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A gymnast on the pommel horse. The pommel horse is an artistic gymnastics apparatus. Traditionally, it is used by only male gymnasts.Originally made of a metal frame with a wooden body and a leather cover, the modern pommel horse has a metal body covered with foam rubber and leather, with plastic handles (or pommels).
Xiao Qin (simplified Chinese: 肖钦; traditional Chinese: 肖欽; pinyin: Xiào Qīn; born January 12, 1985) is a Chinese gymnast.He specializes in the horizontal bar and parallel bars, but is best known for his work on the pommel horse for which he has won Olympic, world, national, East Asian Games, and World Cup titles.
Kurt Bilteaux Thomas (March 29, 1956 – June 5, 2020) was an American Olympic gymnast and part-time actor. He was a member of the United States men's national artistic gymnastics team and in 1978 he became the first American male gymnast to win a gold medal at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. [1]
The pommel horse was one of the components of the men's artistic individual all-around in 1900, however. The men's pommel horse returned as a medal event in 1924 and has been held every Games since. Pommel horse scores were included in the individual all-around for 1924 and 1928, with no separate apparatus final.
Pommel horse Zoltán Magyar (born 13 December 1953) [ 1 ] is a Hungarian former gymnast who was the world's leading pommel horse gymnast in the 1970s. In this event he won two Olympic, three world, three European and two World Cup titles.
Daniel Ryan Keatings (born 4 January 1990 [1]) is a retired British artistic gymnast representing Scotland and Great Britain. Both an all-around gymnast and a specialist pommel horse worker, Keatings was the first male British gymnast to medal at the all-around competition at the World Championships, and the first male British gymnast to become a European champion, winning on pommel horse, his ...
Bucephalus, favorite horse of Alexander the Great; one of the most famous horses of antiquity; following his death after the Battle of Hydaspes in 326 BCE, Alexander promptly founded the city of Bucephala upon the spot in his memory; Chetak, war horse of Maharana Pratap of Mewar in India; died defending its master in 1576 during the Battle of ...
Weng Hao (Chinese: 翁浩; pinyin: Wēng Hào; born 21 March 1998) [1] is a Chinese artistic gymnast. He competed in the 2017 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Montreal, Canada, placing 6th in the pommel horse event finals. [2]