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== History == The horizontal bar was used by [[Acrobatics|acrobat]]s in [[ancient Greece]] and [[Ancient Rome|Rome]] and on through the [[Middle Ages]].<ref name=Butterworth1902>{{Citation |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=O95AAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA5 |title= The Horizontal Bar |first= Horace |last= Butterworth |year= 1902 }}</ref> It was introduced into gymnastics by [[Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths]] in his 1793 book ''Gymnastik fΓΌr die Jugend'', which in turn inspired further use and development by [[Friedrich Ludwig Jahn]] in 1811.<ref name=Butterworth1902/><ref name=Goodbody>{{cite book |last=Goodbody |first=John |title=The Illustrated History of Gymnastics |url=https://archive.org/details/illustratedhisto0000good |url-access=registration |publisher=Stanley Paul & Co. |location=London |date=1982 |isbn=0-09-143350-9 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/illustratedhisto0000good/page/n95 11]β18 }}</ref>
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