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Nadia Comăneci’s Perfect 10

On 18 July 1976, 14-year-old Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci scored a 10 on the uneven bars. It's a performance that broke the electronic scoreboard.

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Remo Giuffré
Oct 26, 2025
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Nadia Comăneci and her Perfect 10 - board describing the feat at the Olympic museum in Barcelona. Photo: Ben Sutherland via flickr

Prior to the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Omega SA, the official timers, asked the International Olympic Committee how many digits it should allow for on the electronic scoreboard for the gymnastics events, and were told t…

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