Gymnast
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Gymnasts are people who participate in the sport of gymnastics.
See Gymnasium (ancient Greece) for the origin of the word gymnast.
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Famous gymnasts
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Female Artistic
- Polina Astakhova (Soviet Union/Ukraine)
- 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 (Soviet Union/Ukraine, 1921 - )
- Terin Humphrey (United States)
- Daniele Hypolito (Brazil)
- Carly Janiga (United States, 1988- )
- Ksenia Kekkonen (Russia)
- Svetlana Khorkina (Russia)
- Nelli Kim (Soviet Union)
- Anastasia Kolesnikova (Russia)
- Olga Korbut (Soviet Union / Belarus)
- Anna Kovalyova (Russia)
- Eugenia Kuznetsova (Russia)
- Larissa Latynina (Soviet Union/Ukraine, 1934 - )
- Yekaterina Lobazyuk (Russia), (1983- )
- Kristen Maloney (United States)
- Shannon Miller (United States)
- Dominique Moceanu (United States)
- Luisa Parente (Brazil)
- 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 - )
- Cathy Rigby (United States, 1952 - )
- Galina Rumyantseva (Russia)
- Daiane dos Santos (Brazil)
- Nataliya Shaposhnikova (Soviet Union/Russia)
- Allana Slater (Australia, 1984 - )
- Kerri Strug (United States, 1977 - )
- Lyudmila Turishcheva (Soviet Union/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)
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Male Artistic
- Kyle Shewfelt (Canada)
- Nikolai Andrianov (Soviet Union/Russia)
- Alexander Beresch (Ukraine)
- Roman Zozulya (Ukraine)
- Dmitry Bilozerchev (Soviet Union/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 - )
- Diego Hypolito (Brazil)
- Sylvio Kroll (Germany)
- Nikolai Krukov (Russia)
- Yevgeny Krylov (Russia)
- Ivan Ivankov (Belarus)
- Jordan Jovtchev (Bulgaria)
- Li Ning (China)
- Li Xiaopeng (China)
- Vlasios Maras (Greece)
- Alexei Nemov (Russia)
- Mosiah Rodrigues (Brazil)
- Yoshihiro Saito (Japan, 1976 - )
- Vitaly Scherbo (Belarus, 1972 - )
- Leon Štukelj (Slovenia, 1898 - 1999)
- Zoltán Supola (Hungary)
- Hector Tanco (Puerto Rico)
- Sven Tippelt (Germany)
- Yuri Titov (Russia)
- Alexandr Tkachyov (Soviet Union/Russia)
- Mitsuo Tsukahara (Japan)
- Naoya Tsukahara (Japan)
- Marius Urzica (Romania)
- Andreas Wecker (Germany)
- Yang Wei (China)
- Evgeni Sapronenko (Latvia)
- Blaine Wilson (United States)
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Female Rhythmic
- Alina Kabaeva (Russia)
- Irina Tchachina (Russia)
- Anna Bessonova (Ukraine)
- Inna Zhukova (Belarus)
- Natalia Godunko (Ukraine)
- Eleni Andriola (Greece)
- Penelope Blackmore (Australia)
- Elena Vitrichenko (Ukraine)
- Aliya Yussopova (Kazakhstan)
- Svetlana Rudalova (Belarus)
- Yukari Murata (Japan)
- Ekaterina Serebrianskaya (Ukraine)
- Anna Gurbanova (Azerbaijan)
- Almudena Cid (Spain)
- Simona Peycheva (Bulgaria)
- Dominika Cervenkova (Czech Republic)
- Elizabeth Paiseiva (Bulgaria)
- Tamara Erofeeva (Ukraine)
- Kasumi Takahashi (Australia)
- Eva Serrano (France)
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