Development Characteristics of World Women's Gymnastics in the 1990s

Promotion of the new Code of Point, all the complete sets of movements in world gymnastics championships and the Olympic Games in the past 10 years and the most proper competitive ages of women gymnasts were studied based on documents, interview, observation and mathematical statistics. The results indicate that development of world women's gymnastics in the 1990s were characterized by a relatively stable development pattern, a restricted technical development by the Code of Point, increasing difficulty and conjunctive creation in techniques, more artistic performance, and gymnasts' extensive competitive abilities.