Vault at the Olympics

Vault at the Olympic Games
The first men's vault winner, Carl Schuhmann, in 1896
Overview
Sport	Artistic gymnastics
Gender	Men and women
Years held	Men: 1896, 1904, 1924–2024 Women: 1952–2024
Reigning champion
Men	Carlos Yulo (PHI)
Women	Simone Biles (USA)

The vault is an artistic gymnastics event held at the Summer Olympics. The event was first held for men at the first modern Olympics in 1896. It was held again in 1904, but not in 1900, 1908, 1912, or 1920 when no apparatus events were awarded medals. The vault was one of the components of the men's artistic individual all-around in 1900, however. The men's vault returned as a medal event in 1924 and has been held every Games since. Vault scores were included in the individual all-around for 1924 and 1928, with no separate apparatus final. In 1932, the vault was entirely separate from the all-around. From 1936 to 1956, there were again no separate apparatus finals with the vault scores used in the all-around. The women's vault was added in 1952 and has been held every Games since. Beginning in 1960, there were separate apparatus finals.

The vault used a "vaulting horse" until 2000; after that, a "vaulting table" has been used.

Medalists

Men

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1896 Athens	Carl Schuhmann  Germany	Louis Zutter  Switzerland	Hermann Weingärtner  Germany
1900 Paris	Not held
1904 St. Louis	George Eyser  United States Anton Heida  United States	Not awarded	William Merz  United States
1908 London	Not held
1912 Stockholm	Not held
1920 Antwerp	Not held
1924 Paris	Frank Kriz  United States	Jan Koutný  Czechoslovakia	Bohumil Mořkovský  Czechoslovakia
1928 Amsterdam	Eugen Mack  Switzerland	Emanuel Löffler  Czechoslovakia	Stane Derganc  Yugoslavia
1932 Los Angeles	Savino Guglielmetti  Italy	Al Jochim  United States	Ed Carmichael  United States
1936 Berlin	Alfred Schwarzmann  Germany	Eugen Mack  Switzerland	Matthias Volz  Germany
1948 London	Paavo Aaltonen  Finland	Olavi Rove  Finland	János Mogyorósi-Klencs  Hungary Ferenc Pataki  Hungary Leo Sotorník  Czechoslovakia
1952 Helsinki	Viktor Chukarin  Soviet Union	Masao Takemoto  Japan	Takashi Ono  Japan Tadao Uesako  Japan
1956 Melbourne	Helmut Bantz  United Team of Germany Valentin Muratov  Soviet Union	Not awarded	Yuri Titov  Soviet Union
1960 Rome	Boris Shakhlin  Soviet Union Takashi Ono  Japan	Not awarded	Vladimir Portnoi  Soviet Union
1964 Tokyo	Haruhiro Yamashita  Japan	Victor Lisitsky  Soviet Union	Hannu Rantakari  Finland
1968 Mexico City	Mikhail Voronin  Soviet Union	Yukio Endo  Japan	Sergei Diomidov  Soviet Union
1972 Munich	Klaus Köste  East Germany	Viktor Klimenko  Soviet Union	Nikolai Andrianov  Soviet Union
1976 Montreal	Nikolai Andrianov  Soviet Union	Mitsuo Tsukahara  Japan	Hiroshi Kajiyama  Japan
1980 Moscow	Nikolai Andrianov  Soviet Union	Alexander Dityatin  Soviet Union	Roland Brückner  East Germany
1984 Los Angeles	Lou Yun  China	Li Ning  China Koji Gushiken  Japan Mitchell Gaylord  United States Shinji Morisue  Japan	Not awarded
1988 Seoul	Lou Yun  China	Sylvio Kroll  East Germany	Park Jong-Hoon  South Korea
1992 Barcelona	Vitaly Scherbo  Unified Team	Grigory Misutin  Unified Team	Yoo Ok-ryul  South Korea
1996 Atlanta	Alexei Nemov  Russia	Yeo Hong-Chul  South Korea	Vitaly Scherbo  Belarus
2000 Sydney	Gervasio Deferr  Spain	Alexei Bondarenko  Russia	Leszek Blanik  Poland
2004 Athens	Gervasio Deferr  Spain	Evgeni Sapronenko  Latvia	Marian Drăgulescu  Romania
2008 Beijing	Leszek Blanik  Poland	Thomas Bouhail  France	Anton Golotsutskov  Russia
2012 London	Yang Hak-Seon  South Korea	Denis Ablyazin  Russia	Igor Radivilov  Ukraine
2016 Rio de Janeiro	Ri Se-gwang  North Korea	Denis Ablyazin  Russia	Kenzō Shirai  Japan
2020 Tokyo	Shin Jea-hwan  South Korea	Denis Ablyazin  ROC	Artur Davtyan  Armenia
2024 Paris	Carlos Yulo  Philippines	Artur Davtyan  Armenia	Harry Hepworth  Great Britain

