gymnastics – History of Horizontal Bar

“High Bar” was originally a low German name for a horizontal bar for hanging up cloths, sausages or plates, and in chicken stalls for sitting places of the poultry – and was taken by Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (1778-1852) as name for the gymnastics apparatus introduced by him in 1812. …

Already jugglers of late Hellenistic and of early Chinese times, and even Eskimos have performed giant swings. …

Already at the Olympic Games 1908 in London a gymnast performed a double somersaulto …

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Each Wednesday we are linking to a different apparatus posted on GymMEDIA – Apparatus HISTORY. (English and German)