The national competition opener in the Olympic year 2021 in the USA was won by the 19-year-old Pacific Rim champion from 2018, Jordan Lucella Elizabeth CHILE with a total of 55.450 points ahead of Zoe MILLER (53.050) and Olivia GREAVES (51.850).
"EG-press release"--: On 29 January, the Executive Committee of "European Gymnastics" (EG) met online for their first meeting of 2021. Led by President Farid Gayibov (AZE), the debates have resulted in the following official decisions and information:
♦ Following the withdrawal of host Denmark, the postponed 2020 European Championships in TeamGym have been awarded to the city of Guimaraes (POR), to be held from 1 to 4 December 2021.
♦ The 2023 ECh and European Age...
Muriel Davis-GROSSFELD a pioneering Indianapolis gymnast who made three Olympic teams, became the first American to score a perfect “10,” was a longtime coach and had a brief Hollywood career, died Sunday, January 17, in Milford, Conn./USA. She was 80 years old.
Grossfeld was one of the early stars in the sport for the U.S., making her Olympic debut at the age of 16 in 1956, where she helped the women’s team to...
* f i g-news--: The pandemic situation related to the current health crisis continues to disrupt the smooth holding of the events planned on the sporting calendar.
Unfortunately, the following FIG World Cups have to be postponed or cancelled ...:
♦ Artistic Gymnastics:
→ The Apparatus World Cup in Cottbus, Germany (25-28 Febr. 2021) is cancelled.
► World GYM Calendar
♦ Trampoline Gymnastics
...
Today the 5-time Hungarian former gymnast Olympic champion Àgnes KELETI celebrates her 100th birthday in the Hungarian capital Budapest.
The Holocaust survivor, born in Budapest in 1921, is currently now the oldest Olympic champion in the world.
With a "Swedish passport", the Jewess hid during the Second World War II as a Christian maid, named "Piroska Juhacz" in the Hungarian province and survived the Nazi hunt for Jews.
After the end of the war she started...