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2 unusual facts about gymnastics


Female Athlete Triad Syndrome

Gymnastics, figure skating, ballet, diving, swimming, and long distance running are examples of sports which emphasize low body weight.

Universidade Sénior Contemporânea

Located in Rua Nova do Tronco 504 Porto, Portugal, this institute develops theorical and practical classes as History of Oporto, Psychology, Informatics and Internet, Theater and Poetry, Gymnastics and many others.


1981 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships

1981 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships were held in Munich, West Germany on October 17 – 20th 1981.

2008 Asian Artistic Gymnastics Championships

The 2008 Asian Artistic Gymnastics Championships were the 4th edition of the Asian Artistic Gymnastics Championships, and were held in Doha, Qatar from November 15 to November 18, 2008.

Ann Battelle

She was a member of her highly successful varsity soccer team at Champlain Valley Union High School, in Hinesburg, Vermont, as well as a member of the accomplished varsity gymnastics team.

Arno von Lenski

After his retirement he joined several equestrian associations and was a member of the East German Olympic Committee and the executive board of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship and the East German Gymnastics and Sports Association.

Béla Károlyi

Károlyi required that all national team members attend frequent grueling camps at his New Waverly, Texas gymnastics ranch, north of Houston, and selection procedures for international meets became more arbitrary.

He and Márta still have a ranch and gymnastics camp in New Waverly, Texas.

Charles Champaud

According to the Bulgarian Olympic Committee, Champaud, a Swiss national living in Bulgaria and working as a gymnastics teacher at a Sofia high school, competed for that country at the first modern Olympics.

Chelsea Davis

When she is not doing gymnastics, her hobbies include video games, board games and NASCAR.

Claudia Presăcan

In 2002, Presăcan, along with former teammates Corina Ungureanu and Lavinia Miloșovici, sparked controversy by posing naked in photographs for a Japanese photobook, LCC Gold ISBN 4-87279-118-5, and performing gymnastics routines topless for the Japanese DVDs Gold Bird and Euro Angels.

Danielle LeRay

Danielle Le Ray was also Head Coach of the Australian women's rhythmic gymnastics team at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.

Daria Dmitrieva

The head coach of Russia, President of the Russian Federation of Rhythmic Gymnastics, Irina Viner said the question of participation in the Olympics remained open and would be resolved only after the June Grand Prix in Austria and the World Cup in Belarus in July.

Erzsébet Balázs

From 1952 through 1971 she worked as a coach with Budapest Honvéd, becoming the head gymnastics coach in 1960.

Fimleikafélag Hafnarfjarðar

Fimleikafélag Hafnarfjarðar (Hafnarfjörður gymnastics club), commonly referred to as FH, is an Icelandic sports club based in Hafnarfjörður.

George Adams Leland

After departing Japan, Leland travelled to Europe, returning to Boston in October 1882, where he established a private medical practice, and also developed the gymnastics program for the YMCA.

Gymnastics at the 1896 Summer Olympics – Men's team horizontal bar

The men's team horizontal bar was the second of eight gymnastics events on the Gymnastics at the 1896 Summer Olympics programme.

Gymnastics at the 1920 Summer Olympics – Men's team

It was the fourth appearance of the event, which was one of three team gymnastics events held in 1920 (along with the free system team event and the Swedish system team event).

Gymnastics at the 1920 Summer Olympics – Men's team, free system

It was the second and final appearance of the event, which was one of three team gymnastics events held in 1920 (along with the all-around team event and the Swedish system team event).

Gymnastics at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Rules for the rhythmic gymnastics competition also changed since the previous Olympics.

Gymnastics at the 2013 Island Games

Artistic gymnastics, for the 2013 Island Games, took place at the National Training Centre, instead of the Warwick Academy.

Gymnastics in India

Gymnastics came of age in India, when at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, Ashish Kumar won the first-ever medal in gymnastics for India, he also won a bronze medal.

Horizontal bar

The gymnastics elements performed on the horizontal bar are regulated by a Code of Points.

Hulley

John Hulley (1832–1875), English gymnastics and athletics entrepreneur

Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball

Prior to playing in Carver-Hawkeye Arena, the Hawkeye men's basketball team played in the Iowa Field House, which is still used today by the school's gymnastics teams.

Irina Deleanu

The FIG initiated disciplinary proceedings against Irina Deleanu on March 12, 2012 at the request of the Cyprus Gymnastics Federation damaging the reputation of Cypriot gymnast Chrystalleni Trikomiti, following comments that she made during a television interview with regard to the judging at the Rhythmic Gymnastics qualifying event for London 2012, which took place in January 2012.

