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Sydney Turner (gymnast)
Sydney Leslie Turner (born August 17, 2005) is a Canadian artistic gymnast. She was part of Canada's historic team bronze medal at the 2022 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, 2022 World Championships, and she won a team bronze medal at the 2023 Pan American Games. She is a six-time Pan American Gymnastics Championships, Pan American Championships medalist. She was an alternate for Canada's 2024 Summer Olympics, 2024 Olympic team. Early life Turner was born on August 17, 2005, in New Westminster, British Columbia, to parents Kerrie and Scott Turner. Her aunt is a 1991 Pan American Games silver medalist in swimming. She started artistic gymnastics at 15 months old and began competing at 6 years old. She also trained in trampoline gymnastics and competed at the national level in Tumbling (sport), tumbling. Elite gymnastics career Novice and junior Turner missed five months of training in 2017 due to spondylolisthesis and spondylosis. She won a silver medal in the novice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Westminster, British Columbia
New Westminster (colloquially known as New West) is a city in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, Canada, and a member municipality of the Metro Vancouver Regional District. It was founded by Major-General Richard Moody as the capital of the Colony of British Columbia (1858–1866), Colony of British Columbia in 1858 and continued in that role until the Mainland and Island colonies were Colony of British Columbia (1866–1871), merged in 1866. It was the British Columbia Mainland's largest city from that year until it was passed in population by Vancouver during the first decade of the 20th century. It is located on the banks of the Fraser River as it turns southwest towards its estuary, on the southwest side of the Burrard Peninsula and roughly at the centre of the Greater Vancouver region. History The area now known as New Westminster was originally inhabited by Kwantlen First Nation. The discovery of gold in BC and the arrival of gold seekers from the south prom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Summer Olympics
The 2024 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad () and branded as Paris 2024, were an international multi-sport event held in France from 26 July to 11 August 2024, with several events started from 24 July. Paris was the host city, with events (mainly Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics, football) held in 16 additional cities in metropolitan France, including the Sailing at the 2024 Summer Olympics, sailing centre in the second-largest city of France, Marseille, on the Mediterranean Sea, as well as one subsite for Surfing at the 2024 Summer Olympics, surfing in Tahiti, French Polynesia. Paris was awarded the Games at the 131st IOC Session in Lima, Peru, on 13 September 2017. After multiple withdrawals that left only Paris bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics, Paris and Los Angeles bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics, Los Angeles in contention, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) approved a process to concurrently award the 2024 and 2028 S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rose-Kaying Woo
Rose-Kaying Woo (born January 12, 2000) is a Canadian elite artistic gymnast who competed at the 2016 Olympic Games The modern Olympic Games (Olympics; ) are the world's preeminent international Olympic sports, sporting events. They feature summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a Multi-s ... in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She also represented Canada at the 2014 Pacific Rim Championships where she helped the Canadian team win a silver medal. Gymnastics career Junior As a junior gymnast, Woo competed at the 2014 Pan American Championships, winning team gold, silvers on uneven bars and balance beam, and bronzes on floor and in the all-around. At the Pacific Rim Championships that year, she was third on floor, and part of the silver-winning junior team. In 2015, she won the International Gymnix Junior Cup all-around and got gold on floor and beam. At the Jesolo Trophy in Italy, she won the junior all-aroun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 DTB Pokal Stuttgart
The 2022 DTB Pokal Team Challenge and Mixed Cup was an 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), ... competition. It featured a Team Challenge that had five-person teams representing their country in separate men's and women's junior and senior divisions and a Mixed Cup featuring teams composed of three men and three women. Participants The Mixed Cup featured teams from four nations: host nation Germany, Italy, Canada, and the United States. The Team Competition had twelve senior MAG teams, nine senior WAG teams, eleven junior MAG teams, and eight junior WAG teams compete. Medalists Senior Junior Women's results Team Vault Uneven bars Balance beam Floor exercise Mixed Cup results Qualification Final Reference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tisha Volleman
Tisha Manouk Gijs Volleman (born 26 October 1999) is a Dutch artistic gymnast and a member of the national team. She won a bronze medal with the Dutch team at the 2018 European Championships. She represented the Netherlands at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Early life Volleman was born on 26 October 1999 in Eindhoven. She began gymnastics when she was five years old, following her older sister into the sport. Her older brother, Tibo Volleman, has competed internationally in judo. Junior career Volleman made her international debut at the 2013 Leverkusen Cup, finishing 16th in the all-around. She then competed at the 2014 Junior European Championships and helped the Dutch team finish ninth. She won the junior all-around title at the 2014 Dutch Championships. She also won a gold medal on the floor exercise and a silver medal on the uneven bars. Senior career 2015 Volleman became age-eligible for senior competitions in 2015. She competed at the Dutch Worlds Qualifications and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Age Requirements In Gymnastics
