Onto the next! Who makes your top five?
1. Nadia Comaneci - Two-time Olympic champion, brought innovation, difficulty, a faster pace, and stunning balance/quality to the event. There's still a special, light, effortless quality to her routine, even watching now.
2. Yang Bo - Only a gymnast with the world's best quality on an event could possibly enter the top five without ever winning a major title/medal on said event, and Yang Bo is it. My favorite beam worker of all time, but can't quite justify giving her the top spot in spite of her immaculate abilities. I mean, has anyone ever looked better on beam?
3. Shannon Miller - One Olympic gold and one silver, a World champion, the first American to perform a full-in dismount, and another of just my favorite beam workers generally. Performed a wide variety of skills, all incredibly well. For all her success, she actually could have had much more (her 1991 Worlds EF beam routine was legit perfect until the dismount, she could have won 1992 with a steadier 1/4-dive to handstand, was the favorite to win in 1993, and could have easily medaled in 1995, to say nothing of the 1992 and 1996 Worlds she missed). Also mastered two different compulsory beam sets.
4. Daniella Silivas - Beautiful beam quality, particularly with compulsories, and the resume to match: Olympic gold and two Worlds golds. Strong difficulty, as well.
5. Olga Korbut - Amazing innovation and difficulty, with good medal hardware to boot--an Olympic gold, an Olympic silver, and a Worlds silver.
Honorable mentions: Catalina Ponor, Ekaterina Szabo, Andreea Raducan, Sui Lu, Kui Yuanyuan
GOAT Series - Beam
1. Nadia Comaneci - Two-time Olympic champion, brought innovation, difficulty, a faster pace, and stunning balance/quality to the event. There's still a special, light, effortless quality to her routine, even watching now.
2. Yang Bo - Only a gymnast with the world's best quality on an event could possibly enter the top five without ever winning a major title/medal on said event, and Yang Bo is it. My favorite beam worker of all time, but can't quite justify giving her the top spot in spite of her immaculate abilities. I mean, has anyone ever looked better on beam?
3. Shannon Miller - One Olympic gold and one silver, a World champion, the first American to perform a full-in dismount, and another of just my favorite beam workers generally. Performed a wide variety of skills, all incredibly well. For all her success, she actually could have had much more (her 1991 Worlds EF beam routine was legit perfect until the dismount, she could have won 1992 with a steadier 1/4-dive to handstand, was the favorite to win in 1993, and could have easily medaled in 1995, to say nothing of the 1992 and 1996 Worlds she missed). Also mastered two different compulsory beam sets.
4. Daniella Silivas - Beautiful beam quality, particularly with compulsories, and the resume to match: Olympic gold and two Worlds golds. Strong difficulty, as well.
5. Olga Korbut - Amazing innovation and difficulty, with good medal hardware to boot--an Olympic gold, an Olympic silver, and a Worlds silver.
Honorable mentions: Catalina Ponor, Ekaterina Szabo, Andreea Raducan, Sui Lu, Kui Yuanyuan
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