At the 41st WOMEN's World Gymnastics Championships in 2021 in Kitakyushu, Japan, and eleven years after Aliya Mustafina in Rotterdam, now Angelina MELNOKOWA was again crowned a Russian gymnastics queen in the all-around event. The best in the preliminary round, Olympic and Worlds third at the last World Championships (2019, Stuttgart), also withstood the onslaught of the young American competitors in the final and secured the all-round gold with 56.632 points, especially through the strongest parallel...

As we only found out today, Hans PFANN - Germany's oldest Olympian - died on September 9^th, just 5 days before his 101^st birthday, in his home town of Neuoetting (Germany; Bavaria).
Born in Nuremberg, he was a member of two German Olympic teams (FRG; 1952 and 1956) and was married for over 65 years to Olympic participant Lydia Zeitlhofer, who died 2019 on September 10, one year after her "Iron Wedding". Hans Pfann was the oldest Olympic athlete...