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Gymnastics
Gymnastics
Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...

at the Friendship Games
Friendship Games
The Friendship Games or Friendship-84 was an international multi-sport event held between 2 July and 16 September 1984 in the Soviet Union and eight other socialist states which boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles....

was contested in two disciplines. Artistic gymnastics

Artistic gymnastics

Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics where gymnasts perform short routines on different apparatus, with less time for vaulting . The sport is governed by the Federation Internationale de Gymnastique , which designs the Code of Points and regulates all aspects of international elite...

was held in Olomouc

Olomouc

Olomouc is a city in Moravia, in the east of the Czech Republic. The city is located on the Morava river and is the ecclesiastical metropolis and historical capital city of Moravia. Nowadays, it is an administrative centre of the Olomouc Region and sixth largest city in the Czech Republic...

, Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovak Socialist Republic

The Czechoslovak Socialist Republic was the official name of Czechoslovakia from 1960 until end of 1989 , a Soviet satellite state of the Eastern Bloc....

, between 20 and 26 August 1984, with 14 events (8 men's and 6 women's). Rhythmic gymnastics

Rhythmic gymnastics

Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which individuals or teams of competitors manipulate one or two pieces of apparatus: rope, clubs, hoop, ball, ribbon and Free . An individual athlete only manipulates 1 apparatus at a time...

was held in Sofia

Sofia

Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...

, Bulgaria, between 17 and 19 August 1984, with 5 events (all of them women's).

Men's events

Team all-around	Soviet Union Vladimir Artemov Vladimir Artemov Vladimir Nikolaevich Artemov is a former Russian gymnast, Olympic champion and world champion who competed for the Soviet Union.He was born in Vladimir.... Yuri Balabanov Dmitri Bilozerchev Stepan Martsinkiv Alexander Pogorelov Alexander Tumilovich	590.300	German Democratic Republic Holger Behrendt Holger Behrendt Holger Behrendt is a German gymnast and Olympic champion.-Olympics:Holger Behrendt competed for East Germany at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul where he received a gold medal in rings, a silver medal in team combined exercises, and a bronze medal in horizontal bar.-World championships:Behrend... Roland Brückner Roland Brückner Roland Brückner is a multichampion in gymnastics, who won many titles of the world, in his era and competed for the SC Dynamo Berlin/ Sportvereinigung Dynamo. He is still now a trainer in Switzerland by the NKL Liestal with Maxi Gnauck.-External links:***-References:... Ulf Hoffmann Ulf Hoffmann Ulf Hoffmann is a German/East German gymnast who won the silver medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics.He competed for the SC Dynamo Berlin/ Sportvereinigung Dynamo.... Jens Fischer Sylvio Kroll Thorsten Mettke	584.400	Bulgaria Stoichko Gotchev Borislav Hutov Marian Penev Plamen Petkov Rumen Petkov Zdravko Stoyanov	579.400
Individual all-around	\| 119.300	\| 118.875	\| 117.525
Floor		19.875	\| 19.775		19.750
Pommel horse	\| 19.925		19.800	none awarded	–
Rings	\| 19.975		19.800	none awarded	–
Vault	\| 19.950	\| 19.825		19.800
Parallel bars	\| 19.800	\| 19.700		19.450
Horizontal bar	\| 19.975	\| 19.800	\| 19.700

Women's events

Team all-around	Soviet Union Irina Baraksanova Tatiana Frolova Natalia Ilienko Natalia Ilienko Natalia Ilienko was a Soviet gymnast born March 26, 1967 in Alma Ata, Kazakhstan. Her biggest accomplishment was becoming world floor champion in 1981.... Olga Mostepanova Olga Mostepanova Olga Vasilyevna Mostepanova is a retired prominent Soviet gymnast. Her birth year has been variously reported as 1968 or 1969, but Mostepanova herself has stated that she was actually born in 1970.-Gymnastics career:... Elena Shushunova Natalia Yurchenko Natalia Yurchenko Natalia Vladimirovna Yurchenko was a Soviet artistic gymnast, who was the women's all-around gold medalist at the 1983 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships...	395.250	German Democratic Republic Gabriele Fahnrich Maxi Gnauck Maxi Gnauck Maxi Gnauck is a retired Artistic Gymnast. With a total of 27 medals at the Olympic Games, World Championships, World Cups, and European Championships she is considered one of the most successful woman gymnast that Germany has ever produced.Her parents were expecting a boy and they planned to name... Astrid Heese Birgit Senff Bettina Schieferdecker Franka Voigt	392.500	Czechoslovakia Iva Cervenkova Alena Drevjana Hana Ricna Martina Koblizkova Jana Labakova Lenka Pitlovicova	391.950
Individual all-around	\| 79.825	\| 79.425		79.125
Floor		19.950	none awarded	–		19.750
Vault		19.900	none awarded	–		19.875
Uneven bars	\| 20.000	\| 19.975		19.950
Balance beam	\| 20.000	\| 19.850	\| 19.750

Rhythmic gymnastics

Individual all-around	36.60		39.45	none awarded	–
Individual ribbon	20.00		19.85		19.70
Individual clubs	20.00		19.70		19.60
Individual hoop	19.95		19.90		19.80
Individual ball	19.95	none awarded	–		19.80

Medal table

1	Soviet Union	12	8	8	28
2	Bulgaria	6	4	4	14
3	German Democratic Republic	4	3	6	13
4	Cuba	0	2	2	4
4	Czechoslovakia	0	2	2	4
6	Hungary	0	2	0	2
7	North Korea	0	0	1	1
7	Poland	0	0	1	1
Total		22	21	24	67

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