Three
gymnasts tied for first place at the 1903 world championships, the first
in the history of this sport:
Georges
Dejaghère
and Joseph
Lux,
both of France, as well as the Dutch competitor
Thyssen
all scored 18,00 points.
Swiss gymnasts
Mack,
Reusch
and Stalder
ruled on pommel horse in the 1930's.
After the Soviet gymnasts Shaginyan
and
Shakhlin
dominated ruled in the 1950s, Slovenian Miroslav
Cerar
took three consecutive world titles between 1962 and 1970.
Zoltan Magyar (HUN) followed in his foot steps by winning the same amount of world
titles.
In the 1980's, Soviets, Germans and Hungarians took turns on the highest
step of the podium, succeeded by the exceptional Pae
(PRK) and Li,
Donghua
(SUI). Currently, Romanian Marius
Urzica
is the master of the pommel horse universe despite only having won a single
world title so far (in 1994), followed by the titles in 2001 and
2002.
But in
Anaheim 2003 went two titles to Asian gymnasts: TENG,
Haibin (CHN) and
Takehiro Kashima (JPN).
With
Xiao, Qin
China won again in Melbourne 2005, but also in Arhus 2006,
and he realized the hattrick in Stuttgart 2007.
ZHANG Hongtao
won the 6th Cninese title 2009 in London ...
23 ago the last Hungarian
gymnast was Zsolt Borkai, together with Besoserchev, who
won a gold medal on pommelhorse for Hungary - now,
2010 Krisztian Berki
faught back the pommel horse title
back and defended it successfully 2011 in Tokyo ...!...
