Amanar

The Amânar for women or Shewfelt for men is a skill in vault of artistic gymnastics. The vault was named after the first gymnast to perform it at World Championships or Olympic Games: Simona Amanar of Romania for women and Kyle Shewfelt of Canada for men; both were accomplished at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. The vault belongs to the Yurchenko family, and it consists of a roundoff on and then 2.5 twists in a laid out back salto off the vault platform.

As of the beginning of 2017, this vault remains the hardest Yurchenko style vault and one of the hardest vaults successfully performed by women. Since the end of the traditional 10.0 scoring system in 2005 to 2012, the vault had a 6.5 difficulty score, 0.7 higher than the much more common double-twisting Yurchenko. In the 2013-2016 Code Of Points, this vault was expectedly downgraded from a difficulty score of 6.5 to 6.3. In the most current 2017-2020 Code of Points, this vault was further and more significantly downgraded from a difficulty score of 6.3 to 5.8, equivalent to only a double-twisting Yurchenko under the 2013-2016 Code of Points. Although there has been no official advancement in this family of vaults since the 2000 Olympics Games in Sydney for women, Hong Un Jong of North Korea, gold medalist in vault at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, did attempt a triple-twisting Yurchenko at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and was very close to successfully completing it. For men, there remains only a handful of gymnasts to have successfully completed a triple-twisting Yurchenko (Shirai or Shirai-Kim) in competition since it was achieved by Kenzo Shirai of Japan and Kim Hee Hoon of South Korea at the 2013 World Championships. Shirai then went on to successfully complete a 3.5-twisting Yurchenko (Shirai II) at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, and as of early 2017, he remains the only gymnast to have even attempted the "Shirai II" on vault.

As of July 2015, the following women have completed Amanars in competition:

The first male gymnast to perform a 2.5-twisting Yurchenko was Kyle Shewfelt of Canada. He initially completed the vault in 1999, and based on his performance in competition at the 2000 Olympic Games, he received naming credit for the vault in men's artistic gymnastics.

Since 2005 and as of 2010, the "Shewfelt" corresponded to a 6.6 D-score and was a common vault for top international males who were not vault specialists. However, since 2004, men's vault evolved to higher difficulty, such that major-competition event finalists typically perform 7.0 vaults that are more difficult than the "Shewfelt".

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