Thursday has been a fabulous day, filled with great performances! The gymnasts have shown their creativity and talents, both at Show Performances in Sandefjord and Tønsberg, and at today’s contests at Oslofjord Convention Center.
In Sandefjord 23 groups were performing at the local park Badeparken for an enthusiastic audience. 16 groups were present at the show performances in Tønsberg, where local people had shown up to watch and be amazed by the great teams.
At Oslofjord Convention Center there has been two great contests, where first small and then large groups with apparatus had their performances. At the first contest, with small groups with apparatus, we had 12 groups from Norway, Germany, Australia, Denmark and Portugal. It was a great show and we are looking forward to see Showturngruppe and Showteam Blues Brothers, both from Germany, on the floor again at the Gala on Saturday.
After the first contest with small groups we also had large groups with apparatus on the floor, with groups from Switzerland, Denmark, Austria, Germany and Greece present. It was a spectacular show, with a large variety in use of apparatus and themes for the performances. Swissrings from Switzerland and Olympia Thrakomakedonon from Greece where the ones to take the gold medal, and are ready for the Gala show!
Today’s shows were fantastic, and for anyone who missed it you can still find videos at our Facebook Page. You can also find all of the results at FIG’s website.
Many participants started the day with yoga lesson with Helle Marie Føynum at the beach. The lesson gave the participants an introduction in yoga philosophy and poses.
Join yoga Friday morning at 10:00 at the beach.
Abilities of Gymnast with DisAbilities
We had a very interesting lecture today with Cindy Bickman from USA. It was emotional, inspirational and really touching. Cindy and her team showed us how does it feel to be excluded. We are happy (proud) that Gymnastics is for everybody, for all abilities. Like Cindy said: “There are no disabilities. There are just different abilities”.
With participants from 23 countries, we are sure many of you want to see performances but do not have the opportunity to be at Oslofjord. This will not be a problem! All performances will be livestreamed in our Facebook Page.
You can find the program on our app WGFLC2017, or here.
Få med deg alt som skjer på King Harald`s World Gym for Life Challenge. Hver dag blir det Live Stream gjennom facebooksiden World Gym for Life Challenge
Programmet finner du her https://gymogturn.no/world-gym-for-life-challenge-2017/world-gym-for-life-challenge-2017programme
Oversikt over tider finner du her: https://gymogturn.no/world-gym-for-life-challenge-2017/gym-life-2017/
Program King Harald`s World Gym for Life Challenge
Tirsdag 25. juli Offisiell ankomstdag for deltakere
15:30 – 22:00 Åpen trening i områdene Tønsberg og Sandefjord
Onsdag 26. juli 1.konkurransedag
11:10 – Offisiell trening for store tropper gymnastikk og dans
15:30 – Åpningsseremoni – dørene stenges 15:10
16:00 – Konkurranse for store tropper gymnastikk og dans
20:00 – Norsk velkomstsaften
Torsdag 27. juli 2.konkurransedag
08:00 – Offisiell trening for små tropper med apparater
11:30 – offisiell trening for store tropper med apparater
12:00 – Byoppvisninger i Sandefjord og Tønsberg
16:00 – Konkurranse for små tropper med apparater
19:00 – Konkurranse for store tropper med apparater
Fredag 28.juli 3.konkurransedag
08:00 – Offisiell tening for små tropper gymnastikk og dans
12:00 – Byoppvisninger i Sandefjord
16:00 – Konkurranse for små tropper gymnastikk og dans
Lørdag 29.juli
10:00 – Workshop – Vikingtema
14:00 – Offisiell trening World Gym for life Galla
18:00 – World Gym for life Galla (Finale)
20:30 – Avslutningsseremoni
21:00 – Avslutningsfest for alle deltakere
https://gymogturn.no/world-gym-for-life-challenge-2017/gym-life-2017/
Royal, exciting and pure joy describes the first contest day at King Harald`s World Gym for Life Challenge.
-Your Majesty King Harald the Fifth of Norway,It is a great honor for the world Gymnastics family to have the pleasure of your company today, said the FIG President Morinari Watanabe in his speech.
His Majesty King Harald, is celebrating his 80th Anniversary. As a sport enthusiast, The Norwegian Confederation of Sports (NIF) have given him tree sports events as gift, one of them a gymnastic event. His Majesty King Harald was present during the Opening ceremony and the first part of Dance and Gymnastics Contest.
18 groups performed at the Dance and Gymnastics Contest – all performances was full of entertainment, innovation, originality and variety. Only four could be announce as gold winners, and it was a lot of tension in the air right before the anointment.
Congratulation to all participants today, and a special congratulation to these four gold groups:
Fredrikstad Turnforening (NOR)
In Motion (GER) – Showgruppe In Motion
Uni-2-Tre & Gym Center Emme (SUI) – Uni2Tre
Gimnofrielas / Top Acro Gym (POR) – Clube Gimnofrielas ADCSF
They will attend the Gala Saturday 29. July.
