19. April 2015
Montpellier, FRA
Artistic Gymnastics
36th WOMEN's European Championships 2015

 At the 36th Women's Europeans 2015 in Montpellier the Swiss Giulia STEINGRUBER won not only the very first all-around medal for his country, but she is the very first European all-around champion of Switzerland! Steingruber ranked first after the last rotation with a total score of 57,873 points and a difference of +0,741 to her strongest opponent: Russia's Maria KHARENKOVA's vault result in the last rotation (13,933) was not strong enough, to beat Steingruber - 57,132 that's...

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15. April 2015
Montpellier, FRA
Artistic Gymnastics
* Preview: European Championships 2015

37th Men's and the 36th Women's European Championships 2015 will held from Wednesday, April 15 to Sunday April 19 in Montpellier, in the South of France.
After 2012 it's the second time, that this city will host the continental Championships of artistic gymnastics:
At the 34th Men's ECh Russian Team won the Gold medal in front of Russia and Romania. Now the upcoming event is an individual championships only ...:

Beginning with the first continental event...

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13. April 2015
Halle, Germany
Artistic Gymnastics
Johanna Quaas: The oldest gymnast of the world won her next competition

Actually, the 11-time German Senior champion Johanna QUAAS  would deny any more tournaments. But now the nearly 90-year-old oldest active gymnast of the world (* born in November 1925) felt so good, that she appeared again at an 18th International Senior Gala in Markkleeberg 2015, a small city near Leipzig, in Germany - and of course she won!
In a month (May 2015) she will travel to the Oklahoma-City (USA): Johanna Quaas received a special invitation...

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9. April 2015
Cottbus, Germany
Artistic Gymnastics
Svetlana Boginskaya in Interview

Svetlana BOGINSKAYA is a prominent figure in the international artistic gymnastics!
A former native of Minsk and the three-time Olympic gold medalist and five-time World Champion for the Soviet Union, who ended at the 1990 European Championships in Athens with the total triumph, winning there all five titles!

"The BOGINSKAYA" was particularly impressed with her feminine appearance and its technical elegance. Unforgettable is her floor exercise choreography to the 1989 World Championships in Stuttgart, which she finished with...

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5. April 2015
Ljubljana, SLO
Artistic Gymnastics
3rd Challenge Cup in Ljubljana: Zonderland on Top!

After the Challence Cup Events in Cottbus (GER) and Doha (QAT) now the third event of this F.I.G. circuit took place in the Slovenian capital Ljubljana. Top scorer at the final day there was the "Flying Dutchman", Olympic Champion Epke ZONDERLAND, who won the high bar final with 15,700 points, the highest scor of this weekend, in front of Nicolas CORDOBA from Argentina (15,00) and Bart DEURLOO (NED; 14,850). Also a special highlight at the...

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