Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's rhythmic qualification
Ten individual competitors and six national teams qualified for the women's rhythmic gymnastics events at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Individual All-around qualification
Final qualifiers
Preliminaries
In total, 37 gymnasts from 22 countries competed in the qualification round. The top 20 gymnasts advanced to the semifinal.| Rank | Gymnast | Nation | Total | |||||
| 1 | Elena Vitrichenko | 9.800 | 9.800 | 9.800 | 9.800 | 39.200 | Q | |
| 2 | Ekaterina Serebrianskaya | 9.799 | 9.783 | 9.832 | 9.699 | 39.113 | Q | |
| 3 | Amina Zaripova | 9.716 | 9.699 | 9.583 | 9.750 | 38.748 | Q | |
| 4 | Larissa Lukyanenko | 9.699 | 9.366 | 9.716 | 9.700 | 38.481 | Q | |
| 5 | Almudena Cid | 9.600 | 9.600 | 9.600 | 9.600 | 38.400 | Q | |
| 6 | Maria Petrova | 9.666 | 9.183 | 9.800 | 9.733 | 38.383 | Q | |
| 7 | Eva Serrano | 9.516 | 9.600 | 9.466 | 9.566 | 38.148 | Q | |
| 8 | Maria Pagalou | 9.500 | 9.500 | 9.533 | 9.450 | 37.983 | Q | |
| 9 | Tatiana Ogrizko | 8.766 | 9.750 | 9.750 | 9.633 | 37.899 | Q | |
| 10 | Diana Popova | 9.550 | 9.500 | 9.516 | 9.283 | 37.849 | Q | |
| =11 | Alba Caride | 9.416 | 9.433 | 9.532 | 9.400 | 37.781 | Q | |
| =11 | Alina Stoica | 9.316 | 9.499 | 9.500 | 9.466 | 37.781 | Q | |
| 13 | Yanina Batyrchina | 9.816 | 9.266 | 9.350 | 9.316 | 37.748 | Q | |
| 14 | Kristin Sroka | 9.432 | 9.450 | 9.399 | 9.416 | 37.697 | Q | |
| 15 | Magdalena Brzeska | 9.566 | 8.933 | 9.533 | 9.583 | 37.616 | Q | |
| 16 | Zhou Xiaojing | 9.333 | 9.416 | 9.416 | 9.383 | 37.549 | Q | |
| 17 | Irene Germini | 9.466 | 9.466 | 9.216 | 9.400 | 37.548 | Q | |
| 18 | Miho Yamada | 9.350 | 9.350 | 9.249 | 9.182 | 37.131 | Q | |
| 19 | Akane Yamao | 9.183 | 9.366 | 9.283 | 9.283 | 37.116 | Q | |
| 20 | Katia Pietrosanti | 8.983 | 9.400 | 9.366 | 9.350 | 37.099 | Q | |
| 21 | Krystyna Leskiewicz | 9.250 | 9.232 | 9.250 | 9.250 | 36.982 | - | |
| 22 | Lenka Oulehlová | 9.232 | 9.266 | 9.266 | 9.199 | 36.963 | - | |
| 23 | Viktoria Frater | 9.233 | 9.116 | 9.333 | 9.249 | 36.932 | - | |
| 24 | Birgit Schielin | 9.200 | 9.166 | 9.266 | 9.249 | 36.881 | - | |
| 25 | Ekaterina Abramia | 9.200 | 9.250 | 9.183 | 9.200 | 36.833 | - | |
| 26 | Evangelia Sotiriou | 9.233 | 9.183 | 9.299 | 8.983 | 36.699 | - | |
| 27 | Anna Kwitniewska | 9.233 | 8.932 | 9.349 | 9.166 | 36.680 | - | |
| 28 | Andrea Sebestova | 9.366 | 8.783 | 9.249 | 9.200 | 36.598 | - | |
| 29 | Nina Taborsky | 9.133 | 9.183 | 9.083 | 9.166 | 36.566 | - | |
| 30 | Jessica Davis | 9.166 | 9.200 | 9.216 | 8.982 | 36.564 | - | |
| 31 | Cindy Stollenberg | 9.033 | 9.166 | 9.149 | 9.116 | 36.464 | - | |
| 32 | Dana Carteleanu | 9.150 | 9.166 | 9.050 | 9.016 | 36.382 | - | |
| 33 | Camille Martens | 9.333 | 8.599 | 9.316 | 9.116 | 36.364 | - | |
| 34 | Katri Kalpala | 9.182 | 8.800 | 9.166 | 9.200 | 36.348 | - | |
| 35 | Wu Bei | 9.216 | 9.249 | 8.933 | 8.899 | 36.297 | - | |
| 36 | Andrea Szalay | 9.000 | 9.033 | 8.883 | 8.982 | 35.899 | - | |
| 37 | Kristina Kliukevichute | 9.199 | 8.966 | 8.499 | 9.083 | 35.747 | - | |
