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Gymnastics for All offers aesthetic experiences in movement for participants and spectators while
providing the opportunity to focus on items that are of particular interest in a national and cultural
context.
Events and competition do also form part of Gymnastics for All.
Policy and Strategy
Our Policy that Gymnastics is for all and that Gymnastics is the base of all Sports activities makes
this activity important.
Our Strategy is to stay in close contact with our Member Federations and Continental Gymnastics
Unions as cooperation is necessary to succeed. Our Strategy is also to offer different activities and
events to promote Gymnastics as a physical activity in an educational and cultural context.
Gymnastics promotes the Olympic ideal that sport is a human right and the activity in its self
promotes health and well-being.
IOC Sports for All
Since 2000 Margaret Sikkens Ahlquist GfA President, has been a member of the IOC Sports for All
Commission. The last IOC Conference "Sports for All" was organised in Beijing, CHN September
2011 and the next one will take place in Lima, PER, April 24-27, 2013.
Competitions and Contests within Gymnastics for All
After our first event World Gym for Life Challenge in 2009 the second edition was at the Council
meeting 2010, awarded to Cape Town, RSA. For the first time we would have an International
Gymnastics for All event outside Europe. The LOC is preparing the event and invitation has been
sent to all FIG Member Federations. It will be very interesting to see if we get enough gymnastic
groups signing in for this event in Africa.
Some FIG Member Federations have been organising their own National Gym for Life event and
that is how we want this to develop. The regulation that can be found on the FIG web site is valid
for both national and international events.
With our philosophy we have a Contest instead of a Competition, we have Evaluators instead of
Judges, and we have short, simple and easy to understand rules instead of a Code of Points and a
non-official ranking list. All groups are after the evaluation divided into gold, silver or bronze and
everyone receives a medal.
All gold groups participate in the Gala and there a large group of experts decides what group is the
World Champion and that group receives the Bruno Grandi trophy.
Gymnastics and Movement for Disabled
Within this field our committee work is still focusing on participation and we have integrated this
field across all of work areas, rather than isolating it. At the World Gymnaestrada 2011we had
gymnasts with a disability participating in different performances. It is vital that each time a new
project/event is initiated the area of Disability is considered and integrated into the project rather
than the area being an individual stand alone project.
Co-operation
One of our most important partners in the area of cooperation is the Continental Gymnastics
Unions and especially their Committees responsible for Gymnastics for All. The activities that we
are organising are being done so in co-operation with the Continental Unions to ensure that
resources are maximised and our activities are suitable to local needs.
Development and Education
During this period the following FIG Foundation of Gymnastics has been organised:
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