Women Vault Gymnastics XVI Olympic Games 1976 Montreal - Monday 22nd July

Women Vault Gymnastics XVI Olympic Games 1976 Montreal - Monday 22nd July - Gold Medal: Nellie Kim, Soviet Union

Venue: Montreal Forum.

Format: Eighty-six gymnasts competed in the compulsory and optional rounds on July 18 and 19. The six highest scoring gymnasts advanced to the final. Each country was limited to two competitors in the final. Half of the points earned by each gymnast during both the compulsory and optional rounds carried over to the final.

Final> Ranking		Total	Final	Prel.	Comp.	Opt.	Age
1. Nellie Kim	URS	19.800	9.950	9.850	9.800	9.900
2. Ludmila Tourischeva	URS	19.650	9.850	9.800	9.800	9.800
2. Carola Dombeck	GDR	19.650	9.600	9.750	9.900	9.900
4. Nadia Comăneci	ROU	19.625	9.700	9.775	9.850	9.850
5. Gitta Escher	GDR	19.550	9.700	9.750	9.800	9.800
6. Márta Egervári	HUN	19.450	9.700	9.700	9.750	9.700

It is particularly remembered for the first ever Perfect 10 in Gymnastics at the Olympic Games. Nadia Comăneci of Romania, who was only 14 at the time managed a perfect score, in the compulsory team round. The scoreboard had been designed with only three digits due to the apparent impossibility of a perfect score, so at the time, it only read, "1.00". Nadia would later follow her first perfect score with two others in the optional round and the final, to finish on a perfect score of 20.

All Olympic Champions

2016: Simone Biles (USA)

2012: Sandra Izbașa (ROU)

2008: Hong Un-jong (PRK)

2004: Monica Roșu (ROU)

2000: Elena Zamolodchikova (RUS)

1996: Simona Amânar (ROU)

1992: Lavinia Miloșovici (ROU)

1992: Henrietta Ónodi (HUN)

1988: Svetlana Boginskaya (URS)

1984: Ecaterina Szabo (ROU)

1980: Natalia Shaposhnikova (URS)