17. Juni 2023
Halle, Sa./GER
Artistic Gymnastics
German victory at the four-country tournament of gymnastics talents

After the junior tournament at the end of May 2023  in Avignon / FRA, another U18 international gymnastics competition took place today in the German city of Halle / Saxonia-Anhalt: A traditional, friendly "Four-Country Tournament" between host Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria and Poland.
In a very exciting competition, last year's winner Austria was in the lead before the last round. But in the end, however, the German juniors won the host competition with...

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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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