Brandy Johnson claims the vault silver medal at the 1989 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany.

Phoebe Mills wins the balance beam bronze medal at the Olympic Games in Seoul.

In Los Angeles, the USA has its most successful Olympic Games ever, winning 16 medals (five gold, five silver and six bronze). The U.S. men win the team gold medal, the USA’s first ever team gold and only men’s team gold. The team consists of Peter Vidmar, Bart Conner, Tim Daggett, Mitch Gaylord, Jim Hartung, […]

The first U.S. Olympic Trials for rhythmic gymnastics are held in Atlantic City, N.J.

The U.S. Gymnastics Federation establishes the education division.

U.S. Gymnastics Federation opened its headquarters in Indianapolis, Ind. The decision to move was made earlier in 1983, based on a significant offer from the Indiana Sports Corp. and the Lilly Endowment to be part of its efforts to attract national governing bodies to Indianapolis.

Julianne McNamara and Tracee Talavera capture the uneven bars and balance beam bronze medals, respectively, at the World Championships in Moscow.

The “USGF Technical Journal,” which later becomes “Technique,” is first published on Sept. 1 as a monthly magazine to convey information, trends, techniques, stats, etc. Dr. William Sands, the USGF director of educational research, is the editor. “USGF Gymnastics” magazine became a membership benefit rather than a subscription publication with the September/October issue, published bi-monthly.

Rhythmic gymnastics becomes an Olympic discipline.

In 1980, the U.S. government funds a series of international competitions to “replace” missing the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow. For gymnastics, the ‘Alternate Olympics’ is called the 1980 USGF International Invitational and is held in Hartford, Conn. The countries that competed include Japan, China, USA, Switzerland, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Norway, Korea, […]

President Jimmy Carter announces the USA will boycott the Olympic Games in Moscow to a group of U.S. athletes. The boycott is in response to the December 1979 Soviet incursion into Afghanistan. It is the first and only time that the United States has boycotted the Olympics.