Full bleachers with more than 2,000 spectators at the IV. International HAMBURG GYMNASTICS 2012 ensured breathtaking atmosphere, transformed the Hamburger Sports Hall Wandsbek into a true turn-Arena at this weekend.
The gymnasts from 10 nations and altogether 19 teams played with jumps, flips and graceful movements on the four apparatus floor, uneven bars, balance beam and vault all facets of the Olympic gymnastics categories.
The hotly contested "Hamburg Team Trophy" was able to secure in a furious competition...
The invitation competition for the 36th BLUME Memorial 2012 inmemory of the 1959 fatalities 4-times Spanish European Gymnastics champions Joaquin Blume - after whom also the BLUME Gran Canaria-Fesival is named, which begins next week - won on Saturday the Ukrainian Oleg VERNIAEV with 90.000 points. Second was the ECh bronze medallist of Berlin (2011), Britain's Daniel PURVIS (85.299) before the current best Spaniard and Olympic Ninth, Fabian GONZALEZ (85.299).
<< The women's competition of this...
The 5th Asian Championships in Artistic Gymnastics 2012 took place from Nov 7 to 15 at the sports center in Putian, a prefecture-level city in East China's Fujian province. The event, organized by Asian Gymnastics Union (AGU), the Gymnastics Management Center of China General Administration of Sport and the Putian government, was expected to attract about 140 athletes from 15 to 20 countries and regions across Asia.
At the end Chinese gymnasts claimed ten Gold, six Silver and four Bronze medals...
* fig - news ---: Hardy FINK from Canada, Director of FIG Education and Academy Programmes, was awarded the Nik Stuart Foundation International Diploma of Honour this year.
Absent from the annual dinner and presentation night in Meriden (GBR) this September due to family engagements, Fink received the award at the recent 79th FIG Congress in Cancun (MEX).
Prominent awardees of the NSF International Diploma of Honour include former FIG President Yuri...
From November 3 to 5 the 66th AG All Japan Competition 2012 was held in Tokyo. The Gold medal for team competition were won by the Juntendo University. with a team score of 271,950. A member of this team was Ryohei Kato.
Team KONAMI got the silver medals, scoring 270,800 points. It was the team of the Olympic gold medallist and three-times world all-around champion, Kohei Uchimura.
Kohei Uchimura (KONAMI) said: "That was the first...