6. März 2017
Australia
Artistic Gymnastics
US Super Coach to take control of Australia's Women's Gymnastics Team

Gymnastics Australia confirmed the appointment of leading international coach Mihai Brestyan to the position of Women’s National Coach.
he Romanian-born Brestyan is a world-renowned and a world-class coach with proven Olympic success having taken US athletes to podium performances at the past three Olympic Games. Currently based in the United States, Mihai Brestyan has overseen the rise of US superstar Aly Raisman, a winner of three Olympic gold medals and Alicia Sacramone, an Olympic silver medallist. * ......

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5. März 2017
Newark, N. J., USA
Artistic Gymnastics
USA Double victory at the 2017 AT&T-American Cup

Ragan SMITH and Yul MOLDAUER solidified their prospects as future leaders of Team USA by taking top honors at the 2017 AT&T American Cup at Newark, N.J.’s Prudential Center on Saturday, March 04. The 20-years old student from Oklahoma's NCAA university (85.931) beat the Olympic vice champion Oleg Verniaev of Ukraine (85,699) who was not without mistakes on floor and horizontal bar. Ragan Smith’s triumph extends the U.S. women’s winning streak in the event to 15 years,...

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4. März 2017
Newark, N.J., USA
Artistic Gymnastics
USA: 2017 Elite Team Cup

The Region 3 team, comprised of six junior elite gymnasts from Oklahoma and Texas, won the 2017 Elite Team Cup held at Newark, N.J.’s Prudential Center on Saturday night, earning 327.70 points to edge the Region 5 squad by 4.25 points. Much as the Nastia Liukin Cup does for female gymnasts, this event seeks to give male gymnasts between 13-18 years of age (as of May 31, 2017) high-level exposure and podium performance experience.The unique format has nine...

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3. März 2017
Kazan, RUS
Artistic Gymnastics
2017 Russian Nationals: Natalia Kapitonova & Artur Dalalojan

Penza gymnast Natalia KAPITONOVA won her first national all-around titel Thursday, March 02, as the 2017 National Championships continued in Kazan (2016: 6th). Top qualifier and 2016 European Junior Champion Yelena Yeryomina (Saint Petersburg) finished half a point behind Kapitonova on second place.
Yevgenia Shelgunova (Zvenigorod/Alatyr), eighth going into the final, moved up five spots to take the all-around bronze in front of  the both Olympians Seda Tutkhalyan (Moscow) and Angelina Melnikova (Voronezh) ...
Moscow's Artur...

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28. Februar 2017
Los Angeles, USA
Artistic Gymnastics
All but one of Olga Korbut’s Olympic medals fetch $230,000 at auction

Legendary gymnast Olga KORBUT has sold her collection of medals won at the 1972 Munich Olympic games among a sale of memorabilia at an auction in the United States, auctioneers said Monday. Korbut, 61, captured the imagination of the sporting world with her spellbinding displays in Munich before competing at the Montreal Games four years later. The Arizona-based former Soviet gymnast sold her medals through Heritage Auctions after falling on hard times, according to reports in Russia. The sale of...

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