Andreas Bretschneider

Andreas Bretschneider (born August 4, 1989) is a German artistic gymnast and member of the national team. He participated at the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Glasgow,[2] 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.[1][3]

Andreas Bretschneider
Full nameAndreas Bretschneider
Country represented Germany
Born (1989-08-04) 4 August 1989
Berlin, Germany
Height1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)[1]
Weight60 kg (132 lb)[1]
DisciplineMen's artistic gymnastics
LevelSenior international elite
Years on national team2015
ClubKTV Chemnitz
Medal record
Representing  Germany
FIG World Cup
2017 CottbusHorizontal Bar

Bretschneider has one competition-verified original skill named after him on the horizontal bar, officially named the Bretschneider or a double-twisting (tucked) Kovac. It has a difficulty score of "H" (0.9), formally the highest in men's gymnastics, and is only one of 4 skills–the Bretschneider on the horizontal bar, Liukin on floor by Valerie Liukin of the former Soviet Union, Shirai 3 on floor by Kenzo Shirai of Japan, and Whittenburg on rings by Donnell Whittenburg of the United States–with that assignment (the only one on high bar with the others on floor and rings). 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 (FIG) 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, but he had been unable to further compete it in a suitable setting since the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro 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, which was assigned the single highest previously structured but still-to-be-activated difficulty level of "I" (0.9), successfully on home soil at the 2017 Japan National Gymnastics Apparatus Championships in Takasaki, Japan.

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, Germany, with a score of 14.566.

References
  1. "Andreas Bretschneider". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
  2. "2015 World Gymnastics Championships Athlete Profiles – Andreas Bretschneider". 2015worldgymnastics.com. Archived from the original on 2016-01-28. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
  3. "Gymnastics: Men's Team All-Around Final Results". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2017.


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