26. August 2024  
Freyburg, GER  
Artistic Gymnastics

Meeting of Gymnastics Queens on historic ground

Maxi Gnauck, Johanna Quaas, Elisabeth Seitz

More symbolism is not possible!

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the JAHNTURNFEST in the Jahn City of Freyburg in Saxonia Anhalt (GER) - the City of the German Grandfather of Gymnastics, Friedrich Ludwig JAHN (1778 - 1852), two queens of modern artistic gymnastics met with the grand dame of senior gymnastics, the 98 years old Johanna QUAAS: 1980 Olympic uneven bars champion Maxi GNAUCK and Germany's former European champion (2022) and German record holder Elisabetz SEITZ took the ‘oldest competitive gymnast in the world’, who has remained unchallenged in the Guinness Book of World Records for over 12 years, into their midst - and their mutual admiration was almost boundless, The active gymnasts of the country gathered around her, who then took to the apparatus on the gymnastics field, which Friedrich Ludwig Jahn had been recommending for over 200 years for general exercise and the cultivation of physical well-being. ..!

 

The main event was the "Jahnturnfest", which has been organised since 1901 and was hugely popular on its 100th anniversary:
Over 2,000 exercise-hungry participants and festival guests from 14 German state associations, and even from Sweden, France, Austria and Switzerland were there! In the Jahn style of the former Hasenheide, gymnastics was and still is performed here on the meadow, but on the most modern gymnastics equipment of today and according to graded and age-appropriate programmes.
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♦ And a four-day programme of festivities offered much more:
GYMmedia INTERNATIONAL already reported in German language on the opening of a ‘GERMAN GYMNASTICS WALK OF FAME’,  - the first "Path of the Gymnasts" worldwide   probably the first of its kind in the world for artistic gymnastics, with the stepping stones of German Olympians such as Maxi Gnauck and Roland Brueckner, Birgit Radochla, Klaus Koeste and Holger Behrendt on the first day of the festival, which is now to be extended year after year and is intended to lead to the Jahn Museum as a ‘path of gymnasts’, a historical trail of the art of gymnastics and thus into the history of what is probably the most German of all sports.
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From now on, the Jahn-City of Freyburg / Unstrut  wants to continue this tradition year after year in order to honour its particularly successful active competitive gymnasts.
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