Floor Exercise Pommel Horse Rings Vault Parallel Bars Horizontal Bar

  The gymnast must perform one vault except in Apparatus Finals where he must show two vaults from different Vault Groups. Each vault begins with a run and a take off from both feet (with or without a round off to the board) with legs together and is executed with a brief support phase on the horse with both hands. The vault may contain single or multiple turns around the two axes of the body.
  The men's vault stands 135 cm tall. It is 35 cm wide by 160 cm long. The runway is 1 m wide and a maximum of 25m long.

description taken from the official men's FIG Code of Points

  Below I have listed vaults performed on this apparatus, their Group and their Start value. All vaults listed below are evaluated with FIG rules, not USAG JO rules.
  I have also included a vault with a Start value of 10.0.

Read about the history of Vault.

Animated Skills

Front Handspring Front - handspring forward with a forward flip in pike position

Front Handspring Front - the same vault as above, but from a different angle

Tsukahara - handspring sideward with ½ turn and a backward flip in layout position

Skill

Vault Group

Start Value

  Hecht: A Hecht vault is executed by jumping forward and placing both hands onto the horse, then simultaneously pushing off to a standing position in the air maintained until the landing.

  I - Direct vaults (stoops, hechts, etc)

7.6

  Jump forward with a full twist and handspring forward to salto forward in pike position.

  II - Vaults with a full turn in the first flight phase

9.2

  Roche - Handspring forward and double front salto in tuck position.

  III - Handspring and Yamashita style vaults

9.8

  Lopez - Handspring sideward with ¼ turn and forward flip with 2½ twists in stretched position.

  IV - Vaults with ¼ or ½ turn in the first flight phase

10.0

  Scherbo - Round off, jump backwards with a full twist to a back handspring and a salto backwards stretched.

  V - Round off entry vaults

9.1
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