23. Juli 2018
Leipzig, GER
Artistic Gymnastics

One of the most distinguished great coach legends of the famous Leipzig gymnastics school, Helmut GERSCHAU, surprisingly passed away on Saturday after a short but strong illness at the age of 84 years. From the beginning of the Fifties on until the political change, he has led numerous gymnasts of Leipzig to internationally outstanding achievements and, as a responsible coach, many GDR teams on international stages and competitions. Already with his first...

21. Juli 2018
Baiersbronn, GER
Artistic Gymnastics

A few days before the beginning of the 40th Men's European Championships, the German men's team of artistic gymnastics won a four-country meet with 251,700 points in front of the teams from Great Britain (248,550), France (248,200) and the replacement-weakened Swiss Team (248,200).
Since there will be no all-around disciplinary decision for the European Championship in the two-year-old, only three gymnasts completed the full all-around in this last European Championship test:
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20. Juli 2018
Los Angeles, USA
Artistic Gymnastics

Gold-medal Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman and dozens of other women who spoke out about sexual abuse by Larry Nassar received the "Arthur Ashe Courage Award" at this year’s ESPYS. Over 140 survivors, including US Olympic gymnasts, took the stage to accept the 2018 "Arthur Ashe Courage Award" at the ESPYs this week (- short for "Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly Award"). The 26th annual ESPY Awards took place in Los Angeles. The ESPYs, which stands for Excellence...

14. Juli 2018
Italy
Artistic Gymnastics

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 -...

30. Juni 2018
Takasaki, JPN
Artistic Gymnastics

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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