Clubs (rhythmic gymnastics)

They are one of the five apparatuses utilized in this discipline, alongside the ball, hoop, ribbon, and rope.

In 1928, they were first used in competition in Hungary, and at the 1938 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, a group clubs routine was included as an event.

[2] They were used in the team portable apparatus competitions for women at both the 1952 and 1956 Olympics before the event was discontinued.

[1] From 2001-2012, each apparatus had a compulsory body group of movements that had to predominate in the exercise; for clubs, this was balance elements.

[5] The need to use the clubs with both hands at the same time and perform asymmetrical movements with them is the main difficulty of the apparatus.