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2019 In Gymnastics
The following were the events of gymnastics for the year 2019 throughout the world. Acrobatic gymnastics * March 8 – 10: FIG World Cup 2019 (AcG #1) in Maia ** Pair winners: (Timofei Ivanov & Maksim Karavaev) (m) / (Rita Ferreira & Ana Teixeira) (f) ** Mixed Pair winners: (Victoria Aksenova & Kirill Startsev) ** Men's Group winners: (Henrique Piqueiro, Frederico Silva, Henrique Silva, & Miguel Silva) ** Women's Group winners: (Daria Chebulanka, Anastasiia Parshina, & Kseniia Zagoskina) * March 22 – 24: FIG World Cup 2019 (AcG #2) in Las Vegas ** Pair winners: (Daniyel Dil & Vadim Shulyar) (m) / (Rita Ferreira & Ana Teixeira) (f) ** Mixed Pair winners: (Victoria Aksenova & Kirill Startsev) ** Men's Group winners: (FU Zhi, GUO Pei, JIANG Heng, & ZHANG Junshuo) ** Women's Group winners: ( Julia Ivonchyk, Veranika Nabokina, & Karina Sandovich) * April 12 – 14: FIG World Cup 2019 (AcG #3) in Puurs ** Pair winners: (Timofei Ivanov & Maksim Karavaev) (m) / (Rita Ferr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gymnastics
Gymnastics is a group of sport that includes physical exercises requiring Balance (ability), balance, Strength training, strength, Flexibility (anatomy), flexibility, agility, Motor coordination, coordination, artistry and endurance. The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, shoulders, back, chest, and Abdomen, abdominal muscle groups. Gymnastics evolved from exercises used by the Ancient Greece, ancient Greeks that included skills for mounting and dismounting a horse. The most common form of competitive gymnastics is artistic gymnastics (AG); for women, the events include floor (gymnastics), floor, vault (gymnastics), vault, uneven bars, and balance beam; for men, besides floor and vault, it includes still rings, rings, pommel horse, parallel bars, and horizontal bar. The governing body for competition in gymnastics throughout the world is the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG). Eight sports are governed by the FIG, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanessa Ferrari
Vanessa Ferrari (born 10 November 1990) is a retired Italian Artistic gymnastics, artistic gymnast. She was the 2006 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, 2006 World All-Around Champion and competed for Italy at the 2008 Summer Olympics, 2008, 2012 Summer Olympics, 2012, 2016 Summer Olympics, 2016, and 2020 Summer Olympics, 2020 Summer Olympic Games, Summer Olympics, winning a silver medal on Gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's floor, floor exercise in 2020. In doing so, Ferrari became the first Italian to win an individual Olympic medal in Women's artistic gymnastics, Women's Artistic Gymnastics, and the first medallist for the Italian Italy women's national gymnastics team, women's team since the 1928 Summer Olympics. She is a five-time World medallist and eight-time European medallist, and is currently the most decorated Italy women's national artistic gymnastics team#Most decorated gymnasts, Italian gymnast of all time. Personal life Ferrari was born on 10 N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epke Zonderland
Epke Jan Zonderland (born 16 April 1986) is a Dutch artistic gymnast and the 2012 Olympic gold medallist on high bar. He is a 4-time Olympian (2008–20) and has also taken 3 World Championships golds on high bar at the 2013, 2014 and 2018 World Championships, the first man to secure this feat on that apparatus. He is nicknamed "The Flying Dutchman.” Early life Zonderland was born on 16 April 1986 in Lemmer, Netherlands. He started gymnastics at the age of four. He has two brothers (Herre and Johan) and one sister (Geeske) who are also international gymnasts. Zonderland enrolled to study medicine at the University of Groningen in 2006. He took 12 years to complete his degree in medicine as he was pursuing his career in gymnastics at the same time, and qualified as a medical doctor in 2018. Gymnastics career 2004 Zonderland reached his first international success as a junior in 2004. At the European Junior Championships in Ljubljana he was fourth in the all-around event a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yang Hak-seon
