Japanese Gymnastics Association (JGA) secretary general Morinari WATANABE has confirmed his intention to stand for the Presidency of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG), it has been announced this week. "Insidethegames" exclusively revealed last October that Watanabe, also a member of the F.I.G. Executive Committee, would enter the race to replace Italian Bruno GRANDI, who is due to step down after 19 years at the helm at the body’s Congress in Tokyo in October. The Japanese is only...
For the 21st edition of the prestigious "International Junior Team Cup 2016" from April 08 - 09 in the German capital Berlin, the name list of the 38 teams from 23 different countries have now been received. Due to the Junior European Championships just a few weeks later in the Swiss Bern, many nations will use this race as a test and further internal qualification for the highlight of the year, like Russia, Ukraine, France, Switzerland and...
European Team champion gymnast Nikolai Kuksenkov has become the latest Russian sportsman to test positive for the banned drug meldonium, local Ukrainian media reported Sunday, April 3. "The sample which Kuksenkov gave for testing on March 15 showed the presence of the traces of meldonium," the Allsport agency quoted Russia's national gymnastics team head coach Valentina Rodionenko as saying. Rodionenko added that the gymnast took meldonium last year, before the drug has been included into the World Anti-Doping Agency...
In fledgling international competition in 2016, the "40th Anniversary Tournament of Masters" in Cottbus from March 31 to April 03), which even before the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro (August) is another six Challenge Cups will follow. Before already three FIG-A-World Cup events (all-around) took place (Newark/USA; Glasgow/GBR; Stuttgart/GER) sbut also two B-World Challenge Cups ( AGF-Cups in Baku (Feb 2016) and up one week before the second in...
The international gymnastics world looks early April especially to Russia:
In the city of Pensa will held the 2016 Russian Championships in Men's Artistic Gymnastics (March 31 - April 03). In the Burtasy Sports Palace will follow one week after the Women's National championships. Overall, 340 active competitors are expected from all Russian districts, elite gymnasts, but also juniors. With tension you look at the comeback of two-time European champion Emin Garibov (2012-13), who had announced his comeback after...