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Russia's Svetlana Khorkina on the Uneven Bars

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Dimensions

• Height including about 20cm for landing mats:
  • upper bar: 246 cm
  • lower bar: 166 cm
• Length of the bars: 240 cm
• Diagonal distance between the two bars: 130–180 cm (adjustable)

Scoring

As with other gymnastic events scoring is based on the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique's Code of Points (these are not available online). And common to other artistic gymnastics events judges look at difficulty and form (which can be described, perhaps, as elegance and control). Judges will award points for holding the body straight at the handstand point of a swing, ease of movement between the bars and fluency of motion. Judges will penalise unplanned swings used to regain lost momentum, clipping the other bar with a stray foot and a whole half a point is lost if the competitor falls off the bars. As with events the dismount is important, the judges looking for a stuck landing: both feet hitting the mat at the same time, feet together, with no steps, hops or strides required to maintain balance. The Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG) or International Federation of Gymnastics (IFG) is the governing body of competitive gymnastics. ... The Code of Points describes the scoring of artistic gymnastics. ... Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which competitors perform short routines (ranging from approximately 30 to 90 seconds) on different apparatus, obviously less for vaulting (see lists below). ...

There are also required movements such as a movement from the lower to the upper bar, a movement from the upper to the lower bar and a movement wherein the gymnast's centre of gravity moves towards the bar.

External links

• US Gym Net's glossary of uneven bars skills