The Swiss Gymnastics Federation (STV) informed, that the Swiss gymnasts Niki BOESCHENSTEIN and Roman GISI declared their retirements from active professional sport, their current contracts are from the gymnastics federation by mutual agreement not be renewed.

* Niki Böschenstein was a five time World Championship and seven-times European Champion participant. His greatest success was in 2005 in Debrecen rank 13 in all-around of this WCh and as finalsist of Europeans 2009 in Milan (8th on parallel bars) and...

Huang Qiushuang of China won the women's all-around competition of the fourth and last World Cup event of this circuit.
In Tokyo she upgraded her vault from that at the last world championships; nowshe does a double twisiting Yurchenko. She missed uneven bars (after her Jaeger sault; she stopped at her kip cast to handstand ) but she excelled on all the other events, and scored higher than 14 on each event. Winning two consecutive World Cup titles,...