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HISTORY OF WOMEN'S GYMNASTICS
The first women's gymnastics sections
were created long before they were
included in the official sports
competition programs. For example,
already in 1900, as part of the
Gymnastic Society "Sokół" in Poznań,
a women's section was created under
the name "Women's gymnastics
department".
Women's
sports
gymnastics entered the program of the
Olympic
Games
as
a
team
competition in 1928 and in its present
form it appeared for the first time in
competitions 12 World Gymnastics
Championships in 1950. A team
competition,
multiplayer
and
competition on individual instruments were introduced. Individual competition of multi-
discipline women's gymnastics has already appeared at the 10th World
Championships in 1934. The form adopted at the 12th World Championships was later
introduced at the Summer Olympics in Helsinki in 1952 and this form of Olympic
competition remains unchanged to this day. The first women's athletes in sports
gymnastics usually took about 20 years - many of them had been learning ballet for
many years before they started to play this sport. Łarysa Łatynina, the first great
gymnast from the Soviet Union, won her first Olympic medal at the age of 22,
the second at the age of 26, and in 1958, while pregnant, she won the World
Championship. Gymnast from the Czech Republic Věra Čáslavská, another double
winner of Olympic sports gymnastics, began to win her gold medals after turning 22
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