An individual event involving different physical skills requiring strength, flexibility, and maneuvers on the floor, and on certain elevated apparatuses.

(1) Artistic gymnastics (2) Rhythmic gymnastics (3) Sports gymnastics (4) Trampolining (5) General gymnastics (6) Power Tumbling.

Artistic, Rhythmic, Gymnastics and Trampolining has been included from 2000 onwards.

Federation Internationale de Gymnastique, headquarters at Belgium started in 1883. It is the oldest sports federation.

Doha, Asian Games in 2006.

A popular spectator event in which a competitor performs short routines on different apparatuses. The routines are : Women: Vault, Uneven bars, Balance beams, Floor exercises. Men: Floor exercises, Pommel horse, Still rings, Vault, Parallel bars, Horizontal bars.

It is executed with a musical (instrumental) background exhibiting gymnastics skills in tune with music, with apparatuses like balls, clubs, hoops, ribbon & rope etc. This event is exhibited in singles, doubles or groups. It is largely a woman oriented sport, however, nowadays men are also participating..

Trampoline: A gymnastic and recreational device of a piece of Taut a strong fabric, stretched over a steel frame using coiled springs to provide a rebounding force which propels the jumper high into the air. The elasticity is provided by the spring which is connected to the frame. There are two events in this: (1) Synchronized Trampoline, (2) Double men Trampoline.

VAULT: In this gymnasts sprint down a 25 mtr / 82 feet runway, leap on to a spring board and on to the vaulting apparatus in a straight body position, touching the horse with their hands and blocking off it. It is about 3 feet in length and 2 feet in width and is also called the Tongue.
UNEVEN BARS: Two horizontal bars set at different heights on which the gymnasts perform different physical skills.
BALANCE BEAM: It is a padded beam about 4 feet high - 16 ft in length and 4 inches wide.
FLOOR: Carpeted spring or foamed floor 40 ft X 40 ft. Gymnasts perform their physical skills with or without the accompaniment of music for 60 to 120 seconds.

Floor: 12 m X 12 m/ 40 feet X 40 feet foamed or spring floor where gymnasts perform their skills, mostly without music.
Pommel Horse: A raised beam on which men perform circular movements around the horse with their legs while their hands rest/ touch the beams. One of the harder event requiring lot of skills & determination.
Rings: The rings hung about 8 feet above the ground on a horizontal bar. The men gymnasts perform different skills by swinging on them and land cleanly on the mat. Performance on the rings are the epitome of male gymnastic strength.
Vault: Same as women.
Parallel Bars: Two bars fixed at a height of 6 1/2 feet from the floor, about a shoulder's width apart on which one has to perform.
High Bar: 1'' thick steel bar fixed at a height of 8 feet above the ground horizontally, holding on to which one has to perform different skills and finish with an impressive dismount.

Code of points.

Women - Leotard, Men - Singlet.

Olympics, World Gymnastics Championship, Asian Games, Commonwealth Games etc., .

Russia, Romania, China, Japan, Ukraine, USA.

12 X 12 mtrs square.

Ashish kumar - Silver in Men's Vault and Bronze in Men's floor gymnastics events in the Commonwealth Games 2010 at Delhi. He is from Allahabad.