Perfect 10 (gymnastics) same competition, in the vault and floor exercise. Comăneci's coach, Béla Károlyi, having defected to the United States in 1981, subsequently coached Mary Lou Retton to gold at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, where she scored 10s in the vault and floor exercise. The first man to score a perfect 10 in Olympic competition was the Russian Alexander Dityatin, who received the score in the vault on the way to a record-breaking eight medals in the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. Among other men to achieve the score was Comăneci's future husband, Bart Conner, who received two 10s in Los
Italy at the 1976 Summer Olympics Italy at the 1976 Summer Olympics Italy competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 210 competitors, 183 men and 27 women, took part in 122 events in 20 sports. Competing for the second time in archery at the Olympics, Italy won its first medal (a bronze) in the sport. The medal was won by Giancarlo Ferrari, one of two Italian men who had competed four years before. Sante Spigarelli, the other, also improved his rank drastically in 1976. For the first time, Italian women competed in Olympic archery, taking 12th and 19th place. Women's Individual Competition Men's