gymnastics – History of Bars

In the 19th century (around 1830), there were reports of uneven bars in France, but it was only in the second half of the 20th century when this apparatus with the asymmetrically adjusted bars gained its importance.

It was at the first “real” World Championships in Budapest in 1934, which were the very first ones for women as well, when it came into favor as a competition apparatus and two years later, when it had its Olympic debut in Berlin. …

The Olympic Games in Helsinki … pushed the development of the apparatus forward, since it was a full apparatus there. The first Olympic Champion at uneven bars was the Hungarian Korondi.

At the World competitions in 1954 the still non-stayed uneven bars were placed as full and lone apparatus; the growing dynamics of modern gymnastics led to 39 (!) bar-breaks then!

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