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Kim's efforts were finally rewarded at the 1991 World Championships, where she earned the uneven bars gold medal in event finals with a perfect 10.0 score. She was expected to challenge for bars gold at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992, however, a step on her dismount kept her in fourth place (tied with two Romanians, Lavinia Miloşovici and ...
The uneven bars or asymmetric bars is an artistic gymnastics apparatus. It is made of a steel frame. The bars are made of fiberglass with wood coating, or less commonly wood. [1] The English abbreviation for the event in gymnastics scoring is UB or AB, and the apparatus and event are often referred to simply as "bars". The bars are placed at ...
Biles, a seven-time Olympic medalist, submitted an original skill on the uneven bars to the FIG Women’s Technical Committee for evaluation on July 25, NBC Olympics reported.
Shaposhnikova invented a complex transition skill on the uneven bars—a clear hip circle on the low bar with flight backward to the high bar—and it is named after her in the Code of Points. The skill, sometimes referred to colloquially as the "Shaposh", is still widely performed today; it is credited as a D element in the 2013–16 Code of ...
At the 2010 Japan Cup, she introduced a toe-on laid-out Tkachev on the uneven bars (a piked sole circle backwards to a reverse hecht in a layout position over the high bar). She won gold with the Russian team at the 2010 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships , despite falling on the uneven bars in the team final.
She continued to excel in the years that followed, picking up an uneven bars silver medal at the 1998 Goodwill Games. At the 1999 World Championships in Tianjin , China , Ray was the highest-ranked American of the competition, finishing eighth in the all-around.
Maloney (uneven bars) – a piked sole circle backward to handstand full turn after handstand phase to mixed-L or L-grip, after Kristin Maloney (US) Maloney (uneven bars) – begins from low bar inner front support and consists of piked sole circle backward through handstand with flight to high bar hang, after Kristin Maloney (US)
In 2014, a documentary was produced about the sport, and a YouTube documentary was made in 2017. [citation needed] Beachball volleyball: A game of indoor volleyball played with a beach ball instead of a volleyball. Biribol: an aquatic variant, played in shallow swimming pools. The name comes from the Brazilian city where it was invented, Birigui.