16. Mai 2015
Australia
Artistic Gymnastics
Lauren Mitchell's backflip for Rio Olympics

Australia's finest female gymnast, 2010 world floor champion Lauren MITCHELL, has shelved retirement plans to chase a third Olympic Games appearance next year in Rio. Mitchell (23) had planned to finish after 2014, only for her planned world championship finale to be scuttled by twin ankle injuries just two days before competition.
That not being the ideal note to end on, the West Australian resumed full training a month ago in preparation for next week's 2015 Australian Gymnastics Championships at Hisense Arena....

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15. Mai 2015
Oklahoma City, USA
Artistic Gymnastics
Johanna Quaas conquers Amerika ...

After nearly 20 hours of her journey yesterday from Halle, flying from the German capital Berlin with a stopover in Chicago, the world's oldest active artistic gymnast, Johanna QUAAS, now arrived in Oklahoma City safely and was warmly welcomed at the local airport by representatives of the "International Gymnastics Hall of Fame" (IGHOF).
Anyone familiar with the dynamic lady in her 90th year of live is absolutely not surprised that she naturally led one of its...

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15. Mai 2015
Des Moines, IA / USA
Artistic Gymnastics
2015 USA Women's Junior Olympic Championships

... A look at the talent system in the USA:
>> The U.S. Junior Olympic National Championships is one of the national championships of USA Gymnastics, the sport’s national governing body in the United States. Many Junior Olympic champions have gone on to make the U.S. National Team and represent the United States in international competition and/or to compete in collegiate gymnastics. Many of the country’s top gymnasts are former participants in the Junior Olympic program,

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14. Mai 2015
Berlin, Germany
Artistic Gymnastics
Berlin adopted Johanna Quaas to USA

With a special press conference at the House of Sport in Berlin-Marzahn dopted the internationally most successful gymnastics city in the world, Berlin, which, according to "Guinness Book of World Records' (2013 ed.) the "oldest active gymnast of the world, Johanna QUAAS:
Thursday, May 14 the meantime famous Senior flights to Oklahoma City to be honored on Saturday by the "International Gymnastics Hall of Fame" with the "Nadia Comaneci Award" for outstanding achievements as an athlete.
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10. Mai 2015
Oklahoma City
Artistic Gymnastics
Gymnastics Legends to be honored by the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2015

♦♦ Two Hall of Fame Inducties
Five artistic gymnastics legends will be honored at the 19th annual "International Gymnastics Hall of Fame" (IGHOF) ceremony on Saturday, May 16, 2015, at the Petroleum Club in Oklahoma City.
The IGHOF Class of 2015 Inductees are:

  • Elena ZAMOLODCHIKOVA (RUS): 2-time gold medalist at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney &
  • Valery BELENKI (AZE/GUS/GER): 1992 Olympic gold medalist and 4-time World gold medalist
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