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2020 American Cup
The 2020 American Cup was part of the World Cup circuit in artistic gymnastics. It was the only All-Around World Cup help in 2020 as the others were canceled due to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. Background The American Cup was originally to be the first of four All-Around World Cups to be used as a way for countries to qualify an additional Olympic berth for the 2020 Olympic Games. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the remaining World Cups in Birmingham, Stuttgart, and Tokyo were originally postponed until 2021 after the postponement of the 2020 Summer Olympics. However, in 2021 the World Cups were officially canceled and the Olympic berths were awarded to the top three countries from qualification during the 2019 World Championships. For men's artistic gymnastics this was Russia, China, and Japan; for women's it was the United States, China, and Russia. Participants The top 12 teams from the 2019 World Championships were allowed to send a competitor. For women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Gymnastics Federation
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 (gymnastics), 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Gadirova
Jennifer Gadirova (born 3 October 2004) is an English artistic gymnast of Irish birth and Azerbaijani descent, representing Great Britain internationally. She represented Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in the team event, and was part of the Great Britain team to win silver, their best ever result, in the team event at the 2022 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships and the same medal at the 2022 European Championships. Competing at the 2019 Junior World Championships, she won a silver medal in the vault final. Jennifer Gadirova is the twin sister and teammate of the 2022 World Champion on floor exercise, Jessica Gadirova. Personal life Gadirova and her twin sister Jessica were born in Dublin, Ireland, and are of Azerbaijani background. Their father, Natig Gadirov, is a citizen of Azerbaijan and their mother is Azerbaijani as well. Gadirova was born in Dublin while her parents worked there for a few months; as a result she has Azeri, I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Toba
Andreas Toba (born 7 October 1990 in Hanover) is a German gymnast. He is a three-time Olympian, having represented Germany at the Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2012, Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics, 2016, and Gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics, 2020 Olympic Games. Personal life Toba is the son of former Romanian-German gymnast Marius Toba, who competed at three Olympic Games from 1988 to 2000. He's currently a student in Hannover. Career Toba started off for TK Hannover and is trained by Reinhard Rückriem. At the 2008 Junior European championship in Lausanne, Toba won the bronze medal with his team and placed 7th on the high bar and 9th in the multiple stage-competition respectively. Toba entered the German national team in 2009. In the 2009 German championship, he placed 6th in the multiple stage competition and 7th one year later. In 2011, he won Bronze on the high bar and placed 4th on the bars and on the pommel horse. He placed 4th in the multiple-stag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Voss
Sarah Voss (born 21 October 1999) is a German artistic gymnast. She represented Germany at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She is the 2019 and 2022 German all-around national champion and competed in the 2018 and 2019 World Championships. She was part of the bronze medal-winning German team at the 2022 European Championships. Personal life Voss was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1999. She currently resides in Dormagen and trains at TZ DSHS Köln. Gymnastics career 2015 Voss turned senior in 2015 and competed at the German National Championships where she placed sixth in the all-around, fifth on uneven bars, and sixth on floor exercise. In October she competed at the Worlds Selection Trials where she once again placed sixth in the all-around but was not named to the team to compete at the 2015 World Championships. The following week she competed at the Länderkampf Kunstturnen where she helped Germany finish second behind Brazil. Voss finished the season at the Toyota Inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorette Charpy
Lorette Eugenie Adrienne Margue Charpy (born December 3, 2001) is a French artistic gymnast. She was part of the team that won silver at the 2018 European Championships and individually she is the 2019 European Games all-around silver medalist and 2019 European Championships bronze medalist on the balance beam.https://gymnasticsresults.com/results/2018/worlds/documents/wag/teamsfinal.pdf Career Junior: 2012-2016 Charpy joined the French national team at age ten in 2012. In 2015, she was first in all-around, second on uneven bars, and third on balance beam in the junior category at French Championships. 2017 Charpy became a senior in 2017. She won gold on uneven bars and bronze in floor exercise at the 2017 French Championships, narrowly missing the podium with fourth on balance beam and fifth in all-around. 2018 Charpy competed at the American Cup, winning bronze on uneven bars. At French Championships, she was third all-around, first on balance beam and third in fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hu Xuwei
