Artistic Gymnastics

Dr. Keith Russell (CAN) - President of the FIG Scientific Commission

20. März 2009  
Canada  
Artistic Gymnastics

Dr. Keith Russell (CAN) - President of the FIG Scientific Commission

Dr. Keith RUSSELL (CAN)

* fig-press: --  Dr. Keith Russell (CAN) has been named President of the FIG Scientific Commission by the FIG Executive Committee.
Dr. Keith Russell is an Associate Professor in the College of Kinesiology, University of Saskatchewan (CAN).
He is a well respected coach, educator and author, and is in great demand both in Canada and internationally.
Keith is a former Canadian Men’s Artistic Gymnastics National Coach, and was the personal coach of two Olympians.
Dr. Keith RUSSELL is a 3 time ALCOA Coach-in-Residence in Western Australia, has been an invited international expert for 4 Olympic Solidarity Courses, and was honoured in 1995 with the 3M Canada Male Coach of the Year Award for Individual Sports.
Keith applies his vast coaching experience to ongoing coach education; he is a Master Course Conductor for all levels of the NCCP, the author of the Level 1 technical manual for gymnastics, a contributing author for the Level 2 and 3 technical manuals, and a course director for the GCG Level 4 programme.
Keith is also a member of the FIG Academy Writing group for Artistic Gymnastics, Trampoline/Tumbling, Acrobatic Gymnastics and Gymnastics for All.
He is the author of several modules of the FIG Academy programmes, and has taught Levels 1 to 3 of the FIG Academy programme since 2003. Keith is a member of the FIG Academy Sport Science Steering Committee, and of the Management Committee of the National Sport Centre, Saskatchewan.
* Source: fig press release

GYMNASTIC EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS Ksenia SEMENOVA and Fabian HAMBUECHEN - the new European All-around Champions!

05. April 2009  
Milan, Italy  
Artistic Gymnastics

GYMNASTIC EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS Ksenia SEMENOVA and Fabian HAMBUECHEN - the new European All-around Champions!

Germany's Fabian Hambuechen wins the first all-around gold medal ever for his country, but also gold at floor ...!

At the beginning of the new Olympic cycle the 30th European Championships for Women and the 31st Men's Europeans for the third time listed as "Individual Championships" by the European Gymnastics Union (UEG).
The Russian Ksenia SEMENOVA won the fourth all-around title for Russia, but on men's side Fabian HAMBUECHEN won the very first for Germany, and after winning the title on floor the Germans finished their most successful chanpionships. On women's side Beth TWEDDLE was the only one gymnast winning two gold medals...:
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>> GYMmedia ECh Website
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A big Loss: Japanese Legend Yukio ENDO passed away ...

26. März 2009  
Tokyo, Japan  
Artistic Gymnastics

A big Loss: Japanese Legend Yukio ENDO passed away ...

Yukio ENDO (JPN)
*1937, Jan 18 - 2009, Mar 25
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Wednesday, March 25 the first Japanese winner of an all-around Olympic gold medal at the 1994 Tokyo Olympic Games, the artistic gymnastics legend Yukio ENDO, died at the age of 72 years after a long fight with esophageal cancer.
Altogether Endo won 17 world and Olympic medals in his career, and took part of five gold-medal Japanese teams that dominated the 1960s, winning Olympic team titles in 1960, '64 and '68, and also the world team titles in 1962 (Prague) and 1966 (Dortmund).
Generation of young gymnasts around the world know his creation at horizontal bar, the forward "Stalder", named "Endo" skill ...

Yukio Endo (3rd from right) as a co-reporter of Japanese Television NHK
at the World Championships 1991 in the Hoosher Dome of Indianapolis, USA

Yukio Endo, (1970)
- one of the impressively character of international sport

Retired from active duty, Yukio Endo busied himself coaching young aspiring gymnasts while teaching at Tokyo’s Nihon University as a professor of physical education.
His many honours and accolades include the
membership of the Japan Gymnastic Association Executive Committee (1981).
He was theExecutive Director and Member of the Japan Gymnastic Association Executive Committee (1991) and holder of Japan's highest honor, "Emperor’s Medal" (1996).
In 1999 Endo became the Membership of the "International Gymnastics Hall of Fame".
>> ENDO induction video * sorce: IGHOF)
Up to 2001 he worked as an advisor to and furthermore as a member of the Japan Gymnastic Association Executive Committee (2001).

