5. Dezember 2016
Ludwigsburg, GER
Artistic Gymnastics
Fabian Hambuechen and Sophie Scheder are Germany's „Gymnasts of the Year"

Fabian Hambuechen and Sophie Scheder are Germany's "Gymnasts of the Year" 2016". These last title holders of the Olympic year were announced at the final of the German Turnliga in Ludwigsburg. The German GYM-Magazine LEON* and the Turnclub Germany had the winners in a survey among the gymnastics journalists in Germany. The expert jury voted for the fourth time in a row for Fabian Hambuechen (TSG Wetzlar-Niedergirmes), who had won the gold medal at the Olympic...

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2. Dezember 2016
Great Britain
Artistic Gymnastics
Eddie van Hoof crowned "Coach of the Year"

After a record-breaking Olympic Games in Rio 2016 for Team Great Britain’s gymnastics squad, it was our very own Eddie Van Hoof’s turn in the spotlight. The British Head National Coach for Men’s Artistic Gymnastics, was named UK Coach of the Year last night at the Sports Coach UK Coaching Awards.
Eddie has been a coach for the last 20 years, and led the British Men’s Artistic Gymnastics programme since 2005 ...
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29. November 2016
Brisbane, AUS
Artistic Gymnastics
Olympian Lisa Skinner injured in fall during Cirque Du Soleil performance

Olympic gymnast Lisa Skinner will be fitted with a halo brace on Monday after her fall on Sunday during a Cirque du Soleil performance. The 35-year-old Olympian from Brisbane is doing well but she has to wear the brace from six to 12 weeks.
Lisa Skinner was doing her aerial hoop solo act during Cirque du Soleil’s Kooza performance at Skygate when she fell. The audiences were shocked and the paramedics were called into the scene. The show stopped...

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20. November 2016
Cottbus, GER
Artistic Gymnastics
First FIG World Cup of new Cicuit started in Cottbus

* f i g - news--: The 2016-2018 FIG Individual Apparatus World Cup series in Artistic Gymnastics in Cottbus, Germany, with the first of eight stops on a circuit that ends in March 2018 in Doha, Qatar. The new Individual Apparatus World Cup series format spans two years, with Cottbus (GER), Melbourne (AUS), Baku (AZE) and Doha (QAT) each set to host two World Cup events between November 2016 and March 2018. World Cup series winners on each apparatus (Men:...

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6. November 2016
Barcelona, ESP
Artistic Gymnastics
38th Joaquim Blume Memorial 2016

In the Olympic city of 1992, Barcelona (Spain) took place the 38 anniversary of the BLUME MEMORIAL, remembering the Spanish gymnastics legend and four-times European champion of the Fifties Joaquim Blume.
The Belgian Nina DERWAEL won the women's all-around with a score of 56,150, followed by Melanie De Jesus Dos Santos (FRA; 54,400) and Seda Tutkhalian (54,250/RUS).
On men's side Russia's Nikita NAGORNYI won the all-round in front of the Spaniard Ruben López (85,950),...

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