Christian Baumann
Christian Baumann (born 25 February 1995) is a Swiss artistic gymnast and a member of the national team. He participated at the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Glasgow,[2] and qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics.[1] His biggest success is the silver medal at the 2015 European Championship in Montpellier on the parallel bars.
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| Full name | Christian Baumann | |||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented | Switzerland | |||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 February 1995 Leutwil, Aargau, Switzerland | |||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 60 kg (132 lb)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||
| Level | Senior international elite | |||||||||||||||||||
| Years on national team | 2014-present | |||||||||||||||||||
| Club | STV Lenzburg | |||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Bernhard Fluck, Laurent Guelzac, Laurent Tricoire | |||||||||||||||||||
| Eponymous skills | "Baumann" (Parallel Bars) - Giant swing bwd. with Makuts (F) | |||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Competitive history
| Year | Event | Team | AA | FX | PH | SR | VT | PB | HB |
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| Junior | |||||||||
| 2009 | Swiss Junior Championships | 16 | |||||||
| 2010 | Swiss Junior Championships | 6 | |||||||
| 25th International Youth Cup | 6 | 6 | |||||||
| 2011 | International Junior Team Cup | 6 | |||||||
| Swiss Junior Championships | 4 | 6 | 5 | 4 | |||||
| European Youth Olympic Festival | 4 | ||||||||
| Art Gymnastics | |||||||||
| 2012 | International Junior Team Cup | ||||||||
| Swiss Championships | 7 | 4 | 4 | ||||||
| Swiss Team Championships | |||||||||
| 2012 European Junior Championships | 19 | 81 | 9 | 16 | 18 | 5 | |||
| Senior | |||||||||
| 2013 | Swiss Championships | 6 | |||||||
| Swiss Team Championships | |||||||||
| 2014 | Swiss Championships | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | ||||
| Swiss Team Championships | |||||||||
| World Championships | 7 | 35 | 104 | 28 | 107 | 171 | 36 | ||
| 2015 | Austrian Team Open | ||||||||
| Cottbus World Cup | 27 | 24 | 5 | ||||||
| European Championships | 8 | ||||||||
| Swiss Championships | 6 | ||||||||
| Swiss Team Championships | |||||||||
| World Championships | 6 | 15 | 51 | 15 | 51 | 95 | 38 | 34 | |
| 2016 | Länderkampf CH / FR / GBR / GER | 10 | |||||||
| European Championships | 6 | 5 | |||||||
| Olympic Games | 9 | 29 | 41 | 30 | 52 | ||||
| 2017 | |||||||||
| European Championships | 19 | 13 | |||||||
| Doha World Cup | 34 | 23 | |||||||
| Swiss Team Championships | |||||||||
| Swiss Championships | 7 | ||||||||
| 2018 | Swiss Championships | ||||||||
| Swiss Team Championships | |||||||||
| World Championships | 6 | 33 | 58 | 95 | 29 | ||||
| 2019 | American Cup | 6 | |||||||
| Birmingham World Cup | 8 | ||||||||
| European Championships | 17 | 31 | 60 | 23 | 6 | 10 | |||
| Magglingen Men’s Friendly | 6 | ||||||||
| Swiss Championships | 4 | ||||||||
| World Championships | 7 | 74 | 53 | 17 | 61 | ||||
| Swiss Team Championships | |||||||||
| 2021 | |||||||||
| European Championships | 23 | 95 | 52 | 6 | |||||
| 1st Swiss Men’s Olympic Trials | 4 | ||||||||
| 2nd Swiss Men’s Olympic Trials | |||||||||
| 3rd Swiss Men’s Olympic Trials | |||||||||
| Swiss Championships | 4 | ||||||||
| Magglingen Men’s Friendly | |||||||||
| Olympic Games | 6 | 33 | 30 | 57 | 29 | 13 | 59 | ||
| Swiss Team Championships | |||||||||
| World Championships | 8 | ||||||||
Baumann element
In April 2017, the Technical Committee of the International Gymnastics Federation 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.[3]
| Apparatus | Name | Description | Difficulty | Added to Code of Points |
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| Parallel Bars | Baumann | Giant Swing bwd. to Makuts | F (0.6) | World Cup Doha |
Personal life
Baumann was born 25 February 1995. He started gymnastics at the age of five at the TV Lenzburg club in Switzerland.[4]
References
- ^ a b c . Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
- ^ . 2015worldgymnastics.com. Archived from the original on 28 January 2016. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
- ^ Das ist Baumanns eigenes Turn-Element In: 20 Minuten on 4 April 2017
- ^ "Artistic Gymnastics BAUMANN Christian". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. from the original on 2021-07-26. Retrieved 2021-07-28.
External links
- Christian Baumann at the International Gymnastics Federation