Karin Büttner-Janz is a German medical doctor and former gymnast who won World and Olympic gold medals in artistic gymnastics for East Germany. She is co-inventor of the first artificial intervertebra
Büttner-Janz in 1972
Karin Büttner-Janz (left) and Kurt Schellnack (center) developed the artificial spine disk Charité Disc in the 1980s
Büttner-Janz in Leipzig, 2017
Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different types of apparatus. The sport is governed by World Gymnastics, which assigns the Code of Points
Jana Kubičková 1966
2018 World Championships Caio Souza
2019 06 28 1st FIG Artistic Gymnastics JWCH Women's All around competition Subdivision 1 Vault 248