The Biography of a Nonsuch
* Born in Northern Japan on January 18, 1937, Yukio Endo’s family ran a pharmacy in Akita City.

'Endo' skill at highbar on a stamp of Togolese Republic

He lost his mother to illness when he was in the 4th grade and to overcome his sorrow, he would race anything that moved, for he was a nimble runner.
At that time, he attended an elementary school in the city where he would eventually attend junior and senior high school.
Inspired by his teacher, Yukio took up gymnastics during his second year in junior high.
In 1952, Japan ranked 5th in the Team Competition at the Helsinki Olympics, in which Takashi Ono from the same prefecture participated.

Endo as the Japanese national coach at the 1974 worlds in Varna; right: Mitsuo Tsukahara

Yukio renewed his resolution to continue gymnastics; he entered the Tokyo University of Education and graduated in 1959.
While at the university, Yukio was coached by Mr Akitomo Kaneko. He participated in various university level gymnastic competitions, topping off in 5th place in the Individual All-around.
In 1960, while an assistant instructor of physical education at Nihon University, he was selected to be part of the Japanese National Team for the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome; those Games would be his international debut. The Japanese Team copped the Gold! Yukio placed 4th on Horizontal Bar, 5th on Vault and 5th in the Individual All-around.

At the 15th World Championships in Prague, Yukio won a Gold in the Floor exercises, a Silver in the Individual All-around, Rings and Horizontal Bar events and a Bronze on Vault and Parallel Bars, while the team took the Gold.

Endo's biggest triumph:
Olympic all-around gold medallist 1994 in Tokyo, beating Shakhlin (URS), Tsurumi (JPN) and Lissitzki (URS)) on second places

The climax of his gymnastics career came in 1964 at the Tokyo Olympic Games when his team captured the Gold and Yukio won the Individual All-around and Parallel Bars competitions, with a Silver on Floor for good measure.

In 1966 at the Dortmund World Championships, when Japan walked away with the Team Gold, Yukio claimed a Silver on both Floor and Horizontal Bar.
The Mexico Olympic Games in 1968 marked his last Olympic appearance; the Japanese team won the Gold and Yukio took an ultimate Silver on Pommel Horse.
Retired from active duty, Yukio busied himself coaching young aspiring gymnasts while teaching at Tokyo’s Nihon University as a professor of physical education.
The international gymnastics family extends its sincere condolences to the family and friends of Yukio Endo!
* Source: fig, "Flick Flack" and others

GYMfamily Event 2009 Yann Cucherat - best gymnast at the Cottbus Tournament of Masters

22. März 2009  
Cottbus, Germany  
Artistic Gymnastics

GYMfamily Event 2009 Yann Cucherat - best gymnast at the Cottbus Tournament of Masters

Yann Cucherat - most successful!
GYMmedia World Cup Service

The second artistic gymnastics World Cup ofthe post-Olympic season - was the "33rd TOURNAMENT of MASTERS" in Cottbus, Germany.
The world cup winners came on men's side from five different nations, and for the women from four.

<< Most successful gymnast was the French Yann Cucherat, second on parallel bars and beating the world champion Fabian Hambuechen on horizontal bar, who crashed there at his special apparatus...

Ariella Kaeslin (SUI) on vault, Marta Pihan-Kolesza (POL) on beam and Lu, Sui CHN) on floor exercises where the winners in women's category.

After the victory of Doerthe Thuemmler in 1988 the German Olympian Anja Brinker (GER) got the first victory at uneven bars for the German host after 21 years....

