13. January 2007  
Oklahoma City / USA  
Artistic Gymnastics

2007 HALL of FAME Inductees announced

11th IGHOF Celebration 2007

The Board of Directors of the "International Gymnastics Hall of Fame" announced the 2007 Induction Celebration on May 11 in Oklahoma City, USA.
Once more, some of the highest representatives of international artistic gymnastics have been chosen to be honoured at the 11th annual induction.
The IGHOF Board announced the names of those to be honoured in 2007:
Simona Amanar (ROM), Elena Davydova (RUS), Shigeru Kasamatsu (JPN) and Eberhard Gienger (GER) ...

Shigeru KASAMATSU (JPN), Elena DAVYDOVA (UKR), Simona AMANAR (ROM)

Eberhard GIENGER (FRG/GER) - first male German gymnast

After Maxi Gnauck (GDR/GER) in 2000, Karin BUETTNER-Janz (GDR/GER) in 2003 and, most recently, Erika Zuchold, (GDR/GER) the very first German male gymnast will now be made a member of the "Hall of Fame" in Oklahoma City upcoming May 11:  Eberhard Gienger.
He was the most successful gymnast of the former Western Germany (FRG), winning the world championship on the high bar (1974, Varna), three European titles and an Olympic bronze medal in 1976 in Montreal. Together with the Olympic vault Champion of Munich 1972, Klaus KOESTE (former GDR), he is the national record holder with a total of 34 German titles.
In 2006 Gienger was elected as the Vice-President of the "National Olympic Sports Federation" (DOSB), responsible for top-sports of all disciplines in Germany.

>> Also check out the "most successful German Gymnasts" of the last century, elected in 1999 by the biggest German soccer magazine, "kicker".)

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2007 International Order of Merit Award
The "Hall of Fame" has also selected the recipient of the prestigious "International Order of Merit Award" (IOM): Vicelia Florenzano (BRA), the President of the Pan American Union & Brazilian Gymnastics Federation, member of the Executive Committee of the F.I.G.