20. März 2011
Paris, France
Artistic Gymnastics
First A World Cup in Paris - Final Day

The season’s first out of 2 Artistic Gymnastics World Cups with a C III format is slated in Paris – Bercy (FRA) this weekend.
Organisers welcomed some 90 gymnasts from 36 different nations, all continents represented. Paris-Bercy was the first event of the year with this format, and the selective process was specific. Apparatus finalists of the 42nd World Championships and the best four gymnasts per apparatus from the 2010 World Ranking List only were invited. Additionally, the host federation...

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16. März 2011
Guatemala-City
Artistic Gymnastics
FIG-Academy now in Central America after Malaysia

In continuation of the FIG Age Group Project last month in Malaysia, the second course for the Central American Countries and the Caribbean took place in Guatemala.
A total of 35 trainers from eight countries - Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, Panama, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Dominican Republic - participated .

The experts of the FIG Trainer Academy, Joanne RICHARDS (AUS), Hardy FINK (CAN; < photo, left) und Dieter HOFMANN...

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16. März 2011
Great Britain
Artistic Gymnastics
British Gymnastics and UK Anti-Doping launch Education Strategy

British Gymnastics and UK Anti-Doping have launched a pioneering new education strategy that aims to educate and inform the whole gymnastics community on the subject matter of anti doping and drug-free sport.
The key message shares the responsibilities of gymnasts, coaches, parents, and support staff in ensuring the sport remains doping free. This ground-breaking programme marks the first time a National Governing Body has ever worked in this capacity with UK Anti-Doping. It reaffirms the proactive approach that...

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13. März 2011
Cottbus, Germany
Artistic Gymnastics
First FIG Challenger Cup 2011 finished in Cottbus

With the 35th anniversary of the traditional "Turnier der Meisters" in Cottbus (Germany), which was a world cup category B event in the last decennium,
the International Gymnastics Federation starts a new circuit with the qualification rounds this Friday in Cottbus. The world cup events, graduated in two levels:
* Four World Cup events (category A) with some of the world's top stars of all-around competitions and added by six so-called "Artistic Challenge Cups", in old making individual apparatus finals....

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5. März 2011
Jacksonville, USA
Artistic Gymnastics
Jonathan Horten and Jordyn Wieber won 2011 American Cup

<< Jonathan Horton and Jordyn Wieber from USA won the 2011 AT&T American Cup all-around titles Saturday at the Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Fla.
It was the prelude of a FIG World Cup circuit of altogether four all-around events this year.

Jonathan Horton won his third American Cup titel with a score of 90,198 points after a strong fight against the Ukrainian Mykola Kuksenkov (-0,166).
Third was Jake Dalton (USA) in absence of the Japanese world champion Kohei Uchimura....

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