22. Dezember 2010
Doha, Qatar
Artistic Gymnastics
The Jordanian gymnast Ali Al Asi Best Arab Athlete 2010

The Jordanian gymnast Ali Al Asi has been just crowned Best Arab Athlete 2010 by HE Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Governor of Dubai and Deputy of the United Arab Emirates, at its recent meeting in Dubai.
With this award, Ali goes down as a legend in Arab sports.
He owes this honour to his outstanding Rings results for the 2010 season and, more particularly, to the title he claimed over Japan’s Kazuki Machida, China’s...

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21. Dezember 2010
Madrid, Spain
Artistic Gymnastics
Jesús Carballo Jr.: Spanish Federation s new president

The former two-times world champion on high bar Jesús Carballo (jr) Martínez (34) was elected as the new president of the Royal Spanish Federation of Gymnastics.
The former  world class gymnast won the election with 49 votes, in front of two rival applicants Angelo Madroñal (24 votes) and Cheo Llera (03 votes).
Llera is the former coach of Spanish National team member Laura Campos. So Jesus Carballo (jr) is the youngest president ever of the Spanish Federation. 

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20. Dezember 2010
Moscow, Russia
Artistic Gymnastics
17th Mikhail Voronin Cup 2010

The Russian all-around world champion Aliya MUSTAFINA (Russia)won the all-around and two events at the 17th Voronin Cup, wich held  in Moscow last week.
On second place came her teammate Tatiana Nabiyeva, followed by the Israelian Valeria Maksyuta. Russia's Dmitry BARKALOV won the elite's men's all-around title in front of teammate Andrei Likhovitsky and Japan's Shogo Nonomura.
The competition featured gymnasts from 23 nations from Europe, Asia, and North and South America.

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12. Dezember 2010
Aichi, Toyota City / Japan
Artistic Gymnastics
Toyota International at the end of the 2010 Season

The subsequent competition of the legendary Chunichi Cup with a history of more than three decades is the "TOYOTA International" now, which took place last weekend at the Toyota City, near Tokyo and which closed the 2010 international season of artistic gymnastic events.
Two-time world all-around champion Kohei Uchimura won the gold medal on floor and the silver on horizontal bar and his teammatem Kazuhito Tanaka was the best on parallel bar.
The other winners were:...

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2. Dezember 2010
Stuttgart, Tuebingen
Artistic Gymnastics
German Gymnast Kim Bui back in the game!

Finally, after a very long break due to an injury in February 2010, Kim Bui is back in the arena! She competed at the final of the German Bundesliga held in Berlin last weekend. Bui performed only on the uneven bars (13.35/5.3) for the Stuttgart team, which won the competition easily over the TuS Chemnitz-Altendorf’ team with Joeline Möbius, Susann Herbst, Ruby van Dijk among others. National team members Giulia Hindermann, Pia Tolle and Marie-Sophie Hindermann (beam...

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