#1976 Olympic Gold Medal Balance Beam Routine

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Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci performs a routine on the balance beam, 1976

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Contextual information about Nadia. Left is a photo of her and the scoreboard which read 1.00, as gymnasts weren’t expected to get a perfect score of 10 and therefore the scoreboard couldn't accommodate for it. 

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Four years after Olga Korbut’s Olympic debut in 1972, 14 year-old Nadia Comaneci entered the world’s stage. Representing Romania at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, she was the first ever Olympic gymnast to be awarded the perfect score of 10, for her routine on the balance beam. At this time, perfection was deemed an impossibility and therefore, couldn’t be shown on the scoreboard and Comaneci’s score read ‘1.00’. Comaneci went on to receive six more scores of 10 during these games.

Nadia began training at the age of six, under the formidable Bela Karolyi. They trained together until his defection from Romania in 1981. Karolyi’s authoritarian style of training and the control he exercised over his students isn’t dissimilar from that of the Romanian dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu, who ruled from 1965 to 1989.

On the right is a photo of her and the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Ceausescu was initially a very popular leader. Nadia’s gymnastic success on an international scale made her a ‘national asset’

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For her outstanding Olympic debut, Ceausescu awarded Nadia the Sickle and Hammer gold medal, and she was made a Hero of Socialist Labour; she was the youngest person to receive the accolade under Ceausescu’s leadership.

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Nadia Comaneci is a Romanian gymnast, winner of three Olympic gold medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal and the very first female gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastics event. She is also the winner of two gold medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. She is one of the very best-known gymnasts in the world.

In 2000 Comaneci was named as one of the athletes of the century by the Laureus World Sports Academy. At the age of 14, Comaneci became one of the stars of the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. During the team portion of the competition on July 18, her routine on the uneven bars was awarded a perfect ten. It was the first time in modern Olympic gymnastics history that the score had ever been awarded. When Omega SA, the traditional Olympics scoreboard manufacturer, asked before the 1976 games whether 4 digits would be required for gymnastics, it was told that a perfect 10.00 was not possible. Nadia’s perfect marks were thus displayed as 1.00 as an alternative. The crowd was at first confused, but shortly understood and gave her a rousing ovation. Over the course of the Olympics, Comaneci would earn six additional tens, en route to capturing the all-around, beam, and bars titles, and a bronze medal on the floor exercise. The Romanian team also placed second in the team competition, capturing silver. Comaneci participated in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, where she placed second, by a small margin, to Yelena Davydova in the individual all-around event. She successfully defended her Olympic title on the balance beam and tied with Nellie Kim for the gold medal in the floor exercise. There were contrabovesies over the scoring in both the all-around and floor exercise competitions. The Romanian team finished second overall in the team competition.

Comaneci retired from competition in 1981. Her official retirement ceremony took place in Bucharest in 1984 and was attended by the Chairman of the International Olympic Committee. In 1981 Comaneci participated in a gymnastics exhibition tour in the United States. During the tour, her coaches, Bela and Marta Karolyi, along with the Romanian team choreographer Geza Pozsar, defected. Upon her return to Romania, Comaneci’s actions were strictly monitored. She was granted leave to attend the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles but was supervised for the full trip. Aside from that journey, and a few decide on trips to Moscow and Cuba, Comaneci was forbidden to leave the country for any reason.” “Life…” she wrote in her autobiography, “took on a fresh bleakness”.

Name Nadia Comaneci Height Naionality Romanian Date of Birth 12-November-1961 Place of Birth Onesti, Romania Famous for Gymnast

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