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Simona amanar vault 1996 aa
The Amânar for women or Shewfelt for men is a skill in vault of artistic gymnastics. The vault was named after the first gymnast to perform it at World Championships or Olympic Games: Simona Amanar of Romania for women and Kyle Shewfelt of Canada for men; both were accomplished at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. The vault belongs to the Yurchenko family, and it consists of a roundoff on and then 2.5 twists in a laid out back salto off the vault platform.
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- Simona amanar vault 1996 aa
- Simona amanar rom sydney 2000 ef fx
- Women who have completed the Amanar
- Men completing the Shewfelt
- Points downgrading for incompletes
- References
As of the beginning of 2017, this vault remains the hardest Yurchenko style vault and one of the hardest vaults performed by women. Since the end of the traditional 10.0 scoring system in 2005 to 2012, the vault had a 6.5 difficulty score, 0.7 higher than the much more common double-twisting Yurchenko. In the 2013-2016 Code Of Points, this vault was expectedly downgraded from a difficulty score of 6.5 to 6.3. In the most current 2017-2020 Code of Points, this vault was further and more significantly downgraded from a difficulty score of 6.3 to 5.8, equivalent to only a double-twisting Yurchenko under the 2013-2016 Code of Points. Although there has been no official advancement in this family of vaults since the 2000 Olympics Games in Sydney for women, Hong Un Jong of North Korea, gold medalist in vault at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, did attempt a triple-twisting Yurchenko at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and was very close to successfully completing it in competition. For men, there remains only a handful of gymnasts who have successfully completed a triple-twisting Yurchenko (Shirai or Shirai-Kim) since it was achieved in competition by Kenzo Shirai of Japan and Kim Hee Hoon of South Korea at the 2013 World Championships. Shirai then went on to successfully complete a 3.5-twisting Yurchenko (Shirai II) at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, and as of February 2017, he remains the only gymnast to have competed "Shirai II" on vault.
Simona amanar rom sydney 2000 ef fx
Women who have completed the Amanar
As of July 2015, the following women have completed Amanars in competition:
Men completing the Shewfelt
The first male gymnast to perform a 2.5-twisting Yurchenko was Kyle Shewfelt of Canada. He initially completed the vault in 1999, and based on his performance in competition at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, he received naming credit for the vault in men's artistic gymnastics.
Since 2005 and as of 2010, the Shewfelt corresponded to a 6.6 D-score and was a common vault for top international males who were not vault specialists. However, since 2004, men's vault evolved to higher difficulty, such that major-competition event finalists typically perform 7.0 vaults that are more difficult than the Shewfelt.
The 2009-2011 World and 2012/2016 Olympic All-Around Champion, Kōhei Uchimura, had competed the Shewfelt.
The following men have completed Shewfelts in competition:
A note on Shirai's contributions since he started competing internationally for Japan at the age of 17 in 2013: it took 13 years for him to end the stalemate and progress Yurchenko vaults from 2.5 to 3 twists but only needed 3 more years to make 3.5 twists, which is one of the five vaults to be assigned its highest difficulty score of 6.0 in men's artistic gymnastics under the 2017-2020 Code of Points.
Points downgrading for incompletes
In modern gymnastics scoring, incomplete twisting results in a downgrade of difficulty rather than an execution deduction. For example, attempted Amanars with less than 2.5 credited twists are considered double-twisting Yurchenkos and thus downgraded by 0.7, 0.5 or 0.4 under the 2009-2012, 2013-2016 or 2017-2020 Codes of Points.
At the 2010 World Championships, Russian Tatiana Nabieva's Amanar was downgraded in event finals (but credited in team finals and prelims) for incomplete twisting. The Russian team protested unsuccessfully. Controversy associated with the downgrade (and two other Russian vault downgrades) was reflected in Russian media and covered in Western sources as well. Similarly, the first vault of North Korea's Hong Un Jong was also only credited as an Amanar when she attempted a triple-twisting Yurchenko during the vault event final at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro but was ruled that twisting was incomplete.