With a lead of more than three points, the young gymnasts of the German TZ Bochum secured the team victory at the IX International ZAG Junior Cup 2023 in Vinnhorst, near Hanover / Germany. Second place went to the Dutch KNGU selection I, followed by the boys of the German SC Berlin, together on third place with the representation of "RLZ Ostschweiz" (Switzerland).
The team ranking was composed of the young gymnasts of the three...
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...
`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.
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 -...
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...