26. November 2021
Schoenebeck, GER
Artistic Gymnastics
Olympic Champion Holger Behrendt: ... back to the Roots!

It is called the "Salt City" Schoenebeck" at the Elbe, near the state capital Magdeburg in Saxony-Anhalt, with nearly 32,000 rsidents, is the hometown of the last Olympic artistic gymnastics champion in the GDR, Holger BEHRENDT. Together with the former Soviet superstar Dmitri Biloserchev, 1988 he won Olympic gold on the still rings, silver with the team and bronze on the horizontal bar in Seoul. His bold maneuver on the iron bar is still fondly remembered: On...

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15. November 2021
Keebergen, BEL
Artistic Gymnastics
Gymnova Cup 2021

At the "International Gymnova Cup 2021" in Keerbergen, Belgium, the Swiss team secured victory among the youngsters. The victorious Swiss team with Kiara Raffin, Kim Bernhardsgrütter, Lou-Anne Citherlet and Samira Raffin earned 90.567 points in Belgium and referred the team of the Finnish Gymnastics Federation and HIFK Gymnastics Helsinki to the other podium places.

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7. November 2021
Zurich, SUI
Artistic Gymnastics
Melnikova and Nagornyy win 2021 SWISS CUP

As expected, the current all-around world champion Angelina MELNIKOVA and Russia's Olympic bronze medallist Nikita NAGORNYI ​​prevailed as the winning pair in the Zurich Hallenstadion at the 38th INTERNATIONAL SWISS CUP 2021, and beat the Ukrainian duo Yelisaveta HUBAREVA with the young Worlds bronze medallist in the final of this international pair competition Illia KOVTUN took over. After Elena Zamolodschikova / Alexey Bondarenko's Swiss Cup success in 2000, this was the first Russian success again after 21...

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6. November 2021
Antalya, TUR
Artistic Gymnastics
FIG Congress confirms Watanabe as President

At the 83rd Congress of the World Gymnastics Federation (FIG) in Antalya, Turkey, the Japanese incumbent Morinari WATANABE (JPN) prevailed against the challenger and EC President Farid Garibov (AZE) with a clear majority of 81:47. Ali AL-HITMI (QAT) was elected as 1st Vice President, Nelli KIM (BLR) as 2nd Vice President and the Turk Suat CELEN (TUR) as Vice No. 3, all for a corona-related shortened term of three years (2022-2024). The German-speaking European area...

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6. November 2021
Zurich, SUI
Artistic Gymnastics
German Talents win SWISS CUP JUNIORS 2021

GERMANY'S Junior team of girls (under 13 years) won this year's "SWISS CUP JUNIORS 2021" in a four-country match in the Zurich Hallenstadion. With 144,250 points, they relegated the BELGIUM youth team (141,600) to second place, followed by the girls from FRANCE (140,150) and the host team from Switzerland (134,700).
The German talents competed with the best five all-around fighters of the current German Youth Championships (Age group >13), with the newly crowned Stuttgart all-around winner of...

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