* ighof --: Six gymnastics legends will be honored at the 25th annual "International Gymnastics Hall of Fame" (IGHOF) ceremony on Saturday, June, 04, 2022, at the Petroleum Club in Oklahoma City.
“The 2022 IGHOF honorees include some of the most successful and inspiring gymnasts in the history of our sport, so this year’s ceremony promises to be especially exciting and uplifting,” said Bart Conner, Chairman of the IGHOF board.
As has just become known, 2022 on March 6th, a few months before her 90th birthday, Hungary's two-time Olympic champion and eight-time Olympic medalist, Margit KORONDI, passed away in her adopted home of Las Vegas (USA).
With a total of 8 Olympic medals and 2 Olympic games, Margit Korondi is one of the most successful Hungarian gymnasts of all time. Korondi was born on June 24, 1932,
* f i g --: The Olympic qualification systems for ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS, RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS and TRAMPOLINE GYMNASTICS for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games have now been published following approval by the Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) earlier this month:
A total of 318 athletes (192 in artistic gymnastics, 94 in gymnastics and 32 in trampoline) will compete for the medals in the French capital. With the qualification process set to begin in...
Six weeks after the Olympic Games in Tokyo, superstar Simone BILES had mused after she had stopped her Olympic competing: "I should have stopped before Tokyo!"
A good six weeks after her engagement to Jonathan Owens, she expressed herself in a USA Today interview again, but rather in the opposite way: "I want to see what I'm capable of, how talented I can be," said the now 25-year-old exceptional athlete, that she has come back...
According to statements by the Russian head gymnastics coach Valentina RODIONENKO to the Russian press, the World Gymnastics Federation (FIG) is considering a one-year disqualification of the gymnast Ivan KULIAKbecause of the incident of political provocation at the award ceremony at the Gymnastics World Cup in Doha as well as the responsible coaches Rodionenko and Igor Kabushkin. Instead of removing official Russian state symbols from his jersey for the award ceremony, gymnast Kuliak covered them with a "Z"...