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Also Known As side horse

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Gymnast on the pommel horse
Pommel horse apparatus
Vitali Sherbo (Bela.) performing on the pommel horse at the 1993 World Gymnastics Championships, where he was champion in three events, including the all-around individual competition
Kōhei Uchimura at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
Mikhail Voronin, U.S.S.R., performing on the pommel horse.
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Belarusian gymnast Vitaly Scherbo
Vitaly Scherbo
Belarusian athlete
“Father of gymnastics”
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn
German educator
Soviet gymnast Boris Anfiyanovich Shakhlin
Boris Anfiyanovich Shakhlin
Soviet athlete
Li Ning
Chinese gymnast and entrepreneur
Dmitri Bilozerchev
Russian athlete
Gymnastics champion Viktor Chukarin
Viktor Chukarin
Soviet athlete
Bart Conner
Bart Conner
American gymnast

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