No need to jump through hoops to find out which rhythmic gymnasts made the podium at the 2024 Olympics . Germany’s Darja Varfolomeev won the gold, Bulgaria’s Boryana Kaleyn took home the silver and Italy’s Sofia Raffaeli secured the bronze during the individual all-around final at Paris’ Porte de la Chapelle Arena on Aug. 9.
Viewers will now have to wait and see which teams medal in the group all-around final on Aug. 10. Meanwhile, some fans may be tumbling over with confusion if they thought the gymnastics events at this year’s Games were over.
After all, they’d already seen Simone Biles , Suni Lee , Jordan Chiles , Jade Carey and Hezly Rivera win gold; Stephen Nedoroscik go viral for his bronze-winning pommel horse routine ; a score change that made jaw drops and many more moments will continue to stick the landing in sports lovers’ minds. But those were artistic gymnastics events. There are actually three disciplines at the Olympics: artistic, rhythmic and trampoline.
Let’s do a quick flip through history: While gymnastics has been a part of the Olympics since the first modern Games in Athens in 1896, women weren’t allowed to compete in artistic gymnastics at the Olympics until the 1928 Games in Amsterdam. It wouldn’t be until 1984 that rhythmic gymnastics made its Olympic debut in Los Angeles, and trampoline first became an Olympic sport in 2000 at the Sydney Games. Soooo.
..what exactly is the difference between artistic and rhythmic gymnastics? If you.