Hu Xuwei (; born 25 February 1997) is a Chinese artistic gymnast. He competed in the 2019 Asian Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, winning gold medals in both the team event and the Horizontal bar final and winning silver in the all-around and parallel bar finals. At the 2021 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships he qualified in third for the parallel bars event and second for the horizontal bar event. He went on to win both the Parallel Bar final and the Horizontal Bar final; becoming the first athlete to hold both bar titles in a single World Championship since Boris Shakhlin in the 1958 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships The 14th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held on July 6–10, 1958 in Moscow, the capital of the USSR. Medallists Men's Results All-around Floor exercise Pommel horse Rings Vault Parallel bars Horizontal bar Team .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Hu, Xuwei 1997 births Living people Chin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhang Jin (gymnast)
Zhang Jin (; born 25 November 2000) is a Chinese artistic gymnast. She is a 2018 World bronze medalist and 2018 Asian Games champion in the team event. She is also the 2018 Asian Games bronze medalist on the balance beam and the 2018 Stuttgart World Cup all-around champion. She represented China at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Early life Zhang Jin was born on 25 November 2000 in Shanghai. She began gymnastics when she was four years old. Junior career Zhang competed on the vault and the balance beam at the 2014 Chinese Championships and helped the Shanghai team finish fourth. She made her international debut at the 2015 Austrian Team Open and helped the Chinese team win the gold medal. Then at the 2015 Chinese Championships, she won the silver medal in the team event and finished twenty-second in the all-around final. At the 2015 National Youth Games, Zhang helped her provincial team finish fourth. She then competed at the 2015 Olympic Hopes Cup in Liberec and won the sil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Cournoyer
René Cournoyer (born April 23, 1997) is a Canadian artistic gymnast, who has competed internationally since 2014. Career At the 2014 Pan American Youth Gymnastics Championships, Cournoyer qualified for the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China. At the games, Cournoyer finished in 19th in the all-around, 6th in the vault and 7th in the horizontal bar. Cournoyer was named to his first senior national team for the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto. At the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia, Cournoyer was part of the silver medal winning team, along with three fourth place finishes in the individual finals (rings, vault and parallel bars). At the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, Cournoyer won bronze in the team event, while finishing fourth in the individual all-around. At the 2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Cournoyer finished in 43rd in the individual all around, which was high enough to qualify him for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellie Black
Elsabeth Ann "Ellie" Black (born September 8, 1995) is a Canadian artistic gymnastics, artistic gymnast. She is a three-time Olympian, having represented her country at the Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2012, Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics, 2016, and Gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics, 2020 Olympic Games. She is the 2017 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships, 2017 World Glossary of gymnastics terms#all-around, all-around silver medalist, making her the first Canadian gymnast to win a world all-around medal, and she led the Canadian women's gymnastics team to a bronze medal in the 2022 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, 2022 World Championships team final, the first world team medal won by a Canadian gymnastics team. She won a silver medal on the balance beam at the 2022 World Championships. She is also the 2018 Commonwealth Games all-around champion, a two-time Gymnastics at the Pan American Games, Pan American Games all-around champion (2015 Pan Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diogo Soares (gymnast)
Diogo Brajão Soares (born 12 April 2002) is a Brazilian artistic gymnast and a member of the national team. He participated in the 2018 Youth Olympic Games and the 2019 Junior World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. He competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Career Junior Soares' first major international competition was the 2016 Pan American Individual Event Artistic Gymnastics Championships where he won a silver medal with the Brazilian team. In 2018, Soares competed at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics The 2018 Summer Youth Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de la Juventud de 2018), officially known as the III Summer Youth Olympic Games, and commonly known as Buenos Aires 2018, were an international multi-sport event, sports, cultural, and edu ..., earning a bronze medal in the all-around and a silver medal in the horizontal bar. At the 2019 Junior World Artistic Gymnastics Championships he earned a silver medal in rings. Personal life Diogo Soares started gymnastics at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgia Godwin
Georgia Godwin (born 28 October 1997) is an Australian artistic gymnast. She is the 2022 Commonwealth Games all-around and vault champion and the team, uneven bars and balance beam silver-medalist. She is also the 2018 Commonwealth Games all-around silver medalist and the team and uneven bars bronze medalist. She represented Australia at the 2020 Summer Olympics and was the third reserve for the all-around final. She is also a two-time World Cup silver medalist. Early life Georgia Godwin was born on 28 October 1997 in Southport, Queensland. She has Japanese heritage on her mother's side of the family. She began gymnastics when she was three years old, and was also involved in tennis and athletics as a child. Career Godwin won the all-around titles at both the 2011 and 2012 Junior Australian Championships. She made her senior debut at the 2013 Australian Championships and finished third in the all-around, second on vault, fifth on the uneven bars, fourth on the balance beam, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