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 - Lausitz Arena, Cottbus, March 20 - 22 -
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GYM Exchange :Switzerland and Belgium with new Job Advertisements

20. August 2009  
Mons, Belgium  
Artistic Gymnastics

GYM Exchange :Switzerland and Belgium with new Job Advertisements

The Swiss Gymnastics Federation (STV) is seeking for a new men’s artistic Gymnastics national head coach.
After the death of the former coach Claus Haller now Rolf NIEDERHAEUSER is the new chief for education of the STV. 
That is the reason for the new offer of Swiss gymnastics ...
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*This new and all the other topical offers you will find at the:
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2009 Russian Championships

13. März 2009  
Bryansk, Russia  
Artistic Gymnastics

2009 Russian Championships

Russian Nationals 2009 finished Friday with the event finals in Bryansk.
The 2007 world champion (Stuttgart) on uneven bars, Ksenia Semenova (< photo, left), won the title on his special apparatus but also on floor exercises.
New Russian Champion on vault and balance beam are the both gymnasts from Moscow Yulia Berger and Aliya Mustafina. togehther with Ksenia Afanassyeva

Six gymnasts took titles in the men's events:
All-around champion Yuri Ryazanov won the floor exercise gold and silver medals on still rings and high bar.
Three-time Olympian Nikolai Kryukov (30), won parallel bars.
Other winners were Andrei Perevoznikov (pommel horse), Konstantin Pluzhnikov (still rings), Denis Ablyazin (vault) and Sergei Khorokhordin (high bar) ...
2009 Russian Championships 
   - Bryansk, Russia;  March 13 -
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** MEN's Competition

* Men's Floor Exercise
1. Yuri Ryazanov (Vladimir) 14.850
2. Anton Golotsutskov (Seversk) 14.725
3. Anton Neudakin (Vladimir) 14.625

* Pommel Horse
1. Andrei Perevoznikov (Central) 15.000
2. Andrei Likhovitsky (South) 14.375
3. Dmitry Stolyarov (Moscow) 13.700

* Rings
1. Konstantin Pluzhnikov (Siberia) 15.475
2. Yuri Ryazanov (Central) 15.225
3. Ruslan Nigmadzyanov (Central) 14.425
* Men's Vault
1. Denis Ablyazin (Privolzhsky) 15.825
2. Anton Golotsutskov (Siberia) 15.737
3. Anton Lobatshev (Ural) 15.625

* Parallel Bars
1. Nikolai Kryukov (Central) 15.475
2. Maxim Devyatovsky (Siberia) 14.800
3. Nikita Ignatyev (Siberia) 14.550

* High Bar
1. Sergei Khorokhordin (Central) 15.250
2. Yuri Ryazanov (Central) 15.075
3. Maxim Devyatovsky (Siberia) 14.600

* Women's Vault
1. Yulia Berger (Moscow)                14.562
2. Kristina Goryunova (Novgorod) 13.650
3. Anna Dementyeva (Samara)      13.475

* Uneven Bars
1. Ksenia Semenova (Tula)          15.800
2. Aliya Mustafina (Moscow)         15.300
3. Ksenia Afanasyeva (Tula)          14.700

* Balance Beam
1. Aliya Mustafina (Moscow)         14.950 
    Ksenia Afanasyeva (Tula)          14.950
3. Ksenia Semenova (Tula)         14.725

* Women's Floor Exercise
1. Ksenia Semenova (Tula) 14.925
2. Kristina Goryunova (Novgorod) 14.825
3. Aliya Mustafina (Moscow) 14.700

2009 Stella Zakharova Cup

10. März 2009  
Kiev, Ukraine  
Artistic Gymnastics

2009 Stella Zakharova Cup

Despite the ongoing controversy between the Ukraine Gymnastics Federation (UGF)  and the 1980 Olympic Champion Stella ZAKHAROVA last weekend took place the "8th Intern. Stella Sakharova Cup 2009" in the Ukrainian capital Kiev, independently of the UGF. Last fall, which announced, that the federation would not sanction the competition.
Israelian Alexander Shatilov (87,400) and Byelorussian junior Galina Ivanets  (53.550) won the all-around competitions...

