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Perfect 10 (gymnastics)

April 27, 2023

For other uses, see Perfect 10 (disambiguation).

A perfect 10 is a score of 10.000 for a single routine in artistic gymnastics, which was once thought to be unattainable—particularly at the Olympic Games—under the code of points set by the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG). It is generally recognized that the first person to score a perfect 10 at the Olympic Games was Romanian Nadia Comăneci, at the 1976 Games in Montreal.[1][2] Other women who accomplished this feat at the Olympics include Nellie Kim, also in 1976, Mary Lou Retton in 1984, Daniela Silivaș and Yelena Shushunova in 1988, and Lavinia Miloșovici in 1992. The first man to score a perfect 10 is considered to be Alexander Dityatin, at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow.[3][4] (However, in the 1924 Paris Olympics, 22 men achieved a mark of 10 in rope-climbing, with Albert Séguin getting a second 10 in the sidehorse vault, events that are no longer part of artistic gymnastics.)

Nadia Comăneci poses beside the scoreboard that recorded her perfect 10 as 1.00 (with no Olympic precedent, the hardware was not capable of displaying 10.00).

The FIG changed its code of points in 2006. There are now different top scores, all greater than 10, for the various events, based upon difficulty and artistic merit; there is no consistent perfect score. Execution scores are still out of 10, so the theoretical possibility exists for a gymnast to get a partial "perfect 10" (for execution) in addition to whatever maximum number they get for difficulty, but no such score has been awarded in decades.

History

Men's artistic gymnastics had been an Olympic sport since the beginning of the modern games. Women's gymnastics were introduced as a single (team) event in the 1928 games, but were not expanded until the 1952 games, when there were seven events.[5] The International Federation of Gymnastics first drew up a code of points—for men—in 1949.[6]

Although the code of points was based on a maximum of 10, until 1976 it was considered impossible to achieve a score of greater than 9.95, particularly at the Olympic Games.[7][8]

At the World Championships or Olympics beginning when increased standardization of competition format and scoring (which was capped at a 10, a trend which would not be changed until 2006) was introduced at the 1952 Olympics, the very highest scores tended to be in the 9.400 - 9.600 range, and over the next few World and Olympic cycles through the 1950, 1960s, and 1970s, the top scores gradually got higher through the 9.700 and 9.800 range.

During the post-1952 era, a couple of very early scores, essentially extreme outliers, that came very close to the 10.000 mark were Armenian-Soviet Hrant Shahinyan's score of 9.950 on optional rings at the 1952 Olympics and Armenian-Soviet Albert Azaryan's score of 9.950, also on the optional still rings exercise, at the 1954 World Championships. On the men's side, these scores might not have been surpassed, or even equaled, at a World Championships or Olympics until 1980, as even scores of 9.900 were extremely rare and, in some Worlds and Olympics throughout the 1950s -1970s, scores of 9.900 seem to have been non-existent for the men.

One early example of a woman gymnast breaking the 9.900 score barrier at a World Championships or Olympics in the post-1952 era was Soviet Larisa Latynina at the 1962 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships[9] Another of the earliest was Soviet Zinaida Druzhinina-Voronina who scored a 9.933 at the 1966 World Championships in the Floor Exercise Event Finals, the very highest mark of any competitor at that competition.[10]

An often glossed-over fact when discussing the Perfect 10 is that Věra Čáslavská of Czechoslovakia was the first gymnast to achieve perfect 10s at a major competition in the post-1952 era, which she did twice at the 1967 European Championships,[11] which were displayed on a manual scoreboard.[12] Prior to the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, Omega, the official timers, asked the International Olympic Committee how many digits it should allow on the electronic scoreboard, and were told that three digits would be sufficient, as a score of 10.00 would not be possible.[13]

On 18 July 1976, 14-year-old Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci performed in the uneven bars event, and was awarded a score of 10. Because the scoreboard only allowed three digits, it had to display her score as 1.00.[13] This led to confusion, with even Comăneci unsure of what it meant, until the announcer informed the elated crowd that she had scored a perfect 10.[14] An iconic press photograph (pictured above) shows a beaming Comăneci, arms upraised, beside the scoreboard.[15] Comăneci scored a total of seven 10s at the 1976 Olympics—four on the uneven bars and three on the balance beam.[13] Her main rival, Soviet Nelli Kim, scored two 10s in the same competition, in the vault and floor exercise.[16] Comăneci's coach, Béla Károlyi, having defected to the United States in 1981, subsequently coached Mary Lou Retton to gold at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, where she scored 10s in the vault and floor exercise.[17]

The first man to score a perfect 10 in Olympic competition was the Soviet Alexander Dityatin, who received the score in the vault on the way to a record-breaking eight medals in the 1980 Olympics in Moscow.[18] Among other men to achieve the score was Comăneci's future husband, Bart Conner, who received two 10s in Los Angeles in 1984.[19]

Change in scoring

The code of points came under review as a result of separate incidents during the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, in which gymnasts were believed to have received excessively low scores.[20] A new scoring system was introduced in 2006. It consists of an "A" score, based on the difficulty of elements, and a "B" score, based on artistic impression. While the B score still has a maximum of 10, it is only a part of the overall score.[19]

The change had its share of critics. Béla Károlyi said of it: "It's crazy, terrible, the stupidest thing that ever happened to the sport of gymnastics.".[21] Mary Lou Retton remarked: "It's hard to understand. I don't even understand it."[21] Nadia Comăneci commented, "It's so hard to define sports like ours and we had something unique. The 10, it was ours first and now you give it away."[19]

List of perfect 10s

This list may be incomplete.

