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2016 In Artistic Gymnastics
Below is a list of notable Artistic gymnastics, women's artistic gymnastics events scheduled to be held in 2016, as well as the medalists. Retirements Calendar of events International Medalists (WAG) Major Competitions International Championships Continental Championships Challenge Cup and World Cup Series Challenge Cup Series World Cup Series National Championships Note: Although England, Scotland, and Wales are listed as individual countries in the table below, gymnasts from these countries compete under the flag of United Kingdom, Great Britain at all major international competitions, except for the Commonwealth Games. Season's best international scores Note: Only the scores of senior gymnasts from international events have been included below. In major international competitions such as the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, World Championships, countries are limited to only two athletes in each final. Finalists in the 2016 Summer Olympics, 2016 Ol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artistic Gymnastics
Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different types of apparatus. The sport is governed by the Federation Internationale de Gymnastique, Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which assigns the ''Code of Points (artistic gymnastics), Code of Points'' used to score performances and regulates all aspects of elite international competition. Within individual countries, gymnastics is regulated by national federations such as British Gymnastics and USA Gymnastics. Artistic gymnastics is a popular spectator sport at many competitions, including the Summer Olympic Games. History The gymnastic system was mentioned in writings by ancient authors, including Homer, Aristotle, and Plato. It included many disciplines that later became independent sports, such as swimming, racing, wrestling, boxing, and Equestrianism, horse riding. It was also used for military training. Gymnastics evolved in Bohemia and what later became Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgia Villa
Giorgia Villa (born 23 February 2003) is an Italian Artistic gymnastics, artistic gymnast. She was a member of the teams that won silver at the Gymnastics at the 2024 Summer Olympics, 2024 Olympic Games and bronze at the 2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, 2019 World Championships. Additionally, she was part of the gold-winning teams at both the 2022 Mediterranean Games and the 2022 European Championships. Individually, she is the 2018, 2020, and 2021 Italian national champion, the Gymnastics at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics, 2018 Youth Olympic champion, and the 2018 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships, 2018 European junior all-around and beam champion. She is also a member of the Italy women's national gymnastics team, Italian national team. Early life Giorgia Villa was born in Ponte San Pietro, Italy, on February 23, 2003. She started gymnastics when she was four. In 2010 she moved to Brescia to train at the International Academy of Brixia, the sam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana Varinska
Diana Yevhenivna Varinska (, born 22 March 2001) is a retired Ukraine, Ukrainian Artistic gymnastics, artistic gymnast. She is the Gymnastics at the 2019 European Games, 2019 European Games all-around and balance beam bronze medalist. Additionally, she was a member of the team that won Ukraine's first European team title at the 2020 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships, 2020 European Championships. She represented Ukraine at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Junior career In 2015, Varinska competed in the European Youth Olympic Festival. She scored a 53.050 all-around in qualifications, which qualified her to the all-around final, and the uneven bars final. In the all-around, she scored a 51.100, placing 17th. In the uneven bars final, she came 4th, scoring 14.650: a significant improvement on her qualifying bars score of 14.100 and 2.5 points higher than her all-around bars score of 12.150. 2016 brought three international competitions for Varinska. In February, she swep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minsk
Minsk (, ; , ) is the capital and largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach (Berezina), Svislach and the now subterranean Nyamiha, Niamiha rivers. As the capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the administrative centre of Minsk region and Minsk district. it has a population of about two million, making Minsk the Largest cities in Europe, 11th-most populous city in Europe. Minsk is one of the administrative capitals of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). First mentioned in 1067, Minsk became the capital of the Principality of Minsk, an appanage of the Principality of Polotsk, before being annexed by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1242. It received town privileges in 1499. From 1569, it was the capital of Minsk Voivodeship, an administrative division of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It was part of the territories annexed by the Russian Empire in 1793, as a consequence of the Second Part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flávia Saraiva
Flávia Lopes Saraiva (born 30 September 1999) is a Brazilian artistic gymnast. She represented Brazil at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, and the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris where she won a bronze medal as part of the Brazilian team. She was also part of the teams that won silver at the 2023 World Championships, gold at the 2018 South American Games and bronze at the 2015 and 2019 Pan American Games. Individually she is the 2014 Summer Youth Olympic floor exercise champion, the 2023 World Championships floor exercise bronze medalist and is a multi-medalist at the Pan American Games, South American Games, and Pan American Championships. Junior career 2013 Saraiva's first international competition was the Houston National Invitational, where she finished 10th in the all-around competition. In August she competed at the Junior South American Championships in Sogamoso, Colombia where she helped Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lina Philipp
