Jahn competitions
With Jahn competitions a group of sports More fighting referred exercises from the disciplines Gymnastics , athletics and swimming include. Since 2007, performance in each discipline has been rated on an open-ended scale. The winner is the athlete who has achieved the most points in total.
The "folk competitions" were brought into being by the German Gymnastics Federation (DTB) in 1950 and were given their current name in 1952 in honor of the "gymnastics father" Friedrich Ludwig Jahn .
For adults the Jahn-Neunkampf is held, which includes jumping , parallel bars (for women uneven bars ), floor exercise , 100-meter run, long jump , shot put , 100-meter swimming, 25-meter distance diving and artificial jumping .
In the youth there is instead the Jahn six-fight with floor, parallel bars / uneven bars, 100-meter run, shot put, 100-meter swimming and jumping. Depending on the age group, the running and swimming distances can be shorter.