Olympic Artistic Gymnastics (Gymnastics)

Delegation

392 team lists · 4,436 player entries · avg team size 11.3

Read this sport as a comparison between raw coincidence and what team size alone predicts. Here, the real rate is +1.6 points above the birthday-paradox baseline.

Real team lists

17.3%

teams with shared birthdays

Why it matters: This is the headline rate, but it should never be read without team size.

Expected from size

15.8%

from avg team size

Why it matters: This is the fair baseline: what same-size random teams would do.

Gap from expected

+1.6 points

real − expected

Why it matters: Positive means the sport has more birthday matches than size alone predicts.

Team lists

392

teams analysed

Why it matters: Enough team lists for a useful sport-level read.

What to notice: The best question on a sport page is not "is the real rate high?" but "is it high after accounting for team size?" That is what the gap card is answering.

Country comparison

Countries with the most team lists for Olympic Artistic Gymnastics (Gymnastics), charted by the share of teams with at least one shared birthday.

What to compare: This view is best for spotting sample-shape differences inside a sport. Among the highest-sample countries, GER has the highest observed rate, with an average team size of 10.4.

Gender split inside this sport

Real and expected rates for labelled team lists in this sport.

Why it matters: The gender gap is mostly a team-size story. Men have the larger average team size here (12.2 athletes), so their birthday-match rate naturally rises.

By country

Top 40 countries by team-list count.

Country	Team lists	Avg players	Real
FRA	26	13.2	26.9%
ITA	24	12.0	16.7%
USA	23	15.7	26.1%
GBR	21	12.4	14.3%
JPN	19	10.2	0.0%
GER	18	10.4	33.3%
HUN	16	12.6	18.8%
ROU	16	10.8	12.5%
TCH	15	11.6	13.3%
SUI	14	7.3	7.1%
BUL	13	10.2	15.4%
CAN	12	8.9	8.3%
FIN	12	11.3	16.7%
ESP	12	8.7	0.0%
KOR	11	7.3	9.1%
CHN	10	11.3	20.0%
NED	9	9.9	33.3%
URS	9	12.4	55.6%
POL	9	10.3	11.1%
SWE	9	15.7	33.3%
YUG	9	10.2	11.1%
AUS	8	7.6	25.0%
LUX	7	9.1	0.0%
UKR	7	9.0	14.3%
NOR	6	20.7	16.7%
RUS	6	11.7	33.3%
BRA	5	6.8	0.0%
DEN	5	25.6	60.0%
CUB	5	7.4	40.0%
FRG	5	11.2	0.0%
GDR	5	12.0	0.0%
AUT	4	12.8	0.0%
BEL	4	11.5	25.0%
PRK	4	8.8	0.0%
BLR	3	11.0	0.0%
TPE	2	6.0	0.0%
MEX	2	9.5	0.0%
EGY	1	5.0	0.0%
EUN	1	12.0	100.0%
GRE	1	8.0	0.0%

What to notice: Countries with larger average teams will naturally show more shared birthdays. The country list is most useful for finding which samples are driving this sport's overall rate.

By gender

Where the dataset records it.

Gender	Team lists	Real	Expected	Gap
Women	248	15.3%	14.4%	+0.9 points
Men	144	20.8%	18.2%	+2.6 points

Sample team lists

Largest teams in the dataset.

Team	Season	Players	Repeats	Expected chance
USA Artistic Gymnastics (Gymnastics) (1904 Summer) · USA	1904 Summer	89	8	100.0%
FRA Artistic Gymnastics (Gymnastics) (1900 Summer) · FRA	1900 Summer	52	3	97.8%
DEN Artistic Gymnastics (Gymnastics) (1912 Summer) · DEN	1912 Summer	48	1	96.1%
DEN Artistic Gymnastics (Gymnastics) (1920 Summer) · DEN	1920 Summer	44	3	93.3%
GBR Artistic Gymnastics (Gymnastics) (1908 Summer) · GBR	1908 Summer	44	4	93.3%
SWE Artistic Gymnastics (Gymnastics) (1908 Summer) · SWE	1908 Summer	37	2	84.9%
FRA Artistic Gymnastics (Gymnastics) (1908 Summer) · FRA	1908 Summer	36	1	83.2%
ITA Artistic Gymnastics (Gymnastics) (1908 Summer) · ITA	1908 Summer	30	3	70.6%
FIN Artistic Gymnastics (Gymnastics) (1908 Summer) · FIN	1908 Summer	29	2	68.1%
BEL Artistic Gymnastics (Gymnastics) (1920 Summer) · BEL	1920 Summer	27	2	62.7%

What to notice: The sample team lists show the mechanics: once the player count gets large, the expected chance climbs quickly, and each repeat is another player landing on a date already present.