Olympics

Paris 1924

Montreal 1976

Women
  • Nadia Comăneci - team compulsory uneven bars, team optional uneven bars, team optional balance beam, all around uneven bars, all around balance beam, uneven bars event final, balance beam event final
  • Nellie Kim - all around vault, floor exercise event final

(Olympic database;[22] Women's individual results;[23] women's all-around results;[24] women's team results[25])

Moscow 1980

Men

(Men's all-around results;[26] men's individual event results[27])

Women

Los Angeles 1984

Men
  • Peter Vidmar - team compulsory pommel horse, all around high bar, pommel horse event final
  • Bart Conner - team optional parallel bars, parallel bars event final
  • Mitch Gaylord - team compulsory parallel bars, team optional rings
  • Tim Daggett - team optional high bar
  • Li Ning - team compulsory pommel horse, team optional rings, floor exercise event final, pommel horse event final
  • Tong Fei - team compulsory high bar, team optional rings, all around high bar, high bar event final
  • Xu Zhiqiang - team compulsory high bar
  • Lou Yun - team compulsory vault, team optional vault
  • Li Xiaoping - team compulsory pommel horse
  • Koji Gushiken - team compulsory high bar, all around vault, high bar event final
  • Shinji Morisue - team compulsory high bar, team optional high bar, high bar event final
  • Nobuyuki Kajitani - parallel bars event final
Women
  • Ecaterina Szabo - team compulsory floor exercise, team optional vault, all around balance beam, floor exercise event final
  • Simona Păucă - team optional balance beam
  • Mary Lou Retton - team optional vault, all around vault, all around floor exercise
  • Julianne McNamara - team optional uneven bars, team optional floor exercise, all around uneven bars, uneven bars event final, floor exercise event final
  • Ma Yanhong - team optional uneven bars, all around uneven bars, uneven bars event final

(Men's results;[28] women's results[29])

Seoul 1988

Men
Women
  • Yelena Shushunova - team compulsory vault, team optional vault, team optional uneven bars, team optional floor exercise, all around vault, all around floor exercise, uneven bars event final
  • Daniela Silivaș - team compulsory uneven bars, team compulsory floor exercise, team optionals uneven bars, team optionals balance beam, all around uneven bars, all around floor exercise, uneven bars event final
  • Dagmar Kersten - team compulsory uneven bars, uneven bars event final

(Men's results;[30] women's results[31])

Barcelona 1992

Women

(Women's results[32])

Alternate Olympics

Olomouc 1984

Men
  • Dmitry Bilozerchev - team optional pommel horse, team optional rings, team optional parallel bars, team optional high bar, all around pommel horse, all around vault, all around parallel bars, all around high bar, pommel horse event final, rings event final, high bar event final
  • Vladimir Artemov - team optional pommel horse, team optional rings, team optional vault, all around rings
  • Yuri Balbanov - team compulsory rings, team optional high bar, all around parallel bars
  • Holger Behrendt - team optional rings
  • Sylvio Kroll - team compulsory vault, team optional vault, vault event final
  • Roland Brückner - team optional floor exercise
Women
  • Olga Mostepanova - team compulsory vault, team compulsory uneven bars, team compulsory balance beam, team optional vault, team optional balance beam, team optional floor exercise, all around vault, all around uneven bars, all around balance beam, all around floor exercise, balance beam event final, floor exercise event final
  • Natalia Yurchenko - team compulsory uneven bars, team optional vault, all around vault, all around balance beam, uneven bars event final
  • Yelena Shushunova - team optional vault
  • Maxi Gnauck - team compulsory uneven bars, team optional vault, team optional uneven bars, all around floor exercise, uneven bars event final, floor exercise event final
  • Gabriele Fähnrich - team compulsory uneven bars, uneven bars event final
  • Hana Říčná - team optional balance beam, all around vault, all around uneven bars
  • Martina Koblizkova - team optional vault
  • Alena Dřevjaná - all around balance beam
  • Franka Voigt - all around vault
  • Boriana Stoyanova - all around uneven bars
  • Miroslava Koblizkova - all around uneven bars

Goodwill Games

1986 Goodwill Games

Women

1990 Goodwill Games

Women

World Championships

1934 World Championships

1950 World Championships

1981 World Championships

Men
Women

1983 World Championships

Men
  • Tong Fei - team compulsory parallel bars, floor exercise event final
  • Li Ning - team optional rings, pommel horse event final
  • Lou Yun - team optional parallel bars, parallel bars event final
  • Dmitry Bilozerchev - team compulsory pommel horse, team optional pommel horse, all around floor exercise, all around vault, all around high bar, pommel horse event final, rings event final, high bar event final
  • Vladimir Artemov - team optional parallel bars, parallel bars event final
  • Shinji Morisue - team optional high bar
  • György Guczoghy - all around pommel horse, pommel horse event final
  • Alexander Pogorelov - all around rings
  • Li Xiaoping - pommel horse event final
  • Koji Gushiken - rings event final
  • Koji Sotomura - rings event final
Women
  • Natalia Yurchenko - team optional vault, team optional balance beam, all around vault, all around floor exercise
  • Olga Mostepanova - team optional vault, all around vault, floor exercise event final
  • Olga Bicherova - team optional vault
  • Lavinia Agache - team optional uneven bars
  • Ecaterina Szabo - team optional uneven bars, team optional floor exercise, all around vault, all around floor exercise, floor exercise event final
  • Mirela Barbălată - team optional vault
  • Maxi Gnauck - team optional uneven bars, all around uneven bars, uneven bars event final

1985 World Championships

Men
Women

1987 World Championships

Men
Women
  • Aurelia Dobre - team optional vault, team optional balance beam, team optional floor exercise, all around vault, balance beam event final
  • Daniela Silivaș - team compulsory balance beam, team compulsory floor exercise, team optional uneven bars, team optional floor exercise, floor exercise event final
  • Camelia Voinea - team optional floor exercise
  • Eugenia Golea - team optional vault
  • Yelena Shushunova - team compulsory vault, team compulsory floor exercise, team optional floor exercise, all around floor exercise, floor exercise event final
  • Dörte Thümmler - team optional uneven bars
  • Gabriele Fähnrich - team optional uneven bars
  • Fan Di - team optional uneven bars

1989 World Championships

Men
  • Valentin Mogilny - team optional pommel horse, all around pommel horse, pommel horse event final
Women
  • Natalia Laschenova - team optional vault, all around vault, all around uneven bars
  • Svetlana Boginskaya - team optional uneven bars, team optional floor exercise, all around vault, all around floor exercise, floor exercise event final
  • Olesya Dudnik - team compulsory floor exercise, team optional vault, team optional balance beam
  • Daniela Silivaș - team compulsory vault, team optional uneven bars, team optional floor exercise, uneven bars event final, floor exercise event final
  • Cristina Bontaș - all around floor exercise
  • Fan Di - uneven bars event final

