Tag: Gymnastics
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FIG Artistic Gymnastics Individual Apparatus World Cup Zibo City
LAUSANNE (SUI), April 10, 2012: Gymnasts from China celebrated victory with six out of ten Gold medals at the only FIG Artistic Gymnastics Individual Apparatus World Cup in 2012. The event concluded on Sunday in Zibo City (CHN). In Men’s, reigning World and Olympic Champion Chen Yibing prevailed on Rings, outscoring top-qualifier Eleftherios Petrounias of…
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FIG Foundation Financial aid response
LAUSANNE (SUI), April 5, 2012: The FIG Foundation invited its 130 affiliated federations to apply for gymnast grants on January 23, 2012. Fourteen responded within deadline with twenty-seven requests. The opportunity was given to gymnasts in Olympic disciplines only; registered are 11 for Men’s Artistic, 9 for Women’s Artistic, 4 for Rhythmic and 3 for…
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FIG Artistic Gymnastics Individual Apparatus World Cup Zibo City
LAUSANNE (SUI), April 4, 2012: The first and only Artistic Gymnastics Individual Apparatus category A Word Cup in 2012 will be held on April 7 – 8 in Zibo City (CHN). Organisers of the Chinese Gymnastics Association will welcome some fifty gymnasts representing 23 nations to the Zibo Sports Center Gymnasium in the coastal province…
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15th World Gymnaestrada, Helsinki (FIN), July 12 – 18, 2015
HELSINKI (FIN) – LAUSANNE (SUI), March 29, 2012: The 15th World Gymnaestrada will be held in the city of Helsinki, Finland, on July 12 – 18, 2015. The event launched a website today at www.wg-2015.com and a Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/wg2015Helsinki. Available in English and Spanish, the website currently provides general information surrounding the event…
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5th Aerobic Gymnastics World Age Group Competitions
SOFIA (BUL) – LAUSANNE (SUI), FIG Office, April 02, 2012: The President of the FIG Aerobic Gymnastics Technical Committee, Mireille Ganzin (FRA), has proceeded on Wednesday to the drawing of lots of the 5th World Age Group Competitions and the 12th World Championships of the discipline, to be held respectively May 29 – 31 and…
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FIG Artistic Gymnastics Challenge Cup 2012, Doha-Qatar
LAUSANNE (SUI), March 30, 2012: Artistic Gymnastics Challenge Cup, With day one of the Finals behind us, gymnasts from nine different nations share the medals at midway point of the FIG Challenge Cup stopover currently taking place in Doha (QAT). China’s Zou Kai, who qualified in fourth place, improved his execution significantly to top the…
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FIG Trampoline Technical Committee Meeting Tremblant
LAUSANNE (SUI), March 28, 2012: The FIG Trampoline Technical Committee met for their first ordinary meeting of the year in Tremblant (CAN) on March 20 – 22, 2012. High on the agenda were discussions surrounding the “Guide to Judging” and appendices, as well as preparations for the Intercontinental Judging Courses. With clear descriptions of judging criteria,…
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Aquae World Cup welcomes Aerobic gymnasts to Aix-les-Bains
LAUSANNE (SUI), March 21, 2012: Aix-les-Bains (FRA), truly a city of waters with its beautiful lake and world famous thermal baths, will play host to international Aerobic Gymnastics from March 24 – 25, 2012. For the second time under the FIG World Cup label, the Aquae World Cup will line up 45 gymnasts from ten…
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Stage set for Qatar Schools Olympic Program Finals Festival
Doha, Qatar, March 21, 2012: The fifth edition of the Qatar Olympic Committee’s (QOC) Schools Olympic Program is entering the final stages of the competition at the Aspire Academy of Sports Excellence, in Doha. Qatar Schools This year’s edition of the Schools Olympic Program has the theme ‘Sport and Family’ which sees school boys and girls…
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IOC “Women and Sport” Awards 2012
LAUSANNE (SUI), March 19, 2012: Women Sport, The Egyptian Rhythmic Gymnastics Group has been awarded the Women and Sport Achievement Diploma by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in recognition of its outstanding contribution to promoting the development and participation of women and girls in sport. Following the initiative of the Egyptian Gymnastics Federation, the FIG…