As with women, Russia's men also seem to cope with the corona conditions best: All-around double victory by Nikita NAGORNIY (88.032) with a respectable advantage of 2.168 points over compatriot David BELJAVSKI (85.864), and in the absence of the still banned Oleg Verniaiev, only a 17- year old Ukrainian, Illia KOVTUN the European all-around podium on the bronze rank (64,864). Despite an involuntary relegation on the pommel horse, Swiss local hero Pablo Brägger was satisfied with his 5th place,...
Russian double victory in women's all-around final
In theall-around final of the 42nd European Women's Gymnastics Championships in Basel (SUI) there was a Russian double success for the third time in this millennium - after Swetlana Chorkina & Jelena Samolodschikowa (2000) and Ksenia Semenova & Ksenia Afanasjewa (2009) this time the junior world champion won from 2019 and current Russian national champion Viktoria LISTUNOWA with 56.731 points from the best in the preliminaries,...
Es war zwar eine Überraschung, damals, aber sie kam nicht von Ungefähr: Als die Dresdnerin Marlene BINDIG 2015 in Gießen - gemeinsam mit Leah Grießer (TG Neureuth) - Deutsche Meisterin am Boden wurde, holte die damals 18-Jährige nach 28 Jahren (nach Martina Jentsch's Erfolg) wieder einen Landesmeistertitel in die Elbmetropole. Im Vorkampf war die Mehrkampfneunte als Boden-Achte eigentlich nicht fürs Finale qualifiziert, doch nach verletzungsbedingtem Ausscheiden zweier Turnerinnen - unter ihnen Sophie Scheder, teilte ihr deren Trainerin Gabriele Frehse...
Under this lurid title of a 4-part TV serie, the German private broadcaster KABEL1 is devoting itself to the "13 most incredible secrets of Germany". The 95-year-old Johanna QUAAS from Halle / Sa. Is also there, but she has long been, for at least a decade, no longer unknown anywhere in the world. Since 2013 she has been listed as the "oldest female competitive gymnast in the world" in the GUINNESS Book of World Records, her 'tens of...
At the latest after the organization of the last European Gymnastics Championships 2020 in Mersin, the Turkish Gymnastics Association drew attention to its impressive latest development with its honorable results. On the weekend, the national Turkish championships took place in Bolu, a city in the north of the country, between Ankara and Istanbul: the Turkish all-around champion surprisingly became an internationally unknown gymnast, Adem ASIL, with a remarkable score of 86,600, ahead of Ahmet ÖNDER (84,450) and...