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Rhythmic Perfection

It took 48 years for a woman to score a perfect 10 in a women’s artistic gymnastics event at the Summer Olympics. Twelve years after Nadia Comăneci’s achievement, a woman from the Soviet Union scored a perfect 10 in all six apparatuses only four years after rhythmic gymnastics became an Olympics event. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, Marina Lobatch scored a 60 when she won the all-around title. She scored a perfect 10 in the ball, club, hoop, ribbon, and rope events as well as the floor exercise. Lobatch was 18. She retired at age 19.

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