The 39th tournament for the Arthur Gander Cup in Chiasso, Switzerland, was won on 23 November by Alice D'AMATO from Italy ahead of Lena Bickel from Switzerland and Morgane Osyssek-Reimer from France.
In the men's competition (only 4 apparatus), Ilya KOVTUN from Ukraine won ahead of Yul MOLDAUER (USA) and Lorenzo Minh Casali from Italy.
* In a DTB-press release today, the German Gymnastics Federation informs --:
The German youth gymnast Jukka NISSINEN (Eintracht Frankfurt) suffered a serious accident in a training accident at the Frankfurt performance centre at the beginning of September. The 16-year-old injured his spine and is currently undergoing in-patient rehabilitation. According to the Nissinen family, the possible consequences of the injury are not yet foreseeable. The son of Mauno Nissinen, who competed for Finland at the 1972 Olympic Games in...
The artistic gymnasts from 16 countries have set, improved or broken some remarkable historic bests and records of this World Championships for their nations at the World Championships in Liverpool, England. In doing so, they have written and inspired future generations of athletes to follow in their footsteps to emulate them.
* With great meticulousness and expertise, journalist colleague Lauren Hopkins of the online service The GYMTERNET has compiled this below ...:
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Liverpool witnesses the 42nd WOMEN's WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS of Artistic Gymnastics, which debuted in Budapest for the 10th Worlds in 1934. If at that time the Czech Republic and Sweden were tie top nations, from 1954 followed an incomparable era of Soviet women's gymnastics with 10 team victories, which at that time only Romania, the GDR and China came close.
After the USSR had said Goodbye in history it was first Romania, Russia and finally more...
The 51st MEN's WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS (October 29 - November 06) in Liverpool will be the 15th world title fights of modern artistic gymnastics in the new millennium, where for the 11th time both team world champions will be crowned, as well as the all-around gymnastics king and the apparatus champions will be determined.
Without the gymnasts of Olympic champion and defending team champion Russia, who have been suspended by the World Gymnastics Federation (FIG),...