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Also Known As still rings • stationary rings

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Eleftherios Petrounias
Rings
Nikolai Andrianov
Iron cross performed on the rings
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Belarusian gymnast Vitaly Scherbo
Vitaly Scherbo
Belarusian athlete
“Father of gymnastics”
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn
German educator
Nikolai Andrianov
Nikolai Andrianov
Soviet gymnast
Li Ning
Chinese gymnast and entrepreneur

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