The 57 years old currently Secretary of the Japanese Gymnastics Asscciation, Morinari WATANABE, is the new and 9th President of the International Gymnastics Federation (F.I.G.), elected at the F.I.G. congress in Tokyo. He will take up this position 2017, January 1 and is the successor of the long-term president Bruno GRANDI (82) after 20 years presidency. Watanabe achieved a clear superiority with 100 of the votes cast. The counter-candidate, the President of the European Gymnastics Union, George Guelzec (FRA)...
Maribor - the Slovenian city of the legendary Olympian and numerous artistic gymnastics Olympic and world champion Leon STUKELJ (1898 - 1999) - will host the 11th European TEAMGYM Championships from 12 to 15 October 2016. Sure, Leon Stukelj probably did not know this modern variant of the team spirit at his time, but surely the enthusiasm and the team spirit of the players, who were inspired by this variant, would surely be enthusiastic.
At the...
A total of ten Challenge Cup the F.I.G. has set in the Olympic year 2016 into the World Cup calendar!
But between late February and July within just 17 weeks there were 9 B-World Cup Events - altogether in the time before the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
This circuit of the Olympic year 2016 is completed now with event No. 10 from October 07 to 09 in Szombathely, Hungary ...!
After four rounds, the team "GAL Lissone" from Italy won the Cup with a strong and close team performance and altogether
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