Multiple medalists

Rank	Gymnast	Nation	Olympics	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Nikolai Andrianov	Soviet Union (URS)	1972–1980	2	0	1	3
2	Lou Yun	China (CHN)	1984–1988	2	0	0	2
	Gervasio Deferr	Spain (ESP)	2000–2004	2	0	0	2
4	Eugen Mack	Switzerland (SUI)	1928–1936	1	1	0	2
5	Vitaly Scherbo	Unified Team (EUN)  Belarus (BLR)	1992–1996	1	0	1	2
	Takashi Ono	Japan (JPN)	1952–1960	1	0	1	2
	Leszek Blanik	Poland (POL)	2000–2008	1	0	1	2
8	Denis Ablyazin	Russia (RUS)  ROC	2012–2020	0	3	0	3
9	Artur Davtyan	Armenia (ARM)	2020–2024	0	1	1	2

Medalists by country

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	6	3	4	13
2	United States (USA)	3	2	2	7
3	Japan (JPN)	2	5	4	11
4	China (CHN)	2	1	0	3
5	South Korea (KOR)	2	0	3	5
6	Germany (GER)	2	0	2	4
7	Spain (ESP)	2	0	0	2
8	Russia (RUS)	1	3	1	5
9	Switzerland (SUI)	1	2	0	3
10	Finland (FIN)	1	1	1	3
	East Germany (GDR)	1	1	1	3
12	Unified Team (EUN)	1	1	0	2
13	Poland (POL)	1	0	1	2
14	United Team of Germany (EUA)	1	0	0	1
	Italy (ITA)	1	0	0	1
	North Korea (PRK)	1	0	0	1
	Philippines (PHI)	1	0	0	1
18	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	2	2	4
19	Armenia (ARM)	0	1	1	2
20	France (FRA)	0	1	0	1
	Latvia (LAT)	0	1	0	1
	ROC	0	1	0	1
23	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	2	2
24	Belarus (BLR)	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
	Romania (ROU)	0	0	1	1
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	0	1	1
	Yugoslavia (YUG)	0	0	1	1

