Olympic champions Krisztian Berki (HUN) and Epke Zonderland (NED) won the gold medals on respectively pommel horse and high bar at the 2013 Magyar Grand Prix. Casimir Schmidt (VT/FX), Yuri van Gelder (SR) and Vasileios Tsolakidis (PB) took the other gold medals.
Noemi Makra (HUN) won two gold medals (VT, UB) in the women’s competition.
Gymnastics Canada is hiring. Deadline for application Oct 4th.
The primary responsibility of the Program Director – ArG is the overall leadership and management of the Men’s and Women’s Artistic Gymnastics (MAG & WAG) programs within the scope of the GCG strategic and operational plans.
The Program Director works and makes decision in consultation with the Chief Technical Officer (CTO), National Team Directors, MAG & WAG Program Committees and Program Assemblies. …
If you Google, you’ll find any number of sources saying that intensive training in Women’s Artistic Gymnastics stunts and / or alters growth and development.
FIG called a colloquium of experts February 2011 to discuss the issue.
Results were published June 2013.
Sports Medicine – Role of Intensive Training in the Growth and Maturation of Artistic Gymnasts:
1. Adult height or near adult height of female and male artistic gymnasts is not compromised by intensive gymnastics training.
2. Gymnastics training does not appear to attenuate growth of upper (sitting height) or lower (legs) body segment lengths.
3. Gymnastics training does not appear to attenuate pubertal growth and maturation, neither rate of growth nor the timing and tempo of the growth spurt.
4. Available data are inadequate to address the issue of intensive gymnastics training and alterations within the endocrine system.
This week, 2012 Olympic team gold medalist, Kyla Ross, and her mom, Kiana, join us. Kyla tells us about training smart after time off, upgrades, her fantasy tumbling skill, the status of her Amanar, who she looks up to in the gym, overcoming fear and mental blocks, her infamous Championships lipstick and the “saviors of the US team.”
Kiana reveals who gave the family the most important advice about going pro, why Gym-Max is so unique and the best advice she ever received about navigating the world of elite gymnastics. …
