30. November 2011
Magglingen / Switzerland
Artistic Gymnastics
Swiss Niki Boeschenstein and Roman Gisi retiered ...

The Swiss Gymnastics Federation (STV) informed, that the Swiss gymnasts Niki BOESCHENSTEIN and Roman GISI declared their retirements from active professional sport, their current contracts are from the gymnastics federation by mutual agreement not be renewed.

* Niki Böschenstein was a five time World Championship and seven-times European Champion participant. His greatest success was in 2005 in Debrecen rank 13 in all-around of this WCh and as finalsist of Europeans 2009 in Milan (8th on parallel bars) and...

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27. November 2011
Tokyo, Japan
Artistic Gymnastics
Kohei UCHIMURA won his only one World Cup this year in front of Philipp BOY

2011 TOKYO CUP Men's All-around
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Supported by applause from his home country's crowd, Kohei Uchimura won the Tokyo Cup 2011, his first World Cup Series.
He had a few big steps on his landings on every event and some small mistakes, but stayed stable as usual.

Germany's Philip Boy placed second with a great routine on horizontal bar, scoring 16.000, the highest score of the day.

Daniel Purvis of Great...

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26. November 2011
Tokyo, Japan
Artistic Gymnastics
Huang, Qiushuang won the last World Cup and also the Ranking

Huang Qiushuang of China won the women's all-around competition of the fourth and last World Cup event of this circuit.
In Tokyo she upgraded her vault from that at the last world championships; nowshe does a double twisiting Yurchenko. She missed uneven bars (after her Jaeger sault; she stopped at her kip cast to handstand ) but she excelled on all the other events, and scored higher than 14 on each event. Winning two consecutive World Cup titles,...

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24. November 2011
Tokyo, Japan
Artistic Gymnastics
Tokyo Cup 2011: Fourth and last A-World Cup 2011

The ultimate event of the 2011 FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup series will take place in Tokyo (JPN) on November 26 – 27, with women competing on Saturday and men on Sunday- the 2011 TOKYO CUP. Hosted in the Ryogoku Kokugikan Arena the competition will not only crown the winners of the event, it will determine the All-around winners of this year’s World Cup series.
* On men's side a top roster of athletes will fight for...

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19. November 2011
Birmingham, Nanning
Artistic Gymnastics
2014 Artistic Worlds to the second time in China

*fig-news--: The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) and the Chinese Gymnastics Association (CGA) have signed an agreement that will see China play host to the 45th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in 2014.

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