The British Olympic Association (BOA) this week announced the athletes selected to represent Team GB at the 11th European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) in Trabzon, Turkey between 23-30 July.
GB will consist of 64 athletes from the six sports of athletics, cycling, gymnastics, judo, swimming and tennis.
The British gymnastics will include all around, team and individual apparatus finals.
The following gymnasts have been selected to represent Great Britain at this year’s festival....
Ariella Kaeslin, Switzerland’s most successful-ever gymnast, has said today, she is quitting the sport just a year before the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
The popular 23-year-old from Lucerne, who was named Swiss Sportswoman of the Year a record three times in a row from 2008-2010, said she was struggling to reach the physical fitness needed for a professional athlete.
“Ultimately I would no longer have been able to compete in top-level sport. That would...
Two weeks before the European Youth Olympic Festival in Trabzon (TUR; July 25 - 29) and two weeks after the Italian U 13-victory in Tittmoning (GER) the Italian femal junior team won a friendly meet of artistic gymnastics with a clearly difference in front of team Germany, followed by France and Switzerland.
Best in individual all-around was the Italian Elisa Meneghini (56,000) , followed by her teammate Francesca de Agostini (55,300), Erika Fasana (55,250) and Alessia...
Germany's Talents welcomed Gymnasts fom
France, Great Britain, Italy and Switzerland
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It is the very first German private GYM, which hosted the international meeting of the youngest femal artistic gymnasts representing five European countries this Saturday, June 25.
The "GYM Tittmoning" in Bavaria (Germany) welcomed the U-13 national Teams of France, Great Britain, Italy and Switzerland to their very first international event - may be the start for the 2016 new Olympic generation for...
The Swiss Gymnastics Federation informs that the gymnast Karl Frei, 94 years old, passed away on June 18. He was the oldest living swiss Olympic Champion. In 1948, at the London Olympic Games, Karl Frei was awarded the Gold medal on Rings, the best achievement of his career. He was a member of the famous Swiss Dream Team after the world war years, together with Walter Lehmann, Josef Stalder, Christian Kipfer, Michael Reusch. Karl Frei was also one of most...