Horizontal bar

Turner on a tension bar

The horizontal bar is a piece of gymnastics equipment used in apparatus gymnastics .

It consists of a horizontal rod 230-240 cm long, which can be mounted in various ways and has a diameter of 2.8 cm (according to FIG, according to DIN: 2.8-4 cm). The tension bar is common today . Here the horizontal bar is mounted on two vertical bars, which are each held with two or four tension ropes. This makes the bar elastic, which is very helpful for modern exercises. In competitions, the height is 260 cm (top edge of the landing mat ↔ bottom edge of the pole) or 280 cm (floor ↔ bottom edge of the pole).

The horizontal bar is one of the men's gymnastics equipment and is the sixth and last piece of equipment in the Olympic order. It's been Olympic since 1896 . No individual medals were awarded several times, as there was only one individual all-around competition. In 1896 there was also a team fight on the horizontal bar.

In the last few years, high-bar gymnastics has become even more artistic and attractive due to the inclusion of three or more flight elements per exercise (e.g. double somersaults to catch again). The women's demonstrations on the uneven bars are similar to the men's gymnastics.

The horizontal bar was introduced by Friedrich Ludwig Jahn .

Exercises and holds

Typical exercises on the horizontal bar are Felgaufschwung , fag , Felgumschwung, giant swing or Kontergrätsche . More difficult exercises that consist of flight parts are e.g. B. the hunter somersault , the Tkachev straddle or the Gienger somersault .

On the horizontal bar, there are several types of grips: Ristgriff , comb handle , Zwiegriff , cross handle and Ellgriff .

Olympic champion on the horizontal bar

High bar gymnast Matthias Brehme at the GDR championships in 1967

singles

1896 Hermann Weingärtner

1900 no individual competition

1904 Anton Heida and Edward HennigUnited States 45 United States 45
1908–1920 no individual competition
1924 Leon ŠtukeljYugoslavia Kingdom 1918
1928 Georges MiezSwitzerland
1932 Dallas Denver BixlerUnited States 48
1936 Aleksanteri SaarvalaFinland
1948 Josef StalderSwitzerland
1952 Jakob GünthardSwitzerland
1956 Takashi OnoJapan
1960 Takashi OnoJapan
1964 Boris SchachlinSoviet Union 1955
1968 Mikhail Voronin and Akinori NakayamaSoviet Union 1955 Japan
1972 Mitsuo TsukaharaJapan
1976 Mitsuo TsukaharaJapan
1980 Stoyan DelchevBulgaria 1971
1984 Shinji MorisueJapan
1988 Vladimir Artyomov and Valery LyukinSoviet Union Soviet Union
1992 Trent DimasUnited States
1996 Andreas WeckerGermany
2000 Alexei NemovRussia
2004 Igor CassinaItaly
2008 Zou KaiChina People's Republic
2012 Epke ZonderlandNetherlands
2016 Fabian HambüchenGermany

team

1896 German EmpireGerman Empire
not held since 1900

Individual evidence

↑ FIG Apparatus Norms 2017. (pdf) FIG, p. 176 , accessed on August 31, 2017 (English, French, Russian).
↑ Standard DIN EN 12197: 1997 Gymnastics equipment - Horizontal bar - Safety requirements and test methods (DIN EN 12197: 1997)

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[1] FIG Apparatus Norms 2017. (pdf) FIG, p. 176 , accessed on August 31, 2017 (English, French, Russian).

[2] Standard DIN EN 12197: 1997 Gymnastics equipment - Horizontal bar - Safety requirements and test methods (DIN EN 12197: 1997)