World Gymnaestrada

As a gymnaestrada the World Gymnastics Federation ( FIG) organized gymnastics festival is called, which - like the Olympic Games - held every four years. Central to any gymnaestrada are a variety of gymnastic demonstrations, but these are not measured against each other.

Etymology

" Gymnaestrada " is an invented by Dutchman Jan summer art word as a combination of " gymnastics" (World term for everything to do with the gymnastics sports has ), ' strada ' (street ) and " estrada " (stage).

Gymnastics festival without pressure

Since 1953, thousands of enthusiastic gymnasts take from many European countries and other continents for a week to a festival of grassroots sport, the Juan Antonio Samaranch described as the " most important in the world". Groups from 10 persons show in art and imaginative choreography gymnastics in many modes of play: gymnastics, show dance, acrobatics, high speed gymnastics, aerobics, synchronized gymnastics, drum hoop, rope skipping and much more.

The World Gym is not a competition. The values ​​are in a fascinating movement and international encounter. The participants show free of scoring and points pressure still turn sporting excellence. The FIG thus represents the very important for fitness, wellness, health and social life " Gymnastics for All " in the center, and invites you to be active.

In the World Gym in Lisbon in 2003, the average age of the participants / inside was 35 years, 80 percent were female.

The events of World Gym

( Orders of magnitude in brackets by the World Gym in 2007 Dornbirn)

  • Hall performances ( each of the 300 groups with 10 to 30 participants occurs on three different days to )
  • Large Group Performances ( in Lustenau with up to 1,180 members )
  • National Evenings as an evening event and the gala of the International Gymnastics Federation FIG ( 19 90 -minute elaborate performances with show character )
  • City demonstrations on open-air stages outside the hall site (introduced in Lisbon in 2003 and in 2007 400 performances on eight stages in Höchst, Hard, Bregenz, Wolfurt, Dornbirn, Hohenems and Feldkirch Rankweil )
  • Educational Forum as a workshop -type courses with theory and practice
  • Opening and closing event ( parade of all participants, ceremonial and subsequent turn show)

World Gymnaestradas ( aligned or that city promised )

Weltgymnaestrada 2007 Dornbirn

Main article see Weltgymnaestrada 2007

The 13th World Gym took place from July 8 to 14, 2007 in Dornbirn, Vorarlberg instead. Were expected 22,000 participants from 56 countries on all five continents. 2011 Lausanne, Switzerland organizer of the International Gymnastics Festival.

With one exception ( Herning ), the World Gym has been up to this point always oriented in a big city. Since Dornbirn does not have a medium-sized town on the capacities, the participants were accommodated in schools and hotels in communities throughout the Vorarlberg Rhine Valley and the surrounding area. This concept of "nations villages " with numerous side events should make it particularly bringing to the population of the Vierländereck Germany, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Austria the event and the participants.

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