Lina ( ) is an international feminine given name, mostly the short form of a variety of names ending in ''-lina'' including Adelina, Angelina, Carmelina, Carolina, Catalina, Emelina, Evangelina, Evelina, Karolina, Italina, Marcelina, Melina, Nikolina, Paulina, Rosalina, and Žaklina. Apart from that it can be the feminine form of Lin, Lino, Linos (Λῖνος) or Linus. Languages of origin include: Arabic, English, Italian, Kurdish, Lithuanian, Persian, Russian, Sanskrit, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish. In 2011 and since it was one of the most popular given female names in Germany. ''beliebte-vornamen.de'', accessed August 14, 2012. Lina has been one of the most popular female names in France since 2019. In ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oksana Chusovitina
Oksana Aleksandrovna Chusovitina (; born 19 June 1975) is an Uzbekistani gymnastics, artistic gymnast who previously represented the Soviet Union and Germany. Chusovitina's career as an elite gymnast has spanned more than three decades. She won the USSR Junior Nationals in 1988 and began competing at the international level in 1989 before many of her current rivals were even born. She is the only gymnast ever to List of female artistic gymnasts with the most appearances at Olympic Games, compete in eight Olympic Games, and is one of only two female gymnasts to compete at the Olympics under three different national teams: the Unified Team in 1992; Uzbekistan in 1996, 2000, 2004, 2016 and 2020; and Germany in 2008 and 2012. She is one of the List of athletes with the most appearances at Olympic Games, 18 Olympians and 6 female Olympians to participate in 8 different Olympics. Chusovitina's longevity and consistency as an elite gymnast is exceptionally unusual; the skillset and wea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baku
Baku (, ; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Azerbaijan, largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and in the Caucasus region. Baku is below sea level, which makes it the List of capital cities by elevation, lowest lying national capital in the world and also the largest city in the world below sea level. Baku lies on the southern shore of the Absheron Peninsula, on the Bay of Baku. Baku's urban population was estimated at two million people as of 2009. Baku is the primate city of Azerbaijan—it is the sole metropolis in the country, and about 25% of all inhabitants of the country live in Baku's metropolitan area. Baku is divided into #Administrative divisions, twelve administrative raions and 48 townships. Among these are the townships on the islands of the Baku Archipelago, as well as the industrial settlement of Neft Daşları built on oil rigs away from Baku city in the Caspian Sea. The Old City (Baku), Old City, conta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sloane Blakely
Sloane Blakely (born December 23, 2002) is an American collegiate artistic gymnast and was a member of the United States women's national gymnastics team. She is currently competing for the Florida Gators in NCAA gymnastics. She is the older sister of gymnast Skye Blakely. Early life Blakely was born to Steven and Stephanie Blakely in 2002 in Dallas, Texas and has one sibling, Skye. She originally did ballet and tap dancing prior to starting gymnastics training. Gymnastics career 2016 Blakely qualified as a junior elite gymnast in 2016. She made her elite debut at the 2016 U.S. Classic where she placed 21st in the all-around. She next competed at the U.S. National Championships where she finished 18th. 2018 Blakely became age-eligible for senior level competition in 2018. She made her senior debut at the American Classic where she placed sixth in the all-around. Later that month she competed at the 2018 U.S. Classic where she placed seventh in the all-around and fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irina Alexeeva
Irina Nikolayevna Alexeeva or Alekseeva (, born 20 April 2002) is a Russian artistic gymnast and a former member of the Russian National Team. She was part of the teams that won the gold medal at the 2018 European Championships and the silver medal at the 2018 World Championships. Early life Alexeeva was born in Moscow, Russia, and began her gymnastics there training under Dina Kamalova, the same coach as eventual Olympic champion Aliya Mustafina. She has an elder brother, Andrey. In 2010, Alexeeva moved to the United States when she was 7 following Kamalova's departure, and resumed training under her at the World Olympic Gymnastics Academy, the same gym where Olympic champions Carly Patterson and Nastia Liukin trained and where eventual Olympic champion Madison Kocian was currently training. Gymnastics career 2016–2017 Alexeeva qualified as a junior elite gymnast in 2016, making her elite debut at the American Classic that May. She finished third in the all-around an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madison Kocian
Madison Taylor Kocian (born June 15, 1997) is an American retired artistic gymnast. On the uneven bars, she is one of four 2015 World co-champions and the 2016 Olympic silver medalist. She was part of the gold medal-winning team dubbed the " Final Five" at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, and she was a member of the first-place American teams at the 2014 and 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. She graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2020, where she was a member of its women's gymnastics team. She helped the UCLA Bruins win the 2018 NCAA Championships. Early life Kocian was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. Her parents, Thomas and Cindy Kocian, put her in gymnastics at a young age. At age five, she began training at the World Olympic Gymnastics Academy (WOGA) in Plano, Texas. WOGA was the gym where Olympic all-around champions Carly Patterson and Nastia Liukin trained. Patterson and Liukin served as early inspirations for Kocian, p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nagi Kajita
is a Japanese artistic gymnast. She competed at the 2018 and 2019 World Championships. She is the 2016 Pacific Rim bronze medalist in the all-around and on the uneven bars. Career Junior Kajita made her international debut at the 2014 WOGA Classic and placed eighth in the all-around with a score of 51.850. She placed sixth on the floor exercise at the 2014 All-Japan Event Championships. In 2015, Kajita competed again at the WOGA Classic where she won the silver medal in the all-around behind American Elena Arenas. She placed seventh on the uneven bars at the Japanese Event Championships. At the Junior Japan International in Yokohama, she finished fourth on the uneven bars with a score of 13.666. Senior 2016-2017 Kajita made her senior international debut at the 2016 WOGA Classic where she won the all-around gold medal with a total score of 55.650. At the International Gymnix in Montreal, she tied for the bronze medal on the balance beam with Eythora Thorsdottir. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