1991 World Championships

Women

European Championships

1967 European Championships

Women

1977 European Championships

Women

1981 European Championships

Women

1985 European Championships

Women

1987 European Championships

Women

1989 European Championships

Women

1990 European Championships

Women

U.S. National Championships

1984 National Championships

Men
Women

1988 National Championships

Men

1990 National Championships

Men

1992 National Championships

Women

U.S. Olympic Trials

1984 Olympic Trials

Men

1988 Olympic Trials

Women
  • Rhonda Faehn - optional vault
  • Joyce Wilborn - compulsory vault

1992 Olympic Trials

Women

Moscow News/World Stars

1979 Moscow News

Women

1988 Moscow News

Women

1989 Moscow News

Women

1991 World Stars

Men

1992 World Stars

Women

American Cup

New York City 1976

Women

New York City 1980

Men

New York City 1984

Men
Women

Orlando 1991

Women

Orlando 1992

Men

European Cup

1988 European Cup

Women

DTB Cup

1984 DTB Cup

Women
  • Maxi Gnauck - all around uneven bars, all around floor exercise, uneven bars event final, floor exercise event final

1987 DTB Cup

Men
  • Nicusor Pascu - all around high bar

1988 DTB Cup

Men
Women

1989 DTB Cup

Women

Cottbus International

1984 Cottbus International

Women

1985 Cottbus International

Women

1992 Cottbus International

Women

World Cup

1979 World Cup

Women

1982 World Cup

Men

1986 World Cup

Women

Tokyo Cup

1985 Tokyo Cup

Women

1988 Tokyo Cup

Women

Chunichi Cup

1976 Chunichi Cup

Women

1988 Chunichi Cup

Women

University Games

1987 University Games

Women
  • Yelena Shushunova - all around uneven bars, all around balance beam, all around floor exercise

"Meta-Perfect" Scores of 20, 30, and 40

Although virtually hundreds of perfect scores of 10 were given at various levels of competition throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, "meta-perfect" scores of 20, 30, or 40 were much, much more rare. A "meta-perfect" score would be an instance where a gymnast received multiple perfect scores of 10 throughout a competition on an apparatus (culminating in an official "meta-perfect" score of 20 in the Event Finals, depending upon the era and competition), or on every apparatus in a segment of a competition (which would result in an official "meta-perfect" score of 60 for a male gymnast or 40 for female gymnast, depending upon the era and competition).

Three possible scenarios in which to create a "meta-perfect score", that have occurred, would then be: 1) to achieve perfect 10s on every apparatus throughout a segment of a competition (Team Compulsories, Team Optionals, or All-Around) which would post an official "meta-perfect" score of either 60 for the men or 40 for the women, depending upon the era and competition; 2) to achieve perfect 10s on all performances on an apparatus throughout every segment of a competition (Team Compulsories, Optionals, All-around, and Event Finals), which would officially post a "meta-perfect" score of 20 in Event Finals, depending upon the era and competition; and 3) to achieve perfect 10s on all optionals performances on an apparatus (team optionals, all-around (if competed in), event finals), which might or might not post an official "meta-perfect" score, depending upon the competition and era - but this is a possibly necessary scenario to articulate because perfect scores of 10 were given much less often to compulsory routines than to optional routines, for a number of reasons. Olga Mostepanova seems to have been the only gymnast to do #1 at a major international competition. Svetlana Boginskaya, Nadia Comăneci, Maxi Gnauck, Olga Mostepanova, and Daniela Silivaș are women who have done this more than once. Dmitry Bilozerchev has done this probably more (4) times than any other man.

No score of "30" (listed several times below) would ever have been an officially posted score to designate "meta-perfection" on an apparatus. This is merely a designation of either 1) "meta-perfection" on an apparatus in both phases of the team competition (compulsories and optionals) as well as event finals, but not in the all-around, and this is worth articulating relative to listed "meta-perfect" scores of 40 because the gymnast in question might not have qualified to the all-around, therefore no opportunity to achieve a theoretical "meta-perfect" score of 40/40; OR 2) "meta-perfection" on all optionals performance on an apparatus (see scenario #3, above).

Olympics

1976 Olympics

  • Nadia Comăneci - 40/40 on Uneven Bars (every segment of the competition), 30/40 on Balance Beam (all optional routines - Team Optionals, All-Around, Event Finals)

1984 Olympics

  • Ma Yanhong - 30/40 on Uneven Bars (all optional routines - Team Optionals, All-Around, Event Finals)
  • Julianne McNamara - 30/40 on Uneven Bars (all optional routines - Team Optionals, All-Around, Event Finals)
  • Shinji Morisue - 30/30 on Horizontal Bar (Team Compulsories, Team Optionals, Event Finals; he did not compete in the all-around, so no opportunity to achieve 40/40, but he did get a 10 every time he competed on the apparatus)

1988 Olympics

  • Dmitry Bilozerchev - 30/40 on Pommel Horse (all optional routines - Team Optionals, All-Around, Event Finals)
  • Daniela Silivaș - 40/40 on Uneven Bars (every segment of the competition)

Alternate Olympics

Olomouc 1984

  • Dmitry Bilozerchev - 30/40 on Pommel Horse (all optional routines - Team Optionals, All-Around, Event Finals), 30/40 on Horizontal Bar (all optional routines - Team Optionals, All-Around, Event Finals)
  • Maxi Gnauck - 30/40 on Uneven Bars (in Team Compulsories, Team Optionals, and Event Finals; not a 10 in the All-Around, but a 10 in both segments of the team competition that carried over to Event Finals where Gnauck also got another 10 to create a "meta-perfect" score)
  • Olga Mostepanova - 40/40 in the All-Around (all 4 apparatuses), 40/40 on Balance Beam (in every segment of the competition), 30/40 on Floor Exercise (all optional routines - Team Optionals, All-Around, Event Finals)

World Championships

1934 Worlds

  • Eugen Mack - 20/20 on Vault (exact details unknown but all of the highest scores in the competition were in the 18s and 19s, and his was the only 20)

1981 Worlds

  • Artur Akopyan - 20/30 on Horizontal Bar (both optional routines in Team Optionals and Event Finals - did not compete All-Around)
  • Aleksandr Tkachyov (Tkachev) - 20/30 (both optional routines in Team Optionals and Event Finals - did not compete All-Around)

