Nadia Comăneci

Nadia Comăneci is a Romanian former artistic gymnast who became the first gymnast awarded a perfect 10 at an Olympic Games, at Montreal in 1976.

1976 Summer Olympics: The Summer Olympic Games held in Montreal, Canada, from July 17 to August 1, 1976. Comăneci’s perfect scores at these Games made her an international figure.
Béla Károlyi: A Romanian-American gymnastics coach who trained Nadia Comăneci and later coached U.S. Olympic champions. Károlyi coached Comăneci from childhood and guided her rise to international competition.
Perfect 10 (gymnastics): The maximum score awarded under the former artistic-gymnastics scoring system. Comăneci’s Montreal scores made the perfect 10 a global symbol of her achievement.
Perfect 10 display at the 1976 Olympics: The scoreboard display that showed 1.00 after Nadia Comăneci earned a perfect 10 in Montreal. The scoreboard could not display 10.00, making the achievement instantly striking.
1976 Olympic Games women's uneven bars: The women's uneven-bars competition at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Comăneci earned her first Olympic perfect 10 on this apparatus.
Marta Károlyi: A Romanian-American gymnastics coach who worked with Béla Károlyi and led U.S. women's national gymnastics teams. She coached Comăneci alongside Béla Károlyi in Romania.
Code of Points (artistic gymnastics): The rulebook defining how artistic-gymnastics routines are evaluated and scored. The scoring code determined how Comăneci’s routines received perfect marks.
Women's artistic gymnastics: The women's Olympic discipline of judged routines on vault, uneven bars, balance beam, and floor exercise. Comăneci became its defining young star during the 1970s.
1976 Olympic Games women's balance beam: The women's balance-beam competition at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Her balance-beam routines brought further perfect scores and an Olympic gold medal.
Olga Korbut: A Soviet gymnast whose performances at the 1972 Munich Olympics helped popularize women's artistic gymnastics. Korbut’s Olympic fame preceded Comăneci’s and helped set the stage for her prominence.

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