Women

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1952 Helsinki	Ekaterina Kalinchuk  Soviet Union	Maria Gorokhovskaya  Soviet Union	Galina Minaicheva  Soviet Union
1956 Melbourne	Larisa Latynina  Soviet Union	Tamara Manina  Soviet Union	Olga Tass  Hungary Ann-Sofi Colling  Sweden
1960 Rome	Margarita Nikolaeva  Soviet Union	Sofia Muratova  Soviet Union	Larisa Latynina  Soviet Union
1964 Tokyo	Věra Čáslavská  Czechoslovakia	Larisa Latynina  Soviet Union	Birgit Radochla  United Team of Germany
1968 Mexico City	Věra Čáslavská  Czechoslovakia	Erika Zuchold  East Germany	Zinaida Voronina  Soviet Union
1972 Munich	Karin Janz  East Germany	Erika Zuchold  East Germany	Ludmila Tourischeva  Soviet Union
1976 Montreal	Nellie Kim  Soviet Union	Ludmila Tourischeva  Soviet Union	Carola Dombeck  East Germany
1980 Moscow	Natalia Shaposhnikova  Soviet Union	Steffi Kräker  East Germany	Melita Ruhn  Romania
1984 Los Angeles	Ecaterina Szabo  Romania	Mary Lou Retton  United States	Lavinia Agache  Romania
1988 Seoul	Svetlana Boginskaya  Soviet Union	Gabriela Potorac  Romania	Daniela Silivaş  Romania
1992 Barcelona	Henrietta Ónodi  Hungary Lavinia Miloșovici  Romania	Not awarded	Tatiana Lysenko  Unified Team
1996 Atlanta	Simona Amânar  Romania	Mo Huilan  China	Gina Gogean  Romania
2000 Sydney	Elena Zamolodchikova  Russia	Andreea Răducan  Romania	Yekaterina Lobaznyuk  Russia
2004 Athens	Monica Roșu  Romania	Annia Hatch  United States	Anna Pavlova  Russia
2008 Beijing	Hong Un Jong  North Korea	Oksana Chusovitina  Germany	Cheng Fei  China
2012 London	Sandra Izbașa  Romania	McKayla Maroney  United States	Maria Paseka  Russia
2016 Rio de Janeiro	Simone Biles  United States	Maria Paseka  Russia	Giulia Steingruber  Switzerland
2020 Tokyo	Rebeca Andrade  Brazil	MyKayla Skinner  United States	Yeo Seo-jeong  South Korea
2024 Paris	Simone Biles  United States	Rebeca Andrade  Brazil	Jade Carey  United States

Multiple medalists

Rank	Gymnast	Nation	Olympics	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Simone Biles	United States (USA)	2016, 2024	2	0	0	2
	Věra Čáslavská	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1964–1968	2	0	0	2
3	Larisa Latynina	Soviet Union (URS)	1956–1964	1	1	1	3
4	Rebeca Andrade	Brazil (BRA)	2020–2024	1	1	0	2
5	Erika Zuchold	East Germany (GDR)	1968–1972	0	2	0	2
6	Ludmilla Tourischeva	Soviet Union (URS)	1972–1976	0	1	1	2
	Maria Paseka	Russia (RUS)	2012–2016	0	1	1	2

Medalists by country

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	6	5	4	15
2	Romania (ROU)	5	2	4	11
3	United States (USA)	2	4	1	7
4	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	2	0	0	2
5	East Germany (GDR)	1	3	1	5
6	Russia (RUS)	1	1	3	5
7	Brazil (BRA)	1	1	0	2
8	Hungary (HUN)	1	0	1	2
9	North Korea (PRK)	1	0	0	1
10	China (CHN)	0	1	1	2
11	Germany (GER)	0	1	0	1
12	South Korea (KOR)	0	0	1	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1
	Unified Team (EUN)	0	0	1	1
	United Team of Germany (EUA)	0	0	1	1

Gallery

handspring double salto forward tucked (2012)

Axel Augis, 2016

Petro Pakhnyuk, 2020

Men's Vault at the Olympics

Shawn Johnson, 2008

Daniele Hypólito, 2016

Abigail Magistrati, 2020

Women's Vault at the Olympics

Sidehorse vault

Albert Séguin, gold medalist in the sidehorse vault

The 1924 Summer Olympics had an odd programme. The regular vault event featured an unusual format, using a bar that had to be jumped over between the springboard and the vaulting horse. There was also a "sidehorse vault" (French: saut de cheval en largeur) event in which the competitors used a vaulting horse set sideways (perpendicular to the approach) to make a single flip. This was the only time that event was held.

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1924 Paris	Albert Séguin  France	Jean Gounot  France François Gangloff  France	—