1983 Worlds

  • Vladimir Artemov - 20/30 on Parallel Bars (both optional routines - Team Optionals, Event Finals - did not compete All-Around)
  • Dmitry Bilozerchev - 30/40 on Pommel Horse (not in the All-Around, but in both Team Compulsories and Team Optionals which carried over to Event Finals where he also got a 10, creating a "meta-perfect" score)
  • Maxi Gnauck - 30/40 on Uneven Bars (all optional routines - Team Optionals, All-Around, Event Finals)
  • Ekaterina Szabo - 30/40 on Floor Exercise (all optional routines - Team Optionals, All-Around, Event Finals)

1987 Worlds

  • Yelena Shushunova - 40/40 on Floor Exercise (in every segment of the competition)
  • Daniela Silivaș - 30/40 on Floor Exercise (not in the All-Around, but in both Team Compulsories and Team Optionals which carried over to Event Finals where she got also got a 10, creating a "meta-perfect" score)

1989 Worlds

  • Svetlana Boginskaya - 30/40 on Floor Exercise (all optional routines - Team Optionals, All-Around, Event Finals)
  • Valentin Mogilny - 30/40 on Pommel Horse (all optionals routines - Team Optionals, All-Around, Floor Exercise)

World Cup

1979 World Cup

European Championships

1987 Europeans

  • Daniela Silivaș - 20/20 on Floor Exercise (in both the All-Around and Event Finals)

1989 Europeans

American Cup

1976 American Cup

  • Nadia Comăneci - 20/20 on Vault (in both the Preliminaries and All-Around)

1984 American Cup

DTB Cup

1984 DTB Cup

  • Maxi Gnauck - 20/20 on Uneven Bars (All-Around and Event Finals), 20/20 on Floor Exercise (All-Around and Event Finals)

