The top five gymnasts with perfect 10 Scores have earned a special place in sports history by achieving what was once thought to be impossible. When scoring a perfect 10 was unimaginable and considered the most difficult achievement in gymnastics, Nadia Comaneci became the first gymnast to do so at the 1976 Montreal Games.
In the same Olympics, Nellie Kim also achieved a perfect 10, marking a historic moment for the sport. Their flawless performances established them as living legends of gymnastics. Even today, earning a perfect 10 through complete precision and execution remains one of the hardest accomplishments in gymnastics history.
Nadia Comaneci
Nadia Comaneci, who was a Romanian, was the first person ever to make a perfect score of 10 in gymnastics history at the Montreal games in 1976. She is a five-time gold medalist in Olympic history. She was only 14 years old when she got the title of perfect score 10. At the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics, she made 6 more perfect scores of 10. Comaneci won nine Olympic medals and four world artistic championships medals.
Nellie Vladimirovna Kim
Nellie Vladimirovna Kim represented Soviet union in 1976 summer Olympics, when she won three gold medals and a silver medal, she didn’t stopped here she also won two gold medals at 1980 summer Olympic in Moscow, she became the second woman to make a perfect 10 score and first woman to score it on the vault and on the floor which was considered a difficult task.
Mary Lou Retton
Mary Lou Retton, an American who made her nation proud by winning multiple gold medals at bug stage, in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles she won a gold medal in the individual all-around competition. Along with this, she won two silver and two bronze medals, which earned her the title of Sport Illustrated Sportswoman of the Year award.
Daniela Viorica Silivaș-Harper
Daniela Viorica Silivaș-Harper is a Romanian former artistic gymnast known for earning medals in every single event at one Olympics, winning three gold, two silver, and one bronze. In 1988 at seoul summer Olympics. She was the Fourth Female gymnast to achieve this landmark record.
Yelena Lvovna Shushunova
Yelena Lvovna Shushunova was a Russian athlete who won all-around titles at all major events like the Olympics, world championships, and European or continental championships, and was one of the best athletes who never left her bag of medals empty in any of the tournaments. In 1988, she made a perfect 10 score, leaving everyone shocked with her performance.
The International Gymnastics Federation(FIG) in 2006 changed its code of points. This change was noted as a point of criticism where athletes like Béla Karolyi made a statement that it’s crazy, terrible, the stupidest thing that ever happened to the sport of gymnastics. In contemporary times, there are several top perfect scorers, but during early times, when the facilities that today’s athletes get were not accessible for players like Nadia, Nellie, Mary Lou, Daniela, and Shush Nova, they made world records that made their names in the history of gymnastics. Inspiring young talent to move forward and aim their goal to become gymnastics legends and make their nation proud. This shows how Women’s have dominated the gymnastics sport.
