Uneven bars at the Olympics

Uneven bars
at the Olympic Games
Uneven bars; at the Olympic Games
	Karin Janz competing on the uneven bars at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Overview
Sport	Artistic gymnastics
Gender	Women
Years held	1952 – 2024
Reigning champion
Women	Kaylia Nemour (ALG)

The uneven bars is an artistic gymnastics event held at the Summer Olympics on which only women compete. Women started competing in and earning medals at apparatus finals in 1952.^[1]

Medalists

Women

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1952 Helsinki details	Margit Korondi Hungary	Maria Gorokhovskaya Soviet Union	Ágnes Keleti Hungary
1956 Melbourne details	Ágnes Keleti Hungary	Larisa Latynina Soviet Union	Sofia Muratova Soviet Union
1960 Rome details	Polina Astakhova Soviet Union	Larisa Latynina Soviet Union	Tamara Lyukhina Soviet Union
1964 Tokyo details	Polina Astakhova Soviet Union	Katalin Makray Hungary	Larisa Latynina Soviet Union
1968 Mexico City details	Věra Čáslavská Czechoslovakia	Karin Janz East Germany	Zinaida Voronina Soviet Union
1972 Munich details	Karin Janz East Germany	Olga Korbut Soviet Union Erika Zuchold East Germany	none awarded
1976 Montreal details	Nadia Comăneci Romania	Teodora Ungureanu Romania	Marta Egervari Hungary
1980 Moscow details	Maxi Gnauck East Germany	Emilia Eberle Romania	Maria Filatova Soviet Union Steffi Kräker East Germany Melita Ruhn Romania
1984 Los Angeles details	Ma Yanhong China Julianne McNamara United States	none awarded	Mary Lou Retton United States
1988 Seoul details	Daniela Silivaș Romania	Dagmar Kersten East Germany	Yelena Shushunova Soviet Union
1992 Barcelona details	Lu Li China	Tatiana Gutsu Unified Team	Shannon Miller United States
1996 Atlanta details	Svetlana Khorkina Russia	Amy Chow United States Bi Wenjing China	none awarded
2000 Sydney details	Svetlana Khorkina Russia	Ling Jie China	Yang Yun China
2004 Athens details	Émilie Le Pennec France	Terin Humphrey United States	Courtney Kupets United States
2008 Beijing details	He Kexin China	Nastia Liukin United States	Yang Yilin China
2012 London details	Aliya Mustafina Russia	He Kexin China	Beth Tweddle Great Britain
2016 Rio de Janeiro details	Aliya Mustafina Russia	Madison Kocian United States	Sophie Scheder Germany
2020 Tokyo details^[2]	Nina Derwael Belgium	Anastasia Ilyankova ROC	Sunisa Lee United States
2024 Paris details	Kaylia Nemour Algeria	Qiu Qiyuan China	Sunisa Lee United States

Multiple medalists

Rank	Gymnast	Nation	Olympics	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Polina Astakhova	Soviet Union (URS)	1960–1964	2	0	0	2
	Svetlana Khorkina	Russia (RUS)	1996–2000	2	0	0	2
	Aliya Mustafina	Russia (RUS)	2012–2016	2	0	0	2
4	He Kexin	China (CHN)	2008–2012	1	1	0	2
4	Karin Janz	East Germany (GDR)	1968–1972	1	1	0	2
6	Ágnes Keleti	Hungary (HUN)	1952–1956	1	0	1	2
7	Larisa Latynina	Soviet Union (URS)	1956–1964	0	2	1	3
8	Sunisa Lee	United States (USA)	2020–2024	0	0	2	2

Medalists by country

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	4	0	0	4
2	China (CHN)	3	4	2	9
3	Soviet Union (URS)	2	4	6	12
4	East Germany (GDR)	2	3	1	6
5	Romania (ROU)	2	2	1	5
6	Hungary (HUN)	2	1	2	5
7	United States (USA)	1	4	5	10
8	Algeria (ALG)	1	0	0	1
	Belgium (BEL)	1	0	0	1
	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	0	0	1
	France (FRA)	1	0	0	1
12	ROC	0	1	0	1
12	Unified Team (EUN)	0	1	0	1
14	Germany (GER)	0	0	1	1
14	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1