23. February 2025
Cottbus, GER
Artistic Gymnastics
1st FIG World Cup 2025: 48th Cottbus Tournament

With the 48th International Tournament of Masters 2025 from February 20 - 23 in the Lausitz Arena in Cottbus / Germany, the F.I.G. is opening its international World Cup series in the post-Olympic year. Instead of the previous four, this year's series includes a total of six tournaments in Baku (AZE; 6-9 May), in Cairo (EGY) and Doha (QAT) as well as in Antalya (TUR) and Osijek (CRO). After the two qualification days in Cottbus, the World...

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28. January 2025
Frankfurt/M., GER
Artistic Gymnastics
Varfolomeev & Dauser at the top of the German gymnastics election 2024

Germany's ‘Sportswoman of the Year’ and Olympic gymnastics champion Darja VARFOLOMEEV (18) and gymnast Lukas DAUSER (31), who was Germany's ‘Sportsman of the Year’ last year, have now also been voted Gymnast of the Year 2024 in Germany.
For the first time, the Olympic gymnastics disciplines of rhythmic gymnastics, artistic gymnastics and trampolining were combined in this election. The sponsor URSAPHARM also supported this honour for the first time, providing the athletes with recognition in the...

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23. January 2025
Jakarta, INA
Artistic Gymnastics
FIG to launch measures for an ageing society in Indonesia

Many countries and regions are facing the problem of rapidly increasing social security costs due to an ageing society. The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) set up the "Ageing Society Working Team" in 2022 with the aim of proving that social security costs can be reduced if older people practice gymnastics.
The 53rd FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships will be held in Jakarta in October this year. On this occasion, the FIG, in collaboration with the Indonesian Government,...

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9. January 2025
Budapest, HUN
Artistic Gymnastics
Agnes KELETI - her last public interview

On what would have been her 104th birthday today, the oldest living Olympic champion until her death a week ago, Àgnes KELETI, will be buried in the Hungarian capital Budapest.
Born as Àgnes Klein in Budapest on 9 January 1921, she changed her surname in 1940 for fear of persecution because of her Jewish origins. She began doing gymnastics at the age of four. With...

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2. January 2025
Bend, Oregon
Artistic Gymnastics
Olympic Champion Andreas Wecker celebrates his 55th Birthday!

Nearly two decades, the first German Olympic gymnastics champion in reunited Germany, Andreas WECKER - who is celebrating his 55th birthday today - has been in a completely different life. At his third Olympic Games in 1996, he won Olympic gold in Atlanta after he had caused a sensation at the top of the world for almost a decade: At the age of 18, he won Olympic team silver with the...

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