Gymnastics is a kind of activity and sport that invovles performance of exercises. It requires physical strength, flexibility, agility, co-ordination, balance, and grace. Competitive Artistic gymnastics is the best known of the gymnastic sports. It typically involves the women's events and men's events.
Women's events: uneven parallel bars, balance beam, floor exercise, and vault
Men's events: floor exercise, pommel horse, still rings, vault, parallel bars, and high bar.
Gymnastics evolved from exercises used by the ancient Greeks, that included skills for mounting and dismounting a horse, and from circus performance skills.
Other gymnastic sports include rhythmic gymnastics, the various trampolining sports, and aerobic and acrobatic gymnastics.
Participants can include children as young as two years old and sometimes younger doing kindergym and children's gymnastics, recreational gymnasts of all ages, competitive gymnasts at varying levels of skill, as well as world class athletes.
Malaysians that achieved in Gymnastics
Elaine Koon
Elaine Koon of Malaysia performs her Hoop routine during the Rhythmic Gymnastics team final and individual qualifying round at IG Sports Complex during day nine of the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games on October 12, 2010 in Delhi, India.
Elaine Koon celebrates winning gold in the hoop dicipline during the individual apparatus final at the IG Sports Complex during day eleven of the 2010 Commonwealth Games on October 14, 2010 in Delhi, India.
Elaine Koon won five medals in New Delhi.
Nur Hidayah Abdul Wahid
Malaysian rhythmic gymnast Nur Hidayah Abdul Wahid
at the the World Championships in Japan
at the the World Championships in Japan
