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Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, agility and coordination. The modern form of Gymnastics typically involves exercises on uneven bars, balance beam, floor exercise, and vault (for women), and high bar and parallel bars, still rings, floor exercise, vault, and pommel horse (for men). It evolved from exercises used by the ancient Greeks, including skills for mounting and dismounting a horse, and circus performance skills.General Gymnastics enables people of all ages and abilities to participate in performance groups of 6 to more than 150 athletes. They perform synchronized, choreographed routines. Troupes may be all one gender or mixed. There are no age divisions in general Gymnastics. The largest general Gymnastics exhibition is the quadrennial World Gymnaestrada which was first held in 1939.TeamGym originates from Scandinavia and this particular type of Gymnastics has been a major event for over 20 years.[citation needed] A team in this sport can have from 6 to 12 members, either all male, all female or a mixed squad. The team shows three disciplines, Trampette, Tumbling and Floor.