Simona Amânar

The Amanar, a Yurchenko entry with two and a half twists, takes its name from the Romanian who first performed it at the Sydney 2000 Olympics. For more than a decade it was the vault that decided women's all-around and team titles, performed by McKayla Maroney, Simone Biles and many others. Amânar's case is a good example of naming versus popularisation: she introduced it, but it was later generations who made it the standard high-value vault.