19. Januar 2018
Pavia, ITA
Artistic Gymnastics
Carla Marangoni - Oldest Italian Olympian past away

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...

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18. Januar 2018
Lausanne, SUI
Artistic Gymnastics
New President Farid Gayibov chairs first UEG Meeting

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

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16. Januar 2018
Lausanne, SUI
Artistic Gymnastics
UEG presents: European Gymnasts of 2017

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...

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5. Januar 2018
Lausanne, SUI
Artistic Gymnastics
FIG president Watanabe announces far-reaching changes!

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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17. Dezember 2017
Hanover, GER
Artistic Gymnastics
Kazakh team win at the IVth ZAG Junior Cup 2017

That's  a big thing, when you come home from your first international competition tour with a team cup:
The young talents from Kazakhstan proudly present him at the IV International ZAG Junior Cup 2017 on the pre-Christmas weekend in Vinhorst, Lower Saxony, near Hanover.
Although the lead of the physically rather petite quartet to the second placed TZ Bochum-Witten 2 (from Germany) with +0.50 points was only minimal, one sensed the targeted team selection...

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