Norwegian Welcome evening
In this show, we saw a wide range of Norwegian gymnastics in a journey through Norway’s four seasons. We followed four main characters, sailing with a Viking ship over the waves, looking for the rhythm. Whit glimpse of Norwegian nature and culture, and encounter with trolls, winter sports, folk dancers and even experience the national day celebration.
The gymnasts (200) was accompanied by animations by the award-winning animation artist Sverre Fredriksen. All artwork is made by hand and photographed frame by frame, known as the traditional stop-motion technique.
All music and sound was made by renowned music producer Petter Anthon Næss.
The choreographer, Gry Fredriksen has tailored this show with her creative crew and with the help of coaches and gymnasts of all ages from all over Norway with one wish: to give the participants and audience a nice experience and great welcome to Norway and the event King Harald’s World Gym For Life Challenge 2017.
Participants:
Finnsnes Turn Youth Strap \ Camilla Karolius\Siv Olsen
Sotra Turn \ Marit Hagen Halvorsen
STAG \ Lars Gunnar Risa
Stokke Turn, SEM Turn \ Wenche Havnås
Fredrikstad Turnforening \ Vivi Ann Evensen
Bardufoss Gym and Turn \ Lise Nytrøen
National Team Artistic Gymnastics Pietro and Odin \ Gabriel Negru
Holmestrand IF RG \Anita Rygh
Tunsberg Leikarring \ Brit Lønmo.
Kongsberg Turn Team Kangaroos \ Morten Karlsen
Finnsnes Turn Women’s Pathrull \ Heidi Dahl Gundersen
Today some of you will be busy training and some of you have just arrived. You can find extra training info here.
If you just arrived, use your time to get to know our beautiful Gymnastics Village. Take a walk in your neighborhood and find out what country your nearest neighbor are from. Get to know Oslofjord inside, where to eat and what to do.
Nearby food station you will find our Gym Lounge. Here you can relax and hang out with your friends. Footballs table and tennis tables are available, just as Oslofjord reception for balls. Who is ready for a tennis table match?
If you just want to relax – chill out in some comfortable sofas, and use the free internet to update Social Medias – Gym Lounge is the place to be.
WiFi: Oslofjord Free Password: Oslofjord2017 Follow the instructions on your phone/PC (you need to add a new account).
If you want to do outdoor activities, we recommend you visit the beach. This area is beautiful and perfect for summer activities. You can borrow footballs, volleyballs and kubb game and enjoy time with new or old friends.
Soon we will have a week schedule for activitis
All information in one place – WGFLC2017 app
During the World Gym for Life Challenge 2017 week, the app WGFLC2017 will be the official communication channel for all participants and spectators. LOC will post the latest updates and information on this app. Here you always will find lasted version of the programme.
As you all probably know by now, the King of Norway will pay us a visit Wednesday, during the Opening Ceremony and the first part of the very first contest of the week. This is a great opportunity for all of us to show our sport to a greater audience, and to gain a little royal touch to the event! Before the King arrives there will be some security checks that it is good to be aware of, please follow the guidelines from our volunteers and signs before the visit happens, and please respect these.
First floor close at 13:30
The first floor will close at 1:30 pm and will not open again before the King has left. This means all groups participating will enter the warm up-area from outside. No worries – there will be volunteers and signs outside showing the way so no one will get lost! The ones of you that will be watching as part of the audience will enter from 2nd floor.
Do not bring any bags
We ask the audience to please not bring any bags into the contest venue. All bags will have to be checked, and in order to make the queue to get in shorter this is something we very much would like to avoid, so please leave these at your cabin. For the participants in the contest you can leave your bags in marked areas in the warm up-hall.
Doors closing at 15:10
The doors will close for the audience at 15:10 to make sure everyone is seated before the King arrives. Please meet up outside the doors early, so we have enough time to get everyone inside and no one will be left outside.
Have fun!
We’re looking forward to seeing you at the Opening Ceremony, and we are sure you will all have a great time together with us, and of course – the King of Norway! Bring your smile and good vibes, and feel the rhythm of the waves!!
Finally we are all here and ready for King Harald`s World Gym for Life Challenge! While some have just arrived at Oslofjord Convention Center – feeling the good Gym for Life atmosphere – other have had extra training in Tønsberghallen, Vearhallen and Stokkehallen.
There is absolute no doubt that the Oslofjord have changes to a gymnastics village. Everywhere you turn you will find smiling persons doing performances. Many of the participants have used the beach area and tested the water.
Evaluators and Feedbackers have also arrived, and ready for four days of evaluation.
The President, Vice Presidents and Secretary General of The International Gymnastic Federation have also arrived and will have meetings all week in Tønsberg.
Wednesday is the official opening day and we are or honor that The Norwegian King, His Majesty King Harald, is attending.
