29. November 2024
Las Palmas, ESP
Artistic Gymnastics

 At the opening press conference of this year's BLUME Festival Gran Canaria 2024 in the Canary Island capital of Las Palmas, the organising committee announced the death of one of the long-time co-founders of this world-renowned gymnastics festival: Shortly before the 62nd edition of the festival, the president of the sports association GIMNASIO LAS PALMAS, Cornelio Ortega MARTINEZ had passed away at the age of 76. In his 57...

23. November 2024
Chemnitz, GER
Artistic Gymnastics

On Saturday (23 November), the Richard Hartmann Venue in Chemnitz will host a highly interesting U16 youth tournament for young European gymnasts from five of the continent's leading nations: The protégés of ‘still’ German national youth coach Jens MILBRADT, who will take over as national coach of German Men's Top Team in from January 2025 on, will meet the best gymnastics talents from Great Britain, France, Italy and Switzerland....

 

20. November 2024
Halle/Sa., GER
Artistic Gymnastics

In the summer, she presented the 100th Jahnturnfest as patron. Now, a quarter of a year later, she herself is celebrating her 99th birthday on 20 November! The whole world knows Johanna QUAAS as one of the most agile senior gymnasts in the world, who has demonstrated incredible performance in her tenth decade as a gymnastics competitor and has been documented in world sports...

17. November 2024
Indianapolis, USA
Artistic Gymnastics

USA Gymnastics announced the death on Friday 15 November of Hungarian-born, later Romanian and gymnastics coaching legend Béla KÀROLYI at the age of 82, who made world sporting history with his former protégé, the then 14-year-old Nadia Comaneci and her 1976 Olympic victory in Montreal. Under Károlyi and his wife Martha, who moved to the USA in 1981 and worked there for more than 30 years, the US gymnasts...

15. November 2024
Frankfurt/M., GER
Artistic Gymnastics

At the start of the new calendar year 2025, Jens MILBRADT, who has been the national coach for junior gymnastics for many years, will take over as the men's national coach for artistic gymnastics. The 55-year-old Berliner with roots in Halle, former national gymnast of the GDR and also of reunified Germany, who already did valuable work as national coach for junior gymnasts from 2002 to 2007 and again in this position since 2013, already celebrated a...

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