Approximately 3,600 athletes from 48 nations will compete for medals in 11 sports at the 17th EUROPEAN YOUTH OLYMPIC FESTIVALS ("EYOF") from 23 - 29 July 2023. The competitions of the 14- to 18-year-old talents will take place in the sports of swimming, judo, tennis, volleyball, artistic gymnastics, athletics, cycling and handball. Also new and participating for the first time are the sports of skateboarding, mountain biking and 3x3 basketball.
* The host is the "Leon Stukelj...
Den historisch ersten Turn-Länderkampf deutscher Senioren gegen Japan gab es bereits 2022 in Tokio. Jetzt ist nicht nur der Rückkampf der Männer angesagt, sondern sogar eine weitere Premiere:
Japans Turn-Seniorinnen fordern Deutschlands Gastgeberinnen zum allerersten Länderkampf im Gerätturnen der Altersklassen 30+ bis 70+ heraus!
Geplant ist dieser außergewöhnliche Höhepunkt für den 6. Oktober 2023 im Niedersächsischen EINBECK.
Die Basis-Qualifikation erfolgte bereits Mitte Mai bei den Deutschen Seniorenmeisterschaften in Pirna: Startberechtigt sind also erstrangig...
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FIG Executive Committee decision concerning the participation of athletes with Russian and Belarusian sporting nationality in international competitions
Germany's head coach Valeri BELENKI prescribed a week of "warm south" for his 11 athletes of the German national artistic gymnastics team. Eleven weeks before the important pre-Olympic qualifying World Championships in Antwerp (BEL), it is not only "sun, beach and water" that are on the agenda in the small Adriatic resort of Porto San Giorgio: "... that too, but in moderation," said co-coach Hubert BRYLOK from SV Halle, who has three of his promising World Championship candidates...
Dioges ESCOBAR is the name of the only 20-year-old Cuban gymnast who surprisingly won the all-around at the 24th Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador (ESA). With 79.100 points he left Audrys Nin (DOM; 78.900) and Dian Jimènez (COL; 78.150) behind him on the medal places.
Escobar achieved top scores on parallel bars (14.150) and high bar (13.700), but his rival Audrys Nin in second place scored the highest score of the...