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Ranking the Most Dominant Hungarian Gymnasts

Data Crunch #5.13Link to: Ranking the Most Dominant Gymnasts of All TimeLink to: Ranking the Most Dominant American GymnastsLink to: Ranking the Most Dominant Russian GymnastsLink to: Ranking the Most...

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Ranking the Most Dominant Czechoslovakian Gymnasts

Data Crunch #5.14Link to: Ranking the Most Dominant Gymnasts of All TimeLink to: Ranking the Most Dominant American GymnastsLink to: Ranking the Most Dominant Russian GymnastsLink to: Ranking the Most...

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Ranking the Most Dominant East German Gymnasts

Data Crunch #5.15Link to: Ranking the Most Dominant Gymnasts of All TimeLink to: Ranking the Most Dominant American GymnastsLink to: Ranking the Most Dominant Russian GymnastsLink to: Ranking the Most...

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Ranking the Most Dominant Ukrainian Gymnasts

Data Crunch #5.16Link to: Ranking the Most Dominant Gymnasts of All TimeLink to: Ranking the Most Dominant American GymnastsLink to: Ranking the Most Dominant Russian GymnastsLink to: Ranking the Most...

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Ranking the Most Dominant Chinese Gymnasts

Return to Data Hub To explain this post: Only individual medals from the World Championships and Olympics are counted. A gold is worth three points, silver is worth two points, and bronze is worth one...

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Ranking the Most Dominant Japanese Gymnasts

Return to Data Hub To explain this post: Only individual medals from the World Championships and Olympics are counted. A gold is worth three points, silver is worth two points, and bronze is worth one...

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The Fall of Eastern Europe Visualized

Data Crunch #8.1 During Cold War, women’s artistic gymnastics (WAG) was dominated by Eastern Europe. The collective winning percentage of the Soviet Union, Romania, East Germany, Czechoslovakia,...

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Ranking the Most Dominant Romanian Gymnasts

Data Crunch #5.19Link to: Ranking the Most Dominant Gymnasts of All TimeLink to: Ranking the Most Dominant American GymnastsLink to: Ranking the Most Dominant Russian GymnastsLink to: Ranking the Most...

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Ranking the Most Dominant Russian Gymnasts

Data Crunch #5.20Link to: Ranking the Most Dominant Gymnasts of All TimeLink to: Ranking the Most Dominant American GymnastsLink to: Ranking the Most Dominant Romanian GymnastsLink to: Ranking the...

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The Dominance of Simone Biles is Insane (Part II)

Link to Part I Data Crunch #7.2 A few weeks ago I published an article (linked above) where I measured the dominance of Simone Biles on an event-by-event basis. The Gymternet loved it, but there was...

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Ranking the Most Dominant American Gymnasts

Return to Data Hub To explain this post: Only individual medals from the World Championships and Olympics are counted. A gold is worth three points, silver is worth two points, and bronze is worth one...

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Ranking the Most Dominant Gymnastics Programs

Data Crunch #5.22Link to: Ranking the Most Dominant Gymnasts of All TimeLink to: Ranking the Most Dominant Gymnasts of the 2010sLink to: Ranking the Most Dominant American Gymnasts Note: I am using a...

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Ranking the Most Dominant Gymnasts of All Time

Return to Data HubLink to: Ranking the Most Dominant American GymnastsLink to: Ranking the Most Dominant Gymnasts of the 2010s To explain this post: Only individual medals from the World Championships...

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Gymnasts of the 2010s Visualized

Data Crunch #9.1After receiving so much positive feedback for doing a visualization of Simone’s medal count (LINK HERE) I have created visualizations for more gymnasts. I took the 63 gymnasts who won...

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Ranking Gymnasts By Points (Data Hub)

In order to simplify things, I have created a single page to compile all of the various Data Crunches in which I have ranked gymnasts on a points per medal basis. General Ranking the Most Dominant...

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Ranking the Best Gymnasts of Each Olympic Quad

Data Crunch #9.1 In the past I have worked with a points system where I award points for each medal a gymnasts wins. Only medals won in individual competition are counted. Wining a gold medal is worth...

