The Greatest Gymnasts at the Olympic Games
Who is the greatest Gymnast of all time based on Olympic Games performances? We have used a weighted total medal count of each male and female Gymnast from all modern Olympic Games to rank their overall performance, using data from all Olympics [including the Tokyo 2020 Games].
The best all-time performing Gymnast at the Olympic Games is clearly Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina, with nine gold medals and a total of 18 medals, awarded between 1956–1964. The highest ranked male gymnast is Sawao Kato of Japan with eight gold medals. See the table below to see how other athletes ranked.
See also the best athlete from each sport, and the best overall.
Top Olympic Games Gymnasts
Here are the top-ranked athletes from the sport of Gymnastics for performances at all Olympiads, using our Weighted Ranking System to order the athletes, awarding points for both gold (6 points) and other medals (silver 2 pts, bronze 1 pt).
Table: The Top Ranked Athletes from Gymnastics at the Olympic Games (including 2021)
| rank | name | country | gender | Gold | Silver | Bronze | total medals |
rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Larisa Latynina | Soviet Union | F | 9 | 5 | 4 | 18 | 68 |
| =2 | Sawao Kato | Japan | M | 8 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 55 |
| =2 | Nikolai Andrianov | Soviet Union | M | 7 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 55 |
| 4 | Boris Shakhlin | Soviet Union | M | 7 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 52 |
| 5 | Věra Čáslavská | Czechoslovakia | F | 7 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 50 |
| 6 | Viktor Chukarin | Soviet Union | M | 7 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 49 |
| =7 | Akinori Nakayama | Japan | M | 6 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 42 |
| =7 | Takashi Ono | Japan | M | 5 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 42 |
| 9 | Vitaly Scherbo | Unified Team, Belarus | M | 6 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 40 |
| 10 | Ágnes Keleti | Hungary | F | 5 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 38 |
| =11 | Nadia Comăneci | Romania | F | 5 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 37 |
| =11 | Polina Astakhova | Soviet Union | F | 5 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 37 |
| 13 | Mitsuo Tsukahara | Japan | M | 5 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 35 |
| =14 | Yukio Endo | Japan | M | 5 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 34 |
| =14 | Alexei Nemov | Russia | M | 4 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 34 |
| =16 | Anton Heida | United States | M | 5 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 32 |
| =16 | Nellie Kim | Soviet Union | F | 5 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 32 |
| =16 | Ludmilla Tourischeva | Soviet Union | F | 4 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 32 |
| =19 | Zou Kai | China | M | 5 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 31 |
| =19 | Georges Miez | Switzerland | M | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 31 |
| =21 | Olga Korbut | Soviet Union | F | 4 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 28 |
| =21 | Simone Biles | United States | F | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 28 |
| =23 | Vladimir Artemov | Soviet Union | M | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 26 |
| =23 | Valentin Muratov | Soviet Union | M | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 26 |
| =23 | Ecaterina Szabo | Romania | F | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 26 |
| =26 | Li Xiaopeng | China | M | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 25 |
| =26 | Giorgio Zampori | Italy | M | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 25 |
Related Pages
- List of the best athlete from each Olympic sport
- The greatest ever Olympic athlete
- List of Olympic Gymnastics All-Around Winners - Men and Women
- About Olympic Medal Ranking Systems
- Medal tables from all Olympic Games
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