By Patricia C. Duffy
Five years ago today the women’s artistic gymnastics team final was held in the North Greenwich Arena during the London 2012 Olympics. inside Gymnastics reminisces on the events of that day, including Team USA’s dominating performance, in this photo gallery.
Photos: Grace Chiu
Raisman posted a 14.933 on BB with difficult two-footed tumbling, including an opening back handspring to layout series.
The crowd at the North Greenwich Arena was large and rowdy, only increasing their energy as the final progressed.
Pegg struggled early on during her BB performance but finished strong with a stuck double back dismount (13.500).
Tweddle wowed the crowd with her unique and extremely difficult UB routine (15.833). She would go on to earn a bronze in the UB event final.
Fasana landed all four of her tumbling passes cleanly, earning Team Italy its highest floor score of the team competition.
Kexin performed one of the most difficult releases, a healy to straddled jaeger 1/2 to straddled jaeger, during her UB routine (15.766).
Qiushuang displayed her flexibility during her BB routine with a gravity-defying sheep jump (13.800).
Wieber performed the difficult Amanar vault, which had a difficulty score of 6.5 at the time, during her turn on vault.
Wieber performed the Amanar in excellent fashion, earning a 9.433 execution score for a 15.933 score.
Kyla Ross stuck her double layout dismount to contribute the second highest UB score for Team USA during the team final (14.933).
Maroney earned an unreal 16.233 score for her vault (6.500 difficulty + 9.733 execution). It was the highest score of the competition.
Izbasa earned the second highest floor score of the team competition with a 15.200, just behind Raisman.
Raisman clinched gold for Team USA with a 15.300 FX score before earning an individual gold on the same event just a few days later.
Bela Karolyi was in attendance to celebrate gold for Team USA and his wife, National Team Coordinator Marta Karolyi.