Christian Baumann (born 25 February 1995) is a Swiss
artistic gymnast
Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different apparatuses. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which designs the Code of Points and regulates ...
and a member of the national team. He participated at the
2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
The 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships was the forty-sixth edition of the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships. The competition was held from 23 October – 1 November 2015 at The SSE Hydro in Glasgow, United Kingdom, and is the f ...
in Glasgow, and qualified for the
2016 Summer Olympics.
His biggest success is the silver medal at the 2015 European Championship in Montpellier on the parallel bars.
Competitive history
Baumann element
In April 2017, the Technical Committee of the
International Gymnastics Federation
The International Gymnastics Federation (French: Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique, FIG) is the body governing all disciplines of competitive gymnastics. Its headquarters is in Lausanne, Switzerland. It was founded on July 23, 1881, i ...
officially included a personalized "trick" named after Baumann as a scoring element. The new F element corresponds in future to a degree of difficulty of 0.6 points. At the World Cup qualification in Doha in March 2017 Christian Baumann performed the element for the first time in a competition.
Personal life
Baumann was born 25 February 1995. He started gymnastics at the age of five at the TV Lenzburg club in Switzerland.
References
External links
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1995 births
Living people
Swiss male artistic gymnasts
Place of birth missing (living people)
Gymnasts at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic gymnasts for Switzerland
Gymnasts at the 2020 Summer Olympics
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