17. November 2012
Barcelona, Spain
Artistic Gymnastics
36. BLUME-Memorial 2012: Chusovitina with an amazing fourth Place!

The invitation competition for the 36th BLUME Memorial 2012 inmemory of the 1959 fatalities 4-times Spanish European Gymnastics champions Joaquin Blume - after whom also the BLUME Gran Canaria-Fesival is named, which begins next week - won on Saturday the Ukrainian Oleg VERNIAEV with 90.000 points. Second was the ECh bronze medallist of Berlin (2011), Britain's Daniel PURVIS (85.299) before the current best Spaniard and Olympic Ninth, Fabian GONZALEZ (85.299).
<< The women's competition of  this...

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15. November 2012
Putian, China
Artistic Gymnastics
5th ASIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS of ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS: China on Top!!

The 5th Asian Championships in Artistic Gymnastics 2012 took place from Nov 7 to 15 at the sports center in Putian, a prefecture-level city in East China's Fujian province. The event, organized by Asian Gymnastics Union (AGU), the Gymnastics Management Center of China General Administration of Sport and the Putian government, was expected to attract about 140 athletes from 15 to 20 countries and regions across Asia. 

At the end Chinese gymnasts claimed ten Gold, six Silver and four Bronze medals...

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7. November 2012
Lausanne, Switzerland
Artistic Gymnastics
* PersonalitiesHardy Fink receives Nik Stuart Foundation award

* fig - news ---:  Hardy FINK from Canada, Director of FIG Education and Academy Programmes, was awarded the Nik Stuart Foundation International Diploma of Honour this year.
Absent from the annual dinner and presentation night in Meriden (GBR) this September due to family engagements, Fink received the award at the recent 79th FIG Congress in Cancun (MEX).
Prominent awardees of the NSF International Diploma of Honour include former FIG President Yuri...

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6. November 2012
Tokyo, Japan
Artistic Gymnastics
66th All JAPAN COMPETITION 2012

From November 3 to 5 the 66th AG All Japan Competition 2012 was held in Tokyo. The Gold medal for team competition were won by the Juntendo University. with a team score of 271,950. A member of this team was Ryohei Kato.
Team KONAMI got the silver medals, scoring 270,800 points. It was the team of the Olympic gold medallist and three-times world all-around champion, Kohei Uchimura.
Kohei Uchimura (KONAMI) said: "That was the first...

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4. November 2012
Zurich, Switzerland
Artistic Gymnastics
German victory at the Swiss Cup

In the 30th year of the Swiss Cup in Zurich the Swiss organisers presented like already during the last years a team even with a preliminary round, a semi-final and a final. In the end the victory went to the team Germany 1 with Elisabeth Seitz and Fabian Hambüchen.
For the title holders from 2011, the team of the hosts Switzerland 1, consisting of the two participants of the 2012 Olympic Games Giulia Steingruber and Claudio Capelli, it...

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