Code of Points

The Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique’s rulebook for evaluating gymnastics routines. It defines skill values, composition requirements, deductions, and procedures for judging.

Difficulty Score: A score component reflecting the value of skills and composition requirements performed in a routine. The Code assigns values to skills and sets requirements that build this score.
Artistic Gymnastics: A gymnastics discipline in which athletes perform routines on apparatus, judged for difficulty and execution. Its apparatus events and routines are among the main settings governed by the Code.
Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique: The international governing body for gymnastics, founded in 1881. The FIG publishes and revises the Code for its international competitions.
Rhythmic Gymnastics Code of Points: The FIG rulebook for evaluating rhythmic gymnastics routines performed with hand apparatus. It applies FIG scoring principles to a different discipline, apparatus, and routine vocabulary.
Execution Score: A score component that evaluates how cleanly and precisely a routine is performed. Judges deduct for faults such as bent legs, steps, and poor form.
Apparatus: Equipment used in gymnastics events, such as the balance beam, floor, and uneven bars. Skill values and routine requirements differ across apparatus.
Perfect 10: A scoring ceiling of 10 that once defined the maximum score in artistic gymnastics. The Code’s open-ended difficulty score replaced the perfect-10 system in elite competition.
Trampoline Gymnastics Code of Points: The FIG rulebook for scoring trampoline and related gymnastics events. Its scoring criteria include features such as time of flight that artistic routines do not use.
Neutral Deduction: A penalty subtracted from a gymnastics score for violations not assessed as execution faults. The Code specifies penalties for violations such as exceeding time limits or stepping out of bounds.
Gymnastics Element: A recognized movement or skill performed in a gymnastics routine. The Code classifies elements and assigns them difficulty values.

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