Still under the final pressure of the Turkish Olympic medals (1,500 m) the Turkish Gymnastics Federation celebrated its 50th Year of existence, almost euphoric be V. International GYM FESTIVAL 2012 in Istanbul, the most populous city of Turkey. The guest of honor of the German ambassador of gymnastics and Leipzig's Gymnastics Olympic champion Klaus Köste on a wave of enthusiasm was born.

The gold medalist at the 1972 Olympic Games (vault) impressed in his 70th Age primarily for his fitness, because of the three days he was of course active themselves at the apparatus!
With him more than 170 participants from 8 countries were involved, representing all aspects of gymnastics, dance, aerobics ...

Romanian Maria Simionescu passed away on August 21, 2012 at the age of 85, following a long and difficult illness. She was one of the key figures in women’s artistic gymnastics, as an educator, national coach and latterly, from 1972 to 1996, as a senior FIG official. At national level, Maria Simionescu devoted her entire career to the development of Romanian gymnastics.
Born on September 29, 1927 in Bucharest, she graduated from the National Sports Institute in 1953, staying on as a lecturer until 1956, when she was appointed as head coach the Romanian gymnastics team. She quickly achieved international success, leading the Romanian national team to three editions of the Olympic Games (Melbourne 1956, Rome 1960 and Tokyo 1964). Her record in charge of the national team was extremely impressive: 52 Olympic medals - 18 of them gold - and 85 World Championship medals, including 32 golds.

In the name of the FIG and the international gymnastics community as a whole, the FIG President, Professor Bruno Grandi has sent his sincerest condolences to Maria’s family, friends and the Romanian Gymnastics Federation.
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For the 37th times invited the German "Turn-Club 72 Leverkusen" to the "International Leverkusen Cup 2012" in the Smidt ARENA.

Despite the short-term cancellation of some countries five teams from four nations offered the approximately 1,000 spectators an exciting gymnastics competition!
At the Olympic disciplines "vaulting table, uneven bars, beam and floor" this year launched an international field with two selections from Germany, from England, the Netherlands and from South Africa in the Smidt ARENA.
At the end the national team of England took the lead. For half an eternity  the British women take part already at this Leverkusen's top event and secured at last, and for the first time, the long-awaited trophy with 101.55 points.

Germany II (selection team 2) occupied the silver medal (96.20 points), just ahead of Germany I (selection team 1) (95.80 points) in third place.

Training classmate Hannah Thives-Kurenbach completed the German selection team 2 with Annabelle Woods and Christina Kuhn from Frankfurt / Main.
Both German teams showed at this early point of season weaknesses at the first rotation on uneven bars, but they escalated from subdivision to subdivision.
In the all-around, and also on floor exercises, won Annabelle Hölzer, which only showed an error on uneven bars.
Anja Rheinbay had also suffered a mistake on uneven bars and floor exercise with her hand once on the mat, but still secured the second place in the all around before Jasmine Reed Yang from England, who ranked on third place.
Anja won as the beams and the jump decision.

The highly anticipated and strong team from Russia had, also like the Uzbek team, problems with the required visa and had to cancel shortly before the arrival before attending the Rhine traditional tournament.

Nevertheless, the Leverkusen organizers around Dieter Schulz had a successful event again, which was really exciting at the end again

* Reported by Svenja Adametz

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37th Anniversary of
the oldest European Gymnastics Tournament
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The German "Turn-Club 72" in  Leverkusen invites for now 37th edition of the International Leverkusen Cup 2012 in female artistic gymnastics on Saturday, September 8 (6.00 pm), in the Smidt ARENA.
In the Olympic disciplines of vault, uneven bars, balance beam and floor exercises in this year a number of international participants with their teams from England, Holland, Russia and South Africa expected the hosts from Germany. Last year more than 1,600 visitors ensured a breathtaking atmosphere in the Leverkusen Smidt Arena, top class exercises of the gymnasts ...

The Leverkusen-Cup is an international team event of the female artistic gymnastics with integrated individual ranking.
Three gymnasts form a team.
The top two vote per unit count for the team score.
The all-around winner of the team classification will receive the "Leverkusen Cup Challenge Cup" - most recently in 2011 awarded to Italy.
Each gymnast gymnastics one freestyle all-around after the individual  best gymnast of the competition will be the winner of the Leverkusen-Cup .
The scoring rules are based on the currently valid "Code of Points" of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) and the Gymnastic equipment from the German company "B ä n f e r" meet the highest international standard.

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Last weekend took place the 90th anniversary of the "Jahn Memorial", a big outdoor festival of artistic gymnastics in memoriam of the German founder of gymnastics, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn.

Among of more than 1,100 guests and participants of age groups between14 to 90 years were also a lot of former German international top-stars, like Erika Zuchold world champion on beam 1970 and Klaus Koeste Olympic champion (Munich, 1972, vault), and the "hero of Mexico-City" (1968), Willi Jaschek.
But the star again was the oldest active gymnast of the world, the 86 years old competitor Johanna Quaas, who celebrated there her most important competion of the year in an amazing qualty.

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The Lixin County government of Bozhou has awarded the Chinese  Olympic champion on balance beam, Deng Linlin, a brand new apartment and ￥100,000 RMB (approx. $16,000 USD) for her achievements.  In addition, they are building a new city recreation center that will be named after her. 
The Anhui provincial government awards about ￥500,000 RMB (approx. $80,000 USD) for a gold medal (If Deng were to come from bigger provinces like Shandong, that figure shoots up to ￥1,000,000 RMB). Plus the cash prizes from the national government that is also estimated around ￥500,000 RMB per gold medal.
Not to mention all the corporations and nonprofit foundation award prizes, advertisement income, media appearances, exhibition tours, and business sponsorships that comes with the gold medal.

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The US-Gymnast Gabrielle Victoria "Gabby" DOUGLAS" - Olympic all-around winner London 2012 - has been named "The Associated Press 2012 Female athlete of the year".
She edged out swimmer Missy Franklin with 48 of 157 votes from a panel of AP sports editors and news directors.
Douglas is the fourth gymnast to win the award, and first since Mary Lou Retton in 198 -  the first African-American woman to win the coveted all-around Olympic gold medal.
Gabby Douglas, 16-years old, is a native of Virginia Beach, Va., but has been living in West Des Moines, Iowa while working with Chow Gymnastics, which has also produced another standout Olympian, Shawn Johnson.

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A Hungarian Team hero of the 1930s, Dr. Rezso Kende,
celebrated his birthday 2008, December 12  year with one-hundred candles on his birthday cake!
Now, at the age of 102 years the Hungarian Olympian died at 2011, June 19 in his hometown Budapest, as the oldes Hungarian Olympian.
Kende participated in the Olympic Games of Amsterdam (NED) in 1928 and in the World Championships of Luxemburg (LUX) in 1930. Multiple national champion, he went on to inspire several generations of Hungarian gymnasts. A jurist and attorney, Dr. Rezso Kende served as a judge after a long and exciting career in sports. A gymnast at heart, Dr Kende enjoys excellent heath and takes every chance he gets to keep up with international gymnastics.