This year His Majesty is celebrating his 80th Anniversary. As a sport enthusiast, The Norwegian Confederation of Sports (NIF) have given him three sports events as gift, one of them a gymnastic event. This will be the first time in many years the Norwegian King attend a gymnastic-event.
We are all ready to welcome you to King Harald`s World Gym for Life Challenge! Oslofjord Convection Center has transformed to a Gymnastics Village – with help from 170 fantastic volunteers.
Tuesday is our big arrival day, by the end – 2076 participants from 23 countries will be here and ready for King Harald`s World Gym for Life Challenge. We truly hope you will enjoy every second while you are here.
When there is no training or contest there are many activities going on: Stand up Paddling (SUP), yoga, guides bus tours, movie night and much more. You can find more information about side events here.
Nearby food station you will find our Gym Lounge. Here you can relax and hang out with your friends. Footballs table and tennis tables are available, just as Oslofjord reception for balls. Who is ready for a tennis table match?
If you just want to relax – chill out in some comfortable sofas and use the free internet to update Social Medias – Gym Lounge is the place to be.
WiFi: Oslofjord Free Password: Oslofjord2017 Follow the instructions on your phone/PC (you need to add a new account).
If you want to do outdoor activities, we recommend you visit the beach. This area is beautiful and perfect for summer activities. You can borrow footballs, volleyballs and kubb game and enjoy time with new or old friends.
All information in one place – WGFLC2017 app
During the World Gym for Life Challenge 2017 week, the app WGFLC2017 will be the official communication channel for all participants and spectators. LOC will post the latest updates and information on this app.
There has been some changes in the contest schedule. Here you will find the last version.
https://gymogturn.no/world-gym-for-life-challenge-2017/gym-life-2017/
We hope you will enjoy your stay at Oslofjord Convention Center. Here you are close to where you will rehearse, perform, eat, sleep, make new friends and enjoy the fantastic World Gym for Life atmosphere! As you can see, our village will be unique and international.
The center-apartments are located within the center complex, beneath the main hall, with elevators to all levels. The apartments are furnished in a modern style with a living room, kitchen, bathroom, bedroom and also a loft space offering extra sleeping space. The wall of windows, overlooking the Oslofjord Garden Village, gives the entire apartment a light and spacious atmosphere. The living room accesses an individual balcony with beautiful views over the Village and the fjord, Vestfjorden.
Of the centers total area of 24,000 m2, 10,500 m2 are dedicated to the conference area itself. A state-of-the-art conference hall with a 6,800-seat capacity, flexible staging, lighting, a world-class sound system and excellent image quality displayed on three immense screens.
A first look inside the Oslofjord conference hall will take your breath away. The hall spreads across 4,800 square meters and provides seating for 6,800 and standing room for 700.
Below the convention center Oslofjord got its own garden village where you can find 500 apartments in three different sizes. The apartments are modern and light, and come complete with a kitchen and bathroom. All cabins and apartments have Internet access, and events in the conference hall may be viewed on the units’ TV screens.
Here you will find bus schedule for the hole week – extra training, shuttle bus and show performance bus.
If you want to travle when or where the Gym for Life bus do not go, please follow this link for local bus information or order taxi:
Tønsberg Taxi: +473330111 or Viken Taxi: +4732772500
If you want to travle when or where the Gym for Life bus do not go, please follow this link for local bus information or order taxi:
Tønsberg Taxi: +473330111 or Viken Taxi: +4732772500
https://gymogturn.no/world-gym-for-life-challenge-2017/bus-schedule-gym-life/
The County of Vestfold is situated in the south of Norway. Vestfold is the smallest and one of the most densely populated counties in Norway. The largest towns Larvik, Tønsberg, Sandefjord and Horten are all located along the coast.
Visit www.visitvestfold.com where you can read more about activities and attractions in Vestfold.
Contact tur.vestfold@unibuss.no, and they will customize the trip for you.
We think «Dirty Dancing» is the ultimate summer moive, and hope to see you all at the beach when we invite all participants to outdoor movie!
Thursday 27. July
Time: 20:30
In the summer of 1963, innocent 17-year-old Baby (Jennifer Grey) vacations with her parents at a Catskills resort. One evening she is drawn to the staff quarters by stirring music. There she meets Johnny (Patrick Swayze), the hotel dance instructor, who is as experienced as Baby is naive. Baby soon becomes Johnny’s pupil in dance and love.
Dirty Dancing is a 1987 American romantic drama dance film written by Eleanor Bergstein, directed by Emile Ardolino and starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey in the lead roles, as well as Cynthia Rhodes and Jerry Orbach.
Oslofjord Convention Center is the largest and most modern convention center in Northern Europe. Oslofjord`s location by the fjord and its on-site accommodation make this venue a uniquely arena for the World Gym for Life Challenge 2017.
A first look inside the Oslofjord conference hall will take your breath away. The hall spreads across 4,800 square meters and provides seating for 6,800 and standing room for 700.
Here you have maps over all the floors and zones:
Overview floor U1
Overview floor U2
Overview floor U3