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Gymnasts Who Have Won the Most Medals in Event Finals

This is a list of career medal leaders at the World Championships/Olympics when only medals won on in Event Finals are counted. Other articles in this series can be found below: All-AroundVaultUneven...

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The Dominance of Simone Biles is Insane (Part III)

Data Crunch #7.3 This isn’t the first time I’ve done an article like this, nor the second. But as I continue to tinker with gymnastics data I keep finding more ways to demonstrate the brilliance of...

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Ranking the Most Dominant Olympic All-Around Champions

Data Crunch #10 Every since I started TMC I have been working towards finding a metric that determines who were the most dominating All-Around (AA) champions in gymnastics history. First I used margin...

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Gymnasts With the Most 4th Place Finishes at the Olympics

Further Reading:The Queens of 4th Place Part IThe Queens of 4th Place Part II The title is self explanatory. These are all the gymnasts who finished in fourth place at the Olympics ranked by the...

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Gymnasts With the Most 4th Place Finishes

Further Reading:The Queens of 4th Place Part IThe Queens of 4th Place Part IIGymnasts With the Most 4th Place Finishes at the Olympics The following is a list of gymnasts with the most career 4th...

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Gymnasts Who Finished 4th in the All-Around

Further Reading:The Queens of 4th Place Part IThe Queens of 4th Place Part IIGymnasts With the Most 4th Place FinishesGymnasts With the Most 4th Place Finishes at the Olympics These are the gymnasts...

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Gymnasts Who Finished 4th and Never Won an Individual Medal

Further Reading:The Queens of 4th Place Part IThe Queens of 4th Place Part IIGymnasts With the Most 4th Place FinishesGymnasts With the Most 4th Place Finishes at the OlympicsGymnasts Who Finished 4th...

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Gymnasts Who Finished 4th and Never Won a Medal

Further Reading:The Queens of 4th Place Part IThe Queens of 4th Place Part IIGymnasts With the Most 4th Place FinishesGymnasts With the Most 4th Place Finishes at the OlympicsGymnasts Who Finished 4th...

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Ranking the Most Dominant All-Arounders in Gymnastics History

Data Crunch #11Ranking the Most Dominant Vaulters in Gymnastics HistoryRanking the Most Dominant Bar Workers in Gymnastics HistoryRanking the Most Dominant Beam Workers in Gymnastics HistoryRanking...

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What Olympic All-Around Podiums Would Look Like Without Carry-Over Scoring

Link to Part II: All-Around Podiums at the World Championships. From 1972-1988 the All-Around (AA) was dictated by a rule called “carry-over scoring” which meant that the four routines a gymnast...

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What World Championships All-Around Podiums Would Look Like Without...

In Part I of this project I recalculated the final results of the five Olympic All-Around (AA) competitions that were contested during the carry-over scoring era to determine who would have won had...

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Gymnasts With the Most Appearances in Vault Finals

See also: Gymnasts With the Most Vault MedalsSee also: Gymnasts With the Most Appearances in Uneven Bars FinalsSee also: Gymnasts With the Most Appearances in Beam FinalsSee also: Gymnasts With the...

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Gymnasts With the Most Appearances in Uneven Bars Finals

See also: Gymnasts With the Most Uneven Bars MedalsSee also: Gymnasts With the Most Appearances in Vault FinalsSee also: Gymnasts With the Most Appearances in Beam FinalsSee also: Gymnasts With the...

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The Margin of Victory in Every All-Around Battle

Data Crunch #2.3See also: All-Around battles With the Smallest Margin of VictorySee also: All-Around battles With the Largest Margin of VictoryLink to: An Analysis of Margin of Victory in Gymnastics...

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Gymnasts With the Most Appearances in Beam Finals

See also: Gymnasts With the Most Balance Beam MedalsSee also: Gymnasts With the Most Appearances in Vault FinalsSee also: Gymnasts With the Most Appearances in Uneven Bars FinalsSee also: Gymnasts...

