| （College of Physical Education，South China Normal University，Guangzhou 510631，China） Abstract: Basing his study subject on male athletes participating in the 39th World Gymnastics Championships, the author studied the scores in the men’s gymnastics contests and looked into the structure of competition in men’s competitive gymnastics in the 29th Olympic Games to be held in Beijing, and reveled the following findings: the overall performance of the men’s teams of China, Russia and Japan is the highest, forming a “balanced tripod” structure between China, Russia and Japan; the strengths of topnotch gymnastic countries such as Romania, USA and Korea are going up, thus it is promising for these countries to participate in the contests for team medals; in in-dividual all-round and single event contests, the strengths of Chinese and Japanese athletes are the most powerful, while a number of athletes in such countries as Romania, White Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria and Slovenia in Europe as well as Brazil and Canada in America are thriving.
Key words: men’s competitive gymnastics；the 29th Olympics Games；the 39th World Gymnastics Championships |
