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A multiple-exposure image of a gymnast performing the vault at the 2012 Summer Olympics.. The handspring double salto forward tucked, known as a Produnova in women's artistic gymnastics and a Roche in men's artistic gymnastics, [1] [2] is a vault consisting of a front handspring onto the vaulting horse and two front somersaults in a tucked position off it.
The following gymnastics skills are banned by at least some gymnastics associations: Korbut flip [2] [3] Thomas salto [3] Roll-out [3] The following gymnastics skills have reduced score due to safety concerns: the Biles (BB dismount) [4] Yurchenko double pike [5]
The Thomas salto is an extremely difficult and dangerous move performed during the floor exercise in artistic gymnastics.
The move earned the 26-year-old athlete a 6.4 difficulty score (which, for context, the highest score of last year's championships was a 5.6) and a 15.266 overall. Here's everything to know about ...
It's an exceptionally difficult skill, rated as a "G," the hardest possible rating, and something that Lee used to win gold in the all-around in Tokyo. That routine landed Lee a 9.975, meaning one ...
In October, Biles had another gymnastic move — Yurchenko double pike — named for her (Biles II) after becoming the first woman to perform the difficult skill during a world competition.
Yurchenko vaults follow the same scoring assessment as other gymnastics categories. The gymnast is judged by a final F-score, which is the sum of the D-score and E-score. [16] The D-score correlates to the difficulty of the move and the E-score correlates to the execution of the move. [16]
By 2003, the tucked double back salto had become common in women's gymnastics. [4] The triple back salto exists in men's gymnastics but was rarely competed until 2017. [9] In 2019, American gymnast Simone Biles was the first woman to compete a back triple double: two saltos backwards with three twists in a tucked position. [10] [11]