5. Juni 2016
Boehlen, GER
Artistic Gymnastics
90-year-old pensioner skydives in honour of the Queen’s birthday

A woman who recently won the title as "the oldest gymnast in the world" in the "Guinness Book of World Records" has done a parachute jump in honour of the Queen’s 90th birthday. Johanna Quaas, 90, jumped from a plane on Sunday morning near Leipzig in Germany. Mrs Quass appeared to be unfazed by the jump and smiled for cameras after she landed. it is not the first time she has been noticed for her youthful, sporty ways. Mrs Quass...

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5. Juni 2016
Bern / SUI
Artistic Gymnastics
37th WOMEN's EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS 2016 (& Juniors ECh)

One week after the men's Europeans, on Wednesday, June 01, the 37th European Championships of Women's artistic gymnastics take place in the PostFinance Arena in the Swiss capital of Bern. After the junior all-around decision and the elite qualification (Thursday) the first decision was the team gold medal of RUSSIA today, with 175,212 points and a clearly difference to the silver medalists from GREAT BRITAIN (170,312). The team of FRANCE won the bronze (168,496), followed by the...

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29. Mai 2016
Bern / SUI
Artistic Gymnastics
38th Men's European Championships 2016

In the last week of may and only 12 weeks before the Olympic Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro the Swiss city of Bern welcomeed the altogether 38th MEN's  European Championships since the beginning in 1955. To the fourth time the Swiss Gymnastics Federation was the host of men's Europeans, starting 1975 also in Bern to the very first time, followed by two times in Lausanne (1990, 2008).
37 nations participated in the men's elite competitions, of which...

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15. Mai 2016
Varna, BUL
Artistic Gymnastics
Challenge Cup No. 6 in Varna / BUL

Five Gold for Ukraine!
After the competitions in Baku, Doha, Cottbus, Ljubljana and and at the last weekend of April in Osijek / Croatia now the next and already 6th FIG Challenge Cup in the Olympic year - takes place now in Varna, Bulgaria. Double winner of the first final day there was the best European gymnast Oleg Verniaev from Ukraine, winning the floor exercice and the pommel horse final, and he was second on stillrings behind his...

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7. Mai 2016
Tokyo, JPN
Artistic Gymnastics
Japanese NHK Trophy 2016

The Six-time world all-around and Olympic Champion Kohei UCHIMURA won his eighth consecutive title at the 55th NHK Trophy 2016 in Tokyo, where runner-up Ryohei KATO clinched his second Olympic berth. Uchimura scored its second routine sensational 93, 350 points (first routine: 91,300 = 184,650).
The remaining three gymnasts will be named to the team following the Japanese national event championships in June.

On women's side 2012 Olympian Asuka TERAMOTO (Chukyo University) won the all-around earning...

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