85th FIG Congress & Elections

[Passion]

Nellie Kim is named a "Honorary Vice President," whatever that is.

85th FIG Congress concludes in Doha

The 85th FIG Congress concluded in Doha (QAT) today with 157 out of the organisation’s 159 affiliated federations attending the event in the Qatari capital and five new affiliated national federations joining the gymnastics family.

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The following honorary awards were announced at the Congress:

Bronze Distinctions
Sofiane Zahi (ALG)
Ita Yuliati (INA)
Abdessadeq Bitari (MAR)
Elizabeth Smith (RSA)

Silver Distinctions
Zhongyi Miao (CHN)
Denis Mowbray (NZL)
Maria Luciene Cacho Resende (BRA)
Stoian Dimitrov (BUL)
Hala Salama Youssef Hamoud (EGY)
Athanasoula S. Lampropoulou (GRE)
Sandor Altorjai (HUN)
Lise Lorentzen Mandal (NOR)
Ruslan Mustaev (UZB)
Dmitrii Andreev (RUS)
Marie Moltubakk (NOR)
Shinya Muto (JPN)
Petrina Hutchinson (AUS)
Gemma Barton (GBR)

Honorary Members
Jani Tanskanen (FIN)
Alejandro Peniche (MEX) (already Honorary Member)
Maria Fumea (ROU)
Youssef Al-Tabbaa (SYR)
Daniela Delle Chiaie (ITA)
Kym Dowdell (AUS)
Elena Davydova (CAN)
Liubou Charkashyna (BLR)
Xing Liu (CHN)
Dmitri Poliaroush (BLR)
Frank Boehm (GER)
Wieslava Milewska (POL)
Yurii Goliak (UKR)
Maria De Oliveira Poli (BRA)
Marco Antonio Bortoleto (BRA)
Tatsuo Araki (JPN)
Hanspeter Tschopp (SUI)

Honorary Vice-Presidents
Nellie Kim (BLR)
Arturs Mickevics (LAT)
Rosy Taeymans (BEL)

 

[MaryClare]

Prizes, prizes for everyone!

 

[barbara_dewey]

Man, this is a TOUGH ROOM! And yet nobody is slamming the one I would go after first. But THAT is a rant for another day.
Re: split leaps, though:
Basically, NObody did >or= 180⁰ split leaps until 1976, when one of the GDR Olympians (and maybe a Hungarian or two) did some nice ones. It MIGHT have become a requirement by 1980. Many struggled to fully split through the 1980s, but many succeeded. Examples: Eva Kanyo, Moste, Dobre, Silivas, Popa, every single Romanian alive in the 1980s, all the Chinese, too (esp Yang Bo and Chen Cuiting.)
Hana Ricna was incredibly flexible, but was more of a straddle than a splitter.

 

[KristyJ]

Man, this is a TOUGH ROOM! And yet nobody is slamming the one I would go after first. But THAT is a rant for another day.
Re: split leaps, though:
Basically, NObody did >or= 180⁰ split leaps until 1976, when one of the GDR Olympians (and maybe a Hungarian or two) did some nice ones. It MIGHT have become a requirement by 1980. Many struggled to fully split through the 1980s, but many succeeded. Examples: Eva Kanyo, Moste, Dobre, Silivas, Popa, every single Romanian alive in the 1980s, all the Chinese, too (esp Yang Bo and Chen Cuiting.)
Hana Ricna was incredibly flexible, but was more of a straddle than a splitter.

There is definitely a really interesting way to recognize a country's suspension of a coach.

As for leaps, I'd be curious when the 180 degree became codified with deduction officially.