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Olympic Gymnastics Tumbling
Tumbling was a short lived gymnastics event at the 1932 Games, held on the 10 August. The tumbling event involves tumbling along a 2” wide 60’ long horsehair strip doing flips and twists. The only Olympic Champion was Rowland "Flip" Wolfe of the United States (see video). Wolfe's key move was the backflip with a double twist, which helped him to become the youngest ever male Olympic gymnastics champion - he was 17 years and 307 days old when he won the tumbling event. Tumbling now is incorporated in the modern gymnastics floor apparatus routines.
Results
- Rowland Wolfe (USA) 18.900
- Edward Gross (USA) 18.670
- William Hermann (USA) 18.370
- István Pelle (Hungary) 15.430
Related Pages
- Video of the only Olympic Tumbling Champion
- Other Past Gymnastics Events
- Full list of all Discontinued Events
- Gymnastics at the Olympic Games
