Individual women who won eight or more medals
World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
The years listed for each gymnast only include World Championships where they won medals. American gymnast
Simone Biles
Simone Arianne Biles (; born March 14, 1997) is an American artistic gymnast. Her seven Olympic medals tied with Shannon Miller for the most Olympic medals won by an American gymnast. Having won 25 World Championship medals, she is the most de ...
holds the record for the most World Championship medals (25), as well as the most gold medals (19) in World Championship history for an athlete of either sex.
Individual women who won medals in every event
This section lists the female Artistic Gymnasts who have won at least one medal in every event (team final, all-around,
Vault
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,
Uneven Bars
The uneven bars or asymmetric bars is an artistic gymnastics apparatus. It is made of a steel frame. The bars are made of fiberglass with wood coating, or less commonly wood. The English abbreviation for the event in gymnastics scoring is UB or ...
,
Balance Beam
The balance beam is a rectangular artistic gymnastics apparatus and an event performed using the apparatus. Both the apparatus and the event are sometimes simply referred to as "beam". The English abbreviation for the event in gymnastics scoring i ...
, and
Floor Exercise
In gymnastics, the floor is a specially prepared exercise surface, which is considered an apparatus. It is used by both male and female gymnasts. The gymnastics event performed on the floor is called floor exercise. The English abbreviation for t ...
) at the
World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
The Artistic Gymnastics World Championships are the world championships for artistic gymnastics governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG). The first edition of the championships was held in 1903, exclusively for male gymnas ...
. The years listed refer to the World Championships at which the gymnast won her first medal in the event; the dates of any subsequent medals she may have won in the same event are not
The Soviet gymnast
Larisa Latynina
Larisa Semyonovna Latynina (russian: link=yes, Лариса Семёновна Латынина, née Diriy, Дирий; born 27 December 1934) is a former Soviet artistic gymnast. Between 1956 and 1964 she won 14 individual Olympic medals and ...
was the first and so far the only gymnast to have been World Champion in every event.
Larisa Latynina
Larisa Semyonovna Latynina (russian: link=yes, Лариса Семёновна Латынина, née Diriy, Дирий; born 27 December 1934) is a former Soviet artistic gymnast. Between 1956 and 1964 she won 14 individual Olympic medals and ...
and
Věra Čáslavská
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have been a World Champion or Olympic Champion in every event.
Lavinia Milosovici is the last gymnast to have been a World Champion or Olympic Champion in every event final.
Listed separately are the gymnasts who have at some point in their career won medals in every event either in the World Championships or in the
Olympic Games
The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a var ...
; gymnasts who have won medals in all six events at the same World Championships; and the gymnasts who have won medals in all six events at the same Olympic Games.
Medaled in every event over their career
Medaled in every event at a single edition
See also
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List of Olympic medal leaders in women's gymnastics
Gymnastics events have been staged at the Olympic Games since 1896.Gutman, Dan (1996). Gymnastics'. Puffin Books. p. 8. Since then, 30 female gymnasts have won at least five total medals. The country with the most athletes on this list is the Sovie ...
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References
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Lists of medalists in gymnastics
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