Women's Artistic Gymnastics

Artistic Gymnastics is one of the most popular, celebrated and thoroughly modern sports for women, having undergone more transformation than perhaps any other Olympic sport. With a thrilling combination of daring and grace, gymnasts perform challenging elements on four apparatus - Vault, Uneven Bars, Balance Beam and Floor Exercise - with emphasis on agility, artistry, flexibility, power and style.

Though it has much in common with Men's Gymnastics, Women's Artistic Gymnastics is distinctly unique and is a showcase for excellence in women's sport. The apparatus have evolved and the sport transformed by successive generations of gymnasts pushing the limits of physics further, forever following the Olympic creed of Citius, Altius, Fortius ("Faster, Higher, Stronger") and competing with each other to create new and exciting moves.

Vault is the fastest event and features a gymnast propelling themselves over a vaulting table at full sprint, flipping or twisting back onto the mat. Uneven bars involves gymnasts performing swinging elements around two asymmetric bars, frequently releasing the bar and recatching it, while Balance Beam involves tumbling, acrobatics, choreography and dance elements on a narrow beam only 10 cm wide. Floor Exercises is the only event set to music and features tumbling, leaps, turns and choreography on a spring-loaded mat.

On all events, gymnasts are judged on difficulty of the exercise, execution, along with dynamics, including height and distance from apparatus, and must show strength, flexibility, balance and rhythmic.

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Gymsport description written by F.I.G;

https://www.gymnastics.sport/site/pages/disciplines/pres-wag.php

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Apparatus'

Vault - a 20m sprint to the vaulting table followed by springing onto and off the hands and landing perfectly on the other side. Extra rotations at any point increase the difficulty.

Uneven Bars - requiring strength, precision, rhythm, concentration and courage; the gymnast moves from one bar to the other, alternating grip changes, releases and regrasps, saltos and changes of direction with circular swings.

Beam - balance at its most extreme, adding an extra element to the acrobatic sequences, gymnastic jumps and turns. It is an exercise not only of flexibility, but also of concentration, rhythm and expression.

Floor - a creative combination of expressive dance, daring acrobatics and powerful gymnastics performed to music, where each gymnast communicates her own personality and style.

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As written by Gymnastics Queensland;

http://www.gymnastics.org.au/Shared_Content/Gymsports/WAG/Womens_Artistic_Gymnastics.aspx

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