Rhythmic gymnastics is a new type of competitive sports for women, and is often translated as rhythmic gymnastics. There are team competitions, individual all-around competitions and individual individual events. The group event requires five people to complete two sets of actions at the same time, one of which holds the same type of equipment and the other holds a different type of equipment. The individual event includes five items: rope, circle, ball, stick, and belt.

Includes events

Rhythmic gymnastics individual all-around

Rhythmic gymnastics group

Origin and development

Rhythmic gymnastics originated in Europe. Various body movement exercises with musical accompaniment appeared at the end of the 19th century. At the beginning of the 20th century, rhythmic gymnastics, created by Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, a teacher at the Conservatory of Music in Geneva, Switzerland, combined physical exercises with music, and developed from the original bare hands to the use of light equipment. In 1962, it was designated as a competition event by the International Gymnastics Federation. The first World Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships were held in 1963, and were held every two years thereafter. In 1967, international scoring rules were specially formulated. It was listed as an Olympic event in 1984.

Rhythmic gymnastics was originally only a women's event, but now in Japan, the United States, Canada, Australia, Russia, South Korea, Malaysia, Mexico and other countries, men have performed rhythmic gymnastics, which is called Men's Rhythmic Gymnastics. rhythmic gymnastics). The first World Men's Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships were held from November 27th to 29th, 2003. Different from women's events, women's rhythmic gymnastics mainly includes five types: rope gymnastics, circle gymnastics, ball gymnastics, stick gymnastics and belt gymnastics; while men's rhythmic gymnastics usually does not have ball gymnastics and stick gymnastics, but adds sticks and rafters. But Spain's Ruben Orihuela has masculinized all women's events at the same time; the flexibility of his body is no less than that of any female rhythmic gymnast.

Rhythmic gymnastics is an emerging sports event. It was widely developed in various sports colleges in the 1980s with its unique charm. With the development of society, this event has emerged in China. had a greater impact.

Competition Rules

Rhythmic gymnastics includes group and individual events. The group event requires 5 people to complete two sets of actions at the same time, one of which holds the same type of equipment and the other holds a different type of equipment, and the time is 2′15″~2′30″; the individual event includes ropes, rings, balls, Stick and belt five items. During the competition, athletes completed four of the events in accordance with the requirements of the regulations, and the time was: 1′15″～1′30″.

Each team in the individual team competition is composed of 3 to 4 athletes. Each athlete completes 1 to 4 sets of movements. Each team must have different athletes complete 3 sets of movements with each equipment.*** There are 12 sets of moves in total, and the one with the highest total score wins.

A maximum of 2 athletes from each team can participate in the individual all-around event. Only the top 24 athletes with all-around scores in the team competition are eligible to participate. They must complete four complete sets of movements with different equipment, each with a full score of 20 points. The maximum total score for the four events is 80 points. The one with the highest total score wins.

Two athletes from each team will participate in the individual event, and the ranking will be determined based on the score of the individual event. The highest score is 20 points. The player with the highest score wins.

Rhythmic gymnastics complete sets of movements should be an organic combination of difficult body movements and equipment technical movements.

Difficult body movements include jumping, turning, balance, flexibility and waves.

The body movement groups prescribed by each equipment: rope exercise is jumping, ball exercise is flexibility and wave, stick exercise is balance, belt exercise is rotation, and circle exercise requires the balanced use of all difficulties. There are at least 6 body movement groups specified in each equipment, plus any movement in other groups (maximum 2 in each group).

The equipment technology group of rope exercise is composed of large jumps and small jumps, throwing and catching, rotating ropes, swings, circles, figure eights, sails and other action types.

The equipment technology group of circle exercise consists of rolling the circle on the body and the ground, rotating around the hand or part of the body and around the circle's own axis, throwing and catching, passing through the circle, and circling. It consists of action types such as upward crossing, swinging, looping, and figure 8.

The equipment technology group of ball gymnastics is to use the ball with one hand or both hands or other parts of the body to complete free rolling on the body or on the ground, shooting the ball, throwing and catching, pre-swing, swinging, looping, figure 8, It consists of action types such as flipping with the arms around or not around the loop.

The technical group of equipment for stick exercises consists of small hoops, small five-pieces, single or double sticks that rotate and do not rotate in the air, asymmetric throwing and catching, knocking, and using arms or equipment. It consists of pre-swing, swing, circle, figure-8 action, asymmetry and other action types.

The equipment technology group of belt exercises is composed of snake, spiral, pre-swing, swing, circle, figure 8, full belt throw, pull belt throw, small belt throw and other action types.

The judging of rhythmic gymnastics is composed of three referee groups, each group has 4 judges.

The completion team (E) will judge the technical errors of the completion situation and deduct points according to the degree of the error: 0.10 points will be deducted for small errors, 0.20 points will be deducted for medium errors, and 0.30 points or more will be deducted for major errors;

Art Group (A) judges the artistic value of the choreography, namely: musical accompaniment and choreography (choice of instrument movements, choice of body movements, use of instrument movements, use of body movements, proficiency and originality);

Difficulty group (D) judges the technical value of the arrangement, that is, the number and level of prescribed movements unique to the equipment or other difficult movements.

The completion score is 10 points, plus the artistic and difficulty scores of 10 points each, plus the result divided by 2, and then subtracting the deduction points, the complete set of actions is worth 20 points.