Category: history

Paul Hall new GBR Head Coach

Hall, who has been associated with Huntingdon Gymnastics Club for a quarter-of-a-century and as head coach since 2003, begins work in his new role next week. …

“When offered the job it was a very difficult decision as Huntingdon Gymnastics Club has been such a massive part of my life, but it was made so much easier by the fact that Huntingdon operates so smoothly with great staff and trustees.

“I’m very proud and very pleased with how the club has developed and feel sure I leave it in safe hands for the future. …

Hall’s first big event as Great Britain chief is the European Championships in Glasgow at the beginning of August….

Paul Hall leaves behind a Huntingdon Gymnastics Club legacy as he begins work as Great Britain men’s head coach

best Amanars

1. McKayla Maroney
2. Simone Biles
3. Monica Rosu
4. Cheng Fei
5. Elizabeth Price
6. Hong Un Jong

Balance Beam Situation – AMANAR RANKINGS

Click through to see the top 32 all time.

While McKayla Maroney has done the best woman Shewfelt 😀competed, I’ve always used Cheng Fei as the model of an ideal Amanar.

top 15 gymnasts all time

As ranked by Mary Emma. 😀

Simone in 2015

Gymnastics Greatest Stars on YouTube

I watched this classic hundreds of times back in the day.

1991 video with highlights of the best gymnastics from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (90min)

(via GymCastic)

Nastia, Andreea, Paul, Alexei and Slava Corn

Honoured last night at the 22nd annual International Gymnastics Magazine Hall of Fame (IGHOF) ceremony in Oklahoma.

All are super famous aside from Slava who’s been one of our best FIG Executive Committee volunteers since 1992. She would have been an excellent President of FIG but consistently declined to run.

Congratulations.

Rome Milan’s traveling museum of Gymnastics history

If you’ve seen Rome Milan’s collection at an American Gymnastics meet, you will remember him.

Rome is passionate:

I have a desire to educate young gymnasts of the evolution of the greatest sport on earth, Gymnastics.

For many years I have traveled to various gymnastics events around the country to display vintage equipment and historic pictures of the sport … in order to educate people.

Recently, I have been diagnosed with ALS. This has pushed me to complete the projects that I have began and to search for an opportunity to continue to promote these vintage Gymnastics Displays.

The campaign

… All expenses for travel, truck rental, signage, and purchases have been mostly on my own. Now with my diagnosis, it will be difficult to keep these displays going. I will need approximately $4000 to bring the display to National Gymnastics Congress in Rhode Island. Please help me bring the History and the evolution of our sport to the young athletes, so they can appreciate how our sport has evolved.

Sponsor.me

Friedrich Ludwig Jahn in St. Louis

After NCAA Nationals while walking in Forest Park, close to the site of the 1904 Olympics, I happened upon this statue of one of the historical founders of Gymnastics.

On either side are statues of a male and female athlete.

Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (11 August 1778 – 15 October 1852) was a German gymnastics educator and nationalist. His admirers know him as Turnvater Jahn, roughly meaning “father of gymnastics” Jahn. …

The first Turnplatz, or open-air gymnasium, was opened by Jahn in Berlin in 1811, and the Turnverein (gymnastics association) movement spread rapidly. …

A man of populistic nature, rugged, eccentric and outspoken, Jahn often came into conflict with the authorities. …

Jahn promoted the use of parallel bars, rings and high bar in international competition. In honor and memory of him, some gymnastic clubs, called Turnvereine (German: Turnvereine), took up his name …

Minnesota’s celebrates NCAA Championships

… finishing second to Oklahoma at the national championships on April 21 in Chicago. In what Burns called one of his proudest moments ever, the Gophers hit all 32 routines and earned 11 All-America citations.

Freshman Shane Wiskus of Mound-Westonka, the Big Ten Gymnast of the Year, was second in the all-around competition …

Burns was named the College Gymnastics Association Central Region Coach of the Year, and Wiskus was named Rookie of the Year.

Gophers men’s gymnastics figured it out at NCAA meet

Congratulations to Mike Burns, his staff and the Gophers.

GOPHERS FINISH AS NATIONAL RUNNER-UP