28. Oktober 2024
Ljubljana, SLO
Artistic Gymnastics
Miroslav Cerar - the 'King of Pommel horse' celebrates 85th Birthday

MIROSLAV CERAR was recognized the world over for his mastery of the pommel horse.
Born in 1939, October 28 in Ljubljana, the capital of present-day Slovenia, Miroslav Cerar was destined to discover gymnastics and dominate Yugoslavian men's gymnastics for an astonishing 14 years. Miroslav Cerar competed in three Olympiads - in 1960, 1964 and 1968. Known as the king of the pommel horse event for more than a decade, four of his six world championship medals, and both...

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25. Oktober 2024
Doha, QAT
Artistic Gymnastics
Morinari Watanabe re-elected as FIG President

* F I G --: Morinari Watanabe (JPN) has been re-elected FIG President for a four-year term (2025-2028) at the 85th FIG Congress in Doha today. Watanabe received 102 votes (65.38% of the vote), while his challenger, the EG-President  Farid Gayibov (AZE) received 54 votes (34.62%). The election of the President was followed by elections for the other FIG governing bodies ...:

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23. Oktober 2024
Doha, QAT
Artistic Gymnastics
85th FIG Congress 2024

A record number of national governing bodies and a record number of delegates are registered to attend the 85th FIG Congress from October 24-26 in Doha / Qatar. Over 500 attendees including delegates from over 150 out of a total of 159 affiliated member federations will be present ...:

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12. Oktober 2024
Leverkusen, GER
Artistic Gymnastics
English cup victory at the 47th International Leverkusen Cup 2024

In the 58-year history of the oldest European artistic gymnastics tournament of its kind, the 47th International Leverkusen Cup 2024, an English team won the trophy for the third time after 2012 and 2022:
Team England I won in front of 1,300 spectators in the Ostermann Arena in Leverkusen / GER with 96.750 points and a clear lead over the young German selection (91.650) and Team England II (90.900). The best individual gymnast was ...

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10. Oktober 2024
Selzach, SUI
Artistic Gymnastics
Maxi Gnauck, the former uneven bars queen turned 60

Maxi GNAUCK (GER)- who was the first German Olympic gymnastics champion to open the “Walk of Fame” of German artistic gymnastics in Freyburg (GER) with a stepping stone at the 100th Jahnturnfest in August - is celebrating her 60th birthday today in her adopted home of Switzerland.
Forty-five years ago in Fort Worth, Texas (1979) she became the last German all-around vice world champion and one year later in Moscow, the last German gymnastics Olympic champion...

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