Gymnast - Definition and Overview

Gymnasts are people who participate in the sport of gymnastics.

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

Famous gymnasts

Female

• Vanessa Atler (United States)
• Kendall Beck (United States)
• Alyssa Beckerman (United States)
• Mohini Bhardwaj (United States)
• Svetlana Boguinskaya (Soviet Union / Belarus)
• Amanda Borden (United States)
• Věra Čáslavská (Czech Republic, 1942 - )
• Amy Chow (United States)
• Nadia Comaneci (Romania, 1961 - )
• Sabina Cojocar (Romania, 1985 - )
• Jamie Dantzscher (United States)
• Dominique Dawes (United States)
• Elena Dolgopolova (Russia)
• Ljudmilla Ezhova (Russia)
• Lori Fung (Canada)
• Maria Gorokhovskaya (Ukraine, 1921 - )
• Terin Humphrey (United States)
• Carly Janiga (United States, 1988- )
• Ksenia Kekkonen (Russia)
• Svetlana Khorkina (Russia)
• Nelli Kim
• Anastasia Kolesnikova (Russia)
• Olga Korbut (Soviet Union / Belarus)
• Anna Kovalyova (Russia)
• Eugenia Kuznetsova (Russia)
• Larissa Latynina (Ukraine, 1934 - )
• Yekaterina Lobazyuk (Russia), (1983- )
• Kristen Maloney (United States)
• Shannon Miller (United States)
• Dominique Moceanu (United States)
• Carly Patterson (United States, 1988 - )
• Jaycie Phelps (United States)
• Lilia Podkopayeva (Ukraine, 1978 - )
• Catalina Ponor (Romania)
• Elena Produnova
• Andreea Raducan (Romania)
• Elise Ray (United States)
• Mary Lou Retton (United States, 1968 - )
• Galina Rumyantseva (Russia)
• Kerri Strug (United States, 1977 - )
• Lyudmila Turishcheva (Russia, 1952 - )
• Morgan White (United States)
• Ma Yanhong (China)
• Elena Zamolodchikova (Russia)
• Maria Zasipkina (Russia)
• Julia Zemlyanskaya (Russia)
• Natalia Ziganshiva (Russia)
• Kim Zmeskal (United States)

Male

• Alexander Beresch (Ukraine)
• Dmitry Bilozerchev (Russia)
• Joaquín Blume (Spain)
• Alexei Bondarenko (Russia)
• Yuri Chechi (Italy)
• Miro Cerar (Slovenia, 1939 - )
• Szilveszter Csollányi (Hungary)
• Marian Dragulescu (Romania)
• Morgan Hamm (United States, 1982 - )
• Paul Hamm (United States, 1982 - )
• Li Ning (China)
• Li Xiaopeng (China)
• Vlasios Maras (Greece)
• Nikolai Krukov (Russia)
• Yevgeny Krylov (Russia)
• Ivan Ivankov (Belarus)
• Jordan Jovtchev (Bulgaria)
• Alexei Nemov (Russia)
• Vitaly Scherbo (Belarus, 1972 - )
• Leon Štukelj (Slovenia, 1898 - 1999)
• Zoltán Supola (Hungary)
• Sven Tippelt (Germany)
• Yuri Titov (Russia)
• Marius Urzica (Romania)
• Blaine Wilson (United States)
• Yang Wei (China)