8th Stella Zakharova Cup 2009 
March 07 - 08, Kiev, Ukraine
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*Men's Team
1. Belarus     1 171.950
2. Italy           170.350
3. Hungary   164.000
4. Israel 163.400; 5. Ukraine 1 161.400; 6. Spain 161.400
7. Ukraine 2 156.200; 8. Israel 2 140.950; 9. Belarus 2 138.100

* MEN's ALL-AROUND
1. Alexander Shatilov ISR 87.400
2. Paolo Ottavi ITA              85.250
3. Artyom Bykov BLR         85.200
4. Andrea Cingolani ITA     82.750
5. Paolo Principi ITA           82.050
6. Artur Kuzmin BLR           81.750
7. Alexander Demchikhin BLR 81.200
8. Peter Marjan HUN                  81.200
9. Zoltan Kallai HUN                   80.400
10. Oleg Shakirov UKR              79.850
11. Csaba Nyers HUN               79.800
12. Ignacio Losantos                 79.400
13. Maxim Semyankov UKR     79.000
14. Ruben Lopez ESP               78.600
15. Andrei Senichkin UKR        77.300
16. Felix Aranovich ISR              75.850
17. Ilya Zelyutin UKR                   75.050

* MEN's FLOOR EXERC.
1. Alexander Shatilov ISR  (16.0) 15.000
2. Paolo Principi ITA            (15.9) 14.275
3. Peter Marjan HUN            (15.4) 14.250
4. Ponomarev UKR              (15.4) 14.000
5. Andrea Cingolani ITA (    (15.8) 13.850
6. Ruben Lopez ESP           (15.5) 13.250
7. Csaba Nyers HUN          (15.1) 13.075
8. Oleg Shakirov UKR         (14.9) 11.175

* POMMELHORSE
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* STILL RINGS
1. Valery Dumanenko UKR (15.9) 14.850
2. Paolo Ottavi ITA                (15.8) 14.675
3. Alexander Demchikhin   (15.2) 14.275
4. Eduard Golub ISR             (16.5) 14.275
5. Pavel Bulavsky BLR          (15.3) 14.225
6. Ruban Lopez ESP             (15.4) 14.175
7. Maxim Semyankov UKR   (14.9) 13.525
8. Ignacio Losantos ESP     (16.0) 13.350

* MEN*s VAULT
1. Toni Simonen SWE     (16.0/16.4) 15.562
2. Andrea Cingolani ITA (16.2/16.2) 15.287
3. Peter Marjan HUN       (16.2/15.4) 15.100
4. Arkaitz Garcia ESP       (16.6/15.0) 14.825
5. Pavel Bulavsky BLR     (16.6/14.6) 14.737
6. Paolo Principi ITA         (16.2/16.2) 14.512
7. Csaba Nyers HUN       (15.8/14.2) 13.862
8. Nier Katz ISR                 (14.6/1--)      6.337

* PARALLEL BARS
1. Paolo Ottavi ITA                 (15.5) 14.250
2. Artyom Bykov BLR            (15.3) 14.175
3. Andrei Senichkin UKR      (15.1) 13.725
4. Alexander Tsarevich BLR (15.7) 13.500
5. Paolo Principi ITA               (14.9) 13.400
6. Oleg Shakirov UKR             (14.6) 13.325
7. Peter Marjan HUN               (14.4) 13.225
8. Csaba Nyers HUN              (14.6) 13.225

* HORIZONTAL BAR
1. Alexander Tsarevich BLR (16.4) 14.300
2. Ignacio Losantos ESP        (15.7) 14.200
3. Paolo Ottavi ITA                   (15.3) 13.975
4. Csaba Nyers HUN               (15.5) 13.875
5. Artyom Bykov BLR                (15.0) 13.775
6. Paolo Princhipi ITA              (15.3) 13.600
7. Zoltan Kallai HUN                (15.4) 13.525
8. Maxim Semyankov UKR     (13.9) 11.650

* WOMEN's Events
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* WOMEN's TEAM
1. Belarus 1  105.500
2. Belarus 2  101.800
3. Hungary      98.250

* WOMEN*s ALL-AROUND
1. Galina Ivanets                BLR  53.550
2. Marina Kostyuchenko UKR  53.100
3. Alina Sotnikova             BLR  51.950
4. Anastasia Zaitseva       BLR  51.100
5. Laura Gombas              HUN 49.600
6. Olga Mokhovtsova         BLR 49.200
7. Valeria Maksyuta ISR 48.900
8. Ildiko Farkas HUN 48.650
9. Lilia Khoang BLR 48.650
10. Diana Karimdzhanova UZB 47.800
11. Anastasia Marachkovskaya BLR 47.600
12. Dilnoza Abdusalimova UZB 46.700
13. Ermina Abduvaliyeva UZB 44.850
14. Irina Deniskina UZB 43.550
15. Alina Kozich UZB 41.900 (3 events only)
16. Yulia Goreva UZB 41.800
17. Anastasia Kaduk UZB 41.200

* WOMEM's VAULT
1. Marina Kostyuchenko UKR  (15.4/14.6) 14.037
2. Anastasia Zaitseva BLR        (15.0/14.6) 13.587
3. Alina Sotnikova BLR               (14.6/14.6) 13.462
4. Laura Gombas HUN               (14.6/14.6) 13.450
5. Ildiko Farkas HUN                   (14.6/14.6) 13.450
6. Valeria Maksyuta ISR              (15.3/15.4) 13.325
7. Diana Karimdzhanova UZB   (14.4/14.6) 13.062
8. Dilnoza Abdusalimova UZB  (14.7/14.4) 12.575

* UNEVEN BARS
1. Marina Kostyuchenko UKR (15.8) 13.925
2. Lilia Khoang BLR                   (14.9) 12.775
3. Valeria Maksyuta ISR           (15.5) 12.200
4. Galina Ivanets BLR                (15.4) 11.875
5. Ildiko Farkas HUN                  (14.2) 10.900
6. Diana Karimdzhanova UZB  (14.9) 10.600
7. Laura Gombas HUN              (15.2) 10.250
8. Dilnoza Abdusalimova            (14.0)   9.375

* BALANCE BEAM
1. Valeria Maksuta ISR             (15.7) 14.150
2. Alina Kozich UZB                   (15.1) 13.625
3. Galina Ivanets BLR                (15.2) 13.300
4. Diana Karimdzhanova UZB (15.2) 12.800
5. Anastasia Zaitseva BLR        (14.5) 12.625
6. Laura Gombas HUN              (14.6) 11.900
7. Ildiko Farkas HUN                   (14.3) 11.15

*WOMEN's FLOOR EXERC.
1. Alina Kozich UZB                     (15.2) 13.750
2. Valeria Maksyuta ISR             (15.0) 13.350
3. Laura Gombas HUN                (15.2) 13.225
4. Alina Sotnikova BLR                (15.0) 13.050
5. Anastasia Zaitseva BLR         (14.8) 12.850
6. Ermina Abdulayeva UZB         (15.0) 12.375
7. Marina Kostyuchenko UKR    (14.6) 12.175
8. Ildiko Farkas HUN                    (14.7) 12.175

2009 Artistic World Cup circuit starts in Montreal

08. März 2009  
Montreal, Canada  
Artistic Gymnastics

2009 Artistic World Cup circuit starts in Montreal

On Friday began the qualification round of the first World Cup at the traditional "GYMnix International 2009" in Montreal, Canada with strong Japaneses in men's qualification, but at the end all the final winners came from Europe.
On women's side only a very small field took part at this event: two finalists on vault, four on uneven bars, beam and floor only ...!
Tyson American Winner Jordyn Wievers (USA) claimed the all-around title of the "Gymnix Junior Cup" on Friday already...


2009 WORLD CUP (1) "GYMNIX"
 - Montreal, Canada, March 6 - 8 -
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* MEN's FINAL RESULTS
 >> Floor exerc.;  >> Pommel horse;  >> Still Rings;
>> Vault;              >> Parallel Bars;       >> High bar.

* MEN*s Qualification rounds
>> Floor exerc.;  >> Pommel horse;  >> Still Rings;
>> Vault;              >> Parallel Bars;       >> High bar.

* WOMEN's Final Results
( ... no qualification rounds)
>>  Vault;                      >> Uneven bars;  
>>  Balance beam;   >> Floor exercises

2009 Gymnix Junior Cup
March 6, Montreal
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U.S. junior champion Jordyn Wieber, winner of the Tyson American Cup last month in Chicago , claimed the all-around title Friday at the Gymnix Junior Cup in Montreal. Wieber led a U.S.-sweep of the all-around medals. With the top scores on vault, uneven bars and balance beam, Wieber scored 58.500 to easily win the title.
Sabrina Vega (USA) place second (55.125) with the high score on floor exercise. Vega is coached by Romanian Olympians Teodora Ungureanu and Sorin Cepoi.