| - | Lina-Mohamed Monir | - | - | - | - | - | DNS | |
| - | Kasumi Takahashi | - | - | - | - | - | DNS |
Semi-finals
20 gymnasts from 12 countries competed in the semifinal round. The ten highest scoring gymnasts advanced to the final.| Rank | Gymnast | Nation | Total | |||||
| 1 | Ekaterina Serebrianskaya | 9.916 | 9.933 | 9.583 | 9.900 | 39.333 | Q | |
| 2 | Elena Vitrichenko | 9.750 | 9.900 | 9.750 | 9.866 | 39.266 | Q | |
| 3 | Yanina Batyrchina | 9.850 | 9.866 | 9.733 | 9.783 | 39.233 | Q | |
| 4 | Maria Petrova | 9.716 | 9.750 | 9.733 | 9.700 | 38.899 | Q | |
| 5 | Larissa Lukyanenko | 9.700 | 9.750 | 9.616 | 9.683 | 38.749 | Q | |
| 6 | Tatiana Ogrizko | 9.633 | 9.682 | 9.700 | 9.666 | 38.681 | Q | |
| 7 | Amina Zaripova | 9.716 | 9.850 | 9.782 | 9.316 | 38.664 | Q | |
| 8 | Eva Serrano | 9.666 | 9.700 | 9.566 | 9.683 | 38.615 | Q | |
| 9 | Almudena Cid | 9.583 | 9.700 | 9.616 | 9.549 | 38.448 | Q | |
| 10 | Magdalena Brzeska | 9.550 | 9.583 | 9.516 | 9.583 | 38.233 | Q | |
| 11 | Diana Popova | 9.449 | 9.466 | 9.466 | 9.449 | 37.830 | - | |
| 12 | Maria Pagalou | 9.516 | 9.500 | 9.333 | 9.466 | 37.815 | - | |
| 13 | Irene Germini | 9.266 | 9.500 | 9.250 | 9.500 | 37.516 | - | |
| 14 | Katia Pietrosanti | 9.366 | 9.366 | 9.250 | 9.333 | 37.315 | - | |
| 15 | Alina Stoica | 9.483 | 9.533 | 8.766 | 9.466 | 37.249 | - | |
| 16 | Kristin Sroka | 9.283 | 9.550 | 8.900 | 9.400 | 37.133 | - | |
| 17 | Zhou Xiaojing | 9.200 | 9.266 | 9.250 | 9.400 | 37.116 | - | |
| 18 | Akane Yamao | 9.233 | 8.966 | 9.216 | 9.383 | 36.799 | - | |
| 19 | Alba Caride | 9.049 | 9.449 | 8.933 | 9.266 | 36.697 | - | |
| 20 | Miho Yamada | 9.316 | 9.133 | 9.200 | 8.616 | 36.265 | - |
Group All-around qualification
Final qualifiers
Team rosters
| Team | Team | Team | Team | Team | Team |
| ' Natalia Boudilo Olga Demskaia Oxana Jdanovitch Svetlana Louzanova Galina Malachenko Alesija Pohodina | ' Ina Deltcheva Valentina Kevlian Maria Koleva Maja Tabakova Ivelina Taleva Viara Vatashka | ' Cai Yingying Huang Ting Huang Ying Zheng Ni Zhong Li | ' Charlotte Camboulives Caroline Chimot Sylvie Didone Audrey Grosclaude Frederique Lehon Nadia Mimoun | ' Nicole Bittner Katrin Hoffmann Anne Jung Dorte Schiltz Luise Stablein Katharina Wildermuth | ' Manuela Bocchini Valentina Marino Sara Papi Sara Pinciroli Valentina Rovetta Nicoletta Tinti |
| ' Yevgeniya Bochkaryova Irina Dzyuba Yuliya Ivanova Yelena Krivoshey Olga Shtyrenko Angelina Yushkova | ' Marta Baldó Nuria Cabanillas Estela Giménez Lorena Guréndez Tania Lamarca Estíbaliz Martínez | Mandy James Alaine Mata-Baquerot Kate Nelson Brandi Siegel Challen Sievers Becky Turner | - | - | - |
Preliminaries
Nine teams participated in the preliminary round; the top six teams advanced to the final.| Rank | Team | 5 | 3 + 2 | Total | |
| 1 | 19.466 | 19.550 | 39.016 | Q | |
| 2 | 19.500 | 19.466 | 38.966 | Q | |
| 3 | 19.516 | 19.366 | 38.882 | Q | |
| 4 | 19.300 | 19.133 | 38.433 | Q | |
| 5 | 19.200 | 19.033 | 38.233 | Q | |
| 6 | 19.133 | 18.999 | 38.132 | Q | |
| 7 | 19.283 | 18.733 | 38.016 | - | |
| 8 | 19.050 | 18.832 | 37.882 | - | |
| 9 | 18.400 | 18.233 | 36.633 | - |