trampoline gymnastics
Trampolining or trampoline gymnastics is a competitive Olympic sport in which athletes perform acrobatics while bouncing on a trampoline. In competition, these can include simple jumps in the straight, pike, tuck, or straddle position to more complex combinations of forward and/or backward somersaults and twists. Scoring is based on the difficulty and on the total seconds spent in the air; points are deducted for bad form and horizontal displacement from the center of the bed.
Key facts
- Sport.name
- Trampoline gymnastics
- Sport.image
- Rio 2016 Summer Olympics (28558139233).jpg
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- 220px
- Sport.caption
- Jumping on a competition trampoline at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Sport.union
- World Gymnastics
- Sport.first
- United States, 1930s
- Sport.firstlabel
- First contested
- Sport.country/region
- Worldwide
- Sport.contact
- No
- Sport.mgender
- Yes
- Sport.category
- Gymnastic sport
- Sport.olympic
- Since 2000
Article
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- Origins
- Basic landing positions
- Basic shapes
- Competition
- Individual
- Synchronized
- Double mini
- Tumbling {{anchor|Tumbling (tumble)}}
- Format
- Scoring
- Score records
- Safety
- References
- Sources
- External links
Trampolining or trampoline gymnastics is a competitive Olympic sport in which athletes perform acrobatics while bouncing on a trampoline. In competition, these can include simple jumps in the straight, pike, tuck, or straddle position to more complex combinations of forward and/or backward somersaults and twists. Scoring is based on the difficulty and on the total seconds spent in the air; points are deducted for bad form and horizontal displacement from the center of the bed.
Outside of the Olympics, competitions are referred to as gym sport, trampoline gymnastics, or gymnastics, which includes the events of trampoline, synchronised trampoline, double mini trampoline and tumbling.