| 1984 Olomouc Friendship Games | |
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 Official logo | |
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City |
Olomouc, Czechoslovakia |
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Dates |
August 20-26 |
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Team Gold Medalist |
USSR |
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All-Around Gold Medalist |
Olga Mostepanova (USSR) |
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Vault Gold Medalist |
Olga Mostepanova (USSR) |
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Uneven Bars Gold Medalist |
Maxi Gnauck (GDR) |
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Balance Beam Gold Medalist |
Olga Mostepanova (USSR) |
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Floor Exercise Gold Medalist |
Olga Mostepanova (USSR) |
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Preceded by |
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Succeeded by |
N/A |
The Friendship Games or Friendship-84 (Russian: Дружба-84, Druzhba-84) was an international multi-sport event held in Olomouc, Czechoslovakia between 2 July and 16 September 1984 in the Soviet Union and eight other socialist states which boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Although Friendship Games officials denied that the Games were to be a counter-Olympic event to avoid conflicts with the International Olympic Committee, the competition was often dubbed the Eastern Bloc's "alternative Olympics". Some fifty states took part in the competition. While the boycotting countries were represented by their strongest athletes, other states sent their reserve teams, consisting of athletes who failed to qualify for Los Angeles.
Format of Competition[]
The artistic gymnastics competition was the same as the 1984 Summer Olympics. It was carried out in three stages:
- Competition I - The team competition/qualification round in which all gymnasts, including those who were not part of a team, performed both compulsory and optional exercises. The combined scores of all team members determined the final score of the team. The thirty-six highest scoring gymnasts in the all-around qualified to the individual all-around competition. The six highest scoring gymnasts on each apparatus qualified to the final for that apparatus.
- Competition II - The individual all-around competition, in which those who qualified from Competition I performed exercises on each apparatus. The final score of each gymnast was composed of half the points earned by that gymnast during Competition I and all of the points earned by her in Competition II.
- Competition III - The apparatus finals, in which those who qualified during Competition I performed an exercise on the individual apparatus on which she had qualified. The final score of each gymnast was composed of half the points earned by that gymnast on that particular apparatus during Competition I and all of the points earned by her on that particular apparatus in Competition III.
Each country was limited to three gymnasts in the all-around final and two gymnasts in each apparatus final.
Results[]
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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| Team |  USSR
Irina Baraksanova |
 East Germany
Gabriele Faehnrich |
File:800px-Flag of the Czech Republic.png Czechoslovakia
Iva Cervenkova |
| All-Around | Olga Mostepanova Soviet Union (USSR) |
File:800px-Flag of the Czech Republic.png Hana Říčná Czechoslovakia (TCH) |
Elena Shushunova Soviet Union (USSR)
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| Vault | Olga Mostepanova Soviet Union (USSR)
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N/A | Maxi Gnauck East Germany (GDR) |
| Uneven Bars | Maxi Gnauck East Germany (GDR) |
Natalia Yurchenko Soviet Union (USSR) |
Gabriele Faehnrich East Germany (GDR) |
| Balance Beam | Olga Mostepanova Soviet Union (USSR) |
File:800px-Flag of the Czech Republic.png Hana Říčná Czechoslovakia (TCH) |
File:800px-Flag of the Czech Republic.png Alena Drevjana Czechoslovakia (TCH) |
| Floor Exercise | Olga Mostepanova Soviet Union (USSR)
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N/A | Bettina Schieferdecker East Germany (GDR) |
Notable Moments[]
- USSR's Olga Mostepanova won the all-around by scoring perfect tens on all four apparatus. She is the only gymnast in history to accomplish this feat.
Medal Count[]
| Rank | Country | 
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Total |
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| 1 | USSR
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6 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| 2 | East Germany
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2 | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 3 | File:800px-Flag of the Czech Republic.png Czechoslovakia | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |