Gymnastics at the Olympics
Gymnastics is one of five sports that have been contested at every summer Olympic Games since 1896. The others are: Athletics, Cycling, Fencing and Swimming.
Events
There are three separate disciplines at the Olympic Games in the sport of gymnastics. They are:
- Artistic Gymnastics — athletes compete on different apparatus and floor routines in individual and team events.
- Rhythmic Gymnastics — competitors perform choreographed routines incorporating hand-held apparatus.
- Trampoline — involves bouncing on a trampoline to heights up to eight metres, while the athletes perform acrobatic movements such as twists and somersaults in mid-air. Points are awarded for difficulty, execution and flight time.
gymnasts performing at the 1912 Olympic GamesTrivia
- Club Swinging was an early Olympic gymnastics event, as was tumbling and rope climbing. See more unusual Olympic gymnastics events.
Related Pages
- More information about the sport of Gymnastics
- See more on the Greatest Gymnasts at the Olympics.
- Anthropometric analysis of the Olympic Games all-round gymnastics winners
- See also information about gymnastics at the Commonwealth Games.
- Some unusual gymnastics events have once been part of the Olympics.
- List of Olympic Sports
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