30. April 2016
Volketswil / SUI
Artistic Gymnastics
U15 Friendly Meet: British Girls win in Switzerland

A few weeks before the Junior European Championships of women's artistic gymnastics in late May in Bern / Switzerland, the Swiss U15 Junior selection receives her rivals from Germany, France and Great Britain as a final test before the upcoming international highlight of the year! The competitions took place at the last April weekend as part of the "Züri GYM Days 2016" of the Swiss "Zurich Gymnastics Federation" (ZTV). Best of the teams were the British Junior squad and...

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21. April 2016
Halle / Sa. (GER)
Artistic Gymnastics
Johanna Quaas (90): -dedicates her parachuting the Queen

QUAAS & QUEEN
S E N I O R   P O W E R !

. In honor of the 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II, the "oldest active competitive artistic gymnast in the world",  the also 90-years old German Johanna Quaas, citizen of Halle (GER), wants to dedicate her planned tandem skydive the British Queen: "I admire this woman my whole life long, as she causes even in difficult times despite many...

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18. April 2016
Rio de Janeiro / BRA
Artistic Gymnastics
WOMEN's Artistic Test Event - happy Brazilians but dramatic end for Romania!

* Women's Competition on Sunday, April 17
Five-time Olympic medallist Catalina Ponor has returned to the sport to help the Romanian girls obtain a team berth to the Games after the country finished far off the top eight who qualified directly to the Games at the Glasgow World Championships in October 2015, but the 3-times Olympic Champion was without any chance to realize that. In particular by indisputable performance on the uneven bars and also on vault Romanian girls...

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18. April 2016
Rio de Janeiro / BRA
Artistic Gymnastics
MEN's Artistic Test Event - second Olympic Chance

* fig-press --: The Olympic Test Events in Gymnastics, which held April 16-22 at the Rio Olympic Arena, is the second and final chance for gymnasts and nations that did not qualify at the 2015 World Championships in Glasgow to punch their tickets for August's Summer Games. The final Olympic berths for Men's Artistic Gymnastics will be attributed on April 16, Women's Artistic Gymnastics April 17, Trampoline April 19, and Rhythmic Gymnastics April 21 for individuals and...

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18. April 2016
Rio de Janeiro / BRA
Artistic Gymnastics
Dipa Karmakar, first Indian Woman Gymnast to Qualify for Olympics

Top Indian gymnast Dipa Karmakar made history in the final qualifier of the Olympic Test Event in Rio de Janeiro in April 17 as she produced a strong show, becoming the first ever Indian to qualify for the Olympics in gymnastics.
The 22-year-old could not clinch an Olympic berth in the World Championships in November last year in Glasgow as she finished outside the podium (fifth place).
Dipa had earlier become the first...

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