Athletes by era

Athens 1896 → Berlin 1936. Hermann Weingärtner, the first Olympic champion. George Eyser, six medals in St. Louis 1904 with a wooden leg. Forty years before the modern AA — before WAG and MAG were even separate codes.

London 1948 picks the sport back up after twelve dark years. Ágnes Keleti, Holocaust survivor, takes four golds in Melbourne at 35. Helsinki 1952: USSR debuts; Viktor Chukarin returns from the gulag with seven medals.

Larisa Latynina's 18 Olympic medals (9 gold, 5 silver, 4 bronze) — a record that stood until Phelps. Tokyo '64 + Mexico City '68: Věra Čáslavská wins back-to-back all-arounds and bows her head during the Soviet anthem on the podium.

Comăneci, Szabó, Dumitrița Turner. The country that answered the Soviet school with its own voice.

Korbut, Tourischeva, Shakhlin, Artemov, Nemov. USSR/Unified Team rollup documented on /medals/.

Liukin, Raisman, Douglas, Biles. Four Olympic cycles, six Worlds titles, one changed sport.

30 World Championship medals. Four eponymous elements in the Code. A generational gap we may not see closed.

Uchimura's six straight AA titles, then China's rebuild, then Japan's — and the tension between them.

Daiane dos Santos' 2003 Worlds floor gold opens the door; Rebeca Andrade — three ACL surgeries, six Olympic medals — walks through it. Paris 2024: AA silver, vault silver, floor gold over Biles, and a team bronze with Saraiva, Barbosa, Oliveira, Soares. Brazil's first Olympic team gymnastics medal.