On this day - 18 July

On July 18th 1976 Nadia Comăneci was awarded the 10.0 score during the Olympic Games held in Montreal. She was awarded the score for her uneven bars routine. Not only was she the first to be given the score, she went on to score it a further six times during the games, three more times on the uneven bars and three times on the balance beam.

She won three gold medals at the Games for the individual all-around, balance beam and uneven bars as well as silver in the team event and bronze for floor. Nadia was both the first Romanian gymnast and the youngest gymnast at age 14 to win the individual all-around at the Olympic Games. As the age requirements for Olympic gymnastics now require gymnasts to be at least 16 in the calendar year of the Olympics, Nadia Comăneci's age record cannot currently be broken.