Postponed by a year due to the Covid19 pandemic, the 19th Asian Games 2022 began today, 24 September, in Hangzhou, China, where teams and individual competitors from 19 countries are taking part in the prestigious multi-sport event, including a high-profile artistic gymnastics team for the host nation.
Many top athletes have chosen to compete here rather than at the World Championships in Antwerp, Belgium, where qualifiers begin the day after the Asian Games end....
After the painful injury losses of the German women's gymnasts by Elisabeth Seitz (from Stuttgart) and Emma Malewski (Chemnitz), another World Championships competitor on men's site, Andreas Toba (from Hanover) is now out: The 32-year-old gymnast - son of the German Olympian with Romanian roots, Marius Toba - suffered a knee injury during acrobatics training on the floor at the World Championships venue on the Antwerp podium in the Sportpaleis. On the advice of the...
After an unfortunate dismount from the uneven bars during the final World Championships training in Frankfurt, Germany's Emma MALEWSKI from Chemnitz suffered a foot injury in her left ankle. As a result the 19-year-old European Beam Champion (Munich 2022) from TuS Chemnitz-Altendorf will miss the World Championships in Antwerp, Belgium, where the German girls will compete on Monday for the longed-for Olympic qualification. Thus, Karina Schönmaier from Bremen, who trains also in Chemnitz, will join the World Championships team. Last...
Also in the pre-Olympic year 2023, the FIG World Cup series consisted exclusively of individual competitions on the individual apparatus.
High-calibre all-around events were missing from the FIG's quantitatively demanding international competition calendar! At these altogether 10 World Cups, beginning with the "46th Tournament of Champions" in Cottbus (February), followed by the FIG World Cup in Doha / QAT (March) and afterwards with World Cup No. 3 in Baku / AZE as well as in Cairo (April) with FIG...
As the Armenian Gymnastics Federation informed through its Chairman, Gagik VANOYAN, one of the greatest world gymnastics legends of the previous century, Albert Vagarshakovich AZARYAN passed away on September 5, 2023 at the age of 94. The three-time Olympic champion, four-time world champion and two-time European champion in Soviet times in the fifties and sixties of the last century, left lasting memories and significant traces not only in the history of sports, but also in the history of...