26. März 2009
Tokyo, Japan
Artistic Gymnastics
A big Loss: Japanese Legend Yukio ENDO passed away ...

Wednesday, March 25 the first Japanese winner of an all-around Olympic gold medal at the 1994 Tokyo Olympic Games, the artistic gymnastics legend Yukio ENDO, died at the age of 72 years after a long fight with esophageal cancer.
Altogether Endo won 17 world and Olympic medals in his career, and took part of five gold-medal Japanese teams that dominated the 1960s, winning Olympic team titles in 1960, '64 and '68, and also the world team titles in 1962...

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22. März 2009
Cottbus, Germany
Artistic Gymnastics
GYMfamily Event 2009 Yann Cucherat - best gymnast at the Cottbus Tournament of Masters

The second artistic gymnastics World Cup ofthe post-Olympic season - was the "33rd TOURNAMENT of MASTERS" in Cottbus, Germany.
The world cup winners came on men's side from five different nations, and for the women from four.

<< Most successful gymnast was the French Yann Cucherat, second on parallel bars and beating the world champion Fabian Hambuechen on horizontal bar, who crashed there at his special apparatus...

Ariella Kaeslin (SUI) on vault, Marta...

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20. März 2009
Canada
Artistic Gymnastics
Dr. Keith Russell (CAN) - President of the FIG Scientific Commission

* fig-press: --  Dr. Keith Russell (CAN) has been named President of the FIG Scientific Commission by the FIG Executive Committee.
Dr. Keith Russell is an Associate Professor in the College of Kinesiology, University of Saskatchewan (CAN).
He is a well respected coach, educator and author, and is in great demand both in Canada and internationally.
Keith is a former Canadian Men’s Artistic Gymnastics National Coach, and was the personal coach of...

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16. März 2009
Taiwan
Artistic Gymnastics
Do You know what D E A F L Y M P I C S are...?

The 21. DEAFLYMPICS 2009 will take place in Taipeh
From the 5th until the 15th of September 2009 the world elite of deaf athletes will determine the best among themselves in 19 different sports. 3.706 deaf participants from 74 nations signed on for the 21st summer games in Taiwan. Due to that, the „Deaflympics“ count next to the Olympic Games, the Universiades, the Paralympics,
Special Olympics and the World Games as one of the...

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13. März 2009
Bryansk, Russia
Artistic Gymnastics
2009 Russian Championships

Russian Nationals 2009 finished Friday with the event finals in Bryansk.
The 2007 world champion (Stuttgart) on uneven bars, Ksenia Semenova (< photo, left), won the title on his special apparatus but also on floor exercises.
New Russian Champion on vault and balance beam are the both gymnasts from Moscow Yulia Berger and Aliya Mustafina. togehther with Ksenia Afanassyeva

Six gymnasts took titles in the men's events:
All-around champion Yuri Ryazanov...

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