Wieber's clubmate Kamerin Moore won the all-around bronze (54.950) over Canada's Anysia Unick (53.650).

* Junior Team Results
1. USA 168.800 ; 2. Canada 160.950 ; 3. Russia 155.175
4. France 146.475

* Junior, Women's All-around
1. Jordyn Wieber USA 58.500
2. Sabrina Vega USA 55.125
3. Kamerin Moore USA 54.925

4. Anysia Unick CAN 53.600
5. Hallie Mossett USA 53.450
6. Madeline Gardiner CAN 53.325
>> Detailed Results

The FIG in Lausanne ...

06. März 2009  
Lausanne, Switzerland  
Artistic Gymnastics

The FIG in Lausanne ...

Rogge, Grandi
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*fig press: -- Established as early as 1881, making it the oldest established sport federation in the world, the International Gymnastics Federation (F.I.G.) officially inaugurated its new Head Office in Lausanne yesterday in the presence of International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge, FIG Executive Committee members and the Federation’s President Professor Bruno Grandi (ITA).
Back in October of 2005, the F.I.G. decided to transfer its Head Office from Moutier to Lausanne after having dismissed the idea of opening its offices in Neuchâtel. Founded in Liège (BEL) on July 23, 1881 by Coubertin contemporary Nicolas Cupèrus, the Federation has made its home in Switzerland since 1945. It has sat in Geneva, Lyss and Moutier by turn.


The FIG Staff in Lausanne is made up of 25 competent individuals (11 women, 14 men) committed to the departments of administration, sports, communication and technology.

The International Gymnastics Federation relocated to Lausanne on July 7, 2008, just prior to the Beijing Olympic Games.
* fig-press

Fédération Internationale
de Gymnastique (FIG)

Avenue de la Gare 12
1003 Lausanne
Switzerland
* phone: ++41 21 321 55 10
* fax:       ++41 21 321 55 19

** FIG Office, Lausanne (SUI), March 04 - 06, 2009

* The FIG Executive ratified the codes of points for all FIG disciplines for the 2009 – 2012 Olympic cycle.

* The 2010 World Cup will be governed by new regulations.
The federations, or candidate cities for the organisation of an event, will submit their bids to the Executive office by June 30, 2009.

+ Tajikistan (TJK) and Montenegro (MTG) have requested affiliation to the FIG. The FIG Council will take a provisional decision in May.
The final decision will be made at the General Assembly in 2010.
Due to a doubtful electoral process, FIG authorities have refused to validate the results of a vote electing new authorities to the Albanian Gymnastics Federation.

* With two seats unoccupied on the Athletes’ Commission, the Executive has decided to name Trampoline delegate Dimitri Polyarush (BLR) as acting President of said Commission. Delegates for Men’s and Women’s Artistic will be elected parallel to the London World Championships, at which time a President will be designated in keeping with current protocol.

* The 78th Congress and General Assembly will be held October 26 – November 1, 2010 in Vysoke Tatry, Slovakia.

*The 30th Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships are set for September 19 – 26, 2010 in Moscow, Russia. 

* The Japanese Gymnastics Association has submitted a bid for organisation of the 2011 FIG Council, devolved to the Asian Union. A decision will be taken at the FIG Council in Lillestroem (NOR) in May.

* A Legal Symposium will take place in Montreux (SUI), June 19 - 20, 2009. The following issues will be addressed:

  • Procedures to take when dealing with FIG authorities,
  • Conflicts of interest and restrictions on holding multiple mandates,
  • The election of a Technical Committee by the Congress, Council or Executive Committee.
  • Proposed modifications to the statutes submitted by the Ukrainian Federation,
  • The fight against doping and the legal responsibility borne by the national federations.

Thore Brolin (SWE), FIG Appeal Tribunal Member, will preside over the Symposium.
In 2009, the FIG organised 24 Gymnastic Academies that touched on all FIG competitive disciplines.

* In keeping with the WADA anti-doping code, a FIG-TUE (Therapeutic Use Exemption) Commission has been created. The Commission is comprised of Dr Michel Binder (FRA - President), Paediatrician, Dr Neoklis Georgopoulos, Endocrinologist and Dr Zakia Bartagi (TUN), Director of Tunisia’s Anti-doping Agency.

