Ranking the Most Dominant Programs in the Team Competition

Longtime readers are familiar with my “points” system where I award 3-points for gold, 2-points for silver, and 1-point for bronze as a metric to rank gymnasts. Well, now I’m using the same system to rank programs and their performance in the team competition. Disclaimers regarding stripped medals and medals won while competing under a neutral flag are listed at the bottom of the page. Be sure to check out other rankings in the Data Hub.

CountryPoints
Soviet Union69
United States60
Romania56
Russia30
Czechoslovakia27
China25
East Germany16
Hungary13
Italy6
Great Britain5
Brazil3
France3
Germany3
Japan3
Netherlands3
Sweden3
Poland2
Yugoslavia2
Australia1
Canada1
Ukraine1
Last Update: 2024 Olympics (AA, VT, UB, BB, FX + CAS Ruling added)

Disclaimers

(A) Only team medals won in women’s artistic gymnastics at the World Championships and Olympics are counted.

(B) Team medals won in the discontinued event of “Team Portable Apparatus” are not counted (1952 & 1956).

(C) The Soviet Union is credited for the gold medal won at the 1992 Olympics while Russia is credited with the gold medal won at the 2021 Olympics.

(D) China is credited with both of its stripped medals at the 1999 World Championships and 2000 Olympics. Ukraine and the United States are also credited with these medals and the data treats both competitions as a tie for bronze.

1983 Soviet Team: Olga Bicherova, Olga Mosteapnova, Tatiana Frolova, Albina Shishova, Natalia Ilienko and Natalia Yurchenko

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