See also

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For other uses see Perfect 10 disambiguation A perfect 10 is a score of 10 000 for a single routine in artistic gymnastics which was once thought to be unattainable particularly at the Olympic Games under the code of points set by the International Gymnastics Federation FIG It is generally recognized that the first person to score a perfect 10 at the Olympic Games was Romanian Nadia Comăneci at the 1976 Games in Montreal 1 2 Other women who accomplished this feat at the Olympics include Nellie Kim also in 1976 Mary Lou Retton in 1984 Daniela Silivaș and Yelena Shushunova in 1988 and Lavinia Miloșovici in 1992 The first man to score a perfect 10 is considered to be Alexander Dityatin at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow 3 4 However in the 1924 Paris Olympics 22 men achieved a mark of 10 in rope climbing with Albert Seguin getting a second 10 in the sidehorse vault events that are no longer part of artistic gymnastics Nadia Comăneci poses beside the scoreboard that recorded her perfect 10 as 1 00 with no Olympic precedent the hardware was not capable of displaying 10 00 The FIG changed its code of points in 2006 There are now different top scores all greater than 10 for the various events based upon difficulty and artistic merit there is no consistent perfect score Execution scores are still out of 10 so the theoretical possibility exists for a gymnast to get a partial perfect 10 for execution in addition to whatever maximum number they get for difficulty but no such score has been awarded in decades Contents 1 History 2 Change in scoring 3 List of perfect 10s 3 1 Olympics 3 1 1 Paris 1924 3 1 2 Montreal 1976 3 1 2 1 Women 3 1 3 Moscow 1980 3 1 3 1 Men 3 1 3 2 Women 3 1 4 Los Angeles 1984 3 1 4 1 Men 3 1 4 2 Women 3 1 5 Seoul 1988 3 1 5 1 Men 3 1 5 2 Women 3 1 6 Barcelona 1992 3 1 6 1 Women 3 2 Alternate Olympics 3 2 1 Olomouc 1984 3 2 1 1 Men 3 2 1 2 Women 3 3 Goodwill Games 3 3 1 1986 Goodwill Games 3 3 1 1 Women 3 3 2 1990 Goodwill Games 3 3 2 1 Women 3 4 World Championships 3 4 1 1934 World Championships 3 4 2 1950 World Championships 3 4 3 1981 World Championships 3 4 3 1 Men 3 4 3 2 Women 3 4 4 1983 World Championships 3 4 4 1 Men 3 4 4 2 Women 3 4 5 1985 World Championships 3 4 5 1 Men 3 4 5 2 Women 3 4 6 1987 World Championships 3 4 6 1 Men 3 4 6 2 Women 3 4 7 1989 World Championships 3 4 7 1 Men 3 4 7 2 Women 3 4 8 1991 World Championships 3 4 8 1 Women 3 5 European Championships 3 5 1 1967 European Championships 3 5 1 1 Women 3 5 2 1977 European Championships 3 5 2 1 Women 3 5 3 1981 European Championships 3 5 3 1 Women 3 5 4 1985 European Championships 3 5 4 1 Women 3 5 5 1987 European Championships 3 5 5 1 Women 3 5 6 1989 European Championships 3 5 6 1 Women 3 5 7 1990 European Championships 3 5 7 1 Women 3 6 U S National Championships 3 6 1 1984 National Championships 3 6 1 1 Men 3 6 1 2 Women 3 6 2 1988 National Championships 3 6 2 1 Men 3 6 3 1990 National Championships 3 6 3 1 Men 3 6 4 1992 National Championships 3 6 4 1 Women 3 7 U S Olympic Trials 3 7 1 1984 Olympic Trials 3 7 1 1 Men 3 7 2 1988 Olympic Trials 3 7 2 1 Women 3 7 3 1992 Olympic Trials 3 7 3 1 Women 3 8 Moscow News World Stars 3 8 1 1979 Moscow News 3 8 1 1 Women 3 8 2 1988 Moscow News 3 8 2 1 Women 3 8 3 1989 Moscow News 3 8 3 1 Women 3 8 4 1991 World Stars 3 8 4 1 Men 3 8 5 1992 World Stars 3 8 5 1 Women 3 9 American Cup 3 9 1 New York City 1976 3 9 1 1 Women 3 9 2 New York City 1980 3 9 2 1 Men 3 9 3 New York City 1984 3 9 3 1 Men 3 9 3 2 Women 3 9 4 Orlando 1991 3 9 4 1 Women 3 9 5 Orlando 1992 3 9 5 1 Men 3 10 European Cup 3 10 1 1988 European Cup 3 10 1 1 Women 3 11 DTB Cup 3 11 1 1984 DTB Cup 3 11 1 1 Women 3 11 2 1987 DTB Cup 3 11 2 1 Men 3 11 3 1988 DTB Cup 3 11 3 1 Men 3 11 3 2 Women 3 11 4 1989 DTB Cup 3 11 4 1 Women 3 12 Cottbus International 3 12 1 1984 Cottbus International 3 12 1 1 Women 3 12 2 1985 Cottbus International 3 12 2 1 Women 3 12 3 1992 Cottbus International 3 12 3 1 Women 3 13 World Cup 3 13 1 1979 World Cup 3 13 1 1 Women 3 13 2 1982 World Cup 3 13 2 1 Men 3 13 3 1986 World Cup 3 13 3 1 Women 3 14 Tokyo Cup 3 14 1 1985 Tokyo Cup 3 14 1 1 Women 3 14 2 1988 Tokyo Cup 3 14 2 1 Women 3 15 Chunichi Cup 3 15 1 1976 Chunichi Cup 3 15 1 1 Women 3 15 2 1988 Chunichi Cup 3 15 2 1 Women 3 16 University Games 3 16 1 1987 University Games 3 16 1 1 Women 4 Meta Perfect Scores of 20 30 and 40 4 1 Olympics 4 1 1 1976 Olympics 4 1 2 1984 Olympics 4 1 3 1988 Olympics 4 2 Alternate Olympics 4 2 1 Olomouc 1984 4 3 World Championships 4 3 1 1934 Worlds 4 3 2 1981 Worlds 4 3 3 1983 Worlds 4 3 4 1987 Worlds 4 3 5 1989 Worlds 4 4 World Cup 4 4 1 1979 World Cup 4 5 European Championships 4 5 1 1987 Europeans 4 5 2 1989 Europeans 4 6 American Cup 4 6 1 1976 American Cup 4 6 2 1984 American Cup 4 7 DTB Cup 4 7 1 1984 DTB Cup 5 See also 6 ReferencesHistory EditMen s artistic gymnastics had been an Olympic sport since the beginning of the modern games Women s gymnastics were introduced as a single team event in the 1928 games but were not expanded until the 1952 games when there were seven events 5 The International Federation of Gymnastics first drew up a code of points for men in 1949 6 Although the code of points was based on a maximum of 10 until 1976 it was considered impossible to achieve a score of greater than 9 95 particularly at the Olympic Games 7 8 At the World Championships or Olympics beginning when increased standardization of competition format and scoring which was capped at a 10 a trend which would not be changed until 2006 was introduced at the 1952 Olympics the very highest scores tended to be in the 9 400 9 600 range and over the next few World and Olympic cycles through the 1950 1960s and 1970s the top scores gradually got higher through the 9 700 and 9 800 range During the post 1952 era a couple of very early scores essentially extreme outliers that came very close to the 10 000 mark were Armenian Soviet Hrant Shahinyan s score of 9 950 on optional rings at the 1952 Olympics and Armenian Soviet Albert Azaryan s score of 9 950 also on the optional still rings exercise at the 1954 World Championships On the men s side these scores might not have been surpassed or even equaled at a World Championships or Olympics until 1980 as even scores of 9 900 were extremely rare and in some Worlds and Olympics throughout the 1950s 1970s scores of 9 900 seem to have been non existent for the men One early example of a woman gymnast breaking the 9 900 score barrier at a World Championships or Olympics in the post 1952 era was Soviet Larisa Latynina at the 1962 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships 9 Another of the earliest was Soviet Zinaida Druzhinina Voronina who scored a 9 933 at the 1966 World Championships in the Floor Exercise Event Finals the very highest mark of any competitor at that competition 10 An often glossed over fact when discussing the Perfect 10 is that Vera Caslavska of Czechoslovakia was the first gymnast to achieve perfect 10s at a major competition in the post 1952 era which she did twice at the 1967 European Championships 11 which were displayed on a manual scoreboard 12 Prior to the 1976 Olympics in Montreal Omega the official timers asked the International Olympic Committee how many digits it should allow on the electronic scoreboard and were told that three digits would be sufficient as a score of 10 00 would not be possible 13 On 18 July 1976 14 year old Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci performed in the uneven bars event and was awarded a score of 10 Because the scoreboard only allowed three digits it had to display her score as 1 00 13 This led to confusion with even Comăneci unsure of what it meant until the announcer informed the elated crowd that she had scored a perfect 10 14 An iconic press photograph pictured above shows a beaming Comăneci arms upraised beside the scoreboard 15 Comăneci scored a total of seven 10s at the 1976 Olympics four on the uneven bars and three on the balance beam 13 Her main rival Soviet Nelli Kim scored two 10s in the same competition in the vault and floor exercise 16 Comăneci s coach Bela Karolyi having defected to the United States in 1981 subsequently coached Mary Lou Retton to gold at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles where she scored 10s in the vault and floor exercise 17 The first man to score a perfect 10 in Olympic competition was the Soviet Alexander Dityatin who received the score in the vault on the way to a record breaking eight medals in the 1980 Olympics in Moscow 18 Among other men to achieve the score was Comăneci s future husband Bart Conner who received two 10s in Los Angeles in 1984 19 Change in scoring EditThe code of points came under review as a result of separate incidents during the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens in which gymnasts were believed to have received excessively low scores 20 A new scoring system was introduced in 2006 It consists of an A score based on the difficulty of elements and a B score based on artistic impression While the B score still has a maximum of 10 it is only a part of the overall score 19 The change had its share of critics Bela Karolyi said of it It s crazy terrible the stupidest thing that ever happened to the sport of gymnastics 21 Mary Lou Retton remarked It s hard to understand I don t even understand it 21 Nadia Comăneci commented It s so hard to define sports like ours and we had something unique The 10 it was ours first and now you give it away 19 List of perfect 10s EditThis list may be incomplete Olympics Edit Paris 1924 Edit Twenty two men in rope climbing with Albert Seguin getting a second 10 0 in the sidehorse vaultMontreal 1976 Edit Women Edit Nadia Comăneci team compulsory uneven bars team optional uneven bars team optional balance beam all around uneven bars all around balance beam uneven bars event final balance beam event final Nellie Kim all around vault floor exercise event final Olympic database 22 Women s individual results 23 women s all around results 24 women s team results 25 Moscow 1980 Edit Men Edit Alexander Dityatin all around vault Stoyan Deltchev all around rings Aleksandr Tkachyov all around high bar Michael Nikolay all around pommel horse Zoltan Magyar all around pommel horse pommel horse event final Men s all around results 26 men s individual event results 27 Women Edit Natalia Shaposhnikova team compulsory vault Yelena Davydova team optional floor exercise Emilia Eberle team optional uneven bars Nadia Comăneci team compulsory balance beam all around uneven bars Melita Ruhn team optional vault Maxi Gnauck team optional uneven barsLos Angeles 1984 Edit Men Edit Peter Vidmar team compulsory pommel horse all around high bar pommel horse event final Bart Conner team optional parallel bars parallel bars event final Mitch Gaylord team compulsory parallel bars team optional rings Tim Daggett team optional high bar Li Ning team compulsory pommel horse team optional rings floor exercise event final pommel horse event final Tong Fei team compulsory high bar team optional rings all around high bar high bar event final Xu Zhiqiang team compulsory high bar Lou Yun team compulsory vault team optional vault Li Xiaoping team compulsory pommel horse Koji Gushiken team compulsory high bar all around vault high bar event final Shinji Morisue team compulsory high bar team optional high bar high bar event final Nobuyuki Kajitani parallel bars event finalWomen Edit Ecaterina Szabo team compulsory floor exercise team optional vault all around balance beam floor exercise event final Simona Păucă team optional balance beam Mary Lou Retton team optional vault all around vault all around floor exercise Julianne McNamara team optional uneven bars team optional floor exercise all around uneven bars uneven bars event final floor exercise event final Ma Yanhong team optional uneven bars all around uneven bars uneven bars event final Men s results 28 women s results 29 Seoul 1988 Edit Men Edit Vladimir Artemov team compulsory parallel bars team optional high bar all around parallel bars all around high bar Valeri Liukin team optional pommel horse team optional parallel bars all around high bar Dmitry Bilozerchev team optional pommel horse team optional rings all around pommel horse all around rings all around vault pommel horse event final Sergei Kharkov team optional floor exercise Koichi Mizushima team optional pommel horse Daisuke Nishikawa team optional pommel horse Lubomir Geraskov team optional pommel horse pommel horse event final Zsolt Borkai team optional pommel horse pommel horse event final Holger Behrendt team optional rings Sylvio Kroll all around pommel horse Gyorgy Guczoghy all around pommel horse Csaba Fajkusz all around high barWomen Edit Yelena Shushunova team compulsory vault team optional vault team optional uneven bars team optional floor exercise all around vault all around floor exercise uneven bars event final Daniela Silivaș team compulsory uneven bars team compulsory floor exercise team optionals uneven bars team optionals balance beam all around uneven bars all around floor exercise uneven bars event final Dagmar Kersten team compulsory uneven bars uneven bars event final Men s results 30 women s results 31 Barcelona 1992 Edit Women Edit Lu Li uneven bars event final Lavinia Miloșovici floor exercise event final Women s results 32 Alternate Olympics Edit Olomouc 1984 Edit Men Edit Dmitry Bilozerchev team optional pommel horse team optional rings team optional parallel bars team optional high bar all around pommel horse all around vault all around parallel bars all around high bar pommel horse event final rings event final high bar event final Vladimir Artemov team optional pommel horse team optional rings team optional vault all around rings Yuri Balbanov team compulsory rings team optional high bar all around parallel bars Holger Behrendt team optional rings Sylvio Kroll team compulsory vault team optional vault vault event final Roland Bruckner team optional floor exerciseWomen Edit Olga Mostepanova team compulsory vault team compulsory uneven bars team compulsory balance beam team optional vault team optional balance beam team optional floor exercise all around vault all around uneven bars all around balance beam all around floor exercise balance beam event final floor exercise event final Natalia Yurchenko team compulsory uneven bars team optional vault all around vault all around balance beam uneven bars event final Yelena Shushunova team optional vault Maxi Gnauck team compulsory uneven bars team optional vault team optional uneven bars all around floor exercise uneven bars event final floor exercise event final Gabriele Fahnrich team compulsory uneven bars uneven bars event final Hana Ricna team optional balance beam all around vault all around uneven bars Martina Koblizkova team optional vault Alena Drevjana all around balance beam Franka Voigt all around vault Boriana Stoyanova all around uneven