Introduced in early Greek civilization, gymnastics facilitated physical body development utilizing a variety of activities including running, jumping, Wrestling, weight lifting, swimming and throwing. The later history of gymnastics is closely related to the ancient Olympic Games, but a thousand years before the first Olympics, King Minos (and others during the Crete Minoan period 2,700 BC - 1,400 BC) had already advocated such physical exercises. In 776 BC, the Greeks held the first Olympic games, which was a festival dedicated to their god, Zeus. In this game there was only a foot race of 200 yards. These first Olympic games continued for about 1,100 years The ancient Greeks practiced physical exercises and routines and as a result, gymnastics was added in the ancient Olympic Games along with boxing, wrestling, throwing, jumping, and Weightlifting.
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It was started by the Greeks over 2500 years ago for exercise and competition.
I the think that a ruler of ancient Greece invented it for training, it was only a men sport.
p.s
all the men were nude(ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww)
-a fith grader named cassi
The ancient Greeks invented gymnastics in the early 1800's.
Frederick Jahn invented the gymnastics vault.
no. gymnastics is the sport of the gods. it was invented because its amazing.
everything was invented in Greece
Gymnastics was invented by the ancient Greeks in Greece.
The ancient Greeks invented gymnastics
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn invented Gymnastics.
the Greeks invented gymnastics along time ago. i'm happy they invented gymnastics because it's really fun!
The sport gymnastics was created in ancient times by the Greek to express gracefulness, flexibility, and beauty.
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