26. November 2011
Tokyo, Japan
Artistic Gymnastics
Huang, Qiushuang won the last World Cup and also the Ranking

Huang Qiushuang of China won the women's all-around competition of the fourth and last World Cup event of this circuit.
In Tokyo she upgraded her vault from that at the last world championships; nowshe does a double twisiting Yurchenko. She missed uneven bars (after her Jaeger sault; she stopped at her kip cast to handstand ) but she excelled on all the other events, and scored higher than 14 on each event. Winning two consecutive World Cup titles,...

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24. November 2011
Tokyo, Japan
Artistic Gymnastics
Tokyo Cup 2011: Fourth and last A-World Cup 2011

The ultimate event of the 2011 FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup series will take place in Tokyo (JPN) on November 26 – 27, with women competing on Saturday and men on Sunday- the 2011 TOKYO CUP. Hosted in the Ryogoku Kokugikan Arena the competition will not only crown the winners of the event, it will determine the All-around winners of this year’s World Cup series.
* On men's side a top roster of athletes will fight for...

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19. November 2011
Birmingham, Nanning
Artistic Gymnastics
2014 Artistic Worlds to the second time in China

*fig-news--: The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) and the Chinese Gymnastics Association (CGA) have signed an agreement that will see China play host to the 45th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in 2014.

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18. November 2011
Rinteln, Stadtroda, Potsdam
Artistic Gymnastics
Bernd Jäger: A gymnastics innovator turns 60!

" ... Flying was developed ...!"
A man turns 60 today, whose name is very important for the development of modern gymnastics:
Bernd JÄGER showed at the 18th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships 1974 in Varna a straddled somersault fwd. on high bar. This element was named "Jaeger"- somersault. It was the first flight element in history and after it followed a development of many others on high bar.

At the European Championships 1977 in Vilnius followed...

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13. November 2011
Stuttgart/ Germany
Artistic Gymnastics
29th DTB-CUP 2011: Nogomura (JPN) wins men s World Cup / Russia with a victory in the women s team final

The 29th DTB-Pokal 2011 today presented its' highlight: In the World Cup tournament of the men the title suprisingly went to the Japanese "newcomer" Shogo Nogomura. With the score of 88.431 he narrowly remained in front of Germany's Marcel Nguyen (88.332) and Daniel Purvis (GBR / 87.931).
On the remaining ranks 4 - 8 followed Mykola Kuksenkov (UKR), Emin Garibov (RUS), Rafael Martinez (ESP), Samuel Hunter (GBR) and Germany's Philipp Boy.

Philipp Boy, the...

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