Japan's national junior selection (U 18) won the team rating of the 3rd International Junior Team Cup in Houston / Texas with a score of 244.90 points ahead of Great Britain (241.550) and the host USA (234.650). A total of seven teams were involved (- up to 17 years). After ranking 5th in the previous year, Germany's juniors came on fourth (231,400), ahead of Canada (227,050), France (224,950) and Australia (221,700).
The Japanese team winners also...
Italian Carla MARANGONI, who won a silver at the 1928 Games and was the oldest living Olympic medallist, has died at the age of 102 years, the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) said yesterday (Saturday, Jan 18). Marangoni, who competed in artistic gymnastics, was the only surviving participant of the1928 Olympic Summer Games in Amsterdam where she competed aged 12 in the Italien women's gymnastics team as one of the youngest Olympic participant...
U E G --: From Thursday till Saturday (January 18 - 20), Farid Gayibov (AZE), who became the fifth president of the UEG, will lead his first President’s Board and Executive Committee meetings assisted by General Director Lisa Worthmann (GER). At the 27th Congress in December 2017 in Split (CRO), the UEG’s 50 member Federations elected the new authorities who
...U E G --: Aiming to put also the European gymnasts in the spotlight where they belong, the Union of European Gymnastics (UEG) organised its first ever ‘European Gymnast of the Year’ elections. All 50 member Federations and the eight UEG Technical Committees were invited to nominate their favourites. A selection was made and put online open for everyone to vote over a period of...
The Japanese Morinari WATANABE (58), President of the International Gymnastics Federation (F.I.G.), who has been elected in Tokyo since October 2016, announced to the turn of the New Year far-reaching changes in an open letter for the next few years, and means " ...more "INNOVATION" in the sense of decisive innovations and changes in organizational processes and competition formats, new marketing, new rules, newer education and ethics", and he spoke from "new innovative gymnastics and gymnastics communities, worldwide...".
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