27. April 2014
Osijek, Croatia
Artistic Gymnastics
Zito Challenge Cup in Osijek

After Cottbus (GER ), Doha ( QAT) and last week in Ljubljana (SLO), now the "Zito Challenge Cup 2014" in Croatian Osijek is already the fourth competition of this F.I.G. series this year, which will be completed on Sunday with Part II of the apparatus finals. At theEnd of May, then follows the Challenge Cup in Anadia, Portugal and last but not least in August in Ghent, Belgium.
On the first day...

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19. April 2014
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Artistic Gymnastics
10th Challenge Cup in Ljubljana 2014

At the 10th Slovenian Challenge Cup 2014 in the capital of Ljubljana the Ukrainian Oleg Vernyayev was the best gymnast, winning on pommel horse and on parallel bars. Best nation on men's side there were the Netherlands, with Casimir SCHMIDT on floor exercises, Lambertus van GELDER on still rings and high bar specialist Epke ZONDERLAND. On vault won the Byelorussian Pavel BULAUSKI.
Host Slovenia won three of the four finals on women's side: ...

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11. April 2014
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Artistic Gymnastics
13th Asian Artistic Gymnastics Junior Championships 2014

The Uzbekistan's capital’s Gymnastics Palace is to host April 7-14, 2014, the 13th Junior Asian Artistic Gymnastics Championships. This continental championship is the only qualifying start of the season for the 2nd Summer Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China.
19 federations were present in the boys team finals, all-around final and individual qualifications competed in 3 subdivisions and the spectators stay until the end of the third subdivision to know the final results with the success of Japanese...

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5. April 2014
Berlin, Germany
Artistic Gymnastics
British Juniors win at Berlin's 19. International Junior Team Cup 2014

After a marathon competition since Saturday morning 9.30 clock and after three subdivisions at a record participation of 31 teams representing 22 nations at the 19th International Junior Team Cup 2014  in the German capital Berlin  - 12 hours later was this the the result:
After 2011 there is the second time a victory of a BRITISH Junior Team with 247.400 points, followed by BELGIUM (243.750) and the boys from JAPAN (242.759).
Behind of the...

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5. April 2014
Tokio, Japan
Artistic Gymnastics
Uchimura wins World Cup Final, Hambuechen and Purvis were the total winners

Saturday, April 5 in Tokio it was the expected slugfest of Giants:
Again, invincible, the exceptional athlete Kohei UCHIMURA unveiled the all-around dream score of 92.898 (!), but on the heels was Germany's World champion's bronze medalist Fabian HAMBUECHEN, the only other gymnasts in the competition who broke through the 90-point barrier with a score of 90, 231 points and ranked second and the Japanese World's vice-champion Ryohei KATO (89.397) referred to 3rd place.
Because...

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