The age requirements in gymnastics are established by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG) and regulate the age at which gymnasts are allowed to participate in senior-level competitions. In the latter half of the 20th century, a series of controversies arose with regard to gymnast ages, some of them leading to sanctions by FIG, and paving the way for the age requirements to be raised from 14 to 15 in 1981, and then to 16 in 1997. History of age requirements in artistic gymnastics Prior to 1981 in sports, 1981, the minimum required age to compete in senior events sanctioned by the FIG (including the Gymnastics at the Summer Olympics, Olympic Games) was 14. The earliest champions in women's gymnastics tended to be in their 20s; most had studied ballet for years before entering the sport. Hungarian gymnast Ágnes Keleti won individual gold medals at the age of 35 at the 1956 Olympics. Larisa Latynina, the first great Soviet Union, Soviet gymnast, won her first Olym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USA Gymnastics
United States of America Gymnastics (USA Gymnastics or USAG) is the national governing body for gymnastics in the United States. It sets the domestic rules and policies that govern the sport, promotes and develops gymnastics on the grassroots and national levels, and serves as a resource center for members, clubs, fans and gymnasts. It selects and trains the U.S. national teams for the Olympic Games and World Championships. Established in 1963 as the U.S. Gymnastics Federation (USGF), it received its current name in 1993. The programs governed by USAG are: * Women's artistic gymnastics (WAG), comprising the events vault, uneven bars, balance beam, and floor exercise * Men's artistic gymnastics (MAG), comprising the events floor exercise, pommel horse, still rings, vault, parallel bars, and horizontal bar * Rhythmic gymnastics * Trampoline & tumbling (T&T) * Acrobatic gymnastics * Aerobic gymnastics (designated as discipline of gymnastics by the international body, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 International Gymnix
The 2020 International Gymnix competition was the 29th edition of the International Gymnix competition. It was held in Montreal Montreal is the List of towns in Quebec, largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec, the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest in Canada, and the List of North American cit ..., Canada from March 6-8. Medal table Results References External links *Official site {{2020 in artistic gymnastics, state=collapsed International Gymnix 2020 in Montreal 2020 in sports in Quebec International gymnastics competitions hosted by Canada ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Gymnix
The International Gymnix is a major international annual gymnastics competition. It is held in Montreal, Canada, with a senior and a junior tournaments. It was organized for the first time in 1991. It is the largest international gymnastics competition of Canada. The tournament brings together some of the best gymnasts in the world, including the Canadian elite. Many talents were launched in this competition, to which have taken part MyKayla Skinner, Ellie Black, Carly Patterson, Nina Derwael, Jordyn Wieber, Dominique Dawes, Aliya Mustafina, Oksana Chusovitina, Isabela Onyshko, Shawn Johnson East, Shawn Johnson, Bridget Sloan, Larisa Iordache, Lilia Podkopayeva, Lauren Mitchell, Angelina Melnikova, Sunisa Lee, among others. Past editions References {{reflist International gymnastics competitions hosted by Canada Sports competitions in Montreal Recurring sporting events established in 1991 1991 establishments in Canada ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Olympic Committee
The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC; ), also known as Team Canada, is a private nonprofit organization that represents Canada at the International Olympic Committee. It is also a member of the Pan American Sports Organization. History Canadian athletes first competed at the Olympic Games at 1900 Summer Olympics, Paris 1900 followed by 1904 Summer Olympics, St. Louis 1904, it was not until 1907 that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) officially recognized a National Olympic Committee (NOC) for Canada. The next year, Colonel John Hanbury-Williams was recognized as the chairman of the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) for the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. Hanbury-Williams became Canada's first IOC member in 1911. The COC was established to select athletes for the 1908 Summer Olympics, when the Canadian Amateur Athletic Union and the Amateur Athletic Federation of Canada had unsettled differences. J. Howard Crocker was appointed manager of the national team for Canada a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spondylosis
Spondylosis is the degeneration of the vertebral column from any cause. In the more narrow sense, it refers to spinal osteoarthritis, the age-related degeneration of the spinal column, which is the most common cause of spondylosis. The degenerative process in osteoarthritis chiefly affects the vertebral bodies, the neural foramina and the facet joints (facet syndrome). If severe, it may cause pressure on the spinal cord or nerve roots with subsequent sensory or motor disturbances, such as pain, paresthesia Paresthesia is a sensation of the skin that may feel like numbness (''hypoesthesia''), tingling, pricking, chilling, or burning. It can be temporary or Chronic condition, chronic and has many possible underlying causes. Paresthesia is usually p ..., imbalance, and muscle weakness in the limbs. When the space between two adjacent vertebrae narrows, compression of a nerve root emerging from the spinal cord may result in radiculopathy. Radiculopathy is characteri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spondylolisthesis
Spondylolisthesis is when one spinal vertebra slips out of place compared to another. While some medical dictionaries define spondylolisthesis specifically as the forward or anterior displacement of a vertebra over the vertebra inferior to it (or the sacrum), it is often defined in medical textbooks as displacement in any direction.Introduction to chapter 17 in: Page 250 in: Spondylolisthesis is graded based upon the degree of slippage of one vertebral body relative to the subsequent adjacent vertebral body. Spondylolisthesis is classified as one of the six major etiologies: degenerative, traumatic, dysplastic, wikt:isthmic, isthmic, pathologic, or post-s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