Yang Hak-seon ( ; born 6 December 1992) is a South Korean artistic gymnast who specialises in the vault. He is the first South Korean gymnast to win an Olympic gold medal. Personal life According to his Olympic profile, Yang started his gymnastics career at the age of 9, following his brother's footsteps. Yang is currently attending the Korea National Sport University. Yang's parents are Yang Gwan-gwon and Ki Suk-hyang. Their impoverished family previously lived in one of Gwangju's shantytowns, before relocating to North Jeolla Province's Gochang, in South Korea's countryside, in 2010, after his father, a construction worker, suffered from serious injuries. His family currently lives in a makeshift converted greenhouse constructed from PVC pipes. After Yang's father lost his job, Yang supported the family with a modest income from the Korea Gymnastic Association. Yang's coach Cho Sung-doe admitted that he had been unaware of the family's precarious financial situation befor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jade Carey
Jade Ashtyn Carey (born May 27, 2000) is an American artistic gymnast. She represented the United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics as an individual, and at the 2024 Summer Olympics as a member of the U.S. women's team, nicknamed the "Golden Girls (gymnastics), Golden Girls". Best known for her abilities on vault and floor exercise, she is the Gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics, 2020 Olympic champion on Gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's floor, floor exercise and the Gymnastics at the 2024 Summer Olympics, 2024 Olympic bronze medalist on Gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's vault, vault. On floor exercise, she is a two-time World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, World medalist (2017 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, 2017 silver, 2022 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, 2022 bronze), the 2018 Pan American Gymnastics Championships, 2018 Pan American Champion, and a four-time American national silver medalist (2017–2019, 2022). On vau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artem Dolgopyat
Artem Olegovich Dolgopyat (; ; born 16 June 1997) is a Ukrainian-born Israeli artistic gymnast who specializes in the floor exercise. He is the 2020 Olympic champion and the 2023 World champion in the floor exercise. He also won two silver medals at the 2017 and 2019 World Championships in the floor exercise, and is the 2020 and 2022 European champion of that exercise. Dolgopyat won the silver medal in Men's floor representing Israel at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Early life Dolgopyat was born in Dnipropetrovsk (now Dnipro), Ukraine. Dolgopyat's father Oleg, a former gymnast, is Jewish, and Dolgopyat's mother Angela Bilan is not Jewish. In 2009, at the age of 12, Dolgopyat immigrated with his family to Israel, where they first lived in Lod and then in Rishon LeZion.Nadav Zenziper (July 24, 2024)"'Some gymnasts post support for Palestinians, I block them immediately',"''Ynet''. He joined the gymnastics team of Maccabi Tel Aviv where he was trained by Israeli coach Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leanne Wong
Leanne Ashley Wong (born September 20, 2003) is an American artistic gymnast. She was a member of the gold medal winning teams at the 2022 World Championships, 2023 World Championships, and the 2019 Pan American Games. She is the 2021 World all-around silver medalist, floor exercise bronze medalist, and was an alternate for the 2020 Olympic team and 2024 Olympic team. Junior gymnastics career 2017 Wong qualified as an elite gymnast at the Parkettes National Qualifier in May alongside club teammate Kara Eaker, where she scored a 51.900 in the all-around to qualify to nationals. She later competed at the American Classic in Texas, winning gold medals in the all-around and on vault. At the end of July, Wong competed at the Secret U.S. Classic, where she placed ninth in the all-around and sixth on vault. Wong competed at her first national championships in August. Wong continued to impress on vault with a two-night score of 29.45, winning the national title on the ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yul Moldauer
Yul Kyung-Tae Moldauer (born August 26, 1996) is an American artistic gymnast. He is the 2017 U.S. national all-around champion and the 2017 World bronze medalist on floor exercise. He has been a member of the United States men's national artistic gymnastics team since 2017 and represented the United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics and was a member of the bronze medal-winning team at the 2023 World Championships. Early life and education Moldauer was born in Seoul, South Korea on August 16, 1996, and named Kyung-Tae. Because his biological mother was chemically dependent, his adoptive father was told he might not develop into a "productive adult." Before he was a year old, Peter Moldauer adopted him and named him Yul after the actor Yul Brynner. Moldauer has three siblings, Leah, Sorcha and Sundo. He grew up on a farm in Colorado and attended Golden High School. He later attended the University of Oklahoma and graduated in May 2020 with a degree in communications. Junior ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greensboro, North Carolina
