Articles in the ‘Gymnastics’ Category

After the world championships for figure skating was postponed and eventually transferred away from Tokyo after the series of natural calamities in the form of an earthquake and a tsunami, the world championships for gymnastics, scheduled in October, may be the next event to be affected.
A decision is expected to be made by the [...]

Broadly speaking, there are primarily two types of gymnastics. These are Artistic Gymnastics and Rhythmic Gymnastics. There is a further classification of the Artistic Gymnastics as Women’s and Men’s Gymnastics.
There are six types of events that are categorically involved in Men’s Gymnastics. These are Pommel Horse, Still Rings, Vault, High Bar, [...]

The most important feats that have been recognized in Olympics are the Gymnastic moves. People are keenly interested to watch the different males and female gymnasts perform even the greatly complicated moves with much ease. There are several gymnastic moves. Some of the standard ones include aerials, forward somersault, front and [...]

One of the apparatus that is especially useful in artistic gymnastics is the rings. The other name that is generally used for the rings is still rings. The use of the rings is generally made by the male gymnasts in most of the circumstances. This is because for handling this apparatus, [...]

There are typically four women events in artistic gymnastics. These include Vault, Uneven Bars, Floor Exercise and Balance Beam.
In case of vaulting events, the woman gymnast will generally use a runway which is generally 25 meter long and will jump into a springboard or a beat board. A sprinting down movement of [...]