19. November 2011
Birmingham, Nanning
Artistic Gymnastics
2014 Artistic Worlds to the second time in China

*fig-news--: The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) and the Chinese Gymnastics Association (CGA) have signed an agreement that will see China play host to the 45th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in 2014.

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18. November 2011
Rinteln, Stadtroda, Potsdam
Artistic Gymnastics
Bernd Jäger: A gymnastics innovator turns 60!

" ... Flying was developed ...!"
A man turns 60 today, whose name is very important for the development of modern gymnastics:
Bernd JÄGER showed at the 18th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships 1974 in Varna a straddled somersault fwd. on high bar. This element was named "Jaeger"- somersault. It was the first flight element in history and after it followed a development of many others on high bar.

At the European Championships 1977 in Vilnius followed...

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13. November 2011
Stuttgart/ Germany
Artistic Gymnastics
29th DTB-CUP 2011: Nogomura (JPN) wins men s World Cup / Russia with a victory in the women s team final

The 29th DTB-Pokal 2011 today presented its' highlight: In the World Cup tournament of the men the title suprisingly went to the Japanese "newcomer" Shogo Nogomura. With the score of 88.431 he narrowly remained in front of Germany's Marcel Nguyen (88.332) and Daniel Purvis (GBR / 87.931).
On the remaining ranks 4 - 8 followed Mykola Kuksenkov (UKR), Emin Garibov (RUS), Rafael Martinez (ESP), Samuel Hunter (GBR) and Germany's Philipp Boy.

Philipp Boy, the...

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12. November 2011
Leverkusen/Germany
Artistic Gymnastics
Italy wins Leverkusen-Cup - Germany gets second

For the 36th time the LEVERKUSEN-CUP took place in the venue "Smidt-Arena". The title in 2011 went to the Italian team. The team from the club "Ginnastica Artistica. Lissonese“ won the cup with the score of 106.75 narrowly in front of the German team (103.20) and the team from Great Britain (99.50)

<< In the individual ranking Italy's Elisa Meneghini, the title holder from 2010, got first with 54.55 points in front of Germany's youth...

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12. November 2011
USA, Romania, Slovenia
Artistic Gymnastics
Nadia COMANECI: A legend turns 50!

The following was told by her mother Stefania:
Nadia has always been a wild child. She was climbing on trees, riding her trike with a lot of speed and played football with the boys. For gymnastics she was discovered on February 25th 1968 in the gym in Onesti. Her first coaches were Bela and Marta Karoly. With them she stayed until the top of her career. On September 15th 1969 Nadia COMANECI reached the second place in...

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