Nadia Comăneci indicate that she had indeed received a 10. During the remainder of the Montreal Games, Comăneci earned six additional tens. She won gold medals for the individual all-around, the balance beam and uneven bars. She also won a bronze for the floor exercise and a silver as part of the team all-around. Soviet gymnast Nellie Kim was her main rival during the Montreal Olympics; Kim became the second gymnast to receive a perfect ten for her performance on the vault. Comăneci also took over the spotlight from Olga Korbut, who had been the darling of the 1972 Munich Games. Comăneci's
Ernestine Russell floor exercise, 45th in the vault, 56th in the all-around, and 61st in the balance beam and uneven bars. After she graduated from Kennedy Collegiate Institute in 1956, she continued to pursue her focus in gymnastics. At the 1959 Pan American Games in Chicago, Russell won gold medals for all-around, vault, uneven bars, and floor exercise, and a silver in balance beam, which made her the first Canadian medal winner in an international gymnastics competition. The Canadian team finished second behind the U.S. team. At age 21, she qualified to participate in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. While receiving