Australian Team Profile
Australian gymnasts will get the chance to strut their stuff before the most passionate fans of the sport in Beijing.
Chinese fans are looking forward to the gymnastics competitions at the Beijing Games more than any other event.
Australia failed to qualify a men's team for the artistic gymnastics in Beijing but will have a talented batch of six females trying to snatch a place among the medals.
Georgia Bonora, Ashleigh Brennan, Daria Joura, Lauren Mitchell, Shona Morgan and Olivia Vivian have made the cut.
They, along with Sam Simpson (men's artistic), Ben Wilden (men's trampoline) and Naazmi Johnston (women's rhythmic), have been nominated to represent Australia.
All six in the artistic outfit will be making their Olympic debuts.
Mitchell is the youngest - she will be 17 by the time the Games begin - with the eldest member, Vivian, set to turn 19 on the eve of the Games.
Australia has never won an artistic gymnastics medal at the Olympics but head coach Peggy Liddick is confident that can change in China.
Gymnastics appeared in the first Olympic Games of the modern era in Athens in 1896.
The sport has been on the Olympic program ever since, with women first competing in Amsterdam 1928.
The first Australian Olympic gymnasts competed in Melbourne in 1956. Australia has never won a medal in artistic or rhythmic gymnastics, with a best placing of seventh coming from the women's combined team at Barcelona 1992 and Sydney 2000.
Ji Wallace took home Australia's first medal in gymnastics when he was second in the men's trampoline in Sydney.
Australian Olympic Gymnastics Team
Artistic Gymnastics (Georgia Bonora, Ashleigh Brennan, Daria Joura, Lauren Mitchell, Shona Morgan, Olivia Vivian)
Sam Simpson (men's artistic)
Ben Wilden (men's trampoline)
Naazmi Johnston (women's rhythmic)
Previous Australian Medallists:
Silver:
Ji Wallace (2000) - Men's Trampoline