On Thursday, June 27 the Artistic Gymnastics competitions of the EUROPEAN GAMES started in the Minsk Arena.
Both the men and women battled for a spot in the all-around and apparatus finals. The top 18 with a limit of 2 per country and the top 6 with only one gymnast per country advance to these finals. Spread over two subdivisions, Europe’s top gymnasts gave the best of themselves.
Russia’s David Belyavskiy, the
The 2019 Flanders International Team Challenge was held from June 8-9 at the Flanders Sports Arena in Ghent, Belgium.
Gymnasts from Belgium, Netherlands, Australia, Canada, Romania, Spain, Poland, Germany, Argentina, Norway, Austria, Israel, Sweden, Iceland, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Italy, Great Britain, and Azerbaijan were invited to compete.
In the World Championships Arena of 2001, the the Belgian hosts proved to be the strongest - led by their world champion and two-time European champion (uneven bars) Nina...
Five gymnastics legends, including China's LI Xiaopeng, will be honored at the 23rd annual International Gymnastics Hall of Fame (IGHOF) ceremony on May 18, 2019, at the Petroleum Club in Oklahoma City. Li is a 5-time Olympic medalist and 11-time World Championship medalist. One of China's greatest gymnasts, the 38-year-old holds four Olympic gold medals and 16 world titles.
The other three inductees are Shawn Johnson of the United States, Russia's Maria Filatova, and Ivan Ivankov of Belarus.
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The 2019 Chinese National Championships of Artistic Gymnastics took place from May 09 t0 13 in Zhaoqing, only some days before the next FIG Challenge Cup.
Zhaoqing City is located in the west-central region of Guangdong Province, at the middle and lower reaches of Xijiang River. Adjacent to the Pearl River Delta, the city borders Guangxi Province in the northwest and Foshan City in the southeast. It lies about 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Guangzhou.
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On Monday, April 29, USA Gymnastics (USAG) hired Edward NYMAN as its director of sports medicine and science, a newly created position. But even one day later, on Tuesday, the organization reneged on the hiring citing a “conflict of interest” and nothing else.
"Dr. Nyman's employment will not continue due to a conflict of interest, and we will immediately renew our search to identify a qualified individual to lead our sports medicine and research efforts," a USAG statement...