39th MEN's & 38th WOMEN's EUROPEANS
37 Federations traveled to Romania to challenge for the first European titles of the new Olympic cycle, which will held in the Polyvalent Hall - the largest Sporting Event in Romania and started Wednesday, April 19 with the opening ceremony and the men's qualification rounds.
A total of 274 gymnasts are scheduled to compete, 168 male and 106 female gymnasts. Romanian stars like Catalina Ponor, Larisa Iordache and...
39th MEN's & 38th WOMEN's EUROPEANS
37 Federations will travel to Romania to challenge for the first European titles of the new Olympic cycle. A total of 274 gymnasts are scheduled to compete, 168 male and 106 female gymnasts. Romanian stars like Catalina Ponor, Larisa Iordache and Marian Dragulescu are sure to attract the attention of the Romanian fans. On the international stage they are joined by Olympic Champions Eleftherios Petrounias (GRE), Oleg Verniaiev (UKR), Krisztian Berki...
Germany’s Tabea ALT and Ukraine’s Oleg VERNIAIEV took gold at the iPro Sport World Cup of Gymnastics, winning the women’s and men’s competitions respectively at The O2, London.
Alt edged out American Victoria NGUYEN having topped the scoring on the floor and uneven bars and there was glory for Great Britian’s Amy TINKLER. The Durham gymnast, now based in Essex, won Bronze in Rio eight months ago and collected the same medal in front of a...
* British gymnastics --: Olympic gymnast Rebecca TUNNEY announces retirement London 2012 Olympian Rebecca Tunney has announced she has taken the decision to retire from elite gymnastics. Rebecca who was famously the youngest member of Team GB in London, was twice crowned senior British all-around champion (2012 and 2014) as well as winning European Team silver in 2014. The City of Liverpool gymnast now moves her focus to her University studies and plans to move...
Velik KAPSAZOV, the legendary Bulgarian Artistic gymnast, who won his country’s first Olympic medal in Gymnastics, passed away on March 27, 2017, three weeks before his 82nd birthday.
Born on April 15, 1935 in Asenovgrad (BUL), Kapsazov – a weightlifter as a youth – became a member of the Bulgarian National Gymnastics Team in 1954. He took part in the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympic Games, though Rome 1960 would...