6. November 2021
Antalya, TUR
Artistic Gymnastics

At the 83rd Congress of the World Gymnastics Federation (FIG) in Antalya, Turkey, the Japanese incumbent Morinari WATANABE (JPN) prevailed against the challenger and EC President Farid Garibov (AZE) with a clear majority of 81:47. Ali AL-HITMI (QAT) was elected as 1st Vice President, Nelli KIM (BLR) as 2nd Vice President and the Turk Suat CELEN (TUR) as Vice No. 3, all for a corona-related shortened term of three years (2022-2024). The German-speaking European area...

6. November 2021
Zurich, SUI
Artistic Gymnastics

GERMANY'S Junior team of girls (under 13 years) won this year's "SWISS CUP JUNIORS 2021" in a four-country match in the Zurich Hallenstadion. With 144,250 points, they relegated the BELGIUM youth team (141,600) to second place, followed by the girls from FRANCE (140,150) and the host team from Switzerland (134,700).
The German talents competed with the best five all-around fighters of the current German Youth Championships (Age group >13), with the newly crowned Stuttgart all-around winner of...

24. Oktober 2021
Kitakyushu, JPN
Artistic Gymnastics

Two Asian newcomers fought a high-level duel at the men's 50th TURN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS in Kitakyushu (JPN).
The only 20-year-old and youngest all-around Olympic champion from Japan, Daiiki HASHIMOTO (87.964), was defeated by 21 years old Chinese ZHANG Boheng (87.981) only by a rocker stroke of -0.017 points, which despite outstanding efforts by China for the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2021, was not used became.
As in 2019 for the Worlds in...

23. Oktober 2021
Kitakyushu, JPN
Artistic Gymnastics

At the 41st WOMEN's World Gymnastics Championships in 2021 in Kitakyushu, Japan, and eleven years after Aliya Mustafina in Rotterdam, now Angelina MELNOKOWA was again crowned a Russian gymnastics queen in the all-around event. The best in the preliminary round, Olympic and Worlds third at the last World Championships (2019, Stuttgart), also withstood the onslaught of the young American competitors in the final and secured the all-round gold with 56.632 points, especially through the strongest parallel...

21. Oktober 2021
Kitakyushu, JPN
Artistic Gymnastics

On the sidelines of the 2021 World Championships of artistic gymnastics in Kitakyushu, Japan, the Slovenian ex-high bar world champion from 2005, Aljaz PEGAN (47), was re-elected as athletes spokesman for a second term (until 2025). Since Montreal 2017 he worked together with Oksana Chusovitina (47; UZB) in the athletes' committee of FIG.
After Chusovitina this time Romania's five-time Olympic champion Catalina PONOR (34) received the highest number of votes.
Together, Ponor and...

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