Gymnastics

Romanian gymnast Ana Barbosu won the gold medals in all four final events on apparatuses - vault, uneven bars, beam and floor, at the 2020 European Championships in Women's Artistic Gymnastics, Juniors' competition, in Mersin, Turkey.

Turkish gymnast İbrahim Çolak on Dec. 13 earned gold medal at European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships held in Turkey's Mediterranean port city of Mersin.

Çolak, 25, scored 15,000 points to bag the gold medal on men's ring for his country at the Olympic Gymnastics Hall.

The Turkish team in Men's Artistic Gymnastics of European Championships won silver medal on Dec. 12.

Ukraine notched 248.963 points to win the gold at the Olympic Gymnastics Hall in Turkey's Mediterranean port city of Mersin.

Silver went to Turkey with 244.793 points, while Hungary ranked third with 240.393.

Turkish Women's national rhythmic gymnastics team aim to take Turkish gymnastics to a next level with more achievements.

The Turkish team that won their first-ever medal at the European Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in late November is proud of bringing a gold medal to Turkey.

Turkish Youth and Sports Minister Mehmet Muharrem Kasapoğlu welcomed the nation's first-ever gold medal-winning women's national rhythmic gymnastics team at his office on Dec. 1 in the capital Ankara. 

"It's a great pleasure for us to host you here," said Kasapoğlu. "You're in our ministry as champions."

Greek gymnast Lefteris Petrounias won gold in rings at the 2020 World Cup Gymnastics in Melbourne on Saturday, bringing him a step closer to the Tokyo Olympic Games this summer.

Former Olympic champion Nadia Comaneci has stated on Thursday that her project called GymNadia, which has been running for over a year now in the gymnasium at the Ion Tiriac Ice Rink in Otopeni should be multiplied hundreds of times in order to draw children toward sport.

Russian 4-time world rhythmic gymnastics champion Alexandra Soldatova has been admitted to hospital after a suicide attempt. This is reported by RIA Novosti.

The hospital explained to the media that the condition of the athlete is improving, but visitors are not allowed.

Doctors report self-inflicted injuries. The athlete is known to have been diagnosed with bulimia.

Marian Dragulescu has become the 50th Romanian athlete qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, after earning the ticket for the vault event final, on Monday, at the 2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Stuttgart. Dragulescu, who will turn 39 on 18 December, reached the final with the sixth score in qualifications, 14.624, after vaults of 14.616, respectively 14.633.

Former Olympic Champion Nadia Comaneci met on Saturday in the Sebastian Park with the children from  District 5 of the Capital, encouraging them to practice sport during the 2nd edition of the event called "Nadia Sports Experience - Passport for Sport" organized by her foundation.