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.
This will be the second time that China, a country with a rich Gymnastics tradition, will stage such a prestigious event after Tianjin in 1999.
During the28th Trampoline Gymnastics World Championships 2011, currently underway in Birmingham (GBR), Dr. Luo Chaoyi, President of the Chinese Gymnastics Association and FIG Secretary General André Gueisbuhler signed the contract that assigns the championships to the city of Nanning, China.
China has, in fact, produced numerous Champions, with Yang Wei holding the current men's Olympic All-around title and the Chinese Men's Team having prevailed at the 2011 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Tokyo last month.
The championships are scheduled to take place on October 3 - 12, 2014, at the Guangxi Sports Center Gymnasium in the capital of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southern China.
* source: fig press release