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EVENTS For team events, teams consist of seven members, but only six members compete for each event. The five highest scores count toward the overall team score. For individual events, men compete in six events and women compete in four. The men's events are floor, pommel horse, vaulting horse, rings, horizontal bar, and parallel bars. The women's competition events are floor, vaulting horse, balance beam, and uneven bars.
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PARTICIPANTS Unlike rhythmic gymnastics, both men and women compete in artistic gymnastics. There is a men's team competition and men's individual competition. There is also women's team competition and women's individual competition. For the individual events, men and women compete separately.
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JUDGES
For artistic gymnastics, there is a panel of four to six judges. These judges must have experience in gymnastics. All judge candidates are screened to test their knowledge of the sport.
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JUDGING Each type of gymnastics has a different scoring system. Artistic gymnastics is scored on a ten-point scale by the four to six chosen judges. Each routine/event is scored separately. At the end of a competition, each gymnast's scores from their events are averaged together to come up with their total score. The gymnast's score is then compared with the other gymnasts' scores to determine the winner of the competition. For a team competition, after the individual scores are determined, all of the team members' scores are averaged together to come up with an overall team score. The team's score is then compared to the scores of the other team/teams. This is how the winning team of a team competition is determined. |
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ROUTINES
Each of the events involves performing a routine, which is a combination of tricks, arranged in a certain order. Each gymnast works individually with their coach to come up with a routine. Each routine must include certain basic tricks, but from there, each routine is different depending on what the gymnast wants to add. Each trick has a certain point value, and all the trick values added together make up the total possible score. The highest possible score for a routine is a 10, but the highest possible score for an individual will vary depending on the tricks they choose. A gymnast can choose a routine with a higher point value, but the tricks will be harder and the total possible score more difficult to attain. |
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HISTORY
The vaulting horse, used in artistic gymnastics, was originally introduced three thousand years ago by the Romans. Their cavalry needed to be skilled at mounting and dismounting their horses, so they used the vaulting horse (originally called the wooden horse) to develop and practice these abilities. Later, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, artistic-type gymnastics was re-introduced in Europe. This included the vaulting horse, but also the horizontal bar, parallel bars, and the rings. |
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