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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]
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Originally made of a metal frame with a wooden body and a leather cover, the modern pommel horse has a metal body covered with foam rubber and leather, with plastic handles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).
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 ...
Stephen John Nedoroscik OLY (/ ˌ n ɛ d ə ˈ r ɒ z ɪ k / NED-ə-ROZ-ik; born October 28, 1998) [1] is an American artistic gymnast.A pommel horse specialist, he is a two-time Olympic medalist, the 2021 world champion—the first and only American to win the event—a two-time FIG World Cup champion, a four-time U.S. national champion, and a two-time NCAA national champion for the apparatus.
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 ...
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.
He won another pommel horse bronze medal at the Varna World Challenge Cup. [10] Then at the Asian Championships , he defended his pommel horse title. [ 11 ] At the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games (held in 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic ), [ 12 ] he was a flag bearer in the opening ceremony alongside Aliya Boshnak . [ 1 ]
Urzică is an Olympic champion, a three-time world champion and a three-time European champion on pommel horse. He competed at three Olympic Games, medaling each time on pommel horse (gold Sydney 2000 , silver Atlanta 1996 and silver Athens 2004 ) and contributed to the team bronze in Athens 2004 .