Olympic season is lastly upon us!
We’re thrilled to look at gymnasts from all all over the world carry out and are pleased with this 12 months’s sturdy Australian gymnastics staff.
With the 2024 Paris Olympics about to hit our screens, right here’s your gymnastics version information…
Sorts Of Gymnastics Carried out At The Olympics
Inventive Gymnastics
In Ladies’s Inventive Gymnastics, females carry out on 4 totally different apparatuses. These embody routines from vault, uneven bars, steadiness beam, and flooring.
In Males’s Inventive Gymnastics, males carry out on six totally different apparatuses. These embody routines from flooring, pommel horse, rings, vault, parallel bars, and excessive bar.
Gymnasts are scored on execution, issue, and efficiency, with mixed scores figuring out rankings and medallists.
Australia’s Group: Particular person vs Group:
In inventive gymnastics, each women and men compete both as a part of a staff or as people. Group occasions include teams representing their international locations, performing routines on numerous apparatuses, whereas particular person occasions give attention to private performances.
Australia will probably be represented by a number of proficient gymnasts, together with a powerful Ladies’s Inventive Gymnastics (WAG) staff of 5. Jesse Moore would be the sole male competitor in inventive gymnastics, highlighting his distinctive abilities and dedication.
{Qualifications} and Finals:
Group Finals: The highest eight groups from qualification advance to the ultimate. Solely three athletes from every staff/nation compete on every equipment, and each rating counts.
All-Round Last: The 24 gymnasts with the perfect scores from {qualifications} compete, with not more than two gymnasts from anyone nation. The very best scoring gymnast will obtain gold.
Occasion Finals: The highest-eight gymnasts on every equipment from {qualifications} advance. Every gymnast performs one routine, and the very best rating wins. For vault, two totally different vaults are carried out, with the scores averaged.
You’ll be able to learn extra concerning the historical past of inventive gymnastics right here.
Rhythmic Gymnastics
Rhythmic Gymnastics is a feminine solely occasion that made its Olympic debut in 1984. There are simply two classes: particular person all-around ladies and group all-around ladies.
Particular person All-Round: Every gymnast performs a routine utilizing a ball, hoop, membership, and ribbon with the equipment shifting always. Scored the identical as inventive gymnastics, judges assess rhythmic gymnasts primarily based on their execution and issue.
Enjoyable reality: Up till 2013, gymnasts additionally carried out with a rope, however this was dominated out.
Group All-Round: Consisting of 5 gymnasts, two performances, and two totally different units of equipment. Within the first routine, the gymnasts should all use the identical props, and within the second, they’ll use a blended choice.
You’ll be able to study extra about Rhythmic Gymnastics right here.
Trampoline Gymnastics
Trampoline Gymnastics grew to become a serious Olympic sport in 2000. The game entails two particular person occasions: males’s and girls’s.
Gymnasts carry out routines which might be composed of ten parts the place they twist, bounce, and somersault. That is scored on issue, execution, and time within the air. As soon as via to the finals, they haven’t any restrictions on the one single routine that they need to carry out.
Representing Australia for Trampoline Gymnastics is Brock Batty.
Gymnastics Schedule
The 2024 Paris Olympics kicks off on Saturday July 27 @ 4:24am (AEST) with the opening ceremony. Gymnastics {qualifications}, additionally on the twenty seventh start at 7pm.
You could find the total schedule right here.
Who Is Representing Australia?
This 12 months, the Australian staff consists of 460 athletes, 13 of which will probably be hitting the primary stage for gymnastics, marking this as Australia’s largest gymnastics squad.
You’ll be able to learn extra about every gymnast right here.
The place To Watch The 2024 Paris Olympics?
Aussies can catch all of the motion on 9 Community, through free-to-air broadcasting and on-line at 9Now. Throughout 9’s NRL matches, Olympics protection will shift to 9Go! Each occasion will even be broadcast reside and on-demand through Stan.
Keep up to date on all issues Olympics by watching this house.
