13. Januar 2008
Berlin / Germany
Artistic Gymnastics
Karl-Heinz ZSCHOCKE has passed away ...

The international gymnastics community has lost one of its most respected members and an exceptional person.

Karl-Heinz ZSCHOCKE, the former head coach of the GDR artitic gymnastics men's team and long-standing president of the Technical Committee for Men's Gymnastics of the International Gymnastics Federation (F.I.G.), who in the last few years was its honorary vice president, died after a short, serious illness in a Berlin hospital on Saturday evening....

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10. Januar 2008
Kuala Lumpur / Malaysia
Artistic Gymnastics
Zhang Zifeng takes over Malysian men s team

The National Malaysian Sports Council has hired Chinese coach Zhang Zifeng (pic) to add depth to the Malaysian men's artistic gymnastics team.

The 39-year old former Chinese gymnast (1984 - 1987) comes with the credentials of having coached the Chinese national team between 1998 to 2001and he will begins his work 2008 under a two-year contract ...

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9. Januar 2008
Moscow / Russia
Artistic Gymnastics
Khorkina and Kabaeva: Putin s Babes

.... the new faces of Russian politics
Vladimir Putin has succeeded in 'sexing-up' the image of his United Russia party as a result of last month's Russian parliamentary elections.
So the principal ballerina of the Bolshoi Theater Svetlana Zakharova and no fewer than four former athletes turned topless models to become deputies in the Duma, now:
Svetlana Khorkina, 28, Olympic champion  and numerous world champion of artistic gymnastics and also Alina Kabaeva, 24, Olympic...

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31. Dezember 2007
Damascus, Syria
Artistic Gymnastics
10th Juniors Asian Championships 2007

The 10th Juniors Artistic and rhythmic gymnastics Asian championships 2007  was successfully organized by the AGU and Syria Gymnastic Federation in Damascus from November 27 to December 1.
As many as 10 countries such as China, Hongkong, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Qatar and Sri Lanka and Kazakhastan bagged overall 11 gold medals.
In men's artistic championship, Iran bagged five gold medals, while Kazakhstan secured 6 gold medals in women's artistic while China got first...

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23. Dezember 2007
Baden-Baden/Germany
Artistic Gymnastics
Fabian HAMBUECHEN: German SPORTSMEN of THE YEAR 2007!

The German vice all-around and high bar world champion Fabian Hambüchen, - winning the bronze medal with his team at the 2007 World Championships in Stuttgart, was elected as the "German Sportsman of the Year 2007", and the German artistic Gymnastics men's team ranked on sixth place - even in front of the German soccer team (8th) - it's a little sensation in Germany of course, but it is also a proof of Germany's long gymnastics tradition in...

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