20 Amazing Gymnastics Feats: Impossibly Talented Athletes

The Gymnastics World

Gymnastics is one of the oldest sports in the world, dating back more than 2500 years. Today, it has evolved into a highly competitive and thrilling sport, attracting millions of viewers from around the world to watch the athletes performing amazing gymnastics feats.

We Present to You, 20 Impossibly Talented Gymnasts of Our Time

1. Simone Biles:
The most decorated American gymnast with 19 world championship and four Olympic gold medals.

2. Kohei Uchimura:
A Japanese gymnast who won 19 world championship medals and broke the record for most all-around medals in a single gymnastics meet.

3. Nastia Liukin:
A Russian-American gymnast who won five Olympic medals and four national titles.

4. Mary Lou Retton:
The first American gymnast to win a gold medal in the individual all-around competition in the Olympics.

5. Shannon Miller:
An American gymnast with seven Olympic medals, including two golds.

6. Olga Korbut:
A Belarusian gymnast who dominated during the 1972 Munich Olympics, winning three gold medals and one silver.

7. Nadia Comaneci:
The first gymnast in history to score a perfect 10 in the Olympics.

8. Larisa Latynina:
A Ukrainian gymnast who dominated the 1950s and 60s, with 9 Olympic gold medals and 14 world titles.

9. Danell Leyva:
An American gymnast who won two Olympic medals, a silver in the individual all-around and a bronze in the horizontal bar.

10. Oksana Chusovitina:
An Uzbekistani gymnast competing for Germany, with a record seven Olympics appearances.

11. Dipa Karmakar:
The first Indian female gymnast to qualify for the Olympics and is known for her incredible Yurchenko vault.

12. Arthur Zanetti:
A Brazilian gymnast who specialized in the rings, winning the gold medal in the 2012 London Olympics.

13. Epke Zonderland:
A Dutch gymnast with a stunning high bar routine, earning him the nickname “Flying Dutchman.”

14. McKayla Maroney:
An American gymnast known for her “not impressed” expression after winning a silver medal in the 2012 London Olympics.

15. Kenzo Shirai:
A Japanese gymnast known for his incredible tumbling passes in the floor exercise.

16. Vanessa Ferrari:
An Italian gymnast with multiple European championship medals and the all-around gold at the 2006 world championships.

17. Li Xiaopeng:
A Chinese gymnast with numerous Olympic and world championship medals, and is considered to be one of the greatest male gymnasts ever.

18. Svetlana Khorkina:
A Russian gymnast with seven Olympic medals, including two golds, and three world all-around titles.

19. Kaitlyn Ohashi:
An American gymnast known for her fun and energetic floor routines accompanied with a lot of dancing.

20. Morgan Hurd:
An American gymnast, who became the all-around champion at the 2017 world championships.

Gymnastics “Showing Out”

The athletes mentioned above are just some of the most prominent figures in the sport of gymnastics and these athletes made the Olympic games an exciting viewing experience in every spectator’s eyes. Once again, they showed the world how incredibly gifted and impossibly talented they are. Gymnastics is an incredible sport and deserves due recognition for the way it combines strength, flexibility, artistry and speed, imitating the forms and movements of nature. With increasing talent levels with atheltes aiming to push the limits year by year and increasing skill levels, the world looks forward to another set of exceptional athletes and feats of gymnastics for us to rrejoice about.