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2016 FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup Series
The 2016 FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup series was a series of stages where events in men's and women's artistic gymnastics Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different apparatuses. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which designs the Code of Points and regulates ... were contested. World Cup stages Medalists Men Women See also * 2016 FIG Rhythmic Gymnastics World Cup series References {{Artistic gymnastics world cup series Artistic Gymnastics World Cup 2016 in gymnastics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fédération Internationale De Gymnastique
The International Gymnastics Federation (French: Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique, FIG) is the body governing all disciplines of competitive gymnastics. Its headquarters is in Lausanne, Switzerland. It was founded on July 23, 1881, in Liège, Belgium, making it the world's oldest existing international sports organisation. Originally called the European Federation of Gymnastics, it had three member countries—Belgium, France and the Netherlands—until 1921, when non-European countries were admitted and it received its current name. The federation sets the rules, known as the Code of Points, that regulate how gymnasts' performances are evaluated. Seven gymnastics disciplines are governed by the FIG: artistic gymnastics, further classified as men's artistic gymnastics (MAG) and women's artistic gymnastics (WAG); rhythmic gymnastics (RG); aerobic gymnastics (AER); acrobatic gymnastics (ACRO); trampolining (TRA); Double mini trampoline (DMT), tumbling (TUM) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
São Paulo
São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for 'Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the GaWC as an alpha global city, São Paulo is the most populous city proper in the Americas, the Western Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere, as well as the world's 4th largest city proper by population. Additionally, São Paulo is the largest Portuguese-speaking city in the world. It exerts strong international influences in commerce, finance, arts and entertainment. The city's name honors the Apostle, Saint Paul of Tarsus. The city's metropolitan area, the Greater São Paulo, ranks as the most populous in Brazil and the 12th most populous on Earth. The process of conurbation between the metropolitan areas around the Greater São Paulo (Campinas, Santos, Jundiaí, Sorocaba and São José dos Campos) created the São Paulo Macrometr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danell Leyva
Danell Johan Leyva (born October 30, 1991) is a Cuban-American former gymnast who competed for the United States. He is the 2012 Olympic individual all-around bronze medalist and 2016 Olympic parallel bars and horizontal bar silver medalist. He is also the 2011 US national all-around gold medalist and the 2011 world champion on the parallel bars. In gymnastics, Leyva was a specialist on parallel bars and horizontal bar, having his own signature move (jam-dislocate-hop to undergrips) on the latter. Personal life Leyva has a sister, Dayanis Mesa, who is a television host. His stepfather and coach, Yin Alvarez (famous for his sideline theatrics during Danell's routines) and mother, Maria Gonzalez, were both members of Cuba's national gymnastics team. Gonzalez and Leyva defected to Miami when Leyva was two years old. Alvarez defected by swimming across the Rio Grande to the United States while his team was competing in Mexico. Together, Alvarez and Gonzalez opened a gym in Miam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Bretschneider
Andreas Bretschneider (born August 4, 1989) is a German artistic gymnast and member of the national team. He participated at the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Glasgow, and eventually competed for the German squad at the 2016 Summer Olympics, finishing seventh in the artistic team all-around tournament, and twentieth in the individual all-around. Bretschneider has one competition-verified original skill named after him on the horizontal bar, the double-twisting (tucked) Kovac. It has a difficulty score of H, one of the highest in men's gymnastics. Bretschneider was once widely expected to advance the ''Bretschneider'' on the horizontal bar himself to layout in competition, and the skill was scored ahead of time by the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) and unofficially coined the ''Bretschneider 2'' on the horizontal bar to better facilitate him as they awaited for the skill to be successfully completed in competition. He had started submitting the skill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Purvis
Daniel Scott Purvis (born 13 November 1990 in Crosby, England) is a Scottish former international elite artistic gymnast, and three-time British all-around champion in men's artistic gymnastics. He trained at Southport YMCA and was coached by Jeff Brookes and Andrei Popov. He was part of the first British men's team to win a medal at a World Championships in 2015. Junior career During his time as a junior he came 4th in the team for Great Britain at the Junior European Championships in Greece in 2006. Two years later in Lausanne he helped the British team win the gold medal, and individually won the all-around silver at the Junior European Championships again. Senior career 2010 In 2010, Purvis became the British men's all-around champion with Samuel Hunter. In the same year, he attended the European Gymnastics Championships in Birmingham, UK, and won a silver medal as part of the British team, and a bronze medal on floor. At the World Gymnastics Championships in Rotterdam, Net ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Mariano
