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unusual facts about Pommel horse



1948 Summer Olympics medal table

In the gymnastics events there were three athletes placed first for the men's pommel horse, with Paavo Aaltonen, Veikko Huhtanen and Heikki Savolainen all receiving gold medals for Finland in the same event, while no silver or bronze medals were handed out.

George Barker Windship

After a larger student threw his books downstairs and refused to apologize, Windship determined to build himself up by practicing gymnastics at the school gym, working on the various equipment, including the spring-board, horse, vaulting apparatus, parallel bars, suspended rings, horizontal and inclined ladders, pulley-weights, pegs, climbing rope, and trapezoid every evening after classes.

Osvaldo Palazzi

In the next World Championships, in 1913, Palazzi won silver in the pommel horse (behind Giorgio Zampori) and bronze in the horizontal bar.


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Rafael A. Lecuona

He also won a silver medal for his dismount on the pommel horse at the 1955 Pan American Games.

Takehiro Kashima

Kashima won a bronze medal in pommel horse at the 2002 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Debrecen.