bars Miroslava Koblizkova all around uneven barsGoodwill Games Edit 1986 Goodwill Games Edit Women Edit Yelena Shushunova all around vault Oksana Omelianchik all around floor exercise1990 Goodwill Games Edit Women Edit Natalia Kalinina all around floor exerciseWorld Championships Edit 1934 World Championships Edit Eugen Mack vault perfect 20 out of 20 1950 World Championships Edit Hans Eugster compulsory parallel bars1981 World Championships Edit Men Edit Aleksandr Tkachyov team optional high bar high bar event final Artur Akopyan team optional high bar high bar event final Tong Fei team optional high bar all around high bar Bogdan Makuts all around high bar Sergio Saurez all around high bar Li Xiaoping pommel horse event final Michael Nikolay pommel horse event final Gyorgy Guczoghy pommel horse event final Yuri Korolev pommel horse event final Eberhard Gienger high bar event final Kiyoshi Goto high bar event finalWomen Edit Olga Bicherova all around vault Maxi Gnauck uneven bars event final1983 World Championships Edit Men Edit Tong Fei team compulsory parallel bars floor exercise event final Li Ning team optional rings pommel horse event final Lou Yun team optional parallel bars parallel bars event final Dmitry Bilozerchev team compulsory pommel horse team optional pommel horse all around floor exercise all around vault all around high bar pommel horse event final rings event final high bar event final Vladimir Artemov team optional parallel bars parallel bars event final Shinji Morisue team optional high bar Gyorgy Guczoghy all around pommel horse pommel horse event final Alexander Pogorelov all around rings Li Xiaoping pommel horse event final Koji Gushiken rings event final Koji Sotomura rings event finalWomen Edit Natalia Yurchenko team optional vault team optional balance beam all around vault all around floor exercise Olga Mostepanova team optional vault all around vault floor exercise event final Olga Bicherova team optional vault Lavinia Agache team optional uneven bars Ecaterina Szabo team optional uneven bars team optional floor exercise all around vault all around floor exercise floor exercise event final Mirela Barbălată team optional vault Maxi Gnauck team optional uneven bars all around uneven bars uneven bars event final1985 World Championships Edit Men Edit Tong Fei team optional high barWomen Edit Olga Mostepanova team compulsory balance beam Oksana Omelianchik team optional floor exercise floor exercise event final Yelena Shushunova team optional floor exercise Gabriele Fahnrich team compulsory uneven bars Daniela Silivaș balance beam event final1987 World Championships Edit Men Edit Xu Zhiqiang team optional parallel bars Lou Yun team optional floor exercise floor exercise event final Sylvio Kroll team optional vault all around vault Yuri Korolev all around vaultWomen Edit Aurelia Dobre team optional vault team optional balance beam team optional floor exercise all around vault balance beam event final Daniela Silivaș team compulsory balance beam team compulsory floor exercise team optional uneven bars team optional floor exercise floor exercise event final Camelia Voinea team optional floor exercise Eugenia Golea team optional vault Yelena Shushunova team compulsory vault team compulsory floor exercise team optional floor exercise all around floor exercise floor exercise event final Dorte Thummler team optional uneven bars Gabriele Fahnrich team optional uneven bars Fan Di team optional uneven bars1989 World Championships Edit Men Edit Valentin Mogilny team optional pommel horse all around pommel horse pommel horse event finalWomen Edit Natalia Laschenova team optional vault all around vault all around uneven bars Svetlana Boginskaya team optional uneven bars team optional floor exercise all around vault all around floor exercise floor exercise event final Olesya Dudnik team compulsory floor exercise team optional vault team optional balance beam Daniela Silivaș team compulsory vault team optional uneven bars team optional floor exercise uneven bars event final floor exercise event final Cristina Bontaș all around floor exercise Fan Di uneven bars event final1991 World Championships Edit Women Edit Kim Zmeskal team optional vault Kim Gwang Suk uneven bars event finalEuropean Championships Edit 1967 European Championships Edit Women Edit Vera Caslavska balance beam event final floor exercise event final1977 European Championships Edit Women Edit Nadia Comăneci balance beam event final1981 European Championships Edit Women Edit Maxi Gnauck uneven bars event final1985 European Championships Edit Women Edit Yelena Shushunova all around vault Oksana Omelianchik floor exercise event final1987 European Championships Edit Women Edit Daniela Silivaș all around floor exercise floor exercise event final1989 European Championships Edit Women Edit Svetlana Boginskaya all around floor exercise floor exercise event final Olga Strazheva all around uneven bars Daniela Silivaș floor exercise event final1990 European Championships Edit Women Edit Svetlana Boginskaya all around vault balance beam event final floor exercise event finalU S National Championships Edit 1984 National Championships Edit Men Edit Mitch Gaylord all around optional high barWomen Edit Mary Lou Retton all around optional vault floor exercise event final1988 National Championships Edit Men Edit Dan Hayden all around compulsory parallel bars1990 National Championships Edit Men Edit Bill Roth all around optional high bar1992 National Championships Edit Women Edit Kim Zmeskal all around optional vaultU S Olympic Trials Edit 1984 Olympic Trials Edit Men Edit Peter Vidmar optional high bar Mitch Gaylord optional parallel bars Bart Conner compulsory parallel bars1988 Olympic Trials Edit Women Edit Rhonda Faehn optional vault Joyce Wilborn compulsory vault1992 Olympic Trials Edit Women Edit Kim Zmeskal optional vaultMoscow News World Stars Edit 1979 Moscow News Edit Women Edit Stella Zakharova all around floor exercise1988 Moscow News Edit Women Edit Yelena Shushunova all around balance beam1989 Moscow News Edit Women Edit Svetlana Boginskaya all around vault Yulia Kut uneven bars event final1991 World Stars Edit Men Edit Sergey Kharkov all around high bar Valeri Liukin all around rings1992 World Stars Edit Women Edit Tatiana Gutsu all around uneven barsAmerican Cup Edit New York City 1976 Edit Women Edit Nadia Comăneci team optional vault all around floor exerciseNew York City 1980 Edit Men Edit Kurt Thomas all around high barNew York City 1984 Edit Men Edit Peter Vidmar all around pommel horseWomen Edit Mary Lou Retton team optional floor exercise all around vault Julianne McNamara team optional uneven bars all around uneven barsOrlando 1991 Edit Women Edit Kim Zmeskal all around floor exercise Betty Okino all around vaultOrlando 1992 Edit Men Edit Scott Keswick all around ringsEuropean Cup Edit 1988 European Cup Edit Women Edit Yelena Shevchenko all around floor exerciseDTB Cup Edit 1984 DTB Cup Edit Women Edit Maxi Gnauck all around uneven bars all around floor exercise uneven bars event final floor exercise event final1987 DTB Cup Edit Men Edit Nicusor Pascu all around high bar1988 DTB Cup Edit Men Edit Marius Gherman all around high barWomen Edit Svetlana Boginskaya all around vault1989 DTB Cup Edit Women Edit Natalia Lashchenova all around vaultCottbus International Edit 1984 Cottbus International Edit Women Edit Maxi Gnauck all around floor exercise Gabriele Fahnrich all around uneven bars1985 Cottbus International Edit Women