance beam	Nadia Comaneci	Elena Davydova	Natalia Shaposhnikova
Floor	Nadia Comaneci Nelli Kim	—	Maxi Gnauck Natalia Shaposhnikova

There were 127 total athletes from 18 countries.
Anita Jokiel was the youngest participant with 13 years and 232 days.
Andrzej Szajna was the oldest participant with 30 years and 299 days.
No competitors were chosen to be flag bearers at the opening ceremony.
Romania won 7 medals, more than in any other sport.
Bulgaria won its first-ever gold medal in the sport and its first medal since Rome 1960.