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Wheel gymnastics (German: Rhönradturnen) is a form of gymnastics that originated in Germany. Wheel gymnasts do exercises in a large wheel known as the Rhönrad, gymnastics wheel, gym wheel, or German wheel. There are three core categories of exercise: straight line, spiral, and vault. ==History== The Wheel was invented in 1925 by Otto Feick in Schönau an der Brend. The son of a blacksmith, Feick was inspired by the memory of an event from his childhood in Reichenbach, when he had tied sticks between two cartwheel bands that his father had made and rolled down a hill. He filed for a patent as "wheel-gymnastic and sports equipment". He had invented the wheel in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ca. 1920-1922, on the grounds of the VSK Germania, a sports club, of which he was the founding chairman. The patent was issued on 8 November 1925; the name "Rhönrad" has been registered and protected since 1926 ("Rhön" is the name of the mountain region where the wheel was invented). In 1936 this sport was shown at the Olympic Games in Berlin, but was not presented as an Olympic discipline. The focus of wheel gymnastics remains largely in Germany. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wheel gymnastics」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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