Nancy Armour

USA TODAY Sports

Romania’s Olympic team medal streak in women’s gymnastics is over after four decades.

The Romanian women have medaled in the team event at every Olympics dating back to 1976, including gold in 1984, 2000 and 2004. But they won’t even be in the team competition at the Rio Games after failing to qualify at the Olympic test event Sunday.

Only the top four countries at the test event qualified a full, five-woman team for Rio. Romania had dropped to fifth after the third of four subdivisions Sunday, with two teams still to compete.

Romania will not be shut out of the gymnastics competition in Rio completely, allowed to send one female gymnast.

Still, failing to qualify a full team for the Olympics is a shocking downfall for Romania, which had the longest Olympic medal streak in women’s gymnastics history. While teams from other former Eastern bloc nations have struggled, the Romanians continued to produce world-class gymnasts.

In addition to their team medals, Romanian gymnasts have won 49 individual medals at the Olympics since 1976, 21 of them gold.

But signs of trouble were evident at last year’s world championships, where Romania was 13th – the first time since 1974 it had finished worse than fourth. With only the top eight teams at worlds qualifying for Rio, Romania was relegated to the test event, where eight teams were vying for the last four Olympic spots.

Romania’s task was made even more difficult when Larisa Iordache, the reigning world bronze medalist in the all-around, broke her finger during training early last month.