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Dias, Rodrigues win Troféu Brasil

Kihuani Dias and Mosiah Rodrigues won the All Around at Troféu Brasil. Rodrigues had a narrow margine over second qualified Sérgio Yoshio Jr , a young gymnast with similar strenghts than Rodrigues. Yoshio had a bad performance on pommel horse that, probably, costed him the gold medal. In third position f...

Czech Republic, The Netherlands celebrate Nationals

Kristyna Palesova returned to competition this past weekend with an easy win at Czech Republic Championships in Liberec. The Beijing Olympian had a solid competition despite mistakes on beam and floor. Palesova, who missed European Championships in Milan due to injury, obtained the highest score on b...

FIG continues to investigate Chinese gymnasts

The FIG announced today that it will continue to investigate claims that Chinese gymnasts Yang Yun and Dong Fangxiao were too young to compete at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. A Disciplinary Commission was set up by the Executive Committee on June 19 after the federation sought legal advice "confirming ...

Kuleszas rule at Polish Championships

Husband and wife pair Roman Kulesza and Marta Pihan-Kulesza won their respective all around titles and multiple event titles at the weekend’s Polish Individual Championships in Zabrze .  

Kulesza has been Poland ’s top all arounder for several years, and in this competition he was the class of the field, scor...

Canadian Championships close with finals

Hamilton, Canada: Newly-crowned national champion Sydney Sawa added to her titles with a gold on uneven bars at the Canadian National Championships event finals. Cynthia Lemieux-Guillem joined her at the top of the podium; both scored 13.650, with Sawa having the .10 advantage in execution and Lemieux-G...

Meier crowned Swiss Junior Champ

Seventeen-year-old Michael Meier scored 80.900 to win Switzerland’s Junior National Championships on Saturday.  

Meier turned in steady performances across most events and was the only gymnast to place in the top six on all apparatus, but his best individual placing was third on vault and parallel bars....

Romania sweeps EF golds at Romanian International

Romania won all the golds at the Romanian International that finished this sunday in Poliesti. Romanian team was lead by Flavius Koczi and Amelia Racea , the champions in the All Around the previous day.

Gabriela Dragoi was the most successful female gymnast of the day with 2 gold medals (bars and beam), ...