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    The pommel horse is a gymnastics apparatus traditionally used by male gymnasts. It originated from a wooden horse used by Romans to teach mounting and dismounting, and was later added to the ancient Olympic Games. The modern pommel horse has a metal body covered with foam rubber and leather, with plastic handles. In a pommel horse routine, the gymnast performs movements like circles and crosses of the legs while supporting himself with his hands on the pommels without stopping. It is part of the men's competition in the modern Olympics.

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    The pommel horse is a gymnastics apparatus traditionally used by male gymnasts. It originated from a wooden horse used by Romans to teach mounting and dismounting, and was later added to the ancient Olympic Games. The modern pommel horse has a metal body covered with foam rubber and leather, with plastic handles. In a pommel horse routine, the gymnast performs movements like circles and crosses of the legs while supporting himself with his hands on the pommels without stopping. It is part of the men's competition in the modern Olympics.

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    The pommel horse is a gymnastics apparatus traditionally used by male gymnasts. It originated from a wooden horse used by Romans to teach mounting and dismounting, and was later added to the ancient Olympic Games. The modern pommel horse has a metal body covered with foam rubber and leather, with plastic handles. In a pommel horse routine, the gymnast performs movements like circles and crosses of the legs while supporting himself with his hands on the pommels without stopping. It is part of the men's competition in the modern Olympics.

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    Pommel Horse Presentation

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    Jorielyn Apostol
    The pommel horse is a gymnastics apparatus traditionally used by male gymnasts. It originated from a wooden horse used by Romans to teach mounting and dismounting, and was later added to the ancient Olympic Games. The modern pommel horse has a metal body covered with foam rubber and leather, with plastic handles. In a pommel horse routine, the gymnast performs movements like circles and crosses of the legs while supporting himself with his hands on the pommels without stopping. It is part of the men's competition in the modern Olympics.

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    POMMEL HORSE

    Gymnastic
    What is Pommel Horse in
    Gymnastic?
    • The pommel horse is an artistic gymnastics apparatus.
    Traditionally, it is used by only male gymnasts. Originally
    made of a metal frame with a wooden body and a leather
    cover, the modern pommel horse has a metal body covered
    with foam rubber and leather, with plastic handles. 
    When was Pommel Horse Invented?

    The apparatus stems from a wooden horse


    introduced by the Romans and used to teach
    mounting and dismounting. They added it to
    the ancient Olympic Games. The basic
    modern exercises were developed in the early
    19th century by Friedrich Ludwig Jahn,
    founder of the German turnverein
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    What is the
    Point of
    Pommel
    Horse?
    • The pommel horse event is part of the
    men's competition in the modern
    Olympic Games. The gymnast supports
    himself with his hands by holding the
    pommels over the horse and performs
    movements with his trunk and legs,
    such as single or double leg circles and
    crosses of the legs (scissors), without
    stops.
    How Pommel Horse work ?
    • The gymnast supports himself with his hands by holding the
    pommels over the horse and performs movements with his
    trunk and legs, such as single or double leg circles and crosses
    of the legs (scissors), without stops

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    • Examples of Pommel Horse

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    He is MIKHAIL VORONIN

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    Vitali Sherbo (Bela.)
    performing on the pommel
    horse at the 1993 World
    Gymnastics Championships,
    where he was champion in
    three events, including the all-
    around individual competition

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    • Pommel horse, also called side horse, gymnastics apparatus, a leather-
    covered form 1.6 metres (63 inches) long, 34 to 36 cm (13.4 to 14.2
    inches) wide, and (measured to its top) about 115 cm (45.3 inches)
    from the floor with a support in its centre. Curved wooden pommels
    (handholds) 12 cm (4.7 inches) high are inserted 40 to 45 cm (15.75 to
    17.72 inches) apart in the top of the horse.

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