Question

Make a history timeline of gymnastics from ancient Greece to modern times including the important individuals involved in gymnastics

Answer 1

Answer:

Gymnastics began in Greek in early years of civilization to help body development through exercises such as running, jumping, swimming, throwing, wrestling and lifting weights. Many of the activities were practiced even before the Greeks introduced gymnastics.

Answer 2

History timeline of gymnastics from Ancient Greece to modern times

• The word "Gymnastics" was derived from a Greek word which was used in Ancient Greece, meaning "to exercise naked:. Ancient Greek men would do various exercises in a gymnasium without clothing.
• Some of these exercises were included in the Olympics too, till AD 393.
• In Ancient Greece, track and field races, wrestling, and boxing were included in gymnastics, but later became separate sports.
• Tumbling and vaulting were the only modern events that came under Gymnastics in ancient times.

Modern Gymnastics

• In 1774, a Prussian, Johann Bernhard Basedow, who is known as the "father of Gymnastics",  included physical exercises with other forms of instruction at his school in Dessau, Saxony.
• From here onwards, the German gymnasts dominance was seen at all sporting events.
• Friedrich Ludwig Jahn of Germany developed the side bar, the parallel bar, the balance beams, and jumping events.
• In 1811, a more graceful form of gymnastics called "rythmic gymnastics" was introduced in Sweden, by Guts Muth.
• Dr. Dudley Allen Sergeant introduced the game in many schools, and universities in the United States during the Civil War.
• Since 1924, men's gymnastics was included in the Olympics.
• Women's gymnastics was included in the Olympics in 1936.
• By the 1950s, gymnastics started spreading in Eastern European countries, and Japan, and China.
• In the modern Olympics, and other international sporting events, gymnastics has six events for men and four events for women. The men's events are the rings, parallel bars, horizontal bar, side or pommel-horse, long or vaulting horse, and floor (or free) exercise.