Edit Maxi Gnauck floor exercise event final1992 Cottbus International Edit Women Edit Henrietta onodi floor exercise event finalWorld Cup Edit 1979 World Cup Edit Women Edit Nadia Comăneci all around floor exercise floor exercise event final Stella Zakharova floor exercise event final1982 World Cup Edit Men Edit Li Ning all around high bar1986 World Cup Edit Women Edit Yelena Shushunova all around vaultTokyo Cup Edit 1985 Tokyo Cup Edit Women Edit Ulrike Klotz floor exercise event final1988 Tokyo Cup Edit Women Edit Daniela Silivaș uneven bars event final floor exercise event final Svetlana Ivanova floor exercise event finalChunichi Cup Edit 1976 Chunichi Cup Edit Women Edit Nadia Comăneci all around uneven bars all around floor exercise1988 Chunichi Cup Edit Women Edit Daniela Silivaș floor exercise event final Svetlana Boginskaya floor exercise event finalUniversity Games Edit 1987 University Games Edit Women Edit Yelena Shushunova all around uneven bars all around balance beam all around floor exercise Meta Perfect Scores of 20 30 and 40 EditAlthough virtually hundreds of perfect scores of 10 were given at various levels of competition throughout the 1970s 1980s and 1990s meta perfect scores of 20 30 or 40 were much much more rare A meta perfect score would be an instance where a gymnast received multiple perfect scores of 10 throughout a competition on an apparatus culminating in an official meta perfect score of 20 in the Event Finals depending upon the era and competition or on every apparatus in a segment of a competition which would result in an official meta perfect score of 60 for a male gymnast or 40 for female gymnast depending upon the era and competition Three possible scenarios in which to create a meta perfect score that have occurred would then be 1 to achieve perfect 10s on every apparatus throughout a segment of a competition Team Compulsories Team Optionals or All Around which would post an official meta perfect score of either 60 for the men or 40 for the women depending upon the era and competition 2 to achieve perfect 10s on all performances on an apparatus throughout every segment of a competition Team Compulsories Optionals All around and Event Finals which would officially post a meta perfect score of 20 in Event Finals depending upon the era and competition and 3 to achieve perfect 10s on all optionals performances on an apparatus team optionals all around if competed in event finals which might or might not post an official meta perfect score depending upon the competition and era but this is a possibly necessary scenario to articulate because perfect scores of 10 were given much less often to compulsory routines than to optional routines for a number of reasons Olga Mostepanova seems to have been the only gymnast to do 1 at a major international competition Svetlana Boginskaya Nadia Comăneci Maxi Gnauck Olga Mostepanova and Daniela Silivaș are women who have done this more than once Dmitry Bilozerchev has done this probably more 4 times than any other man No score of 30 listed several times below would ever have been an officially posted score to designate meta perfection on an apparatus This is merely a designation of either 1 meta perfection on an apparatus in both phases of the team competition compulsories and optionals as well as event finals but not in the all around and this is worth articulating relative to listed meta perfect scores of 40 because the gymnast in question might not have qualified to the all around therefore no opportunity to achieve a theoretical meta perfect score of 40 40 OR 2 meta perfection on all optionals performance on an apparatus see scenario 3 above Olympics Edit 1976 Olympics Edit Nadia Comăneci 40 40 on Uneven Bars every segment of the competition 30 40 on Balance Beam all optional routines Team Optionals All Around Event Finals 1984 Olympics Edit Ma Yanhong 30 40 on Uneven Bars all optional routines Team Optionals All Around Event Finals Julianne McNamara 30 40 on Uneven Bars all optional routines Team Optionals All Around Event Finals Shinji Morisue 30 30 on Horizontal Bar Team Compulsories Team Optionals Event Finals he did not compete in the all around so no opportunity to achieve 40 40 but he did get a 10 every time he competed on the apparatus 1988 Olympics Edit Dmitry Bilozerchev 30 40 on Pommel Horse all optional routines Team Optionals All Around Event Finals Daniela Silivaș 40 40 on Uneven Bars every segment of the competition Alternate Olympics Edit Olomouc 1984 Edit Dmitry Bilozerchev 30 40 on Pommel Horse all optional routines Team Optionals All Around Event Finals 30 40 on Horizontal Bar all optional routines Team Optionals All Around Event Finals Maxi Gnauck 30 40 on Uneven Bars in Team Compulsories Team Optionals and Event Finals not a 10 in the All Around but a 10 in both segments of the team competition that carried over to Event Finals where Gnauck also got another 10 to create a meta perfect score Olga Mostepanova 40 40 in the All Around all 4 apparatuses 40 40 on Balance Beam in every segment of the competition 30 40 on Floor Exercise all optional routines Team Optionals All Around Event Finals World Championships Edit 1934 Worlds Edit Eugen Mack 20 20 on Vault exact details unknown but all of the highest scores in the competition were in the 18s and 19s and his was the only 20 1981 Worlds Edit Artur Akopyan 20 30 on Horizontal Bar both optional routines in Team Optionals and Event Finals did not compete All Around Aleksandr Tkachyov Tkachev 20 30 both optional routines in Team Optionals and Event Finals did not compete All Around 1983 Worlds Edit Vladimir Artemov 20 30 on Parallel Bars both optional routines Team Optionals Event Finals did not compete All Around Dmitry Bilozerchev 30 40 on Pommel Horse not in the All Around but in both Team Compulsories and Team Optionals which carried over to Event Finals where he also got a 10 creating a meta perfect score Maxi Gnauck 30 40 on Uneven Bars all optional routines Team Optionals All Around Event Finals Ekaterina Szabo 30 40 on Floor Exercise all optional routines Team Optionals All Around Event Finals 1987 Worlds Edit Yelena Shushunova 40 40 on Floor Exercise in every segment of the competition Daniela Silivaș 30 40 on Floor Exercise not in the All Around but in both Team Compulsories and Team Optionals which carried over to Event Finals where she got also got a 10 creating a meta perfect score 1989 Worlds Edit Svetlana Boginskaya 30 40 on Floor Exercise all optional routines Team Optionals All Around Event Finals Valentin Mogilny 30 40 on Pommel Horse all optionals routines Team Optionals All Around Floor Exercise World Cup Edit 1979 World Cup Edit Nadia Comăneci 20 20 on Floor Exercise All Around and Event Finals European Championships Edit 1987 Europeans Edit Daniela Silivaș 20 20 on Floor Exercise in both the All Around and Event Finals 1989 Europeans Edit Svetlana Boginskaya 20 20 on Floor Exercise in both the All Around and Event Finals American Cup Edit 1976 American Cup Edit Nadia Comăneci 20 20 on Vault in both the Preliminaries and All Around 1984 American Cup Edit Julianne McNamara 20 20 on Uneven Bars in both the Preliminaries and All Around DTB Cup Edit 1984 DTB Cup Edit Maxi Gnauck 20 20 on Uneven Bars All Around and Event Finals 20 20 on Floor Exercise All Around and Event Finals See also EditList of highest historical scores in figure skatingReferences Edit The first Olympic gymnast to score a perfect 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