GOODWILL GAMES : Soviet Women Continue Dominance to the End : Gymnastics: They win three of four events in individual apparatus competition, running medal count to 10.

The Goodwill Games women’s gymnastics competition could not have ended more appropriately. In the final awards ceremony Sunday at the Tacoma Dome, two Soviets shared the highest level of the victory stand.

Natalia Kalinina and Svetlana Boguinskaia, who tied for the gold medal in the floor exercise, received the Soviet Union’s ninth and 10th medals of the three-day competition, not a bad result considering that only 11 were available to any one team.

The Soviets won the team championship Friday, finished first and second in the individual all-around championship Saturday and won three of the four events Sunday in the individual apparatus competition.

Kalinina, a 15-year-old who was largely untested in international competition before last week, enhanced her position as the Soviet favorite of this month, adding gold medals in the floor exercise and beam and silver medals in the vault and uneven parallel bars to her all-around championship.

“I really didn’t expect what I got yesterday, and it was the same today,” she said.

Boguinskaia, the 17-year-old world champion who already is looking over a shoulder at a new generation of tumbling stars, won a gold in the floor exercise and a bronze in the beam to go along with her silver in the all-around. Oksana Chusovitina, 15, won a gold medal in the vault.

Considering that the Soviets have dominated women’s gymnastics since they began competing internationally in 1952, their coach, Alexander Aleksandrov, was asked to discuss for their secrets.

“We really train well,” he said.

Recognizing that his answer was less than revealing, he said, “What else can I say?”

U.S. Coach Bela Karolyi, as usual, was not reluctant to elaborate.

“Training hard, working hard, tremendous tradition,” he said. “There is no question that if there are strong individuals, that gives the young ones incentive to come on.

“We had Mary Lou (Retton). Then, like little mushrooms, came the others, Kristie (Phillips), Phoebe (Mills) and Kim (Zmeskal).”

Zmeskal is only 14 but has arrived as a gymnast who can challenge the Soviets. She beat Kalinina for the all-around championship this year at the American Cup.

Perhaps because of a wrist injury, she was not as sharp here. She was the leading individual scorer in the team competition but was disappointed with her sixth-place in the all-around. She redeemed herself somewhat Sunday with uneven parallel bars and floor exercise bronze medals. Her U.S. teammate, Betty Okino, could do no better than a fourth on bars.

The crowd of 16,665 seemed most appreciative of the Chinese, whose creativity, however, could not always compensate for their lack of technical skill.

Xia Zhang won a gold medal on the bars, and Wenning Zhang won a silver medal on the beam.

Judging from the applause, the crowd liked Li Li’s beam performance better. But the judges marked her down a full tenth of a point because her routine was not technically difficult.