Luxembourg 1930 saw the first official apparatus rankings.
Yugoslav Josip Primozic went down in history as the first world champion on floor exercise.
Floor exercises continued to be done on grass even at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics. Switzerland dominated the world scene in the thirties, not only on floor. 1934 world champion Georg Miez, who placed second in 1930, took the gold on floor in 1936 …
The English and Germans pioneered special floor exercise mats (‘sprung floors’) as early as the twenties as well as the Danes in the thirties
photo – Georg Miez (1932)
Each Wednesday we are linking to a different apparatus posted on GymMEDIA – Apparatus HISTORY. (English and German)
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