1. Juni 2023
Lausanne, SUI
Artistic Gymnastics
FIG President Morinari Watanabe re-elected member of ASOIF Council

`f i g --: FIG President Morinari Watanabe has been re-elected as a member of the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations’ (ASOIF) Council.
He was re-elected in the first round with an absolute majority for a second four-year term from 2023 to 2027 by the ASOIF General Assembly held in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Wednesday 31 May 2023. His first term began in May 2019.

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28. Mai 2023
Avignon, FRA
Artistic Gymnastics
French Host Victory in Avignon

The gymnastics juniors of the Equipe Tricolor landed a French host victory in Avignon and defeated the co-favored U18 representation from Great Britain (305.259) with 309.350 points. Team Switzerland was already clearly behind with 297.750 points, but with a narrow margin of one point they were able to relegate the German junior selection to 4th place. Fifth place went to the young gymnasts from Italy (294.900), who - in a different line-up for the JWCh in Antalya -...

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17. Mai 2023
Lawrence, USA
Artistic Gymnastics
Youngest Jahn Scion on the way to becoming a sports manager in the USA

In these days the great, great, great, great, great grandson of the German gymnastics father Friedrich Ludwig JAHN, Ernest John ROHR jr. graduates from the "Kansas University" in Lawrence / USA and starts a two-year master study for Sportsmanagment & Business.
< At 22 years, the youngest scion of the American line of his famous German ancestor already visited the International German Gymnastics Festival in Leipzig with his family in 2002 as a two-year-old, later he...

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3. Mai 2023
Wladimir, RUS
Artistic Gymnastics
Former gymnastics world champion Yuri Korolev died at only 60 years old

One of the dominant gymnasts of world gymnastics in the 1980's, Yuri Nikolayevich KOROLEV, passed away on 29 April 2023 at the age of only 60. This was announced by the press service of the Russian Gymnastics Federation.
The two-time all-around world champion (1981, Moscow; 1985, Montreal), who was runner-up again in 1987 in Rotterdam and won the all-around World Cup the year before with China's LI Ning and won a total of 9 World Championship gold...

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28. April 2023
Hiroshima, JPN
Artistic Gymnastics
"G7 Gymnastics Hiroshima"

* HIROSHIMA (Kyodo) --: Two-time Olympic men's gymnastics all-around champion Kohei UCHIMURA and Japanese World Champion Mai MURAKAMI and other current and former gymnasts from the Group of Seven nations visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum on Friday to lay flowers at the cenotaph for atomic-bomb victims ahead of the G-7 summit in the city.
The "G-7 Gymnastics Hiroshima" participants hope to encourage dialogue for peace among leaders at the May 19-21 summit, which is likely...

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