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5th Korean Gymnastics for All Festival
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By Asian Gymnastics Union
Published on 10/24/2008
 

The fifth annual of Korea Gymnastics for All Festival has opened successfully at Suwon Gymnasium in the city of Suwon, September 29, 2008, subtitled as “Happiness”.


Reported by: HAN Yoon-Soo
Written by Anis Saoud

The purpose of Korea Gymnastics for All Festival is to revitalize gymnastics for everyone and eventually, to make people pursue quality and happiness in their life.

This year’s festival showed the variety and popularity of gymnastics by various performances such as, Taekwondo gymnastics, jazz gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics and tumbling gymnastics.

 

400 people from Germany, Japan and Korea has participated the festival this year, and especially one Japanese jazz gymnastics team, which included a member who was suffering from Parkinson’s disease, showed an impressive performance. The Other teams also showed 33 fantastic performances.

 

For the future, Korea is planning to invite more great gymnastics teams from other country, and also participate in other international gymnastics events including World Gymnaestrada and international gymnastics festival.