Reigning world champion Kenzo Shirai won the men’s floor exercise for the third year in a row at the first day of the 11^th Toyota International Gymnastics Competition. The 21-year-old, who won both the floor and vault at the worlds in Montreal in October, performed his namesake “Shirai 3” technique, a double backward somersault triple twisting layout ranked as a maximum-difficulty H-level move, scoring 15.800 points in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture. Compatriot Wataru Tanigawa (14.600) was second and Canada’s Jeremy...

At the 27^th Congress of the European Gymnastics Federation (UEG) in Split, Croatia, Mr. Farid Gayibov of Azerbaijan was elected as the new president at the attended by the 50 member federations of the UEG. Gayibov defeated Slovenia's Edvard Kolar, 28 votes to 20. After George Guelzec (FRA), who held the post for the past eight years, Gayibov will become the 5^th president of the UEG.

Gayibov, who was elected Vice President of the UEG's Executive Committee four years ago,...