10. Dezember 2017
Toyota City, JPN
Artistic Gymnastics
11th TOYOTA CUP 2017: 7 Titles for Japan

Reigning world champion Kenzo Shirai won the men’s floor exercise for the third year in a row at the first day of the 11th Toyota International Gymnastics Competition. The 21-year-old, who won both the floor and vault at the worlds in Montreal in October, performed his namesake “Shirai 3” technique, a double backward somersault triple twisting layout ranked as a maximum-difficulty H-level move, scoring 15.800 points in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture. Compatriot Wataru Tanigawa (14.600) was second and Canada’s Jeremy...

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6. Dezember 2017
Great Britain
Artistic Gymnastics
British Gymnastics coach Eddie van Hoof suspended pending investigation

British media reported, that Eddie VAN HOOF has been suspended by British Gymnastics as an independent investigation is conducted into allegations of misconduct. Van Hoof, men's technical director at the Rio Olympics as Britain won five medals, was UK coach of the year 2016.
In Rio, Max Whitlock won two golds and a bronze, Louis Smith took silver, while Nile Wilson won bronze. "The suspension is not a disciplinary penalty, and indeed does not imply any assumption...

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3. Dezember 2017
Split, CRO
Artistic Gymnastics
New UEG President elected: Farid Gayibov

At the 27th Congress of the European Gymnastics Federation (UEG) in Split, Croatia, Mr. Farid Gayibov of Azerbaijan was elected as the new president at the attended by the 50 member federations of the UEG. Gayibov defeated Slovenia's Edvard Kolar, 28 votes to 20. After George Guelzec (FRA), who held the post for the past eight years, Gayibov will become the 5th president of the UEG.

Gayibov, who was elected Vice President of the UEG's Executive Committee four years ago,...

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2. Dezember 2017
Ludwigsburg, GER
Artistic Gymnastics
Fabian Hambuechen said 'Good Bye', definitly ...!

2017, December 02, the Olympic high bar champion Fabian HAMBUECHEN (30)  from Gernanay celebrated his very last competition at the German Team Championship Final of the German Gymnastics League (DTL) in Ludwigsburg. Behind the winner KTV Straubenhardt and vice champion TG Saar (- with Oleg Verniaiev) his team "KTV Obere Lahn" Hambuechen won the bronze team medal, started again on the floor and then turned on his world championship winning apparatus, the horozontal bar, the last stretching exercise of...

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26. November 2017
Cottbus, GER
Artistic Gymnastics
2017 FIG Individual World Cups, All

9th and last 2017 FIG Individual World Cup in Cottbus

After the first Individual FIG World Cup of Artistic Gymnastics in Melbourne, the second in Baku (AZE), and World Cup No. 3 in the capital of Qatar, in Doha, followed in May No. 4 in Koper / Slovenia and No. 5 in Osijek / Croatia: With the fifth of altogether nine events of this circuit in Osijek / Croatia ended the 2017 spring serie this year...

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