In the summer, she presented the 100th Jahnturnfest as patron. Now, a quarter of a year later, she herself is celebrating her 99th birthday on 20 November! The whole world knows Johanna QUAAS as one of the most agile senior gymnasts in the world, who has demonstrated incredible performance in her tenth decade as a gymnastics competitor and has been documented in world sports...
USA Gymnastics announced the death on Friday 15 November of Hungarian-born, later Romanian and gymnastics coaching legend Béla KÀROLYI at the age of 82, who made world sporting history with his former protégé, the then 14-year-old Nadia Comaneci and her 1976 Olympic victory in Montreal. Under Károlyi and his wife Martha, who moved to the USA in 1981 and worked there for more than 30 years, the US gymnasts...
At the start of the new calendar year 2025, Jens MILBRADT, who has been the national coach for junior gymnastics for many years, will take over as the men's national coach for artistic gymnastics. The 55-year-old Berliner with roots in Halle, former national gymnast of the GDR and also of reunified Germany, who already did valuable work as national coach for junior gymnasts from 2002 to 2007 and again in this position since 2013, already celebrated a...
The French mixed pair Morgane OSYSSEK-REIMER / Léo SALADINO remained unblemished in the final of the pairs competition in Zurich's Hallenstadion, which was organised according to a special format, and won the trophy of the 41st SWISS CUP Zurich ...:.
The Swiss hosts traditionally organise a series of other events dedicated to children, young people and up-and-coming talent before the Swiss Cup Zurich. On Thursday (7 November), for example, around 100 children were able to train, sign autographs and take selfies with the gymnastics pros at the ‘Kidz Day’ at the Aargau Gymnastics Centre in Lenzburg.
* The traditional ‘SWISS CUP Juniors’ took place on Friday (8 November): Team ITALY won this four-country competition ahead...