
* According to reports by the international news agency AP, the host of the upcoming 53rd Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Indonesia (Jakarta) does not want to allow Israeli athletes to participate. The decision to deny visas to the Israeli athletes comes after their planned participation had sparked intense opposition in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation, which has long been a staunch supporter of Palestinians. Israel is among 86 countries registered to compete at the worlds that start in Jakarta on October 19,...

The GYMmedia JOB EXCHANGE (Job Boerse) - is also the most efficient way to search for jobs in the European gymnastics disciplines with these current offers in the still young and current Olympic cycle 2025-'28:
* CURRENT: 07-October-2025 -: Turnsport Oberösterreich (Upper Austria) is looking for a (male) coach for women's artistic gymnastics for its training centre in Linz.

* I G F -: Indonesian male gymnast Naufal Takdir Al Bari passed away on Thursday, September 25, 2025, in Russia at the age of 19. Naufal had previously suffered an accident during training in Penza, Russia. (Indonesian Gymnastics Federation).
President of the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), Morinari Watanabe, has expressed his condolences following the passing of Indonesian artistic gymnast Naufal Takdir Al Bari on Thursday (September 25). The 19-year-old athlete passed away after undergoing 12 days of...

Even in the post-Olympic year of 2025, the four FIG World Challenge Cups in the second half of the year will hardly differ in content from the WORLD CUP series in the spring. As was the case in the last Olympic year, there will now be five Challenge Cups in this order in this World Championship year, all before the World Championships in Jakarta/INA: (1) WCha Varna (BUL; 8-11 May 2025); (2) WCha Koper (15-18 May 2025);...

For half a decade, German TV media have been implementing a brilliant idea, which last week found a fantastic backdrop for the fifth time, now in the City of Dresden / Saxonia: Under the label "THE FINALS" there were hours of live broadcasts and programmes on numerous online channels covering 20 different sports and disciplines with their national championships.
This meant that artistic gymnastics, rhythmic, trampoline gymnastics and even acrobatic gymnastics were also the focus of TV broadcasts.
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