Gymnastics events have been staged at the Olympic Games since 1896,^[1] but women's events first appeared in 1928. American female gymnasts have participated in every Olympic Games since 1936, except for 1980.^[2] A total of 83 female gymnasts have represented the United States. American women have won 48 medals at the Olympics – 9 in team all-around, 8 in individual all-around, 4 in vault, 8 in uneven bars, 10 in balance beam, and 9 in floor exercise. The medals include 28 golds.^[3] The U.S. has medaled in the team all-around in every Summer Olympics since 1992, winning golds in 1996, 2012, and 2016.^[2]

Seven American female gymnasts have won at least four medals at the Olympic Games: Shannon Miller (seven), Simone Biles (seven), Aly Raisman (six), Nastia Liukin (five), Mary Lou Retton (five), Dominique Dawes (four), and Shawn Johnson (four).^{[4][5][6][7][8]}

In 1984, Mary Lou Retton became the first American female gymnast to win the individual all-around gold medal at the Olympics.^[9] She won five total medals that year in the only Olympic Games she participated in.^[6]

Shannon Miller, who competed at the 1992 and 1996 Olympics, won seven total Olympic medals, which was the most of any American female gymnast before the 2021 Olympics in which Simone Biles tied for the number of Olympic medals won. Miller won five medals in 1992 and added two more in 1996.^[3][4] Dominique Dawes competed at the 1992, 1996, and 2000 Olympics, winning four medals.^[7] Miller and Dawes were both members of the "Magnificent Seven", the 1996 team that became the first American squad to win the team all-around gold medal at the Olympics. The competition was highlighted by Kerri Strug sticking a vault while injured to ensure the U.S. victory.^[10]

Nastia Liukin and Shawn Johnson won five and four medals, respectively, in 2008, the only Olympics that either one participated in. Liukin won the individual all-around gold medal, and Johnson won the balance beam gold medal.^[5][8]

In 2012, the U.S. won the team all-around for the second time. This team, which was nicknamed the "Fierce Five", featured five gymnasts who were all making their first appearance at the Olympics.^[11] That year, Gabby Douglas won the gold medal in individual all-around, and Aly Raisman won the gold medal in floor exercise.^[12][13]

In 2016, the U.S. won the team all-around gold medal for the second consecutive Olympics, and the third title overall. The team was nicknamed "The Final Five" (as 2016 was the last year when five team members were allowed to participate) and featured the return of 2012 Olympic gold medalists Gabby Douglas and Aly Raisman. It also featured newcomers Laurie Hernandez, Madison Kocian, and three-time reigning world all-around champion Simone Biles. Biles won the individual all-around, vault, and floor exercise gold medals, and also took bronze in the balance beam final. Raisman won silver medals in the all-around and floor exercise. Hernandez took the silver on the balance beam while Kocian, the reigning uneven bars world co-champion would win silver in that event. The 2016 Olympics were the most successful games to date for the United States in women's gymnastics, with four golds, four silvers, and one bronze medal overall.

Gymnasts

Medalists

Medal	Name	Year	Event
Bronze	Bakanic, Barone, Lenz, Dalton, Elste, Schifano, Schroth, Simonis	1948 London	Women's team
Silver	Bileck, Dusserre, Johnson, McNamara, Retton, Talavera	1984 Los Angeles	Women's team
Gold	Mary Lou Retton		Women's all-around
Silver	Mary Lou Retton		Women's vault
Gold	Julianne McNamara		Women's uneven bars
Bronze	Mary Lou Retton
Bronze	Kathy Johnson		Women's balance beam
Silver	Julianne McNamara		Women's floor exercise
Bronze	Mary Lou Retton
Bronze	Phoebe Mills	1988 Seoul	Women's balance beam
Bronze	Bruce, Dawes, Miller, Okino, Strug, Zmeskal	1992 Barcelona	Women's team
Silver	Shannon Miller		Women's all-around
Bronze	Shannon Miller		Women's uneven bars
Silver	Shannon Miller		Women's balance beam
Bronze	Shannon Miller		Women's floor exercise
Gold	Borden, Chow, Dawes, Miller, Moceanu, Phelps, Strug	1996 Atlanta	Women's team
Silver	Amy Chow		Women's uneven bars
Gold	Shannon Miller		Women's balance beam
Bronze	Dominique Dawes		Women's floor exercise
Bronze	Chow, Dantzscher, Dawes, Maloney, Ray, Schwikert	2000 Sydney	Women's team
Silver	Bhardwaj, Hatch, Humphrey, Kupets, McCool, Patterson	2004 Athens	Women's team
Gold	Carly Patterson		Women's all-around
Silver	Annia Hatch		Women's vault
Silver	Terin Humphrey		Women's uneven bars
Bronze	Courtney Kupets
Silver	Carly Patterson		Women's balance beam
Silver	Johnson, Liukin, Memmel, Peszek, Sacramone, Sloan	2008 Beijing	Women's team
Gold	Nastia Liukin		Women's all-around
Silver	Shawn Johnson
Silver	Nastia Liukin		Women's uneven bars
Gold	Shawn Johnson		Women's balance beam
Silver	Nastia Liukin
Silver	Shawn Johnson		Women's floor exercise
Bronze	Nastia Liukin
Gold	Douglas, Maroney, Raisman, Ross, Wieber	2012 London	Women's team
Gold	Gabby Douglas		Women's all-around
Silver	McKayla Maroney		Women's vault
Bronze	Aly Raisman		Women's balance beam
Gold	Aly Raisman		Women's floor exercise
Gold	Biles, Douglas, Hernandez, Kocian, Raisman	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Women's team
Gold	Simone Biles		Women's all-around
Silver	Aly Raisman
Gold	Simone Biles		Women's vault
Silver	Madison Kocian		Women's uneven bars
Silver	Laurie Hernandez		Women's balance beam
Bronze	Simone Biles
Gold	Simone Biles		Women's floor exercise
Silver	Aly Raisman
Silver	Biles, Chiles, Lee, McCallum	2020 Tokyo	Women's team
Gold	Sunisa Lee		Women's all-around
Silver	MyKayla Skinner		Women's vault
Bronze	Sunisa Lee		Women's uneven bars
Bronze	Simone Biles		Women's balance beam
Gold	Jade Carey		Women's floor exercise