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Also Known As side horse

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Max Whitlock of Team Great Britain performs a routine on the pommel horse at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, wearing a white and navy leotard in an arena with empty seats.
Diagram of a gymnastics pommel horse showing its dimensions, with a close-up of a single pommel handhold and a figure performing a routine on the apparatus.
Vitali Sherbo (Bela.) performing on the pommel horse at the 1993 World Gymnastics Championships, where he was champion in three events, including the all-around individual competition
Kohei Uchimura of Japan, wearing a red and white uniform, performs a routine on the pommel horse during the men's gymnastics final at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Mikhail Voronin, U.S.S.R., performing on the pommel horse.
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