Nadia Comăneci

Comăneci is remembered for the first perfect 10 at the Montreal 1976 Olympics, a score the scoreboard could only display as 1.00, but her lasting technical legacy is on the uneven bars. The Comăneci salto, a straddled front salto from the high bar to catch it again, and her dismount set new standards for release and flight on the apparatus. Her five Olympic golds made precision and difficulty the twin goals for every gymnast who followed.