… The former name “Roman rings” reminds of the older rope and pole swings of the artists and indicates Italian origins.
Adolf Spiess described them for the first time as “Ringeschwebel” in his “Turnlehre” (gymnastics lesson) in 1842.
Eiselen, student of Jahn, introduced the swinging horizontal bar. His “rings” were triangular handles. …
At the VIII Olympic Games in Paris in 1924, the apparatus appeared in the Olympic programme for the first time. Rings with a relatively big diameter hang on a massive wooden trestle. …
Francesco Martino from Italy is the first best gymnast at the rings in the Olympic protocol. Four years later it was the Slovenian Leon Stukelj, who achieved the Gold medal and who astonished with the first “head cross” and ideal horizontal arms. …
Each Wednesday we are linking to a different apparatus posted on GymMEDIA – Apparatus HISTORY. (English and German)
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