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Also Known As vault

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Simone Biles of the United States, wearing a red and blue leotard, performs a handstand on the vault during the women's team final at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
Vaulting apparatus
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Suni Lee on the balance beam at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
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Olympic gymnast Věra Čáslavská
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Belarusian gymnast Vitaly Scherbo
Vitaly Scherbo
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Gymnastics champion Viktor Chukarin
Viktor Chukarin
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Soviet gymnast Boris Anfiyanovich Shakhlin
Boris Anfiyanovich Shakhlin
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Nikolai Andrianov
Nikolai Andrianov
Soviet gymnast
Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina performs a floor routine, leaping with one leg extended, during the women's compulsory exercises at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics.
Larisa Latynina
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