At the beginning of the new Olympic cycle the 30th European Championships for Women and the 31st Men's Europeans for the third time listed as "Individual Championships" by the European Gymnastics Union (UEG).
The Russian Ksenia SEMENOVA won the fourth all-around title for Russia, but on men's side Fabian HAMBUECHEN won the very first for Germany, and after winning the title on floor the Germans finished their most successful chanpionships. On women's side Beth TWEDDLE was...
Wednesday, March 25 the first Japanese winner of an all-around Olympic gold medal at the 1994 Tokyo Olympic Games, the artistic gymnastics legend Yukio ENDO, died at the age of 72 years after a long fight with esophageal cancer.
Altogether Endo won 17 world and Olympic medals in his career, and took part of five gold-medal Japanese teams that dominated the 1960s, winning Olympic team titles in 1960, '64 and '68, and also the world team titles in 1962...
The second artistic gymnastics World Cup ofthe post-Olympic season - was the "33rd TOURNAMENT of MASTERS" in Cottbus, Germany.
The world cup winners came on men's side from five different nations, and for the women from four.
<< Most successful gymnast was the French Yann Cucherat, second on parallel bars and beating the world champion Fabian Hambuechen on horizontal bar, who crashed there at his special apparatus...
Ariella Kaeslin (SUI) on vault, Marta...
* fig-press: -- Dr. Keith Russell (CAN) has been named President of the FIG Scientific Commission by the FIG Executive Committee.
Dr. Keith Russell is an Associate Professor in the College of Kinesiology, University of Saskatchewan (CAN).
He is a well respected coach, educator and author, and is in great demand both in Canada and internationally.
Keith is a former Canadian Men’s Artistic Gymnastics National Coach, and was the personal coach of...
The 21. DEAFLYMPICS 2009 will take place in Taipeh
From the 5th until the 15th of September 2009 the world elite of deaf athletes will determine the best among themselves in 19 different sports. 3.706 deaf participants from 74 nations signed on for the 21st summer games in Taiwan. Due to that, the „Deaflympics“ count next to the Olympic Games, the Universiades, the Paralympics,
Special Olympics and the World Games as one of the...