Gymnastics – Mainly trampolining

Lots of bouncing around here thanks to my lack of knowledge of Chinese trampolining.

Questions

Despite winning three team golds at the Olympics, gymnast Eizo Kenmotsu only picked up the minor medals in individual events. This included an all-around silver in a Japanese clean-sweep in 1972, with Sawao Kato taking gold and which compatriot taking the bronze, one of two athletes to have won gold on the rings twice?

AKINORI NAKAYAMA

The only gymnast to win two Olympic golds on the rings other than Akinori Nakayama, which Armenian-born Soviet had achieved this feat in 1956 and 1960?

ALBERT AZARYAN

After Andreea Răducan had her 2000 all-round gold in gymnastics taken away from her, which compatriot was given the Olympic title? She also won the vault in 1996.

SIMONA AMÂNAR

Although she took home the top prize in everything except the team event at least once, which was the only gymnastics discipline where Věra Čáslavská added golds to her all-around titles at both the Tokyo and Mexico City Olympics?

VAULT

His tally of four individual Olympic medals coming from 2008 through to Tokyo, which Chinese trampolinist with a repetitive name took home the men’s gold medal in 2012? He has more medals than any other athlete in the history of the Trampoline Gymnastics World Championships.

DONG DONG

Topping the podium ahead of Chinese multiple world champions Dong Dong and Gao Lei, which Belarussian trampolinist won men’s individual Olympic gold in 2016? His victories at the World Championships have come in the synchro and team categories.

ULADZISLAU HANCHAROU

Becoming individual world champion in 2022, which trampolinist became New Zealand’s first ever Olympic medallist in artistic gymnastics when he took home a bronze medal at the 2020 games?

DYLAN SCHMIDT

Leaving Dong Dong to settle for silver for the second games in a row, which Belarussian followed in Uladzislau Hancharou’s footsteps when he won the men’s individual trampolining gold at Tokyo 2020?

IVAN LITVINOVICH

His family name shared with the 1992 Olympic gold medallist on the uneven bars, which 2008 champion in trampolining could only finish third when he tried to defend his title at London 2012? His compatriot Dong Dong went on to take the top place on the podium, with Russian Dmitry Ushakov claiming silver.

LU (CHUNLONG)

Scoring less than Lu Chunlong but more than Dong Dong at the 2008 Olympics, which Canadian who won the men’s trampolining silver medal that year is also noted for having the world record for the highest degree of difficulty in a routine?

JASON BURNETT

Gymnastics

Mainly trying – and failing – to drill in those all-around winners, with the 1992 female champion in particular struggling to be digested.

Questions

In what year was FIG founded in Liege, making it the world’s oldest existing international sports organisation?

1881

Which Russian-born athlete won female all-around gymnastics gold in 2008 for the USA, winning five medals in total at that games? She has been on “Dancing with the Stars”.

NASTIA LIUKIN

Starting a currently unbroken run of American victories in the female all-around, who won Olympic gold in 2004? She later became a singer, teaming up with Jesse McCartney on Simon Cowell’s “Celebrity Duets”.

CARLY PATTERSON

Which Romanian won the all-around Olympic gold in 2000, but was subsequently disqualified for failing doping controls? She was exonerated, but the doctor wasn’t and the medal was not reinstated.

ANDREAA RADUCAN

A winner on the Ukrainian version of “Dancing with the Stars”, who won female all-around gold in 1996?

LILIA PODKOPAYEVA

Born in Odessa, which female won all-around gold for the Unified Team in 1992? One of first to perform the difficult Yurchenko vault, she accused Vitaly Scherbo of raping her when she was 15.

TATIANA GUTSU

One of five women to have won the female all-around title at all major competitions, which Soviet gymnast won gold in 1988? She died aged 49 in 2018.

YELENA SHUSHUNOVA

Which Soviet female all-around champion from 1980 was head floor judge at the 2016 Olympics?

YELENA DAVYDOVA

Which Soviet won female all-around gold in 1952, becoming the first female to win seven medals at an Olympics, a feat finally tied by Emma McKeon in 2020?

MARIA GOROKHOVSKAYA

Which Russian was all-around champion in 1960 being the most decorated Olympian at those games? Four years later he set the record of 13 Olympic medals for a male, a tally that was surpassed in 1980.

BORIS SHAKHLIN

Which Russian scored their 14th and 15th medals in the 1980 games to surpass Boris Shakhlin’s male record of 13? He won the all-round title in 1976.

NIKOLAI ANDRIANOV

Widely regarded as the successor to Kohei Uchimora, who won the all-around title for Japan at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, also adding the horizontal bar title to make it two golds?

(DAIKI) HASHIMOTO

Which Chinese gymnast won the all-around gold at his home Olympics in 2008 to add to his two team golds in 2000 and 2008? He also won a silver in the rings and is known for his impressive difficulty scores across the six events.

YANG (WEI)

Who became the first American since World War II to win the all-around men’s competition in 2004? Also winning silvers in the high bar and team events, he went on to have a crack at “Sasuke”, missing out on completing the second stage by forgetting to press the buzzer in time.

PAUL HAMM

Winning 12 medals in total including gold on the vault and high bar, which Russian was the most recent from that country to win male all-around gold in 2000, improving on his silver from 1996?

ALEXEI NEMOV

The only male gymnast to have won a world title in all 8 categories, in which year did Belarus-born Vitaly Scherbo win all-around gold?

1992

Although a slip in the team event contributed to China dropping to silver in the team event, which athlete won the men’s all-around in 1996 by a narrow margin from Alexei Nemov, in the process becoming the first from his country to win that gold medal? He also won the floor in 1992 and competed at Barcelona with his twin brother.

LI (XIAOSHUANG)

As well as the all-around, which Soviet athlete won men’s golds in the parallel bars, horizontal bar and team events in 1988?

VLADIMIR ARTEMOV

Which Japanese athlete won all-around men’s gold in 1984, doubling his top of the podium tally by winning the rings as well?

(KOJI) GUSHIKEN

Who was the first of numerous Japanese to win the all-around men’s title, doing so at his home Olympics in 1964? He also won the parallel bars that year and three team golds from 1960 to 1968.

(YUKIO) ENDO

One of the last gymnasts to achieve a perfect 10 at the Olympics, which Chinese athlete’s 1992 performance on the uneven bars meant Tatiana Gutsu had to settle for silver?

LU (LI)

Along with Lu Li the last gymnast to score a perfect 10 at the Olympics, which Romanian girl was victorious in the 1992 floor exercise, an event where Tatiana Gutsu won bronze? She also shared vault gold with Hungarian Henrietta Ónodi with a less impressive 9.925.

LAVINIA MILOSOVICI