The 29th Summer UNIVERSIADE 2017 takes place from August 19 to 29. This events bring together more than 7,500 athletes from 121 nations competing in 21 summer sports, so it is the largest multi-sport event after the Olympic Games. To be eligible to compete at the University Games, athletes must be between 17 and 28 years old, and have taken at least one 3-credit university course or received a diploma within the past year. Incoming students enrolled at universities...
Former world and Olympic gymnastics champion Andreea RADUCAN (33) was elected as President of the Romanian Gymnastics Federation by majority of votes of the affiliated members to the General Assembly, organised by the Romanian Ministry of Youth and Sports. 43 of the 51 members attended the General Assembly, as well as Minister of Youth and Sports Marius Dunca. Raducan has won the mandate for 2017-2021 by 42 ‘for’, one ballot was annulled. Raducan said after the election that the...
Over 2,500 athletes were in Győr, Hungary for the 2017 EYOF!
The thirteenth edition of the summer festival runs from July 23-30 and feature 10 Olympic sports. All 50 members of the EOC have sent athletes.
The European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) was started in Brussels in 1991 when Jacques Rogge was president of the EOC and is considered a forerunner of the Youth Olympic Games of the IOC. Since the first EYOF, 15 other editions have...
"Gymnastics Canada" is pleased to announce the athletes who have been named to the 2017 / 2018 women’s artistic gymnastics national team following a selection process that included results from the 2017 Elite Canada competition and the 2017 Canadian Championships:
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At 91, the German senior Johanna QUAAS is becoming an international star. As the world’s oldest gymnast, she pulls off moves like cartwheels and headstands, and even has the strength to balance herself on only her arms on the parallel bars. Now she appears on NBC’s “Little Big Shots:Forever Young” (July 5, 8 p.m. ET), where she performed on the parallel bars and also on floor exercise and be surprised by Olympic champion and five-time...