Gymnastics
methods for the cure of disease. De Arte Gymnastica also explained the
principles of physical therapy and is considered the first book on sports
medicine.
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Germany, three
pioneer physical educators Johann Friedrich GutsMuths (17591839)
and Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (17781852) created exercises for boys
and young men on apparatus they had designed that ultimately led to
what is considered modern gymnastics. Don Francisco Amoros y
Ondeano, marquis de Sotelo, is born on february 19th 1770 in Valence
and died on august 8th 1848 in Paris he was a spanish colonel, the first
one to introduce educative gymnastic in France. He created the first
military and civil gymnasium in Paris. In particular, Jahn crafted early
models of the horizontal bar, the parallel bars (from a horizontal ladder
with the rungs removed), and the vaulting horse.
Events for men
Floor Male gymnasts also perform on a 12m. by 12m. spring floor. A
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