| Event: | Gymnastics |
| Games: | 1996 Summer |
| Venue: | Georgia Dome (artistic) Stegeman Coliseum (rhythmic) |
| Dates: | 20 July – 4 August 1996 |
| Prev: | 1992 |
| Next: | 2000 |
At the 1996 Summer Olympics, two different gymnastics disciplines were contested: artistic gymnastics and rhythmic gymnastics. The artistic gymnastics events were held at the Georgia Dome from July 20–25 and July 28–29. The rhythmic gymnastics events were held at Stegeman Coliseum in nearby Athens, on the campus of the University of Georgia from August 1–4.[1]
The women's rhythmic group all-around was contested for the first time at these Games. This marked the second time that a women's only sport was introduced to the Games.[2]
The gymnastics competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics was carried out in three stages:
Each country was limited to three gymnasts in the all-around final and two gymnasts in each apparatus final.
| Team all-around | Sergei Kharkov Nikolai Kryukov Alexei Nemov Yevgeni Podgorny Dmitri Trush Dmitri Vasilenko Alexei Voropaev | Fan Bin Fan Hongbin Huang Huadong Huang Liping Li Xiaoshuang Shen Jian Zhang Jinjing | Ihor Korobchynskyi Oleg Kosiak Grigory Misutin Vladimir Shamenko Rustam Sharipov Olexander Svitlichni Yuri Yermakov | |||
| Individual all-around | ||||||
| Floor exercise | ||||||
| Pommel horse | ||||||
| Rings | none awarded | |||||
| Vault | ||||||
| Parallel bars | ||||||
| Horizontal bar | ||||||
| Team all-around | Amanda Borden Amy Chow Dominique Dawes Shannon Miller Dominique Moceanu Jaycie Phelps Kerri Strug | Elena Dolgopolova Rozalia Galiyeva Elena Grosheva Svetlana Khorkina Dina Kochetkova Yevgeniya Kuznetsova Oksana Liapina | Simona Amânar Gina Gogean Ionela Loaieș Alexandra Marinescu Lavinia Miloșovici Mirela Țugurlan | |||
| Individual all-around | ||||||
| Vault | ||||||
| Uneven bars | none awarded | |||||
| Balance beam | ||||||
| Floor exercise | ||||||