U E G --: Aiming to put also the European gymnasts in the spotlight where they belong, the Union of European Gymnastics (UEG) organised its first ever ‘European Gymnast of the Year’ elections. All 50 member Federations and the eight UEG Technical Committees were invited to nominate their favourites. A selection was made and put online open for everyone to vote over a period of...
The Japanese Morinari WATANABE (58), President of the International Gymnastics Federation (F.I.G.), who has been elected in Tokyo since October 2016, announced to the turn of the New Year far-reaching changes in an open letter for the next few years, and means " ...more "INNOVATION" in the sense of decisive innovations and changes in organizational processes and competition formats, new marketing, new rules, newer education and ethics", and he spoke from "new innovative gymnastics and gymnastics communities, worldwide...".
...
That's a big thing, when you come home from your first international competition tour with a team cup:
The young talents from Kazakhstan proudly present him at the IV International ZAG Junior Cup 2017 on the pre-Christmas weekend in Vinhorst, Lower Saxony, near Hanover.
Although the lead of the physically rather petite quartet to the second placed TZ Bochum-Witten 2 (from Germany) with +0.50 points was only minimal, one sensed the targeted team selection...
The fact that you need a long breath in the artistic gymnastics world is well-known!
This also applies to the establishment of new international competitions, like the 4th International ZAG Junior Cup in Hanover (Germany), the capital of Lower Saxony. With the announcement of the 4th International ZAG Junior Cup 2017 on December 16, the traditional "TuS Vinnhorst" continues its consistent and goal-oriented...
Reigning world champion Kenzo Shirai won the men’s floor exercise for the third year in a row at the first day of the 11th Toyota International Gymnastics Competition. The 21-year-old, who won both the floor and vault at the worlds in Montreal in October, performed his namesake “Shirai 3” technique, a double backward somersault triple twisting layout ranked as a maximum-difficulty H-level move, scoring 15.800 points in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture. Compatriot Wataru Tanigawa (14.600) was second and Canada’s Jeremy...