15. November 2017
Einbeck, GER
Artistic Gymnastics
Johanna Quaas: How do yo crash with 92 Years ...?

In older age, falls or crashes in everyday life can actually be more problematic from year to year. The many national sports federations, as well as other facilities of the sport and the health care, offer special fall prophylaxis:
But with her almost 92 years the oldest active gymnast of the world, Johanna QUAAS from Halle an der Saale "provocative way" climbs still on the gym apparatus:...

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7. November 2017
Indianapolis, USA
Artistic Gymnastics
USA Gymnastics names Kerry J. Perry as new President

The USA Gymnastics Board of Directors announced today the unanimous decision to appoint Kerry J. PERRY as the organization’s new president and chief executive officer.
Perry assumes this role Dec. 1, 2017, and will be based at the USA Gymnastics headquarters in Indianapolis. Perry was formerly vice president of business development at Learfield Communications, Inc., and president and owner of KP Sports, which was acquired by Learfield. In her various leadership roles, Perry has led many high-performing...

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21. Oktober 2017
Leverkusen, GER
Artistic Gymnastics
2017 Leverkusen Cup: German Homecoming in front of England

With a convincing team performance the team GERMANY 1 won the traditional "Leverkusen Cup", an international artistic gymnastics Cup for female gymnasts for the 42nd time (!) in the Ostermann-Arena of the host city Leverkusen:
With 98.75 points the German gymnasts with Lisa Schoeniger, Lara Hinsberger and Aiyu Zhu referred a national team from ENGLAND to rank 2 (97.35) with Laure Cooke (1), and Tomique Gibson (3)  followed by the team GERMANY II (96.25). The Italian team's...

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8. Oktober 2017
Montreal, CAN
Artistic Gymnastics
38th WOMEN's WORLDS ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS 2017

US-American Morgan HURD won the all-around title in the 38th Women's Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Friday night in Montreal, spoiling Elsabeth Black's bid to become the first Canadian winner. The 16-year-old girl with Chinese rules from Indianapolis, living in Middletown / Deleware, edged the Canadian Ellie Black by 0.101 points, finishing with 55.232 points in her world championships debut.  Russia's Elena Eremina came on third place with a score of  54.799. American Ragan Smith, the favorite to...

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8. Oktober 2017
Montreal, CAN
Artistic Gymnastics
47th MEN's WORLDS ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS 2017

China’s XIAO Ruoteng emerged from a breathtakingly tight competition as the new World All-around champion, ahead of his teammate LIN Chaopan and Japan’s Kenzo Shirai. Xiao, 21, succeeds Japan’s Kohei Uchimura, who has reigned over the men’s All-around competition since 2009 but was forced to cede his throne after injuring himself in Monday’s qualifications. That permitted China to return to the forefront of the world stage following an Olympic Games where the country’s gymnasts did not capture...

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