20. August 2011
Saint Paul, Minn. / USA
Artistic Gymnastics
2011 US. VISA National Championships: Wieber and Leyva

Jordyn Wieber lived up to the hype and then some, winning her first title at the 2011 U.S. Artistic Gymnastics Championships in a rout Saturday night. Wieber finished with 121.30 points, 6.15 points ahead of McKayla Maroney. The 16-year-old from DeWitt, Mich., also finished with the highest scores on floor exercise and uneven bars.
Danell Leyva, who won his first U.S. title Friday night, was named to the American squad for the world gymnastics championships...

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16. August 2011
Shenzhen, China
Artistic Gymnastics
26th UNIVERSIADE: Artistic Gymnastics Events

The Japanese women jumped from behind to take the gold medal Saturday at the 2011 26th University Games in Shenzhen, China. The Japanese squad of Yuma Imanishi, Yu Minobe, Keiko Mukumoto, Kyoko Oshima and Mai Yamagishi outscored Ukraine, 165.200-164.600. Russia won the bronze (162.150), while defending champion China fielded two individual gymnasts only.
One of them - XIAO, Kangjun -  won the all-around final.

On Sunday the Japanese men joined their female compatriots...

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5. August 2011
Frankfurt, Germany
Artistic Gymnastics
2011 ISHPES Congress

The "International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport" (ISHPES) arranges its 2011 ISHPES Congress in Frankfurt on the Main, Germany, from August 8-12, 2011.
The Congress will be organized by Gertrud Pfister and Annette Hofmann together with the Deutsche Turner-Bund (DTB)...:

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29. Juli 2011
Trabzon, Turkey
Artistic Gymnastics
11. EYOF 2011: Final day: Three Golds for Romania. two golden medals for the Brits

Best gymnast after the final day of the artistic gymnastics competiions of the 11th European Youth Olympic Festival 2011 in Trabzon, Turkey, was all-around winner Larissa IORDACHE from Romania, who won the gold medals at beam and floor ...

On boy's side all-around winnner Courtney TULLOCH was the best on still rings and his teammate Frank BAINES was the best on parallel bars

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28. Juli 2011
Trabzon, Turkey
Artistic Gymnastics
11. EYOF 2011: All-around Gold for Larissa Iordache (ROU) and Courtney Tulloch (GBR)

After the preliminaries but also after the all-around final of the 11th European Youth Olympic Festival in Trabzon (TUR)  - best of all was the 16-years old British Courtney TULLOCH.
He won the gold medal in front of the young Romanian Daniel RADEANU and the Byelorussian Vasili MICHALITSYN.
Only 0,05 points behind him the Swiss Christian BAUMANN came on fourth place, followed by the two Russians Grigori Zyprianov and Andrei Lagutov.

In the second decision Romania's Larissa IORDACHE...

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