Irina Ponarovskaya

In the mid 1990s, she was a co-host of a TV program about fitness "Fitness class of Irina Ponarovskaya", for which she developed her own method of gymnastics and nutrition.

Joaquín Blume

The plane was headed for Canarias, where the Spanish gymnastics team were to do a gymnastics exhibition.

Kyle Shewfelt

During the 2012 London Olympics he served as a gymnastics analyst for the CTV Television Network-led Canadian Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium.

Laurie Hernandez

Outside of Gymnastics, she loves to do Swimming as well as her nails, writing poetry and drawing and loves listening to One Direction and Ed Sheeran.

Lavinia Miloșovici

In 2002, Miloșovici, along with former teammates Corina Ungureanu and Claudia Presecan, sparked controversy by posing naked in photographs for a Japanese photobook, LCC Gold ISBN 4-87279-118-5, and performing gymnastics routines topless for the Japanese DVDs Gold Bird and Euro Angels.

Lise Stauri

Lise also studied gymnastics in Denmark, finally graduated from Elverum Teachers' Seminary in 1904, worked as a teacher in Vats, Buøy and Stavanger and finished additional teacher courses in Kristiania in 1907.

Lyudmila Artemyeva

Among her students are world champions in acrobatic gymnastics Tatiana Baranovskaya, Irina Borzova and Tamara Turlacheva.

Naazmi Johnston

Johnston was a participate on the show Australia's Got Talent with a group called Meriden Rhythmix, they performed routines of rhythmic gymnastics and made it to the semi-finals before being eliminated.

Naoya Tsukahara

In 2009, he moved to Australia, competing and winning at the 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2013 Australian National Gymnastics Championships, and winning 2nd place behind Joshua Jefferis in 2012.

Nelson Coates

During high school, he became involved in gymnastics, a skill set he used years later when planning escape routes for Wesley Snipes' character in Murder at 1600.

Olga Korbut

She watched the gymnastics competitions in the North Greenwich Arena, providing commentary by way of Twitter and Facebook.

Parkettes National Gymnastics Training Center

In 1986, Parkettes' gymnasts took the 1st (Jennifer Sey), 2nd (Hope Spivey) and 4th (Alyssa Solomon) places at the United States National Gymnastics Championships.

Pecatonica, Illinois

Pecatonica is the hometown of Hacks Auction, Northern Illinois premier auction house and J&J Tumbling and Trampoline which has produced several world class athletes, including 1988 Woman's Tumbling World Champion Megan Cunningham Gearhart (later a coach) and National Trampoline Team member Michael Devine.

Sainik School, Amaravathinagar

Football, hockey, volleyball, basketball, cricket, athletics, cross-country running, swimming, gymnastics, canoeing, cycling, horse riding, mountaineering, parasailing, trekking (hiking), obstacles course, rifle shooting, boxing, NCC,karate,music clubs, literary clubs, theater arts, elocution, photography, fine arts, craftwork, philately, aero-modeling, ship-modeling, Marching band, Choir

Sally Jones

She has presented a string of other TV and radio programmes, including several series of "On the Line", the BBC TV sports politics show, the daytime show "The Garden Party", real tennis documentaries for Channel 4, coverage of women's British Open golf (St Mellion, Cornwall), international tennis, women's rugby and NBA basketball (BBC TV), "Transworld Sport" (Channel 4) and international gymnastics (ITV).

Shayla Worley

Outside of gymnastics, she has competed in speech oration contests; has modeled for Disney, Tupperware, and Lands' End; and has done commercials for Disney and Universal.

Sports Ground, Kiev

The program of the Olympiad included such sports as track and field, marathon, soccer, wrestling, weight-lifting, fencing, swimming, gymnastics, equestrianism, bicycle and motorcycle racing along the Kiev – Chernihiv – Kyiv route.

Sportska televizija

Also, there will be some international sports, like World Rally Championship, ATP or WTA tournaments, 2011 Rugby World Cup, 2013 IIHF World Championship, waterpolo Euroleague and gymnastics World Cup.

Steliana Nistor

After graduation she went to Norway to work as a gymnastics coach, first at Drammen Turn club and then at Hammer Turn club in Fjellhamar.

Ullern IF

Ullern IF or its predecessors have had sections (which are now defunct) for track and field, amateur boxing, amateur wrestling, gymnastics, judo, Nordic skiing, alpine skiing and tennis.

Volodymyr Bezsonov

Together they have a daughter, Anna Bessonova, who also competed internationally in rhythmic gymnastics, became world champion in 2007, and an Olympic bronze medalist in 2004 and 2008.

Woodland Park, New Jersey

Natalia Shaposhnikova (born 1961), former Soviet gymnast, two-time Olympic champion, who resides and coaches gymnastics in Woodland Park.


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