Andreas Bretschneider (born August 4, 1989) is a German
artistic gymnast
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and member of the national team. He participated at the
2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
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in Glasgow, and eventually competed for the German squad at the
2016 Summer Olympics, finishing seventh in the
artistic team all-around tournament, and twentieth in the
individual all-around.
Bretschneider has one competition-verified original skill named after him on the horizontal bar, the double-twisting (tucked)
Kovac. It has a difficulty score of H, one of the highest in men's gymnastics. Bretschneider was once widely expected to advance the ''Bretschneider'' on the horizontal bar himself to layout in competition, and the skill was scored ahead of time by the
International Gymnastics Federation
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(
FIG
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) and unofficially coined the ''Bretschneider 2'' on the horizontal bar to better facilitate him as they awaited for the skill to be successfully completed in competition. He had started submitting the skill to the (
FIG
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) for verification since the world championships in 2013, but not been able to further compete it in a suitable setting after the
2016 Summer Olympics in
Rio de Janeiro
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due to injuries. Taking advantage of that in June 2017, Hidetaka Miyachi of
Japan then beat ''Bretschneider'' to the punch and completed the first double-twisting layout ''Kovac'' or now the ''Miyachi'' on the horizontal bar, rated I.
On November 23–26, 2017, Bretschneider won the gold medal in the horizontal bar individual event final at the
2017 Cottbus World Cup in
Cottbus
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,
Germany
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, with a score of 14.566.
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Andreas Bretschneiderat the
1989 births
Living people
German male artistic gymnasts
Gymnasts from Berlin
Gymnasts at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic gymnasts of Germany
Originators of elements in artistic gymnastics
20th-century German people
21st-century German people
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