The 2019 Chinese National Championships of Artistic Gymnastics took place from May 09 t0 13 in Zhaoqing, only some days before the next FIG Challenge Cup.
Zhaoqing City is located in the west-central region of Guangdong Province, at the middle and lower reaches of Xijiang River. Adjacent to the Pearl River Delta, the city borders Guangxi Province in the northwest and Foshan City in the southeast. It lies about 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Guangzhou.
New Chinese All-around...
On Monday, April 29, USA Gymnastics (USAG) hired Edward NYMAN as its director of sports medicine and science, a newly created position. But even one day later, on Tuesday, the organization reneged on the hiring citing a “conflict of interest” and nothing else.
"Dr. Nyman's employment will not continue due to a conflict of interest, and we will immediately renew our search to identify a qualified individual to lead our sports medicine and research efforts," a USAG statement...
The British junior team of artistic gymnastics won the traditional U18 international tournament in Halle / Sa. (GER) with 310.550 points, just ahead of Switzerland (310.300). The German junior team took third place with 308,300 points and moved France's team (307,000) to fourth place.
* Best of all was the British U18 national junior champion of 2018 and third of this year's championships, Adam TOBIN (GBR) with 78.50 points. Niklas Patrick NEUHÄUSEL (GER) of Eintracht Frankfurt was...
About 150 male and 100 female gymnasts from respectively 38 and 36 countries compete in the Netto Arena of the Polish city of Szczecin at the 2019 Artistic Gymnastics continental championships!
⇒ After the premiere in Frankfurt / Main in 1955, now the 41st European Men's Championships will take place this year, which have been announced for the 8th time since 2005 as so-called "individual championships" (no team competitions).
To the third time Poland...
On the first weekend in March, the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) opened its A World Cup Series (All-around) with the traditional American Cup, this time in Greensboro (USA). In relatively close succession, just two weeks later, follows next the DTB Cup in Stuttgart (March 16 / 17) , at the current venue of the this year's worlds in October. After that, on March 23, 2019, next all-round WC No. 3 took place in Birmingham GBR) and on April 07...