The Netherlands became the seventh country to join the boycott of the FIG Congress next month over the participation of Russian and Belarusian delegates. Earlier, Ukraine, Norway, Estonia, Poland, Lithuania and Italy all...
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The International Gymnastics Federation has awarded the 2026 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships to Rotterdam. This will be the third time Rotterdam hosts the event – they hosted Worlds in 2010 and 1987. The competition...
The Dutch Gymnastics Federation has announced they will not send gymnasts to the upcoming WAG and MAG Championships in Mersin, Turkey. The federation is looking into options to host a local competition for the national team...
Eythora Thorsdottir is known for her expressive floor routines. Her new floor routine, she hopes, will resonate with many people and they’ll be able to put their own emotions into it: “This time we decided not to...
The reigning Olympic champion Sanne Wevers came back to competition last week at the Heerenveen Friendly which served as the last trial for the Worlds team selection. Wevers achieved good scores on both bars and beam, even though...
Céline van Gerner of the Netherlands has announced her retirement from competitive gymnastics today. van Gerner’s last competition was the European Championships in Glasgow where she made gymnastics history by performing...
Sanna Veerman has announced on her Instagram that she will miss the Dutch Nationals this week due to a minor knee injury: “Unfortunately, I got a little tear in my meniscus, which means I’ll not be participating this...
Kirsten Polderman was slated to represent the Netherlands at the Universiade in July, together with Elze Geurts. As a part of her preparation, she was supposed to compete at the FIT challenge in Belgium. However, she tore her ACL...
Lieke Wevers experienced burnout after Rio and had to take 2018 off to recover. She returned to competition this month at the FIT challenge where posted an impressive 52.198 in the all-around and helped the Dutch team to win...
Celine Van Gerner was slated to compete at the European Games. This would be her first international competition since the Achilles surgery which led her to miss Worlds last year. However, she told to The Force is Grace that her...