The culmination of a dream held for half a century by Finland took place with the Closing Ceremony of the 2015 World Gymnaestrada Saturday afternoon at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium.
For one week, the quadrennial Gymnastics spectacle and celebration animated the Finnish capital and united gymnasts from 53 countries at the biggest Gymnastics festival there is. The event was years in the making both for the local organising committee and participants, most of whom prepared their performances beginning in...
20 stunning performances, 500 gymnasts, 90 minutes. The first FIG Gala performance offered an unforgettable experience for a sold-out Helsinki Ice Hall at Friday evening. If Finland didn’t love gymnastics enough already it certainly does now. Those gymnasts are enjoying one of the highlights of the World Gymnaestrada week on Friday night as it’s time for the first of the three performances of the FIG Gala. First theme of the night is love and there couldn’t be a more appropriate...
‘Make the Earth Move’ → Streets, places, sport halls and stadiums and a lot of big and small stages in the Finish capital of Helsinki are full of emotinal actions of different kinds in this Gymnaestrada week. The City Performances around Helsinki have been in full swing the whole week. The World Gymnaestrada spirit is to ‘Make the Earth Move’ and that’s what we have done during the event week
The guests and visitors find there a wide...
"SWISS EVENING"
The highlight of this first day (Monday, July 13) of the 15th World Gymnaestrada 2015 in Helsinki was the Swiss evening at 18 and 21 clock at the rink in the Finnish capital.
Under the motto "CH = mc2 - Gymnastics is relative», 600 gymnasts / makers from 15 squads (Daredevil, Säntis Gym, T2 x A, Gym squad emotion Liestal, gymnastics group Lu, Ow / Nw, Aerial Dancers, Solothurn Gymnastics Federation, Grupo Serata...
"Make the Earth move!"
The streets of Helsinki are filled with 21 000 gymnasts from over 50 different countries on July 12 -18, 2015 when the international Gymnastics for All event arrived in Finland. The World Gymnaestrada 2015 Helsinki (WG2015) - opened today with an colorful ceremony - is a seven days lasting gymnastics festival, which is held for the first time in Finland, and is in terms of international participants the largest event ever held in Finland....