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Gymnasts With the Most Appearances in Floor Finals

See also: Gymnasts With the Most Floor-Exercise MedalsSee also: Gymnasts With the Most Appearances in Vault FinalsSee also: Gymnasts With the Most Appearances in Uneven Bars FinalsSee also: Gymnasts...

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Gymnasts With the Most Appearances in Event Finals

See also: Gymnasts With the Most Appearances in Vault FinalsSee also: Gymnasts With the Most Appearances in Uneven Bars FinalsSee also: Gymnasts With the Most Appearances in Beam FinalsSee also:...

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The Most Dominant Performances in Gymnastics History

Data Crunch #4.3See also: Ranking the Most Dominant Performances at the OlympicsSee also: Ranking the Most Dominant Performances at the World Championships Gymnasts are awarded 3-points for gold,...

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Gymnasts With the Most Top-8 Finishes in the All-Around

Make sure to check out the data hub In a previous post I ranked gymnasts based on who had the most appearances in Event Finals (EF). Now I’m going to create an equivalent for the All-Around (AA). But...

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Which American States Have Produced the Most Olympians

List of Every Olympian Born in the United StatesWhich American Cities Have Produced the Most Olympians? Below is a ranking of which states have had the most Olympians in women’s gymnastics born in...

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The 2021 U.S. Classics Features an Incredibly Young Field

After recently completing articles where I talked about the average age of the 2021 Russian Championships and the 2021 European Championships, it seems appropriate to do the same for the 2021 U.S....

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Ranking the Most Dominant All-Around Podiums (By Year)

The premise of this list is to measure which All-Around podium was statistically the strongest when using total medals won in that very same competition as a benchmark. Points are awarded using my...

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Ranking the Most Dominant All-Around Podiums

The premise of this list is to measure which All-Around podium was statistically the strongest when using total medals won in that very same competition as a benchmark. Points are awarded using my...

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Writeup: Olympic Gymnasts Who Married a Fellow Olympian

Note: The data cited in this article can be found here: There are only two examples of a WAG (female gymnast) who returned to the Olympics in a different sport, and then married an Olympian. But what...

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The List of Every Olympic Gymnast Who Married a Fellow Olympian

Note #1: Diana Varinska and Milad Karimi have recently announced their engagement.Note #2: I added a Part II for Rhythmic Gymnastics. This data comes from the OlyMadMen database and one thing I want...

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American Gymnasts With the Most Appearances at the Olympics and World...

This is a list of every American gymnast who has ever represented the United States in women’s gymnastics at the Olympics and World Championships. The data is below but before viewing it there are a...

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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...

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Countries With the Most Medals in the Team Competition

Previously I ranked the strongest programs in women’s artistic gymnastics (WAG) by applying my points system to their performance in the team competition. Now I’m doing something slightly different...

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The Longevity of Oksana Chusovitina Visualized

One of the things which makes the career of Oksana Chusovitina special, aside from the unprecedented longevity where she’s an 8x Olympian, is her tendency to retire and then immediately unretire. At...

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The List of Gymnasts With the Most Olympic Appearances

Below is a list of the 49 gymnasts in women’s artistic gymnastics who have appeared in the Olympics on three or more occasions. The data below was used for the following article highlighting the...

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Gymnastics is Experiencing an Influx of 3x Olympians

Entering the 21st Century women’s artistic gymnastics (WAG) found itself experiencing a significant increase in the average age of its Olympic gymnasts. I’ve talked about this particular topic at...

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Ranking the Most Dominant Men’s Gymnasts of All Time

In the past I’ve done “points” rankings on the women’s side of the sport. On Reddit user /u/lollipoppery took the time to calculate the same ranking for the men as well and allowed me to post the data...

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Age Distribution of Olympic Medalists

While working on a 4-part series highlighting why modern gymnasts now skew older, I compiled data breaking down the age distribution of medal winners at each Olympics. The intent was to determine how...

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You Must Win Vault Twice

In the last 13 months Brazilian gymnast Rebeca Andrade has emerged as a breakout star and has been one of the most successful athletes in women’s artistic gymnastics (WAG) in that time. Among Rebeca’s...

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