7. Mai 2016
Tokyo, JPN
Artistic Gymnastics
Japanese NHK Trophy 2016

The Six-time world all-around and Olympic Champion Kohei UCHIMURA won his eighth consecutive title at the 55th NHK Trophy 2016 in Tokyo, where runner-up Ryohei KATO clinched his second Olympic berth. Uchimura scored its second routine sensational 93, 350 points (first routine: 91,300 = 184,650).
The remaining three gymnasts will be named to the team following the Japanese national event championships in June.

On women's side 2012 Olympian Asuka TERAMOTO (Chukyo University) won the all-around earning...

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1. Mai 2016
Osijek, CRO
Artistic Gymnastics
Elissa Downie: Total Challenge Cup triumph in Osijek

After the competitions in Baku, Doha, Cottbus and Ljubljana at the last weekend of April takes place the FIG Challenge Cup No. 5 in the Olympic year - the Grand Prix Tournament in Osijek / Croatia. Most successfull gymnast there was the Brit Elissa DOWNIE, who won all the four final events despite the strong Russian opponents ...
In front of the European Championships this year will follow in May the Challenge Cups in Varna (BUL) and in...

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30. April 2016
Volketswil / SUI
Artistic Gymnastics
U15 Friendly Meet: British Girls win in Switzerland

A few weeks before the Junior European Championships of women's artistic gymnastics in late May in Bern / Switzerland, the Swiss U15 Junior selection receives her rivals from Germany, France and Great Britain as a final test before the upcoming international highlight of the year! The competitions took place at the last April weekend as part of the "Züri GYM Days 2016" of the Swiss "Zurich Gymnastics Federation" (ZTV). Best of the teams were the British Junior squad and...

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21. April 2016
Halle / Sa. (GER)
Artistic Gymnastics
Johanna Quaas (90): -dedicates her parachuting the Queen

QUAAS & QUEEN
S E N I O R   P O W E R !

. In honor of the 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II, the "oldest active competitive artistic gymnast in the world",  the also 90-years old German Johanna Quaas, citizen of Halle (GER), wants to dedicate her planned tandem skydive the British Queen: "I admire this woman my whole life long, as she causes even in difficult times despite many...

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18. April 2016
Rio de Janeiro / BRA
Artistic Gymnastics
WOMEN's Artistic Test Event - happy Brazilians but dramatic end for Romania!

* Women's Competition on Sunday, April 17
Five-time Olympic medallist Catalina Ponor has returned to the sport to help the Romanian girls obtain a team berth to the Games after the country finished far off the top eight who qualified directly to the Games at the Glasgow World Championships in October 2015, but the 3-times Olympic Champion was without any chance to realize that. In particular by indisputable performance on the uneven bars and also on vault Romanian girls...

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