6. Juni 2016
Tokyo, JPN
Artistic Gymnastics
Japanese Olympic Trials and Qualification.

70th All Japan Final Round competition and national qualification for 2016 Olympic Games was held Sunday, June 05, in the Japanese capital Tokyo.
Of course top-star Kohei Uchimura is already selected, and after than four more names of team members for the Olympic selection in Rio de Janeiro were named:
Uchimura, who has won a record seven Olympic or World all-around titles, is set for his third Olympics. He can become the first gymnast to repeat as Olympic all-around...

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6. Juni 2016
Hartford, CT/USA
Artistic Gymnastics
Sam Mikulak won fourth straight US All-around title

Sam Mikulak won his fourth straight P&G Championships all-around title and took another step toward his second Olympic team on Sunday, June 05.
Mikulak totaled 181.500 points in the cuty of Hartford, Connecticut's capital, winning by 1.65 points over Chris Brooks, a 2012 Olympic alternate making his last push for a first Olympics. So Mikulak is the first man to win four straight U.S. all-around titles since Blaine Wilson in 2000 and the fifth overall. Jacob Dalton, another 2012 Olympian, was third, 2.5...

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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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