7. November 2021
Zurich, SUI
Artistic Gymnastics
Melnikova and Nagornyy win 2021 SWISS CUP

As expected, the current all-around world champion Angelina MELNIKOVA and Russia's Olympic bronze medallist Nikita NAGORNYI ​​prevailed as the winning pair in the Zurich Hallenstadion at the 38th INTERNATIONAL SWISS CUP 2021, and beat the Ukrainian duo Yelisaveta HUBAREVA with the young Worlds bronze medallist in the final of this international pair competition Illia KOVTUN took over. After Elena Zamolodschikova / Alexey Bondarenko's Swiss Cup success in 2000, this was the first Russian success again after 21...

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6. November 2021
Antalya, TUR
Artistic Gymnastics
FIG Congress confirms Watanabe as President

At the 83rd Congress of the World Gymnastics Federation (FIG) in Antalya, Turkey, the Japanese incumbent Morinari WATANABE (JPN) prevailed against the challenger and EC President Farid Garibov (AZE) with a clear majority of 81:47. Ali AL-HITMI (QAT) was elected as 1st Vice President, Nelli KIM (BLR) as 2nd Vice President and the Turk Suat CELEN (TUR) as Vice No. 3, all for a corona-related shortened term of three years (2022-2024). The German-speaking European area...

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6. November 2021
Zurich, SUI
Artistic Gymnastics
German Talents win SWISS CUP JUNIORS 2021

GERMANY'S Junior team of girls (under 13 years) won this year's "SWISS CUP JUNIORS 2021" in a four-country match in the Zurich Hallenstadion. With 144,250 points, they relegated the BELGIUM youth team (141,600) to second place, followed by the girls from FRANCE (140,150) and the host team from Switzerland (134,700).
The German talents competed with the best five all-around fighters of the current German Youth Championships (Age group >13), with the newly crowned Stuttgart all-around winner of...

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24. Oktober 2021
Kitakyushu, JPN
Artistic Gymnastics
50th WORLDS of MEN's Artistic Gymnastics 2021

Two Asian newcomers fought a high-level duel at the men's 50th TURN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS in Kitakyushu (JPN).
The only 20-year-old and youngest all-around Olympic champion from Japan, Daiiki HASHIMOTO (87.964), was defeated by 21 years old Chinese ZHANG Boheng (87.981) only by a rocker stroke of -0.017 points, which despite outstanding efforts by China for the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2021, was not used became.
As in 2019 for the Worlds in...

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23. Oktober 2021
Kitakyushu, JPN
Artistic Gymnastics
41st WORLDS of Women's Artistic Gymnastics 2021

At the 41st WOMEN's World Gymnastics Championships in 2021 in Kitakyushu, Japan, and eleven years after Aliya Mustafina in Rotterdam, now Angelina MELNOKOWA was again crowned a Russian gymnastics queen in the all-around event. The best in the preliminary round, Olympic and Worlds third at the last World Championships (2019, Stuttgart), also withstood the onslaught of the young American competitors in the final and secured the all-round gold with 56.632 points, especially through the strongest parallel...

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