After the attractive Olympic artistic gymnastics broadcasts from Paris, the first major international women's gymnastics event is coming up in Germany upcoming weekend:
At the 47th International Leverkusen Cup 2024 on October 12, nine teams from South-Africa and guests from seven European nations will compete for this coveted trophy, which was last year won by the Netherlands.
In the new Olympic cycle, it will be interesting to see which young gymnasts from the...
In terms of format, the FIG World Challenge Cups of the series in the 2024 Olympic year do not differ from the first four WELTCUPS with Olympic qualifying chances, except that they have no significance for the current Olympic qualification. Even before the fourth and final Olympic qualification with World Cup status in Doha (April 17-20), the so-called World Challenge Cup circuits begun at the end of March in Antalya (TUR), closely followed...
The delegates of the 9 Austrian provincial associations elected the current Vice President Dr. Gabriela JAHN as the new President of Turnsport Austria today in Vienna at the association's ordinary meeting without a dissenting vote. The previous President, Prof. Friedrich Manseder, had previously stepped down after 14 years at the helm of Austria's sixth-largest federal sports association and was appointed Honorary President.
Bianca Franzoi, Thomas Dworak and Helmut Haderer were elected as the new Vice Presidents of Turnsport...
You won't find ‘Para Gymnastics’ in the Paris 2024 Paralympic programme yet!
Nevertheless, the sport of apparatus gymnastics was included in the programme as an official international summer sport at Special Olympics International and was also introduced as an official sport at Special Olympics Germany in July 2020. At the "Special Olympic World Games" in Berlin / GER (June 2023), we also learnt more about the development status of this still young sport in Germany.
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More symbolism is not possible!
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the JAHNTURNFEST in the Jahn City of Freyburg in Saxonia Anhalt (GER) - the City of the German Grandfather of Gymnastics, Friedrich Ludwig JAHN (1778 - 1852), two queens of modern artistic gymnastics met with the grand dame of senior gymnastics, the 98 years old Johanna QUAAS: 1980 Olympic uneven bars champion Maxi GNAUCK and Germany's...