NOUN | a balance beam | balance beams | |
SYNO | balance beam | beam |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- Of all gymnastics apparatuses—men's or women's—balance beam has proven the most difficult on which to win multiple Olympic and World Championship titles.
- The balance beam is a rectangular artistic gymnastics apparatus and an event performed using the apparatus.
- Amânar's powerful floor routine and vaults put her in the lead after two rotations in the all-around, but she dropped to fourth after an average uneven bars routine and a shaky balance beam routine.
- At the Olympics Davydova qualified for the all-around, vault and beam finals. The Soviet team won team gold and Davydova went on to win the all-around gold medal, and silver on the balance beam.
- She won gold medals for the individual all-around, the balance beam and uneven bars.
- At the 1975 European Championships, Tourischeva placed fourth in the all-around behind 13-year-old Nadia Comăneci of Romania (who also won the vault, uneven bars, and balance beam apparatus finals), her own teammate Nellie Kim (who placed second and won the floor exercise final) and Annelore Zinke.
- At the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, she took this protest to the world stage by quietly looking down and away while the Soviet national anthem was played during the medal ceremonies for the balance beam and floor exercise event finals.
- Competing for "Budivelnyk Kharkiv", Gorokhovskaya won her first USSR title on the balance beam in 1948.
- In January 2012 the locks were drained to allow the installation of new lock gates. The new gates are made of English green oak and, taken together with the balance beam, weigh more than 5 tonnes.
- Janiga also won five individual conference titles at Stanford: balance beam in 2008 and 2009, all-around and uneven bars in 2009 and floor exercise in 2010.
- The skill is also performed on the balance beam. The move is performed from a standing position and is landed in a straddled position on the beam.
- She also won silver on bars (tied with two other gymnasts), balance beam, and floor exercise in the event finals.
- Traditionally, Alpha and Beta Librae are considered to represent the scales' balance beam, while Gamma and Sigma are the weighing pans.
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