GAJDOŠ A. SHORT HISTORICAL NOTES XII Vol. 10 Issue 2: 331-333 SHORT HISTORICAL NOTES XII Anton Gajdoš, Bratislava, Slovakia & Michal Babela, Faculty of Physical Education and Sports, Bratislava, Slovakia Ph.D. Anton Gajdoš born on 1.6.1940 in Dubriniči (today Ukraine) lives most of his life in Bratislava (ex TCH, nowadays SVK). He comes from gymnastics family (his brother Pavel have world championship medals) and he devoted his life to gymnastics. His last achievement is establishment of Narodna encyklopedia športu Slovenska (www.sportency.sk). Among his passion is collecting photos and signatures of gymnasts. As we tend to forget old champions and important gymnasts, judges and coaches, we decided to publish part of his archive under title Short historical notes. All information on these pages is from Anton's archives and collected through years. ZOLTÂN MAGYAR (born 15.12.1953, Budapest, Hungary) Zoltan Magyar is probably the most important inventor on pommel horse since Emil Hafner inventor of double leg circles. Even nowadays his two elements: cross support travel from the beginning to the end of horse and spindle are included into each high quality exercise. His elements were also further developed and performed in various beginning and end positions with legs together or split. Even today they belong into group of D elements, what mean both elements are difficult and require high abilities to maintain rhythm and angular velocity to stay on the horse and continue with further elements. Why was Zoltan such a phenomena on pommel horse? Story goes like: ...behind nine seas, nine mountains and nine rivers there was a very small gym where only pommel horse was possible to work on. Place was even so small, dismount was not possible to perform, and Zoltan who loved gymnastics used all horse in different positions and directions . Of course this is just a fairy tale, but it is not far from real events, as his coach Laszlo Vigh guided him through his career and at the beginning his gym was really not something what we call today gymnastics hall. Science of Gymnastics Journal 331 Science of Gymnastics Journal GAJDOS A. SHORT HISTORICAL NOTES XII Vol. 10 Issue 2: 331-333 Magyar travel (FIG COP MTC, 2013-2016) Magyar spindle (FIG COP MTC, 2013-2016) From the 1973 European Championship up to 1980 Olympic Games he always won on major competition like OG, WC and EC. His achievement is astonishing: Olympic Games 1976 Montreal (Canada) 1980 Moskva (Russia, ex. Soviet Union) World Championship 1974 Varna (Bulgaria) 1979 Strasbourg (France) World Cup 1 st Pommel horse, 4th Team, 9th All Around 1st Pommel horse, 3 th Team, 9-10th All Around 1 st Pommel horse, 4th Team, 15th All Around 1st Pommel horse, 6th Team, 12th All Around 1975 London (Great Britain) 1 st Pommel horse 1978 Sao Paolo (Brazil) 1 st Pommel horse European Championship 1 st Pommel horse 1973 Grenoble (France) 1 st Pommel horse 1975 Bern (Switzerland) 1 st Pommel horse 1977 Vilnius (Litva, ex. Soviet Union) 1st Pommel horse Science of Gymnastics Journal 332 Science of Gymnastics Journal GAJDOŠ A. SHORT HISTORICAL NOTES XII Vol. 10 Issue 2: 331-333 Zoltan Magyar in action from last major competition in Moskva, with his sign on photo of unknown photograph. Science of Gymnastics Journal 333 Science of Gymnastics Journal