German National Championships – 03/04 August

This weekend will see German nationals taking place at the Max-Schmeling-Halle in Berlin. The men's all-around will start on Saturday 03 August at 11:15 local time, followed by the women's all-around, which is starting at 14:50. The women's event finals will start at 11:15 on Sunday 04 August, with the men's starting at 14:05. You …

Elisabeth Seitz: “The all-around is my priority”

Elisabeth Seitz was beaming as she entered the mixed zone following the all-around competition in which she won the bronze medal. A Stuttgart local, like her teammate Kim Bui, she had an enormous amount of support from the audience throughout the competition, who were delighted to see her finish on the podium. The 25-year-old had …

Ana Padurariu: “I’m still a little starstruck!”

Canadian gymnast Ana Padurariu finished in second place at the Stuttgart AA World Cup event on Sunday, six months after winning the silver medal on beam at the World Championships in Doha. After a shaky start to her senior career, sustaining an ankle injury in her very first senior competition, 16-year-old Ontario native Padurariu was …

Stuttgart World Cup interview: Lorette Charpy (FRA)

We got to spend a few minutes with Lorette following her wonderful performance at the Stuttgart World Cup and she talked about how her competition went, almost medalling and future upgrades (interview done in French and translated) How was the competition today for you? LORETTE: It was pretty good. I know I still need to …

Stuttgart World Cup – Eddy Yusof (SUI) interview

How did you feel about the competition today? EDDY: Yeah, it was quite a good competition for me. Just one apparatus, the parallel bars... but the rest was really OK, so I'm quite happy. Yeah, everything was so clean until parallel bars and after that, high bar was really fantastic as well. You looked really …

Stuttgart World Cup (podium training) – Elisabeth Seitz interview

How was podium training today? ELISABETH: For me, podium training went well. I feel really good after the bronze medal at the World Championships, like extremely good, like I'm 18 again! (Laughs) Tomorrow I want to show some new skills and I want to do my Yurchenko double again. It's the first time in six …

Superstars of Gymnastics line-up complete

The Superstars of Gymnastics gala will take place on 23rd March at London's O2 arena and the final line-up has now been confirmed. From the press release: Led by Simone Biles and Max Whitlock, the Superstars of Gymnastics will showcase an exhibition of the very best talent in gymnastics over two sessions at The O2. …

English Championships 2019 – WAG recap

The 2019 Senior English Championships took place in Ilford, Essex on Saturday 2nd March, with a huge number of gymnasts on the start list. The GB national team members were scheduled to compete in the afternoon session, but there were some big names in the morning, too, with Danusia Francis, Jessica Castles and Chiara Bunce …

Ferrari’s way to Tokyo 2020

Italian gymnast Vanessa Ferrari has had a tough few years. Losing out on a bronze medal in Rio and coming fourth on floor at an Olympic Games for the second time in her career (she was narrowly beaten by Great Britain's Amy Tinkler), she then underwent Achilles surgery in late 2016. In a move that …

DTB Pokal Team Challenge 2019 – The MAG Teams

The MAG teams for the DTB Pokal 2019 have just been confirmed and these are the line-ups: Belgium Ward Claeys Daan Kenis Takumi Onoshima Luka van Den Keybus Kimmy Verbaeys Brazil Francisco Barretto Junior Tomas Florencio Bernardo Miranda Caio Souza Arthur Zanetti France Kevin Antoniotti Antoine Borello Kevin Carvalho Paul Degouy Jim Zona Germany I …