Two weeks after the 40th Women's World Championships of artistic gymnastics in Stuttgart attracted numerous spectators from all over Germany today (27 October) in the Leverkusen Ostermann Arena. Against the backdrop of 1,600 spectators, the selection team1 from Germany won the coveted LEVERKUSEN CUP 2019 with 100.90 points.
Second place went to the national team from England with 99.70 points ahead of the team of "Topturns Zuid den Bosch" from the Netherlands (97.050).
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Leverkusen Cup 2019
Artistic gymnastics of the international top class
The German Turn-Club 72 Leverkusen invites to the 44th International Leverkusen Cup 2019 in the olympic gymnastics disciplines on Sunday, October 27 (12 o'clock), in the Leverkusen Ostermann Arena. Two weeks after the 40th Worlds of Women's artistic gymnastics an international field of participants takes place again in the best tradition.
At the Olympic disciplines vaulting table, uneven bars, balance beam and floor exercises,...
In 2019 Germany hosted the World Championships of Artistic Gymnastcs to the 5th time in history and after Dortmund (1966, 1994) now Stuttgart is organizing these special highlight for the third time (1989, 2007 & 2019). From October 04 - 13 the 49th MEN's Worlds and for the 40th time the Women's World Championships, which will simultaneously be the qualifications for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
RUSSIAN men's team and...
Bruno GRANDI, the longtime President of the International Gymnastics Federation (F.I.G.) from 1997 until 2016, passed away. The FIG said Grandi, the federation’s leader from 1997-2016, died Friday in Italy after an unspecified illness. Grandi was “a warm man with a strong sense of justice,” the federation said, praising his reforms to help gymnastics “gain credibility, popularity and universality.” Disputes in gymnastics at the 2004 Athens Olympics led to a...
Currently only limited training is available for German Vice-Champion Marcel NGUYEN (TSV Unterhaching). "In the shoulder, a tendon touched," said the 32-year-old athlet at a press conference today in Stuttgart. So there is always the risk of tearing, even in case of overload, so that only a "well-dosed training" in constant contact with the doctors can be realized. The 9-times World Championships participant, who would like to experience his tenth Wrlds and another Olympics, and the successful Olympic qualification match...