The names of candidates for the presidency of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) were announced on saturday on the organization’s website. The elections to renew the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG)’s decision-making bodies will take place on Friday 25 October 2024 during the 85th FIG Congress in Doha, Qatar. Same as 2021, two candidates are running for the position: Morinari Watanabe, current FIG President and Farid Gayibov, current European Gymnastics President.

The Indoor Multifunctional Stadium will host the competition from 19 to 25 October 2025. It has a capacity of 15,000 spectators. The Jakarta event will initially consist of individual competitions.

Morinari Watanabe, President of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) has opened the 84th FIG Congress in Istanbul by saying it cannot debar the presence of Russian and Belarus officials under the terms of the Olympic Charter and its own Statutes.

Morinari Watanabe, the President of the International Gymnastic Federation (FIG), led a minute’s silence in remembrance of a young Ukrainian gymnast called Kateryna Dyachenko and her father who were killed during the siege of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol.

Morinari Watanabe, newly re-elected as President of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG), believes the computer scoring system being developed for the sport may one day take over from human judges.

Jump, or if you prefer, vault back just over two years ago to the point where Bruno Grandi, the grand old man of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG), was about to give way as President to one of two men.

On the eve of the 2018 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Doha, Morinari Watanabe, the President of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG), has praised the Qatari organisers for realising the "dream" of gymnastics as if it were "a sport flowering in the desert".