Greensboro (; ) is a city in Guilford County, North Carolina, United States, and its county seat. At the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, its population was 299,035; it was estimated to be 307,381 in 2024. It is the List of municipalities in North Carolina, third-most populous city in North Carolina, after Charlotte, North Carolina, Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina, Raleigh, and the List of United States cities by population, 69th-most populous city in the United States. The population of the Greensboro–High Point metropolitan statistical area was estimated to be 789,842 in 2023. The Piedmont Triad region, of which Greensboro is the most populous city, had an estimated population of 1,736,099 in 2023. In 1808, Greensboro was planned around a central courthouse square to succeed Guilford Court House, North Carolina, Guilford Court House as the county seat. The county courts were thus placed closer to the county's geographical center, a location more easily reached a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup Series
The 2019 FIG World Cup circuit in Artistic Gymnastics is a series of competitions officially organized and promoted by the International Gymnastics Federation ( FIG) in 2019. All four of the Apparatus World Cup series competitions (Melbourne, Baku, Doha, and Cottbus) will serve as opportunities for gymnasts to earn points towards Olympic qualification through the FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup series route. Schedule World Cup series World Challenge Cup series Medalists Men World Cup series World Challenge Cup series = World Challenge Cup series winners = Women World Cup series World Challenge Cup series = World Challenge Cup series winners = See also * 2019 FIG Rhythmic Gymnastics World Cup series References {{DEFAULTSORT:FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup Series, 2019 2019 in gymnastics 2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fan Yilin
Fan Yilin ( zh, s=范忆琳, t=范憶琳, p=Fàn Yìlín; born 11 November 1999) is a Chinese artistic gymnast and uneven bars specialist. She is a two-time world champion on the uneven bars (2015, 2017) and the 2015 Asian champion on balance beam. At the 2015 World Championships, she was part of the first ever four-way tie along with Viktoria Komova, Daria Spiridonova, and Madison Kocian. Domestically, she is a four-time Chinese national uneven bars champion (2015, 2016, 2020, 2021). She was a member of the Chinese team at the 2016 Summer Olympics, where she won a bronze medal in the team competition, and competed at the 2020 Olympic Games. Early life Fan Yilin was born on 11 November 1999 in Taizhou, Zhejiang. Her father, Fan Bingzhu, is a former professional wrestler. Fan began gymnastics at the age of six in order to improve her health since she had been ill as a child. Junior career In 2013, Fan represented Zhejiang in the 1999–2000 Junior National Championships. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liu Yang (gymnast)
Liu Yang (; born 11 August 1994) is a Chinese artistic gymnast. He is the two-time Olympic and two-time world champion on rings. He was a member of the Chinese team who won gold at the 2014 World Championships and silver at the 2023 World Championships. He was also part of the Chinese team who won bronze in the team competition at the 2016 Olympics. Career Liu began gymnastics when he was five years old. At the 2013 Cottbus World Cup, Liu won the silver medal on the rings behind Greek gymnast Eleftherios Petrounias. He finished fourth in the rings final at the 2013 World Championships. At the 2014 World Championships, Liu competed alongside Cheng Ran, Deng Shudi, Lin Chaopan, You Hao, and Zhang Chenglong, and they won the gold medal in the team event. Individually, he won the gold medal on rings. He said on winning the rings gold medal, "I am very, very excited that I won the gold medal today and I wish to thank my teammates and my brothers and my sisters who have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
