14. Juli 2018
Italy
Artistic Gymnastics
Italian Girls win JECh Test Event ahead France and Great Britain

On Saturday evening (July 14) the Italian national juniors team hosted a Friendly International Meet with 4 strong European equipes, in whose also ranks are mainly aspirants for the forthcoming Junior European Championships in Augus. - last test so to speak, which should run these countries last arguments for the nominations of their JECh teams: Germany, France, Great Britain, and Switzerland were the host nations. In the north-eastern Italian city Pieve de Soligo of Pieve the host dominated -...

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30. Juni 2018
Takasaki, JPN
Artistic Gymnastics
Kohei Uchimura missed chance for national high bar final ...

The "japantimes" reported, that Olympic Champion Kohei Uchimura failed to qualify for the horizontal bar finals at the Japan National Gymnastics Apparatus Championships on Saturday. The two-time reigning Olympic all-around men’s champion entered the competition aiming to execute the Bretschneider, in the final round, but slipped and fell from the bar before he could execute his dismount. He had a similar plan at a World Cup apparatus event in March, when he also failed to reach the horizontal bar final....

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23. Juni 2018
Baku, AZE
Artistic Gymnastics
European artistic gymnasts aiming for YOG participation

Today, Saturday June 23,  50 boys from 27 countries and 44 girls representing 25 European federation battled for their entry ticket to the 3rd Summer Youth Olympic Games which will be held in October in Buenos Aires (ARG). To be eligible to participate in theseYouth Olympic Games, the male gymnasts must be born between 1 January 2001 and 31 December 2002. The girls have to be born between 1 January 2003 and 31 December 2003.
The...

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20. Mai 2018
Oklahoma City, USA
Artistic Gymnastics
2018 Intern. Gymnastics Hall of Fame Induction

Hamm, Liukin, Nemov, Raducan To Be Inducted In 2018

The International Gymnastics Hall of Fame (IGHOF) included 98 individuals from 22 nations on May 19, 2018, in Oklahoma City:
Paul Hamm and fellow American Nastia Liukin will be inducted this year along with Romanian Andreea Raducan. Alexei Nemov entered the Hall of Fame last year, but could not travel at the last minute. He came this year, however ...
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30. April 2018
Japan
Artistic Gymnastics
Kakeru Tanigawa - youngest Japanese Champion - Uchimura third only!

Not only is Kohei Uchimura‘s reign as world all-around champion finished, but he’s also no longer the Japanese national all-around champion. Uchimura, the double Olympic all-around gold medalist and eight-time world-all around champ, finished third at the 2018 All-Japan Championships over the weekend. “This gives me a sample of something I haven’t tasted up to this point,” Uchimura said, according to Kyodo News. “From now on, it’s no longer about results.”

The 29-year-old Uchimura, largely considered the...

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