Reigning World all-around champion Kohei Uchimura and Rie Tanaka won the Japanese Championships, held over Easter weekend in the Yoyogi National Gymnasium, which served as the training gym for the 2011 World Championships.
It was the fifth national title for Uchimura but the first for Tanaka, who has nonetheless become well known in Japan after winning the Longines Prize for Elegance at the 2010 Worlds in Rotterdam.
Although the competition included two full days of competition,...
In Chinese city Zibo (4.5 million inhabitants) - located between Beijing and Shanghai - was held on Easter weekend this year's only one a FIG A-Cup 2012 of artistic gymnastics
Twelve athletes per apparatus have been charged (top 8 of the last Worlds, more in accordance with last year's rankings).
After failure of the Paris competition in March, it is the only one of its kind in the course of the year, which will be played without all-around. Performed other individual competitions the...
After publishing her exercise from the Jahnturnfest 2011 in Freyburg (Germany) and her interview there about her philosophy and her active live more than hundredthousand viewers on www.gym-tube.com were thrilled about the fitness of the 86 years old Lady Johanna Quaas from Halle (GER).
Some weeks ago she had a media skill at a German Television Medical program "Hauptsache gesund" and thousends of viewers were responsive to her bars routine ...!!
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Just three days after the end of the first Challenge Cup in Cottbus the "gym-circus" already moved on, and the second CHALLENGE CUP 2012 takes place from 28 - 30 March at the Aspire Dome in Doha (Qatar). The organizing national gymnastics federation of Qatar received a total of 117 active participants from 31 nations (76 men / 41 women). In the women taking the world stars including Elizabeth Tweddle (GBR; 1st on uneven bars) and Cataline Ponor (ROU).
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TODAY: Apparatus Finals - Part II
There are world and continental champions, national champions and certainly next Olympic champion at this year's 2012 FIG Challenge Cup, wich will held from 22 to 25 March in the Lausitz-Arena of Cottbus, Germany.
For men, several duels will be the focus of interest. However, omitting local hero ...