1/2 twists (540°) before regrasp on the bar. Gienger saltos are technically similar to Deltchev saltos, with the latter initiating the 1/2 twist before...

of the Year in 1974 and 1978. The Gienger salto on the high bar and on the uneven bars is named after him. Gienger was a member of the German National...

Gebeshian (Armenia) Gienger salto (horizontal bar) – after Eberhard Gienger (Germany) Gienger salto (uneven bars) – after Eberhard Gienger (Germany) Ginsberg...

pressure to master a dangerous and difficult tumbling move (the Thomas salto) caused her to break her neck two weeks before the opening of the 1980 Summer...

most technically difficult in the world. In it, she completed a Def (a Gienger release move with a full twist), an element classified at the top difficulty...

Kosolapova, was a fiery Samba, and one of the elements was the double back salto, performed for the first time in Olympic women's events. Kim also won a...

round-off, back-handspring with 1/2 turn on - piked salto forward with 1/2 turn off Floor double front salto, also with 1/2 twist out Retired 1997 Medal record...

backward salto with a full twist on beam (e.g. 1982 Ennia Cup). On floor she performed difficult passes such as 1½ twist back salto to 1½ twist back salto, punch...

falling on her own "Cheng Fei vault"). She got 16.075 and 15.025 on her saltos. She won another bronze medal on balance beam (15.950) and placing 7th in...

catch high bar E 2019–21 Gienger Swing fwd and salto bwd with 1⁄2 turn piked to hang on HB D 2021, 2024 Bhardwaj Laid out salto from high bar to low bar...

Apparatus Name Description Difficulty Vault Yurchenko Round-off flic-flac on - tucked salto backward off 3.0...

of Points Horizontal bar Gaylord 1 "Salto fwd, tuck over the bar, also from el-grip." E, 0.5 1985 Gaylord 2 "Salto bwd. ½ t. piked over the bar." E, 0...

Dityatin Yukio Endō Shun Fujimoto Arthur Gander Mitch Gaylord Eberhard Gienger Bruno Grandi Savino Guglielmetti Jack Günthard Koji Gushiken Fabian Hambüchen...

skill named after her on the uneven bars in the women's Code of Points - a Gienger with full turn, although it is almost universally referred to as a Def...

(B)[clarification needed]; Back Tuck Salto (C- although not named after her, first to perform it); and Front Tuck Salto Dismount (A- not named after her,...

Dityatin Yukio Endō Shun Fujimoto Arthur Gander Mitch Gaylord Eberhard Gienger Bruno Grandi Savino Guglielmetti Jack Günthard Koji Gushiken Fabian Hambüchen...

forward to double salto backward tucked with 1/1 turn (360°) in second salto D Floor Exercise Chusovitina-Touzhikova Double salto backward stretched...

skills. When she was eight years old, she started training with Jim Chudy at Salto Gymnastics. She began competing at the junior elite level in 2000. Memmel...

score of 16.650 on the uneven bars, but in event finals, she fell on her Gienger release move and took a step on her dismount, earning a 15.225 and taking...

side Arabian 1 and 3/4 salto, both rare skills for women at that time; in fact, women are no longer allowed to compete saltos which end in a roll. Here...

[citation needed] Vault: Full Twisting Handspring forward onto table – tucked salto forward Uneven Bars: Swing forward counter-straddle reverse hecht over high...

a pommel horse move, and the Thomas salto, his signature skill on floor exercise, a tucked 1.5 backward salto with 1.5 twists into a roll-out (a difficult...

change + Straddled Jaeger (D); KCH + Clear Hip 1/2 (C) + Giant 1/1 (C) + Gienger (D); KCH + Clear Hip (C) + Toe-on sole circle 1/1 (Hoefnagel) (D) + Overshoot...

virtuosity and originality. The dismount she pioneered, a hecht-front salto-full now known as the Ma, is valued as an "F," the second highest difficulty...

tucked double back salto and a double twist. Comăneci has two eponymous uneven bars skills listed in the Code of Points, the Comăneci salto and the Comăneci...

debuted a double layout somersault on floor with split legs in the first salto, a skill that few others have been able to perform. Perhaps most impressively...

back salto, double pike back dismount, tucked Korbut Floor exercise: Double laid-out salto, Whip salto (immediate connection) Back-double pike salto, 2...

involves a round-off entry onto the vaulting table followed by a laid-out salto with 21⁄2 twists. Amânar first competed this skill at the 2000 Olympics...

Apparatus Name Description Difficulty Uneven bars Kraeker Underswing with half turn, tucked back salto with full-turn D...

during the team final was the uneven bars. During the routine she caught a Gienger release too close to the bar, smashing her face on the top bar but continuing...