Tweet A video with Lauren Mitchell about her VISA Ambassador role.

Tweet With January 2012 rapidly approaching, gymnastics fans are wondering who will be attending the London 2012 Test Event. Some nations have announced their gymnasts, some have not. The Swiss Gymnastics Federation today announced that Giulia Steingruber, Nadia Mülhauser, Pascal Bucher and Claudio Capelli represent Switzerland. Jessica Diaci was to attend but has suffered a leg injury.
Full Twist has begun this post with the intention of updating the lists as more names are announced. The beginning of this list has been compiled with the help of other websites and blogs …

Tweet Yet again City of Lisburn Salto Gymnastics Club claimed the coveted title of Irish FIG National Team of the year yesterday at the WAG National Team Championships in Dublin. The competition, which was held in the new Janz Gymnastics Club full time facility, played host to seven teams and a number of individuals competing. The individual gymnasts must compete in order to qualify for the National Apparatus Finals in 2012.
This was a full FIG event, with the standard being quite high. Both judges and gymnasts who have been to …

Tweet The first Mexican Open 2011 or Abierto Mexicano de Gimnasia will be held this week December 9th & 10th. This is an All Around competition with the events being split over two days.

 Schedule:
Friday 9th December

Women’s Vault
Women’s Bars
Men’s Floor
Men’s Pommel Horse
Men’s Rings

Saturday 10th December

Women’s Floor
Women’s Beam
Men’s Vault
Men’s High Bar
Men’s Parallel Bars

 
Participants:
MAG

Sergey Khorokhordin (Russia)
Dan Purvis (Great Britain)
Rafael Martinez (Spain)
Marius Daniel Berbecar (Romania)
Liao Qiuhua (China)
Masahiro Yoshida (Japan)
Jorge Hugo Giraldo (Columbia)
Daniel Corral (Mexico)
Santiago Lopez (Mexico)
Danell Leyva (USA)

WAG

Ksenia Afanseyva (Russia)
Emily Little (Australia)
Catalina Escobar (Columbia)
Tan Sixin (China)
Mai Yamagishi (Japan)
Yessenia Estrada (Mexico)
Alexa Moreno (Mexico)
Mikaela Dawn Gerber …

Tweet Day one of the event finals at the Ostrava Challenger Cup have come to an end.
Today Ireland’s Kieran Behan gave Irish fans a massive cause to celebrate when he bet 2010 World Floor Champion Eleftherios Kosmidis to the gold medal. His Coach Simon Gale from Tolworth, Gymnastics Ireland and his new sponsors Stoi Athletic Wear are delighted with the result. Not only did he make more history, winning Ireland’s first ever gold FIG medal but Behan soared up the ranks to take the top place in the Challenger Cup …

Tweet Qualifications took place today at the Ostrava Challenger Cup in the Czech Republic. It was yet another successful competition for Israel’s Maksiuta and Irelan’s Kieran Behan who are both making themselves well known on the world stage. Qualification results have finally been released and are below:

MAG:
High Bar
1. Kulesza 15.000
2. Imai 14.950
3. Tsarevich 14.800
4. Munoz 14.700
5. Cordoba 14.250
6. Baldauf 14.250
7. Konecny 14.200
8. Campos 14.150
 
Pommel Horse
1. Bertoncelj 14.750
2. Kobayashi 14.600
3. Koltakov 14.350
4. Likhovitskiy 14.250
5. Munoz 14.200
6. Trefilovs 14.050
7. Tsarevich 14.000
8 Petterson 13.550
 
Floor
1. Behan 14.850 & Kosmidis 14.850
3. Klavora 14.450
4. Likhovitskiy 14.150
5. …

Tweet We just got word that Kieran Behan from Ireland is currently sitting in first place on floor at the Ostrava World Cup Challenger in the Czech Republic in qualification. Kieran, sponsored by athletic clothing company Stoi Athletic Wear, has performed excellently at his two previous challenger cups, winning medals on floor at both competitions. This will be the second event that Stoi will sponsor Kieran at. At the Osijek Challenger Cup back in November the company kitted the Irish male gymnasts out with gear for the event. Sponsorship is a …

Tweet Kohei Uchimura, the Japanese gymnast, first to win three consecutive All Around titles has been nominated by the United States Sports Association as Athlete of the year for 2011. The gymnast shares the nomination on the shortlist with others such as footballer David Beckham, tennis star Novak Djokovic, 2011 World Figure Skating Champion Patrick Chan, Kim Clijsters and golfer Yani Tseng.
Meanwhile Women’s World Champion Jordyn Wieber is nominated  in the women’s category.
To cast your vote click here.
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Tweet It seems like the Swiss Gymnastics Federation is doing some “spring cleaning” (in winter!). Communication from the Federation today explains that the contracts of gymnasts Yasmin Zimmermann and Jennifer Senn have not been renewed. Zimmermann was part of the 2011 World Championships team which placed 18th out of 24 in the team competition. She was set to compete at the recent DTB Cup in Stuttgart but was forced to withdraw due to a foot injury. Senn was a member of the 2010 World Championships Team.

Yesterday the FSG announced the …

Tweet The Swiss Gymnastics Federation has announced yet again more retirements from it’s National Teams. 26 year old Roman Gisi and Niki Böschenstein. According to the FSG their contracts were not renewed, this decision was made mututally.
Read more from the FSG.
Image via MSN.com.
 
 
 

Tweet The Category B Ostrava World Cup Challengerwill be held this week in Ostrava, Czech Republic.A full schedule has not yet been released for the event. Watch the live stream here. Currently the schedule is as follows:
November 30th: Arrival of delegations
December 1st: Arrival of delegations, orientation meeting and training
December 2nd: MAG & WAG Qualification
December 3rd: MAG & WAG Finals

 
 
Gymmin’ Miel has posted easy to read lists of the gymnast competing and which apparatus they will compete on:
WOMEN’S ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS:
VAULT:

Lisa Ecker (AUT)
Jasmin Mader (AUT)
Nastassia Marachkouskaya (BLR)
Volha Makhautsova (BLR)
Elsabeth Black (CAN)
Bianca Dancose-Giambattisto …

Tweet China’s Huang Qiushuang took the All Around title at the Tokyo Cup in Japan this weekend, she was expected to do so once she kept it consistent and together.

Huang Qiushuang also claimed the World Cup title for 2011, she claimed another 50 points to her tally as a result of this win.  Each time a gymnast wins the All Around title at a World Cup event, they earn 50 points. The gymnast ranked 2nd receives 45 points and third receives 40 points,  as the places go on, it is …