Anja Brinker (born January 18, 1991) is a retired German artistic gymnast .
19-631: Brinker is a surname of Dutch and German origin. Notable people with the surname include: Anja Brinker (born 1991), German artistic gymnast from Melle, Lower Saxony Bill Brinker (1883–1965), Major League Baseball outfielder and third baseman Bob Brinker , the host of the radio show Moneytalk Chris Brinker (1970–2013), American film producer and director Christine Brinker (born 1981), German skeet shooter Howard Brinker (died 2004), NFL assistant coach Maren Brinker (born 1986), female volleyball player from Germany Nancy Brinker (born 1946),
38-439: A cervical-spine injury. In a series of crashes when the horse's height was set too low at the 2000 Olympics, gymnasts either rammed into the horse's front end, or had bad landings after having problems with their hand placements during push-off. In 2007, Dutch junior gymnast Imke Glas was seriously injured after a fall on a vault. A 2021 study suggested that landing scoring criteria for vault in women's gymnastics increased
57-551: A bronze medal in the team competition. She placed nineteenth in the all-around and qualified for the bars event final, where she finished seventh. 2007 was Brinker's first year as a senior. She won gold on bars, silver on floor and silver in the all-around at the national championships and competed at the Ghent World Cup, where she was fourth on bars. At the 2007 European Championships in Amsterdam, she placed tenth in
76-589: A second vault during qualifications to qualify for vault apparatus finals. In the Apparatus Finals gymnasts must also show two vaults. For men, the two vaults must be from different element groups, while women must show two vaults with different repulsion and flight phase from the vault table. The score combines the D-value, the difficulty, and the E-value, the execution. The projected difficulty
95-498: A vault, the gymnast runs down a runway (the run), which is usually padded or carpeted. They hurdle onto a springboard and spring onto the vault with their hands (the preflight or first flight and block). For vaults in the Yurchenko family, the gymnast will put their hands onto a mat that is placed before the springboard, round-off onto the board, and do a back handspring onto the vault. The off-flight may be as simple as leaping over
114-475: Is VT. German Friedrich Ludwig Jahn popularized the vault's early forms. The apparatus itself originated as a "horse", much like the pommel horse but without the handles; it was sometimes known as the vaulting horse. The horse was set up with its long dimension perpendicular to the run for women, and parallel for men. The vaulting horse was the apparatus used in the Olympics for over a century, beginning with
133-615: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Anja Brinker Brinker started gymnastics in her hometown of Melle at age 6 before moving to Hanover for better training conditions. When she was 13, the training center there closed and she switched to a national training center in Bergisch Gladbach . She was initially coached by Dieter Koch, the husband of the German national coach Ulla Koch, and later by Oleg Tchekmarov. In 2004, she won gold on uneven bars at
152-430: Is increased with every skill included. Each skill has its own value; the harder the skill, the higher the start value. In 2009, FIG made some changes to put less emphasis on the difficulty and reduce the number of skills required, making the gymnasts focus harder on the perfect execution of the vault. The execution score is out of 10.0, looking at the form, height, length, and landing. Judges look through four main phases:
171-436: Is not identical. There are four vault categories for men: There are five vault categories for women: The horse has been blamed for several serious accidents over the years. In 1988, American Julissa Gomez was paralyzed in a vaulting accident; she died from complications from her injuries three years later. During warmups at the 1998 Goodwill Games , Chinese gymnast Sang Lan fell and suffered paralysis from
190-517: The Men's vault in the first modern Olympics and ending with the Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Following an accident in 1988 and compounded by incidents in 1998 and 2000, International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) re-evaluated and changed the apparatus, citing both safety reasons and the desire to facilitate more impressive acrobatics. The 2001 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships were
209-497: The surname Brinker . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brinker&oldid=1043888952 " Categories : Surnames Dutch-language surnames German-language surnames Low German surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
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#1732802377876228-636: The German Junior National Championships and placed third in the all-around. The next year, she became junior national champion in the all-around and on vault , and earned second place on floor and third place on bars. In 2006, she took part in the Junior European Championships in Volos, Greece . With Marie-Sophie Hindermann , Joeline Möbius , Lisa-Katharina Hill and Dorothee Henzler , she won
247-561: The all-around and sixth on bars. Later that year, she competed at the 2007 World Championships in Stuttgart , where she placed eighteenth in the all-around. The German team finished tenth, qualifying a full women's gymnastics team for the Olympics for the first time since 1992. Despite injuries at the beginning of 2008, Brinker was named to the German team for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. There, she competed only on her best event,
266-551: The apparatus or as complicated as executing several twists and turns in the air. The gymnast then lands on the mat on the other side of the apparatus. The running speed is correlated with the difficulty of the vault performed, with a stronger correlation for women than men, who may not maximize their sprint speed to achieve even the most difficult vaults. Gymnasts (both male and female) show one vault in Qualification, Team Final, and All Around Final. The gymnasts must perform
285-422: The first international competition to make use of the "vaulting table", an apparatus made by Dutch gymnastics equipment company Janssen-Fritsen since the mid-1990s. It features a flat, larger, and more cushioned surface almost parallel to the floor, which slopes downward at the end closest to the springboard ; gymnasts nicknamed it the "tongue"; it appears to be somewhat safer than the old apparatus. To perform
304-575: The founder and CEO of Susan G. Komen for the Cure Norman E. Brinker (1931–2009), prominent restaurateur Ruth Brinker (1922–2011), American AIDS activist and founder of the nonprofit Project Open Hand Scott Brinker (born 1971), computer programmer and entrepreneur Victory Brinker (born 2012), American child opera singer and actress See also [ edit ] Beebo Brinker (novel) , lesbian pulp fiction novel written in 1962 by Ann Bannon Brinker International (NYSE: EAT),
323-585: The parent company of Chili's and Maggiano's Little Italy Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates , novel by American author Mary Mapes Dodge, first published in 1865 Komen Brinker Award for Scientific Distinction , for work in the fields of breast cancer research, screening or treatment USS Henry Brinker (1861) , small steamship acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
342-453: The preflight, support, after-flight, and landing. Gymnasts are expected to land cleanly, with no hops or steps, and within a set landing zone on the landing mat. Falling or stepping on landing incurs deduction, as will lack of height off the table, or distance from the table. Vault styles are broken into various groups or families. To compete in a vault final, a gymnast must perform two vaults from different groups whose second flight phase
361-414: The uneven bars. She made a mistake on her dismount and scored 15.125, missing the bars final. The team finished 12th and last in qualifications. Vault (gymnastics) The vault is an artistic gymnastics apparatus which gymnasts perform on, as well as the event performed on that apparatus. Both male and female gymnasts perform the vault. The English abbreviation for the event in gymnastics scoring
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