What is a Yurchenko full?

A Yurchenko is a type of vault (and vault family) that begins with a roundoff entry onto the springboard and is followed by a back handspring onto the vaulting table and a flip off the table.

What is Yurchenko double?

In gymnastics, a Yurchenko, named after former Soviet gymnast Natalia Yurchenko, consists of a roundoff onto the springboard followed by a back handspring onto the vault. Biles then does two backflips with straight legs (hence the “double pike”).

What is the Yurchenko move?

The Yurchenko double pike is extremely difficult and involves a roundoff onto the springboard, a back handspring onto the vault and ends with a piked double backflip to the landing. Back in May, the fan-favorite Olympian became the first woman ever to land the move during competition.

Why is a Yurchenko hard?

Why exactly is the Yurchenko double pike such a difficult vault? In any Yurchenko vault, the gymnast does a round-off onto the springboard, back handspring onto the vaulting table, and then flips into the air. Most gymnasts add difficulty by incorporating twists to their single flip.

What is the hardest gymnastic move?

Biles said that the triple double, which is made up of a double back flip with three twists, is “the hardest move in the world,” and according to the New York Times, “The triple double is a skill that, until this point, had been done only on the men’s side, where it is still rare.

Why is Yurchenko double pike so difficult?

What makes the Yurchenko double pike so difficult? Unlike Biles’ other two main vaults, the Amanar and Cheng, which are both primarily twisting, there is no back up plan for the Yurchenko double pike. A few inches off on the board, as Biles was in early June at the U.S. championships, could be disastrous.

Who has landed a Yurchenko double pike?

Simone Biles
When Simone Biles landed the Yurchenko double pike vault on Saturday night, she became the first woman to do so in competition. Few men have performed it. The one other American is David Sender, a 35-year-old veterinarian in Auburn, Alabama.

Why is vault called Yurchenko?

Yurchenko is the name of both a specific vault and a vault family in artistic gymnastics. The Yurchenko was named after Soviet gymnast Natalia Yurchenko in 1982 during a competition in Moscow. In a Yurchenko vault, the gymnast does a round-off onto the springboard and a back handspring onto the horse or vaulting table.

Who invented Yurchenko?

Natalia Sklyarova-Yurchenko
Natalia Sklyarova-Yurchenko, three-time world champion, innovator of the “Yurchenko” vault, and inductee in the prestigious “International Gymnastics Hall of Fame”. LO: Natalia, you are a highly respected legend in the sport of gymnastics, not only for being “Mrs.