Understand Gymnasium (ancient Greece) for the origin of the word gymnast.

Famous gymnasts

Female Artistic
Simona Amânar (Romania, 1979 - ) Polina Astakhova (USSR/Ukraine, 1936 - ) Mohini Bhardwaj (USA, 1978 - ) Svetlana Boguinskaya (USSR / Belarus, 1973 - ) Amanda Borden (USA, 1977 -) Věra Čáslavská (Czechoslovakia, 1942 - ) Amy Chow (USA, 1978 - ) Nadia Comaneci (Romania, 1961 - ) Sabina Cojocar (Romania, 1985 - ) Jamie Dantzscher (USA) Dominique Dawes (USA, 1976 - ) Aurelia Dobre (Romania) Elena Dolgopolova (Russia) Ljudmilla Ezhova (Russia) Maria Gorokhovskaya (USSR/Ukraine, 1921 - ) Terin Humphrey (USA, 1986 - ) Daniele Hypolito (Brazil) Carly Janiga (USA, 1988 - ) Ksenia Kekkonen (Russia) Svetlana Khorkina (Russia, 1979 -) Nelli Kim (USSR, 1957 - ) Anastasia Kolesnikova (Russia) Olga Korbut (USSR / Belarus, 1955 - ) Anna Kovalyova (Russia) Eugenia Kuznetsova (Russia) Larissa Latynina (USSR/Ukraine, 1934 - ) Yekaterina Lobazyuk (Russia), (1983- ) Ma Yanhong (China) Kristen Maloney (USA) Julianne McNamara (USA, 1965 - ) Shannon Miller (USA, 1977 - ) Dominique Moceanu (USA, 1981 - ) Luisa Parente (Brazil) Carly Patterson (USA, 1988 - ) Anna Pavlova (Russia, 1987 - ) Jaycie Phelps (USA, 1979 - ) Lilia Podkopayeva (Ukraine, 1978 - ) Catalina Ponor (Romania, 1987 - ) Andreea Raducan (Romania, 1983 -) Elise Ray (USA) Mary Lou Retton (USA, 1968 - ) Cathy Rigby (USA, 1952 - ) Galina Rumyantseva (Russia) Daiane dos Santos (Brazil) Nataliya Shaposhnikova (USSR/Russia, 1961 -) Elena Shushunova (USSR) Daniela Silivas (Romania, 1972 - ) Allana Slater (Australia, 1984 - ) Kerri Strug (USA, 1977 - ) Lyudmila Turishcheva (USSR/Russia, 1952 - ) Morgan White (USA) Elena Zamolodchikova (Russia, 1982 -) Maria Zasipkina (Russia) Julia Zemlyanskaya (Russia) Natalia Ziganshiva (Russia) Kim Zmeskal (USA, 1976 -)

Male Artistic
Nikolai Andrianov (USSR/Russia, 1952 - ) Alexander Beresch (Ukraine) Dmitry Bilozerchev (USSR/Russia, 1966 - ) Joaquín Blume (Spain, 1959 - ) Alexei Bondarenko (Russia) Miro Cerar (Slovenia, 1939 - ) Yuri Chechi (Italy, 1969 - ) Szilveszter Csollányi (Hungary) Marian Dragulescu (Romania, 1980 - ) Morgan Hamm (United States, 1982 - ) Paul Hamm (United States, 1982 - ) Diego Hypolito (Brazil) Ivan Ivankov (Belarus) Jordan Jovtchev (Bulgaria, 1973 - ) Sylvio Kroll (Germany) Nikolai Krukov (Russia) Yevgeny Krylov (Russia) Vlasios Maras (Greece, 1983 - ) Alexei Nemov (Russia, 1976 - ) Li Ning (China, 1963 - ) Mosiah Rodrigues (Brazil) Yoshihiro Saito (Japan, 1976 - ) Evgeni Sapronenko (Latvia, 1978 - ) Vitaly Scherbo (Belarus, 1972 - ) Kyle Shewfelt (Canada, 1982 - ) Leon Štukelj (Slovenia, 1898 - 1999) Zoltán Supola (Hungary) Hector Tanco (Puerto Rico) Sven Tippelt (Germany) Yuri Titov (Russia) Alexandr Tkachyov (USSR/Russia, 1957 - ) Mitsuo Tsukahara (Japan) Naoya Tsukahara (Japan) Marius Urzica (Romania, 1975 - ) Andreas Wecker (Germany) Yang Wei (China, 1980 - ) Blaine Wilson (United States, 1974 - ) Li Xiaopeng (China, 1981 - ) Roman Zozulya (Ukraine)

Female Rhythmic
Teodora Alexandrova (Bulgaria, 1981 - ) Eleni Andriola (Greece, 1986 - ) Yulia Barsukova (Russia, 1978 - ) Anna Bessonova (Ukraine, 1984 - ) Penelope Blackmore (Australia, 1984 - ) Almudena Cid (Spain, 1980 - ) Irina Deriugina (USSR, 1958 - ) Lori Fung (Canada, 1963 - ) Maria Gigova (Bulgaria, 1947 - ) Natalia Godunko (Ukraine, 1984 - ) Alina Kabaeva (Russia, 1983 - ) Marina Lobatch (USSR, 1970 - ) Bianka Panova (Bulgaria, 1970 - ) Maria Petrova (Bulgaria, 1975 - ) Simona Peycheva (Bulgaria, 1985 - ) Katia Pisetsky (Israel, 1986 - ) Yulia Raskina (Belarus, 1982 - ) Milena Reljin (Yugoslavia, 1967 - ) Mary Sanders (USA/Canada, 1985 - ) Ekaterina Serebrianskaya (Ukraine, 1977 - ) Eva Serrano (France, 1978 - ) Galina Shugurova (USSR, 1955 - ) Oxana Skaldina (USSR/Ukraine, 1972 - ) Kasumi Takahashi (Australia, 1980 - ) Irina Tchachina (Russia, 1982 - ) Alexandra Timoshenko (USSR/Ukraine, 1972 - ) Elena Vitrichenko (Ukraine, 1976 - ) Tamara Yerofeeva (Ukraine, 1982 - ) Aliya Yussupova (Kazakhstan, 1984 - ) Inna Zhukova (Belarus, 1986 - )

Male Rhythmic