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World Gymnastics
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international gymnastics governing body
Key facts
- Formation
- 23 July 1881 ; 144 years ago ( 1881-07-23 )
- Founded at
- Liège , Belgium
- Headquarters
- Avenue de la Gare 12
- Location
- Lausanne , Switzerland
- Region served
- Worldwide
- President
- Morinari Watanabe
- Affiliations
- Longines , VTB , Cirque du Soleil
- Revenue
- US$17.32 million (2019)
- Expenses
- US$16.19 million (2019)
- Website
- Gymnastics.sport
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- World Gymnastics
- Headquarters
- Lausanne
- Chairperson
- Bruno Grandi
- Sport
- gymnastics
- Official website
- www.gymnastics.sport
- Image
- Siège de la FIG en 2020.jpg
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- Commons category
- Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique
- topic's main category
- Category:International Gymnastics Federation
- topic has template
- Template:World Gymnastics
- inception
- 1881-07-23
- social media followers
- 922000
- location of formation
- Liège
- short name
- WG
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
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Encyclopedic overview
World Gymnastics headquarters in Lausanne since 2016
World Gymnastics, formerly the International Gymnastics Federation, is the body governing competition in all disciplines of gymnastics. Its headquarters is in Lausanne, Switzerland. It was founded on 23 July 1881 in Liège, Belgium, making it the world's oldest existing international sports organisation. Originally called the European Federation of Gymnastics, it had three member countries — Belgium, France and the Netherlands — until 1921, when non-European countries were admitted and the organization changed its name to the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique. Following other sport governing bodies, the organization took its current name in December 2025.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “World Gymnastics” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.