nadia comaneci
The first AMERICAN gymnast to score a perfect '10' was Mitch Gaylord in 1984
Nadia Comaneci was the first gymnast to score a perfect 10 in Olympic competition.
Nadia Comaneci of Romania in 1972.
Nadia Comăneci of Romania was the first female gymnast to score a perfect 10 in a major competition. She did so at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Nadia comaneci
He was the the first male gymnast to score a perfect 10 at the Olympics.
Now with the new scoring system a gymnast has no limit of what score he or she can get although the highest score used to be a 10
Nadia Comaneci, A Romanian Gymnast, winner of 3 olympic gold medals was the first ever to achieve a perfect 10 in Gymnastics.
2 records. She was the first gymnast to ever score a perfect 10 and the youngest Olympian to receive a Olympic gold medal.
In her first Olympics Nadia Comaneci left with 7 perfect 10's, 3 gold medals, 1 silver medal and 1 bronze medal.
The scoring changed in 2006. A gymnasts score is composed of a Difficulty score and an execution score. The difficulty score is based on the skills in the routine The execution is scored out of 10. The gymnast starts at a 10 for this score and then deductions are taken from that 10. Example: D:6.7 E:9.325 Score:16.025
Up to the Athens 2004 Olympics, the gymnast was awarded a score on each apparatus out of a maximum of 10.0 points. That means that if the gymnast performed a difficult enough routine, with no flaws, they would receive a score of 10.0. However, the code of points changed just before the 2006 Commonwealth Games. The gymnast's score on each apparatus is now made up of two separate scores: the 'A' score and the 'B' score. The 'A' score is the difficulty value of the routine, and has no maximum value or limit. The harder the routine, the higher the A score. The A score starts at 0 and value is added on for each skill performed. The highest A scores are around the 7.8 mark. The 'B' score is the execution score, and is marked out of 10. For each fault the gymnast makes, the judges deduct from the 10 marks. (For example, if a gymnast falls from the beam, 0.8 is deducted from the B score.) The final score is obtained from the A score, added to the B score. The all-around score is obtained from all of the apparatus scores added together. Hope that makes sense, and was of some help to you :) I am not sure about Men's Gymnastics, but this information is current for Women's Artistic Gymnastics.