Gymnasts are people who participate in the sport of gymnastics.
See Gymnasium (ancient Greece) for the origin of the word gymnast.
Famous gymnasts
Female
- Polina Astakhova (Soviet Union/Ukraine)
- Vanessa Atler (United States)
- Kendall Beck (United States)
- Alyssa Beckerman (United States)
- Mohini Bhardwaj (United States)
- Svetlana Boguinskaya (Soviet Union / Belarus)
- Amanda Borden (United States)
- Věra Čáslavská (Czech Republic, 1942 - )
- Amy Chow (United States)
- Nadia Comaneci (Romania, 1961 - )
- Sabina Cojocar (Romania, 1985 - )
- Jamie Dantzscher (United States)
- Dominique Dawes (United States)
- Elena Dolgopolova (Russia)
- Ljudmilla Ezhova (Russia)
- Lori Fung (Canada)
- Maria Gorokhovskaya (Soviet Union/Ukraine, 1921 - )
- Terin Humphrey (United States)
- Daniele Hypolito (Brazil)
- Carly Janiga (United States, 1988- )
- Ksenia Kekkonen (Russia)
- Svetlana Khorkina (Russia)
- Nelli Kim (Soviet Union)
- Anastasia Kolesnikova (Russia)
- Olga Korbut (Soviet Union / Belarus)
- Anna Kovalyova (Russia)
- Eugenia Kuznetsova (Russia)
- Larissa Latynina (Soviet Union/Ukraine, 1934 - )
- Yekaterina Lobazyuk (Russia), (1983- )
- Kristen Maloney (United States)
- Shannon Miller (United States)
- Dominique Moceanu (United States)
- Luisa Parente (Brazil)
- Carly Patterson (United States, 1988 - )
- Jaycie Phelps (United States)
- Lilia Podkopayeva (Ukraine, 1978 - )
- Catalina Ponor (Romania)
- Elena Produnova
- Andreea Raducan (Romania)
- Elise Ray (United States)
- Mary Lou Retton (United States, 1968 - )
- Cathy Rigby (United States, 1952 - )
- Galina Rumyantseva (Russia)
- Daiane dos Santos (Brazil)
- Nataliya Shaposhnikova (Soviet Union/Russia)
- Kerri Strug (United States, 1977 - )
- Lyudmila Turishcheva (Soviet Union/Russia, 1952 - )
- Morgan White (United States)
- Ma Yanhong (China)
- Elena Zamolodchikova (Russia)
- Maria Zasipkina (Russia)
- Julia Zemlyanskaya (Russia)
- Natalia Ziganshiva (Russia)
- Kim Zmeskal (United States)
Male
