Birgit Michailoff-Radochla, Johanna Quaas, Anke Schoenfelder (from left) |
With a special press conference at the House of Sport in Berlin-Marzahn dopted the internationally most successful gymnastics city in the world, Berlin, which, according to "Guinness Book of World Records' (2013 ed.) the "oldest active gymnast of the world, Johanna QUAAS:
Thursday, May 14 the meantime famous Senior flights to Oklahoma City to be honored on Saturday by the "International Gymnastics Hall of Fame" with the "Nadia Comaneci Award" for outstanding achievements as an athlete.
"If there were world championships for seniors, the agile citizen of Halle in her 90th year of life - like the British Queen (!) would be very first title contender", so the the main argument of the US expert IGHOF panel. It is world's the first time that a general ore senior gymnast or athlete this honor is bestowed!
Press conferenz with Johanna Quaas' in Berlin on her way to Oklahoma City
Equipped with the best IWA sneakers: "... may be that I have to be active in USA...!? |
Johanna Quaas was flanked in the city with the most artistic gymnastics success of historical sizes of Berlin by:
- Birgit Michailoff-Radochla, the first German gymnast who won an Olympic individual medal (silver on vault, Tokyo 1964), and by Anke Schoenfelder, the first German all-around champion of the reunified Germany (Bergisch Gladbach 1991) who entered the gymnastics history, and let yourself be inspired by Johanna's philosophy of life as well as the other members of the press and guests of the media presentation, among those with Rosemarie Heritz, Margitta Griessig-Bauerschmidt and Magdalena Schmidt were also former German national team gymnasts.
Berlin's former Olympic and World championships participants in the adoption of Johanna Quaas: |
Radochla & Quaas: |
Both phantastic Ladies (>>)
with their carreer and their philosophy for an active life with an age priopriate gymnastics looks like a special new "Gymnastics Dream Team" for all seniors of the world, who desire to be healthy and fit into old age!
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