At the same time like the German Nationals the 2011 Romanian Championships of artistic gymnastics take place in the "Nadia Comanesi Hall" of Onesti (ROU).
On Friday the first title in all-around went to the world champion on beam, to Ana PORGRAS, scoring 58,650 points, followed by Amelia RACEA (58,250) and Raluca HAIDU (57,625).
The competition continues Saturday with the men's team and all-around.
World champion Marian Dragulescu is set to make his...
Jordyn Wieber lived up to the hype and then some, winning her first title at the 2011 U.S. Artistic Gymnastics Championships in a rout Saturday night. Wieber finished with 121.30 points, 6.15 points ahead of McKayla Maroney. The 16-year-old from DeWitt, Mich., also finished with the highest scores on floor exercise and uneven bars.
Danell Leyva, who won his first U.S. title Friday night, was named to the American squad for the world gymnastics championships...
The Japanese women jumped from behind to take the gold medal Saturday at the 2011 26th University Games in Shenzhen, China. The Japanese squad of Yuma Imanishi, Yu Minobe, Keiko Mukumoto, Kyoko Oshima and Mai Yamagishi outscored Ukraine, 165.200-164.600. Russia won the bronze (162.150), while defending champion China fielded two individual gymnasts only.
One of them - XIAO, Kangjun - won the all-around final.
On Sunday the Japanese men joined their female compatriots...
The "International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport" (ISHPES) arranges its 2011 ISHPES Congress in Frankfurt on the Main, Germany, from August 8-12, 2011.
The Congress will be organized by Gertrud Pfister and Annette Hofmann together with the Deutsche Turner-Bund (DTB)...:
Best gymnast after the final day of the artistic gymnastics competiions of the 11th European Youth Olympic Festival 2011 in Trabzon, Turkey, was all-around winner Larissa IORDACHE from Romania, who won the gold medals at beam and floor ...
On boy's side all-around winnner Courtney TULLOCH was the best on still rings and his teammate Frank BAINES was the best on parallel bars