What is gymnastics

Gymnastics are more of the body movements made using various tools in indoor halls and using various tools. Gymnastics, which provides flexibility and elegance to the body, also gives agility and strength.

This sport, founded by ancient Greeks, was initially naked by male athletes. For this reason, the gymnastics halls were derived from the word gymnos, which means "naked". All the work done in these halls was called gymnastics. The word gymnastics, which has been spent on many languages, comes from here.

Various associations and federations about gymnastics, which stated that it should be written with the letter C in the first time in our country, were established. Türkiye Gymnastics Federation The website was written in gymnastics instead of gymnastics.

The first gymnastics club was founded in 1850. The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) was established in 1881. In the Olympic races, which were initiated for the first time in 1896 after a 1500 -year -old break, there were only men in the gymnastics branch. Female gymnasts first joined the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics. Since the 1950s, it is seen that the gymnasts from Russia, Japan and China in the Olympics and World Championships are very successful.

Gymnastics is divided into two as tools and instruments. It has rhythmic and uninterrupted movements on the gymnastics ground cushion without tools. In the gymnastics of the instrument, tools such as rope, circle, ball, lobut, ribbon, barfix, ring, handle horsepower.