Editing Simona Amânar (section)

===1996===
Amânar won a silver medal on vault at the [[1996 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|1996 World Championships]], behind teammate [[Gina Gogean]] and ahead of Cuba's [[Annia Hatch|Annia {{sic|hide=y|Portuondo}}-Hatch]].

At the [[1996 Summer Olympics]], Amânar was one of the front-runners for several individual medals, but her Olympics started inauspiciously when she fell off the beam during the compulsories. Though she later posted the highest all-around score in the optionals (39.387, her lowest score being a 9.800 on the balance beam), her combined compulsory and optionals scores put her fourth among her teammates, and she did not qualify for the final.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/26/sports/atlanta-day-7-gymnastics-us-gymnasts-take-back-seat-in-all-around.html |title=U.S. Gymnasts Take Back Seat in All-Around |last=Clarey |first=Christopher |date=26 July 1996 |newspaper=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |access-date=31 July 2016}}</ref> However, in a scenario similar to the [[Unified Team at the Olympics|Unified Team]]'s substitution of [[Tatiana Gutsu]] for [[Rozalia Galiyeva]] at the [[1992 Summer Olympics|1992 Olympics]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/1992/07/31/zmeskal-steps-out-then-down-world-champion-is-tearful-10th-as-gutsu-miller-reign-barcelona-92/ |title=Zmeskal steps out, then down: World champion is tearful 10th as Gutsu, Miller reign |last=Glauber |first=Bill |date=31 July 1992 |website=Baltimore Sun |access-date=31 July 2016}}</ref> Amânar replaced her teammate [[Alexandra Marinescu]] in the all-around final.<ref name=":0" /> The Romanian head coach, [[Octavian Bellu]], said that Amânar deserved to compete because she had worked harder and was a better athlete than Marinescu. Amânar ended up sharing the bronze medal with teammate [[Lavinia Miloşovici]], behind Gogean.<ref name=":0" />

In both the 1996 Olympic all-around and the 1995 World Championships all-around, Amânar failed to score over 9.800 on the floor exercise despite well-executed and difficult tumbling. In the Olympics, she scored a 9.887 in the team optionals (the highest score of the entire Olympics on any event, for men or women), but only a 9.737 in the all-around. She did not start from a 10.0 in the all-around—despite having the most tumbling bonus points of anyone at the Games—because her tour jeté half-turn ([[Kerri Strug|Strug]]), a C element, was not completed. Thus, she did not have enough simple A, B, and C skills, and much of her D- and E-rated tumbling had to count as easier elements to fulfill those requirements. Amânar did not perform a double turn in the team optionals or the all-around because it was not necessary as long as she completed her Strug. However, when she failed to complete the Strug, four of her six tenths in D and E elements had to count toward requirements, which left her with only .2 counting toward her bonus. Without the error, Amânar would have finished ahead of Gogean and Miloşovici.

In the event finals, Amânar completed her Strug and added a double turn to fulfill the more stringent Competition III requirements. She earned a 9.850 and the silver medal, behind Podkopayeva and just ahead of [[Dominique Dawes]] of the United States. She won the vault final the day before, largely because of her 9.875 score for her double-twisting [[Yurchenko (vault)|Yurchenko vault]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-07-29-ss-29267-story.html |title=After the Rest Bow Out, Chow Gets Silver Medal |last=Penner |first=Mike |date=29 July 1996 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US |issn=0458-3035 |access-date=31 July 2016}}</ref> She left the 1996 Olympics with four medals, including Romania's team bronze.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.olympic.org/simona-amanar |title=Simona Amanar |date=20 June 2016 |website=olympic.org |access-date=31 July 2016}}</ref>