10. Januar 2012
London, Great Britain
Artistic Gymnastics
Olympic Games Test Event started on Tuesday

The Olympic Gymnastics Test Event will take place from the 10th-18th January 2012 and is the second and final chance for gymnasts across all three disciplines (artistic, trampoline and rhythmic) to qualify for the London 2012 Olympic Games. The test event will take place in the North Greenwich Arena.
Part of the London Prepares series, this event enables the London 2012 Organising Committee to test crucial aspects of its operations ahead of next year’s Games.
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6. Januar 2012
Brussels, Belgium
Artistic Gymnastics
PREVIEW: 33rd WOMEN s EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS 2012

From 9 till 13 May Europe’s best gymnasts gather in Brussels for the 33rd European Championships Women’s Artistic Gymnastics.
There are about 250 gymnasts from 40 countries expected.

These competitions run during one week in the halls of Brussels Expo, at the Atomium.
The program includes the qualifiers and finals, both individually and in team as juniors and seniors. The European Championships is the last big competition before the 2012 Olympics and is therefore...

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4. Dezember 2011
Ostrava / Czech Republic
Artistic Gymnastics
Sixth and last 2011 Artistic Gymnastic Challenge in Ostrava

The completion of the new "Challenge Series 2011" of World Gymnastics Federation FIG  in continuation of the earlier World Cup circuit of single apparatus  took place in Ostrava, Czech.
At the local "Grand Prix 2011" primarily athletes of the second international row started there. So Andrei Likhovitsky (on floor) and Ivan Tsarevich (horizontal bar)  won for the most successful country Belarus.
 In the women's competition was Valeria Maksiyuta from Israel devices with victories on vault and balance beam at...

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30. November 2011
Magglingen / Switzerland
Artistic Gymnastics
Swiss Niki Boeschenstein and Roman Gisi retiered ...

The Swiss Gymnastics Federation (STV) informed, that the Swiss gymnasts Niki BOESCHENSTEIN and Roman GISI declared their retirements from active professional sport, their current contracts are from the gymnastics federation by mutual agreement not be renewed.

* Niki Böschenstein was a five time World Championship and seven-times European Champion participant. His greatest success was in 2005 in Debrecen rank 13 in all-around of this WCh and as finalsist of Europeans 2009 in Milan (8th on parallel bars) and...

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27. November 2011
Tokyo, Japan
Artistic Gymnastics
Kohei UCHIMURA won his only one World Cup this year in front of Philipp BOY

2011 TOKYO CUP Men's All-around
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Supported by applause from his home country's crowd, Kohei Uchimura won the Tokyo Cup 2011, his first World Cup Series.
He had a few big steps on his landings on every event and some small mistakes, but stayed stable as usual.

Germany's Philip Boy placed second with a great routine on horizontal bar, scoring 16.000, the highest score of the day.

Daniel Purvis of Great...

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