Gymnastics is a multidiscipline sport in which men and women compete as individuals or in teams. Individuals can compete in single disciplines or as all-rounders.

A breathtaking sport to watch, gymnastics develops co-ordination, awareness, flexibility and a bit of elegance, grace and style doesn’t go a miss when performing routines of the floor!

Athletes will compete in a full programme of artistic gymnastics with four events for men and six for women.

Did you know...?

In men’s artistic gymnastics the rings are suspended on wire cable 5.75 meters from the floor – that’s the same height as a giraffe!

The stunning movements performed by the gymnasts on the balance beam are being carried out on the surface of a piece of apparatus only 10cm (4in) wide.

The pommel horse is probably the most difficult of the six male artistic gymnastic events.  It is the only one in which contestants do not pause or hold a pose during a routine.

At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Louis Smith won Great Britain’s first Olympic gymnastics medal in 80 years, he won a bronze in pommel horse. 

Four teams representing England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.