![]() In 2007, Dutch junior gymnast Imke Glas was seriously injured after a fall on a vault. In a series of crashes when the horse's height was set too low at the 2000 Olympics, gymnasts either rammed into the horse's front end, or had bad landings after having problems with their hand placements during push-off. During warmups at the 1998 Goodwill Games, Chinese gymnast Sang Lan fell and suffered paralysis from a cervical-spine injury. In 1988, American Julissa Gomez was paralyzed in a vaulting accident she died from complications from her injuries three years later. The horse has been blamed for several serious accidents over the years. Training for vaults can include plyometric training. The running speed is correlated with the difficulty of vault performed, with a stronger correlation for women than men, who may not maximize their sprint speed to achieve even the most difficult vaults. It features a flat, larger, and more cushioned surface almost parallel to the floor, which slopes downward at the end closest to the springboard gymnasts nicknamed it the "tongue" it appears to be somewhat safer than the old apparatus. ![]() The 2001 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships were the first international competition to make use of the "vaulting table", an apparatus made by Dutch gymnastics equipment company Janssen-Fritsen since the mid-1990s. The vaulting horse was the apparatus used in the Olympics for over a century, beginning with the Men's vault in the first modern Olympics and ending with the Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics.įollowing the accident in 1988 and compounded by the ones in 19, International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) re-evaluated and changed the apparatus, citing both safety reasons and the desire to facilitate more impressive acrobatics. The horse was set up with its long dimension perpendicular to the run for women, and parallel for men. The apparatus itself originated as a "horse", much like the pommel horse but without the handles it was sometimes known as the vaulting horse. Original vaulting horse configuration (men)Įarly forms of the vault were invented by German Friedrich Ludwig Jahn.
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