Mary Lou Retton

Mary Lou Retton is an American former artistic gymnast who won the individual all-around gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

1984 Summer Olympics: The Olympic Games held in Los Angeles from July 28 to August 12, 1984. Retton won the all-around title at these Games, held amid a Soviet-led boycott.
Béla Károlyi: A Romanian-American gymnastics coach who trained elite gymnasts, including Nadia Comăneci and Mary Lou Retton. Károlyi coached Retton during the rise that culminated in her 1984 Olympic title.
American women's gymnastics: The history and practice of women's artistic gymnastics in the United States. Retton's gold helped establish American women as contenders in Olympic gymnastics.
Olga Korbut: A Soviet gymnast whose performances at the 1972 Olympics helped popularize women's gymnastics. Korbut's earlier celebrity offers a precedent for the public attention Retton received.
Women's artistic gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics: The women's artistic gymnastics competition at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. This competition includes Retton's all-around victory and her four additional medals.
Nadia Comăneci: A Romanian gymnast who won the Olympic all-around gold medal in 1976 and 1980. Comăneci's Olympic dominance preceded Retton's and helped shape the sport's expectations.
Nadia Comăneci effect: The surge of public interest in gymnastics following Nadia Comăneci's Olympic success. Retton extended the U.S. audience for a sport already transformed by Comăneci's fame.
FIG Code of Points: The International Gymnastics Federation's rules for evaluating and scoring gymnastics routines. Changes to scoring since 1984 make Retton's perfect-score-era results difficult to compare directly.
1984 Olympic women's gymnastics all-around: The women's individual all-around competition in artistic gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics. Retton won the event by 0.05 points after a near-perfect final vault.
Julio César León: A Honduran gymnast who competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics. León was Retton's teammate at the Los Angeles Games.

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