Christian Baumann (born 25 February 1995) is a Swiss

artistic gymnast Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different apparatuses. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which designs the Code of Points and regulates ...

and a member of the national team. He participated at the

2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships The 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships was the forty-sixth edition of the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships. The competition was held from 23 October – 1 November 2015 at The SSE Hydro in Glasgow, United Kingdom, and is the fir ...

in Glasgow, and qualified for the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...

. His biggest success is the silver medal at the 2015 European Championship in Montpellier on the parallel bars.

Competitive history

Baumann element

In April 2017, the Technical Committee of the

International Gymnastics Federation The International Gymnastics Federation (French: Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique, FIG) is the body governing all disciplines of competitive gymnastics. Its headquarters is in Lausanne, Switzerland. It was founded on July 23, 1881, in ...

officially included a personalized "trick" named after Baumann as a scoring element. The new F element corresponds in future to a degree of difficulty of 0.6 points. At the World Cup qualification in Doha in March 2017 Christian Baumann performed the element for the first time in a competition.

Personal life

Baumann was born 25 February 1995. He started gymnastics at the age of five at the TV Lenzburg club in Switzerland.

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* 1995 births Living people Swiss male artistic gymnasts Place of birth missing (living people) Gymnasts at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic gymnasts for Switzerland Gymnasts at the 2020 Summer Olympics {{Switzerland-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub