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asymmetric bars
adverb
- gymnastics
- functioning as plural a pair of wooden or fibreglass bars placed parallel to each other but set at different heights, for various exercises
- functioning as singular an event in a gymnastic competition in which competitors exercise on such bars
Example Sentences
The 22-year-old has now matched Belarusian Vitaly Scherbo’s record tally of 23 world medals and she can surpass him later on Saturday if she takes another medal in the asymmetric bars final.
Those looking to lay down the marker before Tokyo include 2018 apparatus champions Nina Derwael of Belgium on the asymmetric bars and China’s Liu Tingting on balance beam.
At one end, toddlers play with their parents in a baby gym area, while at the other, a coach drills tiny girls, many of them already ranked nationally, at work on the asymmetric bars.
Hungary’s Boglarka Devai won the vault, Belgium’s Nina Derwael successfully defended her asymmetric bars title, Dutch Olympic champion Sanne Wevers prevailed on the balance beam and French starlet Melanie de Jesus was victorious on the floor.
Angelina Melnikova, the outstanding performer in Russia’s win on Friday, was the only member of the victorious team to win an apparatus medal, taking silver in the vault and bronze on the asymmetric bars at the SSE Hydro arena.
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