* FIG Academy expert Keith Russel (CAN) has been named President of the FIG Scientific Commission.

* As a result of conclusions drawn by the FIG Competitions Commission, under the leadership of Wolfgang Willam (GER), calendar conferences will be held with potential organisers of international events to determine event dates.
In Gymnastics for All, a series of intercity events or clubs open to the public may be considered on a mid-term basis.
A complete overhaul of World Cup 2011 organisation is underway. The Commission will present the results of this to the Executive Committee sometime this year.

* The surface authorised for publicity on garments worn by athletes in competition will be increased.
Details on the allowed measurements will be released soon.
* Source: fig press release, March 09

Do You know what D E A F L Y M P I C S are...?

16. März 2009  
Taiwan  
Artistic Gymnastics

Do You know what D E A F L Y M P I C S are...?

The 21. DEAFLYMPICS 2009 will take place in Taipeh
From the 5th until the 15th of September 2009 the world elite of deaf athletes will determine the best among themselves in 19 different sports. 3.706 deaf participants from 74 nations signed on for the 21st summer games in Taiwan. Due to that, the „Deaflympics“ count next to the Olympic Games, the Universiades, the Paralympics,
Special Olympics and the World Games as one of the major sport events. However: gymnastic disciplines are not (yet) part of the program of these handicapped competitions.
The British as outriders...
That is what the experts of the British Gymnastics Federation want to change in the near future and they have 2 decades of experience in training and competition programmes which they want to internationalise.
Official request to the DTB president After a working visit of the British federation in Berlin (> see GYMmedia report from the Feb 19) they approached the President of the German Gymnastic Federation, Rainer BRECHTKEN.
They asked for endorsement and support for a training camp of handicapped gymnasts in Germany.

A suitable event for these rather new British ideas in Germany could be the International Gymnastics Festival in Frankfut/Main.
It would provide a great platform for an exchange of experiences.
The company „Eurotramp“ (Weilheim-Teck, Germany) spontaneously confirmed their support for the training camp. They are for example providers of the Olympic trampoline competitions.

Also the German paralyzed former top gymnast Ronny ZIESMER could imagine becoming the ambassador for a German structure of gymnastics for the disabled with competitions.
These have yet to be developed. His sponsor Daimler AG already announced their support too.

12-jährige niederländische Turnerin mit fast 100%igem Hörschaden...!

Can deaf people practise gymnastics...?
...it is hard to imagine as it is widely known that the ear is the base of our balance and that every person is depending heavily on their sensation of sound for orientation in a room.

<< Because of that we observed the British Federation surprised at their first training camp on Gran Canaria in December 2008 as for example a 12 year old Dutch girl is able to practise on all four Olympic apparatus and eligible to participate in competitions.
The performance orientated training means everything to her which you can see on her astounding performance on the balance beam.

Bo Dominicus, aus Tilburg in den südlichen Niederlanden, ist von Geburt an gehörlos ...

Practise gymnastics with nearly 100% loss of hearing...?!
The 12 year old Bo DOMINICUS from Tilburg (NED) also participated in the British training camp.
At home she is training on all four gymnastic apparatus - even the balance beam though her balance is affected by her impaired hearing.
She is in year six in a normal school in Tilburg. Gymnastics is an important part of her life: „..it allows her to integrate herself in normal everyday life situations“, said her mother.
Bo is coached by Ester Leon (photo, left) and her father Robert in the club „Dionysius“.
At home she trains four times a week, overall about 10 to 11 hours per week. „I love my sport and a need it a lot...!“, Bo said.
So you can look forward with interest to the mentioned 21st Deaflympics 2009.
The "German Deaf Sports Federation“ will participate in this competition with a delegation of 230 people.
The German athletes will start in 13 different sports. - see under www.2009taipei.dg-sv.de , as well as the event web site of the organiser of the 21st Summer DEAFLYMPICS Taipeh 2009 .
It is also interesting that Germany might develop Gymnastic offers for handicapped people with the outlook on competitions with the largest Gymnastic Federation.
Their exponents at least assured the British their full support.
* E. Herholz, GYMmedia INTERNATIONAL

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