Gymnastics fans have taken note to the growing success of Sweden in women’s gymnastics over the past few years. But one byproduct of this recent success is fans often incorrectly interpret the improving results as first time accomplishments in Swedish program history. On one occasion Lauren Hopkins over at The Gymternet had to specifically address that she didn’t “forget” to mention Sweden in her list of programs that achieved their best placement ever at the 2022 World Championships. The truth is, Sweden has already reached many of the most prestigious milestones in the sport. This brings us ..read more

The following is a ranking of American gymnasts who competed at the Group-1 Level (World Championships and/or Olympics) sorted by the greatest duration of time in between their first and last appearance. Name Range Years Connie Caruccio-Lenz 13 1936-1948 Annia Hatch* 12 1993-2004 Doris Brause (Fuchs) 11 1956-1966 Simone Biles 11 2013-2023 Muriel Grossfeld 9 1956-1964 Linda Metheny 9 1964-1972 Dominique Dawes 9 1992-2000 Mohini Bhardwaj 8 1997-2004 MyKayla Skinner 8 2014-2021 Kim Chace 7 1970-1976 Kathy Johnson 7 1978-1984 Amy Chow 7 1994-2000 Alicia Sacramone* 7 20 ..read more

Due to her lengthy career as a National Team Member and winning gold medals in two different World Championships, Kara Eaker is one of the most iconic and well-respected gymnasts in NCAA gymnastics. But Kara, a gymnast at the University of Utah has recently announced her premature retirement. Ending her gymnastics career even with multiple years of eligibility remaining and going as far as to academically withdraw from the University just to get away from the place. Kara Eaker wrote a lengthy social media post highlighting what led to her making this drastic decision, there was one particular ..read more

The following is the number of times each gymnast has competed in Event Finals at the European Championships across all four events (Vault, Bars, Beam, and Floor). Special thanks to Gymnastics History for tracking down primary sources so missing results from the 1957, 1961 and 1963 Championships could be found. Other apparatuses in this series: Vault Uneven Bars Beam Floor As always, additional rankings, lists and data can be found in the Data Hub Name Country Appearances Svetlana Khorkina Russia 16 Svetlana Boginskaya Belarus 15 Vanessa Ferrari Italy 15 Becky Downie Unit ..read more

The following is the number of times each gymnast has competed in floor exercise finals at the European Championships. Special thanks to Gymnastics History for tracking down primary sources so missing results from the 1957, 1961 and 1963 Championships could be found. Sandra Izbasa who was injured in warmups is not credited with an appearance in 2007 due to a long-standing policy that gymnasts must produce a scored routine in order to receive credit for an appearance in any data rankings. Other apparatuses in this series: Vault Uneven Bars Beam As always, additional rankings, lists and data ca ..read more

The following is the number of times each gymnast has competed in balance beam finals at the European Championships. Special thanks to Gymnastics History for tracking down primary sources so missing results from the 1957, 1961 and 1963 Championships could be found. Other apparatuses in this series: Vault Uneven Bars Floor (coming soon!!!) As always, additional rankings, lists and data can be found in the Data Hub Name Country Appearances Catalina Ponor Romania 6 Larisa Iordache Romania 5 Sanne Wevers Netherlands 5 Vasiliki Millousi Greece 5 Marine Boyer France 4 Pauline Schaefe ..read more

The following is the number of times each gymnast has competed in uneven bars finals at the European Championships. Special thanks to Gymnastics History for tracking down primary sources so missing results from the 1957, 1961 and 1963 Championships could be found. Other apparatuses in this series: Vault Beam (coming soon!!!) Floor (coming soon!!!) As always, additional rankings, lists and data can be found in the Data Hub Name Country Appearances Becky Downie United Kingdom 9 Beth Tweddle United Kingdom 7 Kim Bui Germany 7 Elisabeth Seitz Germany 6 Svetlana Khorkina Russia 6 Al ..read more

I have recently finished completing my data entry on the full history of the European Championships in women’s gymnastics from its debut in 1957 into the present day. Now that the data entry portion is complete, I will begin releasing all the rankings I can pull from it. This post is the first of many and will eventually form a “hub” of dozens of rankings sorted by personal, national, apparatus, and era rankings. These rankings already exist for the World Championships and Olympic Games. The following is the number of times each gymnast has competed in vault finals at the European Championship ..read more

Call it a sign of the times we live in, but there is currently a statistic in women’s artistic gymnastics (WAG) that is so baffling, it makes me wonder how this current era will be interpreted by fans in future decades. This statistic was made possible only by a combination of unprecedent geopolitical events that have nothing to do with sports, coupled with one of the most unexpected moments in Olympic history, all while occurring alongside a once in a century pandemic. The statistic in question is that that of the last four gymnasts to win the gold medal in the All-Around, in all four cases i ..read more

While this is normally a gymnastics website, every once in a while I opt to highlight a non-gymnastics story that I feel is too important not to talk about. This particular case was too infuriating, tragic, heartbreaking and ultimately too important not to share. In 2022 Serena Williams published an essay describing her near death experience during the birth of her first child. Serena described what it was like to be scared for your life, to have fears you were going to die, and how it defined her entire outlook on life. But Serena Williams didn’t simply want to tell the story of how she exper ..read more