Gymnastics: how it is set up and scored.
Artistic gymnastics is an individual sport contested on a 12 metre square floor and a set of apparatus: vault, uneven bars, beam and floor for women, with six pieces for men. A competition is run in rotations, the gymnasts moving from one apparatus to the next until each has been completed. Judges give a difficulty score and an execution score for every routine, and the total decides the placings. The FIG Code of Points applies, administered in Britain by British Gymnastics.
How gymnastics is set up.
- Size
- 14 m by 14 m
- Match
- 4 rotations
- Squad
- 1 on the field per side, no rolling substitutes
- Scoring
- A score is a win; the result is in wins.
- Rules
- FIG Code of Points 2025-2028
How a result is recorded.
There is no lineup to pick in gymnastics. A coach records these for each athlete at every competition.
Scoring and results
- Apparatus Win
- All-Around Win
- Podium
- Qualified
Playmaking and performance
- Apparatus Score PB
- Element Completed
- Stuck Landing
Turnovers and non-finishes
- Fall
- Element Not Credited
Discipline
- Out of Bounds
- Time Violation
- Neutral Deduction
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