US-American Morgan HURD won the all-around title in the 38th Women's Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Friday night in Montreal, spoiling Elsabeth Black's bid to become the first Canadian winner. The 16-year-old girl with Chinese rules from Indianapolis, living in Middletown / Deleware, edged the Canadian Ellie Black by 0.101 points, finishing with 55.232 points in her world championships debut. Russia's Elena Eremina came on third place with a score of 54.799. American Ragan Smith, the favorite to...
China’s XIAO Ruoteng emerged from a breathtakingly tight competition as the new World All-around champion, ahead of his teammate LIN Chaopan and Japan’s Kenzo Shirai. Xiao, 21, succeeds Japan’s Kohei Uchimura, who has reigned over the men’s All-around competition since 2009 but was forced to cede his throne after injuring himself in Monday’s qualifications. That permitted China to return to the forefront of the world stage following an Olympic Games where the country’s gymnasts did not capture...
Oksana CHUSOVITINA (UZB) and Aljaz PEGAN were elected to the FIG Athletes Commission as representative for Women's & Men's Artistic Gymnastics during the athletes' assembly at the World Championships in Montreal, Canada.
* The 42 years old Usbekian world star has been elected for a four year term, succeeding Elizabeth Tweddle (GBR). “I’d like to thank everyone. I will try to do my best to give you the best,” said Chusovitina, who during her presentation to the...
Am Rande der Turn-WM in Montreal sind die 42-jährige, noch immer aktive Olympiasiegerin, Welt- und Europameisterin, Oksana CHUSOVITINA aus Usbekistan und der 43-jährige Slowene Aljaž PEGAN - Ex-Europa- und Weltmeister am Reck - in die Athleten-Komission des Turn-Weltverbandes FIG gewählt worden.
Chusovitina- noch immer in der Weltspitze am Sprunggerät aktiv, folgt dort der Britin Beth Tweddle; Pegan übernimmt die Nachfolge von Jani Tanskanen, der inzwischen Finnischer Turn-Präsident ist und in die FIG-Exekutive gewählt wurde. Seit...
The Turn-Club 72 Leverkusen (GER) invites to Leverkusen's Ostermann Arena for the 42nd International Leverkusen-Cup 2017 in Artistic Gymnastics on Saturday, 21 October 2017, 5 pm.
This year, an international participatory field with teams from Belgium, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Slovenia and South Africa, as well as, of course, the host Germany (with 3 teams!), is taking part in this oldest European traditional contest of Olympic women's artistic gymnastics, on...