{"id":181353,"date":"2026-10-26T08:25:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T07:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/?p=181353"},"modified":"2026-10-26T08:25:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T07:25:04","slug":"svensk-gymnastikhistoria-har-skrivits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/swedish-gymnastics-history-has-been-made\/","title":{"rendered":"A new chapter in Swedish gymnastics history has been written"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>No Swedish male gymnast had ever achieved this feat before. But after a 34-year wait, David Rumbutis made Swedish gymnastics history. This historic achievement came after five years of injuries and surgeries.<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">26-year-old <strong>David Rumbutis<\/strong> made history at Sunday\u2019s World Gymnastics Championships in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. With a score of 13.866, he finished seventh in the parallel bars final and secured Sweden\u2019s best-ever men\u2019s result in the event. He also became the first Swedish male gymnast to reach a World Championships final in the parallel bars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The parallel bars is a gymnastics event in which the athlete performs advanced movements on two parallel bars, about two meters above the ground. The gymnast swings his or her body back and forth, balances upside down on straight arms, and performs somersaults before ending the routine with a landing on the floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>From a Nightmare of Injuries to the World's Elite<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Behind this historic achievement lie five years of setbacks. After the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, Rumbutis suffered repeated injuries and underwent multiple surgeries. In the end, he was forced to focus entirely on the parallel bars\u2014the event he had previously hated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013 <em>To sum it up, it's been a real hell. If I may say so. A real hell, actually.<\/em>, he told <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dn.se\/sport\/han-skriver-svensk-vm-historia-i-grenen-han-en-gang-hatade-har-varit-ett-helvete\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily News<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Rotterdam, he impressed with a solid routine and a perfect landing. Despite a few minor mistakes, he climbed from eighth to seventh place. Now the 26-year-old is setting his sights on his next big goal: the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a 34-year wait, Swedish World Championship history was made. Behind this sensational achievement lie five years of injuries and surgeries<\/p>","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":181354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[208,205],"tags":[6888,309],"class_list":["post-181353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kultur","category-nyheter","tag-gymnastik","tag-idrott"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}