Gymnastics Explained

WAG

Women's Artistic Gymnastics: four apparatus — vault, uneven bars, balance beam and floor — under its own Code of Points.

WAG is short for Women’s Artistic Gymnastics. Women compete on four apparatus, in Olympic order: vault, uneven bars, balance beam and floor.

Some of what sets WAG apart under the 2025–2028 Code of Points:

  • Composition requirements — four per apparatus, worth 0.50 each — rather than element groups.
  • Artistry is judged on beam and floor, and floor is performed to music.
  • Beam and floor routines last up to 90 seconds, and their eight counting skills must include at least three dance and three acrobatic elements.
  • A dismount bonus of 0.20 for a D-value or harder dismount.

Women’s gymnastics joined the Olympics in 1928 as a team event — Great Britain won bronze — and gained individual all-around and apparatus finals in 1952.

The men’s discipline is MAG.

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Related terms

  • MAG

    Men's Artistic Gymnastics: six apparatus — floor, pommel horse, rings, vault, parallel bars and horizontal bar — under its own Code of Points.

  • Composition requirement

    In women's gymnastics, one of four required skill types on bars, beam and floor, each worth 0.50 towards the D-score.

  • Acro line

    In women's floor, a tumbling pass of at least two directly connected flight elements, one of them a salto. Up to four acro lines count, and the last counting one is the dismount.

  • Apparatus

    The equipment a routine is performed on: vault, uneven bars, balance beam and floor for women; floor, pommel horse, rings, vault, parallel bars and horizontal bar for men.

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