Arthur Nory Oyakawa Mariano (born 18 September 1993) is a Brazilian artistic gymnast and a member of the Brazilian national team. He participated in the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, placing fourth in the horizontal bar and 12th all-around. He won the bronze medal in floor exercise at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. He is the 2019 World Champion on horizontal bar. Early life Mariano was born in 1993, in Campinas, to a Brazilian father and a Japanese mother. He practiced judo in a club as a child, following his father's footsteps. Mariano changed his mind after watching a gymnastics class. After his parents' divorce, Mariano moved with his mother to São Paulo, where he entered in a gymnastics team in another club. When he was eleven, Mariano joined Esporte Clube Pinheiros. Mariano won the Brazilian Child Gymnastics Championship when he was fourteen. Controversy In 2015, Mariano and fellow gymnasts Felipe Arakawa and Henrique Flores were suspende ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Whitlock
Max Antony Whitlock (born 13 January 1993) is a British artistic gymnast. With fourteen medals and six titles in Olympic and world championships, Whitlock is the most successful gymnast in his nation's history, and the most successful pommel horse worker in gymnastics history; he has 8 global medals in the apparatus, including 5 global gold medals (two Olympic gold, 3 World gold). He is a six-time Olympic medalist (all-round, team, floor exercise and three times on his signature piece, pommel horse), winning three golds and three bronzes, and a five time world medalist on the pommel horse with three gold and two silvers. Whitlock became the UK's first ever Olympic gold medalist in artistic gymnastics when he won both the men's floor and pommel horse exercises at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Personal life Whitlock was born in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, on 13 January 1993. He was introduced to gymnastics by a friend from a swimming club when he was seven and joined the Sap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 Glasgow World Cup
The 2016 Glasgow World Cup is an FIG World Cup event that was held on 12 March 2016 at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow, Scotland. Participants Women * Madison Copiak * Claudia Fragapane * Enus Mariani * Elisabeth Seitz * MyKayla Skinner * Asuka Teramoto * Vera Van Pol Men * Christian Baumann * David Belyavskiy * Yu Cen * Marvin Kimble * Junho Lee * Arthur Mariano (aka Nory) * Daniel Purvis * Max Whitlock Max Antony Whitlock (born 13 January 1993) is a British artistic gymnast. With fourteen medals and six titles in Olympic and world championships, Whitlock is the most successful gymnast in his nation's history, and the most successful pommel h ... * Masayoshi Yamamoto Results Women's All-Around Men's All-Around References {{2016 in artistic gymnastics Glasgow World Cup Glasgow World Cup Glasgow World Cup Glasgow World Cup Glasgow World Cup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wei Sun (gymnast)
Sun Wei is the name of: * Sun Wei (painter) (9th century), Tang dynasty Chinese painter * Sun Wei (engineer) (1935–2019), Chinese civil engineer * Sun Wei (baseball) (born 1976), Chinese baseball player * Sun Wei (fencer) (born 1992), Chinese fencer * Sun Wei (gymnast) (born 1995), Chinese gymnast * , Chinese politician * Sun Wei (born 1961) Sun Wei (; born December 1961) is a Chinese politician who is the current party branch secretary of the Hubei Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Previously he served as deputy party secretary of Gansu, ..., Chinese politician * Wei Sun Christianson (born 1956), Chinese-American businesswoman {{Hndis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donnell Whittenburg
Donnell Whittenburg (born August 18, 1994) is an American artistic gymnast whose strongest events are rings (gymnastics), rings, vault (gymnastics), vault, and floor (gymnastics), floor. Early life Whittenburg is from central Baltimore, Maryland. Career Whittenburg won a bronze medal at the 2014 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. He was the 2014 U.S. National champion on Vault and is the 2015 U.S. national champion on rings. At the 2014 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Whittenburg won the bronze medal in the team event with the Americans, and contributed scored on floor exercise (15.300), still rings (14.766), vault (14.966) and parallel bars (14.633). At the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, he won the individual bronze medal on vault with an average combined score of 15.350 behind Ri Se Gwang of North Korea (15.450) and Marian Drăgulescu of Romania (15.400). He also qualified for the individual still rings event final but finished in eight place with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 AT&T American Cup
The 2016 American Cup, known as the 2016 AT&T American Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the fortieth edition of the American Cup, part of the World Cup circuit in artistic gymnastics. It was held on March 5, 2016, at the Prudential Center in Newark. Gabrielle Douglas of the United States won the women's competition, and Ryohei Kato of Japan won the men's. USA Gymnastics promoted the event as the beginning of preparations for the 2016 Olympic Games. For the seventh year, the competition was held in conjunction with the Nastia Liukin Cup. For the first time, it was also held in conjunction with the Elite Team Cup, a men's competition. It was the first time that USA Gymnastics held a national artistic gymnastics competition in New Jersey. Two days beforehand, on March 3, 2016, it was announced that the 2017 AT&T American Cup would also be held at the Prudential Center. Background On March 4, 2015, USA Gymnastics announced that the 2016 AT&T American Cup had been awarded to the P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
