Gymnastics is considered to have originated in ancient Egypt, when circus stunts were performed.

As soon as it was born in Central Europe in the middle of the XVIII the century with the name of modern gymnastics. And in one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, the first modern gymnastics teacher was Johann Friedrich Simon, at the Basedow school in the German city of Dessau.

After in eighteen hundred and six in Spain, the first official center where it was practiced was at the Royal Pestalozzi Institute, founded by Amorós in Madrid. Thereafter in eighteen hundred eleven, the educator Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, father of modern gymnastics, founded the Turnverein, a gymnastic club in Berlin.

Until in eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, gymnastics took hold in some schools and the Amateur Gymnastics Association was founded. And in eighteen hundred and ninety-six this discipline was included in the Olympic Games for participants of the male sex.
Moreover, in nineteen three the World Championships for men are held for the first time. But in one thousand nine hundred twenty eight, the women's competition was completed for the first time. Henceforth, in one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four the first world women's championships were held.

Since approximately nineteen hundred and fifty, rhythmic gymnastics has boomed, especially as a women's sports activity, since it is practiced with accessories such as balls, hoops, ribbons, balance bars, jump boxes and parallels.

Spain participates for the first time in the first World Championship in nineteen sixty-three and after a slump of ten years returns to competition, holding the seventh World Championship in Madrid in year nineteen seventy-five. Ten years later, in nineteen hundred and eighty-five, the XII Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championship was held in Valladolid, and it is where Spain begins a brilliant era that has been continuously overcome until reaching the current one, in which Spain not only rubs shoulders with the mythical Russia and Bulgaria, but has even surpassed them.

This discipline was won mostly by members of the teams from the USSR, Romania and eastern countries, despite the fact that little by little, they have been outperforming other participants; At the Atlanta Olympics nineteen ninety-six, Spanish gymnasts managed to achieve the Gold Medal.