Events
Vocabulary
Gymnasts
Getting Started
Olympics
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A gymnasts runs towards the table, building up speed as they goes. When the gymnast is about 3-6 feet from the springboard, she performs a hurdle or round-off onto the springboard.
What is Vault
100
sideways handsprings with the legs and arms kept straight
What is Cartwheel
100
This gymnasts did a back tuck on balance beam and was the fist to do a back flip on the high bar
What is Olga Korbut
100
How was gymnastics first used
What is military training
100
Kim Zmeskal was the first femanle gymnasts to will all-around in what Oylmpic Games
What is 1991
200
1.A vaulting horse fitted with a pair of curved handgrips, used for a gymnastic exercise
What is pommel horse
200
a mid-air position in sports such as diving and gymnastics in which the athlete bends to touch the feet or grab the calves or back of the thighs while keeping the legs together and straight
What is pike
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This is the youngest gymnast to win gold in the 1996 Olympics.
What is Dominiqu Moceanu
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When was gymnastics added to the the Olympics
What is 1896
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Nadia Comaneci got 7 perfect 10 scores in what Olympic Games
What is 1976
300
A pair of parallel bars set at different heights, used in women's gymnastics.
What is uneven bars
300
An act of balancing on one's hands with one's feet in the air or against a wall.
What is Handstand
300
In the 1992 Olympic Games who won the most gold medals
What is Shannon Miller
300
Who invented gymnastics
What is Greeks
300
When was the first large-scale competion
What is 1896
400
Event in gymnastics competition consisting of various ballet and tumbling movements (including jumps, somersaults, and handstands) performed without apparatus.
What is floor
400
A tumbling move where a gymnast takes off from one or two feet, jumps backward onto the hands and lands on the feet
What is back handspring
400
Who was the second gymnasts to win gold in the all-around in the 2004 Olympics
What is Carly Patterson
400
Who created the first modern gymnastics
What is Friedrich Ludwig Jahn
400
When was the AAU (Ameatur Athletic Union) formed
What is 1883
500
An apparatus for gymnastic exercises consisting of two horizontal bars set parallel to each other in adjustable upright supports and used mainly for swinging maneuvers
What is parallel bars
500
A gymnast balances on one leg and holds the other one in a number of positions.
What is scale
500
This gymnasts won 2 gold medals in the 1984 Olympics
What is Bart Conner
500
Who coached Nadia Comăneci
What is Béla Károlyi
500
When did females first compete in the Olympic Games
What is 1928
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