3. Dezember 2019
Swakopmund, NAM
Artistic Gymnastics
Inventor of the 'Jaeger Sault' trains Africa's Olympic candidate

The somersault of the German All-around and highbar champion of the GDR of 1975, Bernd JAEGER (68) which he created in 1974 at the World Championships in Varna (BUL), also 45 years this flying element is worldwide wellknown as the "Jaeger Sault". With this  "flying element" on the king of the apparatus, the horizontal bar, started the international age of the flight elements on the horizontal bar!
After his active career as a competitive...

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24. November 2019
Cottbus, GER
Artistic Gymnastics
FIG World Challenge Cups 2019

FIG Indiv. Apparatus WC Circuit 2018-20

With 4 victories for China and 3 gold medals for Japan, the "44th Tournament of Masters" in Cottbus (GER) turned into a kind of "Asian Games". The remaining three gold medals went to Ukraine. Cottbus was the 11th and last World Challenge Cup of 2019.
Already on the last weekend of February 2019, the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) continued its individual equipment World Cup Circuit (Challenge Cups 2018/2020) and started...

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12. November 2019
New Haven, USA
Artistic Gymnastics
Deadly accident in artistic gymnastics

Melanie COLEMAN, a 20-year-old gymnast at Southern Connecticut State University (USA), died on Sunday, November 10, after suffering a serious spinal cord injury during training. On Friday, the Milford, Connecticut, native was training at New Era Gymnastics when she slipped off the uneven bars, according US media. After sustaining the injury, Coleman was taken to Yale-New Haven Hospital, where she died two days later. According to the Daily Mail, it was damage to the spinal cord that led to the...

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3. November 2019
Zurich, SUI
Artistic Gymnastics
USA win 37 International Swiss Cup 2019

Jade CAREY & Allan BOWER (USA) won today in front of approx. 6,000 spectators in the Indoor Stadium of Zurich the International pair competition "Swiss Cup" 2019 and referred in the final of the pre-paired duo from Ukraine, with Diana Varinska & Oleg Verniaiev, on 2nd place.
Team Switzerland I with Giulia Steingruber & Oliver Hegi won the bronze medal, and defeated the German duo with Elisabeth Seitz & Andreas Toba in the small final, in particular by...

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27. Oktober 2019
Leverkusen, GER
Artistic Gymnastics
German victory at the 44th Leverkusen Cup ahead of England and Netherlands

Two weeks after the 40th Women's World Championships of artistic gymnastics in Stuttgart attracted numerous spectators from all over Germany today (27 October) in the Leverkusen Ostermann Arena. Against the backdrop of 1,600 spectators, the selection team1 from Germany won the coveted LEVERKUSEN CUP 2019 with 100.90 points.
Second place went to the national team from England with 99.70 points ahead of the team of "Topturns Zuid den Bosch" from the Netherlands (97.050).
A...

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