6. November 2021
Zurich, SUI
Artistic Gymnastics
German Talents win SWISS CUP JUNIORS 2021

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...

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24. Oktober 2021
Kitakyushu, JPN
Artistic Gymnastics
50th WORLDS of MEN's Artistic Gymnastics 2021

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...

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23. Oktober 2021
Kitakyushu, JPN
Artistic Gymnastics
41st WORLDS of Women's Artistic Gymnastics 2021

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...

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21. Oktober 2021
Kitakyushu, JPN
Artistic Gymnastics
FIG Athlets commission:: Aljaz Pegan re- und Catalina Ponor new-elected

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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13. September 2021
Neuoetting, GER
Artistic Gymnastics
Hans Pfann, the oldest Olympian of Gymnastics died

As we only found out today, Hans PFANN - Germany's oldest Olympian - died on September 9th, just 5 days before his 101st birthday, in his home town of Neuoetting (Germany; Bavaria).
Born in Nuremberg, he was a member of two German Olympic teams (FRG; 1952 and 1956) and was married for over 65 years to Olympic participant Lydia Zeitlhofer, who died 2019 on September 10, one year after her "Iron Wedding". Hans Pfann was the oldest Olympic athlete...

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