Nadia Comaneci Records the First Perfect 10 in Olympic History Before Nadia Comaneci, perfection did not exist at the Olympic Games. The concept was so unfathomable that when the 14-year-old Romanian gymnast achieved it for the first time in 1976 on the uneven bars, the scoreboard — only equipped to display a three-digit mark — famously flashed her score as a "1.00." Watch Comaneci earn her perfect 10 here. Image Source: Getty / AFP Contributor / Contributor