Artistic gymnastics is the most popular and widely recognized discipline of gymnastics. It includes such events as uneven bars, horizontal bar, parallel bars, vault, balance beam, pommel horse, rings, and floor routine.
Pommel horse is a gymnastics exercise that is part of men’s competition in the modern Olympic Games. In performing in the event, the gymnast supports himself with his hands by holding the pommels over the horse and performs movements with his trunk and
Olympic artistic gymnastics team, which won bronze in Barcelona. At the National Championships in 1994, Dawes won all-around gold, as well as all four individual events (vault, uneven bars, balance beam and floor exercise). She was the first gymnast to win all five gold medals there since ...
She competed at the 2016 US National Championships later on as the current title-holder and won the all-around title yet again, ranking first in vault, balance beam, and floor exercise. She led the US Olympics women’s gymnastics team, dubbed as “The Final Five”, in competing at the ...
s gymnastics events, asSimone Bilesbecame the first U.S. woman—and just the fifth female ever—to capture four gymnastics golds at a single Games (all-around,floor exercise,vault, and team). Biles’s fourth gold in the team event was also significant in that the American team won with ...
Gold: 3 (team, all-around, and vault) Silver: 1 (floor exercise) In 2013, her first year as a senior competitor, the 4-foot 8-inch (1.4-meter) Biles won the all-around title at her first world gymnastics championships, becoming the first African American woman to claim the title. Sh...
Korbut graduated from the Grodno Pedagogical Institute in 1977 and retired from Olympic competition thereafter. In 1991 she relocated to the United States, where she taught gymnastics. This article was most recently revised and updated by Encyclopaedia Britannica.Munich 1972 Olympic Games Table...
Isinbayeva was enrolled by her parents ingymnasticsschool at age 4, but a growth spurt when she was 15 suddenly made her too tall to compete effectively in the sport; she eventually reached a height of 1.73 metres (5 feet 8 inches). Pole-vault coachYevgeny Trofimov invited her to try that...
(born January 24, 1968,Fairmont,West Virginia, U.S.) is a gymnast who was the first American woman to win an individual Olympic gold medal ingymnastics. At the1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, Retton achieved perfect scores in her final two events (thefloor exerciseandvault) to ...