19. August 2018
Boston, USA
Artistic Gymnastics
Simone Biles won all the five national Titles!
Olympic champion Simone Biles (USA) compiled the highest score in the world this year when she piled up 60.100 points (!) on the first night of the U.S. women's gymnastics championship in Boston on Friday. She recorded the highest score in all four disciplines - the floor routine, balance beam, uneven bars and vault - to head defending champion Morgan Hurd on 57.000 points. The 21-year-old Biles has her sights set on more Olympic glory in Tokyo in...
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17. August 2018
St. Petersburg, RUS
Artistic Gymnastics
Olympic Champion Elena Shushunova Passed Away

Elena SHUSHUNOVA, a Soviet gymnast who won the women's all-around gold medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, has died. She was 49. The Russian Gymnastics Federation said Shushunova "died suddenly" on Thursday, August 16. Russian media reported she had complications from pneumonia. Shushunova scored perfect 10.00 points in the vault and the floor exercise to beat Romanian rival Daniela Silivas by only 0.025 points to win the all-around gold.Shushunova also won gold...

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12. August 2018
Glasgow, GBR
Artistic Gymnastics
40th MEN's EUROPEANS of Artistic Gymnastics

Russian gymnast with sovereign hat-trick

For the 40th time since its premiere in Frankfurt / Main in 1955, Europe's gymnasts meet for their European Championships in the Hydro-Arena in Glasgow - for the 12th time (since 1996) it's been about team medals.151 gymnasts from 36 countries compete in the elite competition while 158 junior gymnasts representing 37 Federations competing for continental glory.
One week after the 39th Women's European Championship 2018, the men determined their...

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5. August 2018
Glasgow, GBR
Artistic Gymnastics
39th EUROPEANS of WOMEN's Artistic Gymnastics 2018

At the 1st European Championships as a multisport event - the 39th Women's continental championships of artistic gymnastics - RUSSIA succeeded in defending the title in the team final in the Glasgow’s iconic SSE Hydro Arena.
For the fifth time the Russians won the team gold medal with 165,195 points in front of a young team from FRANCE (161,137), who had already made first place in the preliminaries. After the bad luck on the balance beam...

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2. August 2018
Ottawa, CAN
Artistic Gymnastics
Personnel: Eddie van Hoof changes from Great Britain to Canada

"Gymnastics Canada" announce that Eddie VAN HOOF, the Technical Director and Head Coach behind the success of the British men’s artistic gymnastics team since 2006, will be joining the Canadian team immediately as the new Head National Team Coach for Men’s Artistic Gymnastics.
Van Hoof, head coach of the British team from 2006 - 2018, was named United Kingdom coach of the year in 2016 after guiding the British team to a record seven-medal, but he...

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