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VAULTING TABLE
"Ergojet"

	- larger vaulting area
	- safe -
	- optimal suspention
	- ergonomic -
	- optimised support
	- dynamic -
	- continuous height adjustment
- universal use

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In 1993 FIG Vice President Siegfried FISCHER (Brazil) made the first proposals for changes to the vaulting horse. The trigger for this was, among other things, injuries caused to athletes.

SPIETH was the first to take up this idea and posed the provocative question:

	Will the gymnasts send their horses back to the stables?
		Geschichte / History

In conjunction with the Austrian sculptor and renowned gymnastic coach Helmut Hödlmoser, the first useable prototypes of a new vaulting apparatus were developed.

In 1997 Helmut Hödlmoser designed a “rippled” vaulting table with a bigger support area and integrated suspension.

On the basis of this design, SPIETH, the world famous makers of gymnastics apparatus, produced the first prototypes of this vaulting table

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Helmut Hödlmoser / Austria

SPIETH - from the beginning on in talks with the worldwide experts:

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Ullrich Spieth and the President of Technical Committee
Jacky Fie (USA) at the World Championships in 1997, Lausanne
and at the UEG Congress in 1998, Bratislava together with Karl-Heinz Zschocke (FIG Vice President of Honour)

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The creative combination of function and form produced the distinct design of the Ergojet vaulting table.

Far-reaching change of apparatus:

Now it has become reality:
FIG, the world federation of gymnastics, has taken up the ideas of SPIETH and will introduce the new vaulting apparatus at the World Championships in 2001 (Ghent/Belgium). As a result of tests carried out at various training and Olympic centres, various specifications have been developed. On October 9th all leading producers of gymnastics apparatus were informed of these by the FIG ( - see GYMnews)

Ergojet is not the only development in safer gymnastics apparatus prompted by SPIETH's innovative designs. The company SPIETH was the first to create further improvements in other apparatus, too: the modern asymmetric bars, the padded beam, the vaulting horse with suspension, the safety horizontal bar and various Reuther spring boards.

The new Ergojet vaulting table has been created by SPIETH with the same care and attention to detail as has been its hallmark in the design of many other gymnastics apparatus in the past.

During the 25th anniversary of the
”Tournament of Masters “, Cottbus 2001 the SPIETH Company asks:
Who will do the “SPIETH-MILLENIUMS-VAULT“ , who will be the first athlete in the world to show a vault of maximum difficulty over the new vaulting apparatus „ERGOJET“ in gymnastics history

(Translation: Robin Mitchell/Berlin)

German version

SPIETH also presents:
THE HISTORY OF GYMNASTICS APPARATUS (I)
"From the wooden workhorse to the ERGOJET"

Esslingen/Germany

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