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IV.4 Gymnastics – fun facts
(Polish team)
• Gymnasts build their physical fitness, learn dance, ballet and acrobatics
and gain the ability to control their body. Girls practicing artistic
gymnastics develop many positive traits such as a slender figure, correct
posture, musicality, aesthetics of movement, regularity, firmness, mental
resistance, the ability to concentrate and divide attention.
• Johanna Quaas, born on November 20, 1925 in Hihenmölsen, is a record
holder who has signed up on the pages of the Guinness Book of Records
as the oldest gymnast in the world. Even today, in the ninth decade of his
life, he still practices gymnastics, and enriches his daily work with running.
Sports and artistic gymnastics is a very popular sport in Germany.
Spectacles and shows are organized every year, and the biggest of them is
not missing Johanna Quass. The Huffingtonpost.com portal writes about
11 medals that won in seniors' competitions.
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