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{{Short description|Gymnastics skill}}File:Ukraine at the 2020 Summer Olympics - (26 July) (12).jpg|thumb|Petro Pakhnyuk competing a Tsukahara vault at the 2020 Summer Olympics2020 Summer OlympicsThe Tsukahara can refer to a specific vault and a family of vaults in artistic gymnastics. The first Tsukahara vault was performed by (and named after) Mitsuo Tsukahara in 1972.A Tsukahara vault consists of a half turn off the springboard onto the vault table, then a push backwards, usually into a back salto or layout.WEB,weblink Vault Skills Terminology, 2008-02-24,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20080818173108weblink">weblink 2008-08-18, In Japanese, this technique is known as a "Moonsault".Sports Zenshū 3: Kikai Undō, coauthored by Masao Takemoto and Kazuo Abe, published in 1975 by Poplar Publishing.

Variations

Any vault that has a handspring with 1/4 - 1/2 turn onto the vault table into a salto backwards is classified as a Tsukahara vault. Some variations on the Tsukahara vaults include:

• Kim - Tsukahara tucked or stretched with full twist (360°) off
• Zamolodchikova - Tsukahara stretched with a 2/1 turn (720°) off
• Phelps - a half turn onto the vault table, followed by a half turn off and into a front layout.

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