13. September 2021
Neuoetting, GER
Artistic Gymnastics
Hans Pfann, the oldest Olympian of Gymnastics died

As we only found out today, Hans PFANN - Germany's oldest Olympian - died on September 9th, just 5 days before his 101st birthday, in his home town of Neuoetting (Germany; Bavaria).
Born in Nuremberg, he was a member of two German Olympic teams (FRG; 1952 and 1956) and was married for over 65 years to Olympic participant Lydia Zeitlhofer, who died 2019 on September 10, one year after her "Iron Wedding". Hans Pfann was the oldest Olympic athlete...

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12. September 2021
Mersin, TUR
Artistic Gymnastics
Final FIG World Challenge Cup Circuit 2020/21

In Mersin / TUR, the European Gymnastics City of 2020, the last FIG World Challenge Cup of the 2020/21 season took place. For Corona reasons, the competition was postponed from mid-June to autumn and ended the World Challenge Cup series 2020/21 after Szombathely / HUN (2020), Warna / BUL, Cairo / EGY, Osijek / CRO and last week in Koper, Slovenia.
→ Among the men in Mersin, the leader in the Challenge Cup classification on three machines, the Ukrainian...

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11. September 2021
Berlin, GER
Artistic Gymnastics
VORSCHAU: 29. Berliner Bärchenpokal 2021!

Nach der letzten coronabedingten Absage hat die Kunstturnregion Berlin/Brandenburg nun doch noch den traditionellen deutschen BERLINER BÄRCHENPOKAL für den Turn-Nachwuchs in diesem Jahr vorbereitet. Ereigniswochenende ist nun der 18./19. September 2021.
Nach Klärung letzter organisatorischer Fragen sind den Vereinen und Turntalentschulen noch rechtzeitig detaillierte Informationen der Veranstalter zugegangen.
Nach dem Ausfall 2020 wird nun die 29. Auflage einer der bemerkenswertesten Wettkampftraditionen des jüngsten weiblichen Turnnachwuchses in Deutschland unter Einhaltung der aktuellen Coronabedingungen durchgeführt, die...

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5. September 2021
Koper, SLO
Artistic Gymnastics
FIG 2021 Koper World Challenge Cup

After the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, the Slovenian Gymnastics Federation is organizing its traditional Challenge Cup in Koper on behalf of the World Gymnastics Federation FIG:
* First edition of this traditional World Challenge Cup in Slovenia was organized in 2005 in Maribor. Since then World Challenge Cup was held for 8 years in Maribor, from 2013 until 2016 in Ljubljana and from 2017 in Koper. Now this year the 16th edition of World Challenge Cup will be...

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3. August 2021
Tokyo, JPN
Artistic Gymnastics
TOKYO 2020 - MEN's ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS

The 19-year-old Japanese Daiki HASHIMOTO took over the throne of the Olympic gymnastics "King Kohei" in the all-around competition from Kohei UCHIMURA. With a score of  88.531 points he won gold ahead of the Chinese former world champion from 2017, XIAO, Ruteng (88.065) and ahead of the current world champion Nikita NAGORNYY (ROC; 88.031)!
* The gold medals at the apparatus finals went to athletes from four different ccountries ...! DOLGOPYAT (ISR), WHITLOCK (GBR),...

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