{"id":137190,"date":"2020-11-11T10:56:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T01:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=137190&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2020-11-11T10:56:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T01:56:15","slug":"kitakyushu-to-host-artistic-gymnastics-world-championships-2021","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/kitakyushu-to-host-artistic-gymnastics-world-championships-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitakyushu to Host Artistic Gymnastics World Championships 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kitakyushu City will host the 50th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships and the 38th Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships in October 2021. On November 8, the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) announced this as the first double-sport event in the same city. Competitions of artistic gymnastics are scheduled between October 17 ~ 24 at Kitakyushu City General Gymnasium in Yahatahigashi Ward, while rhythmic gymnastics will occur between October 26 ~ 31 at West Japan General Exhibition Center in Kokurakita Ward. <\/span><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yomiuri.co.jp\/sports\/etc\/20201108-OYT1T50103\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yomiuri<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sponichi.co.jp\/sports\/news\/2020\/11\/09\/kiji\/20201109s00067000162000c.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sports Nippon<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gymnastics.sport\/site\/news\/displaynews.php?idNews=2991\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FIG<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-137191\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/kitakyushu-gym.jpeg?resize=1024%2C768&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/kitakyushu-gym.jpeg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/kitakyushu-gym.jpeg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/kitakyushu-gym.jpeg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/kitakyushu-gym.jpeg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>Photo by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:General_gymnasium,Kitakyushu.JPG\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kugel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Disclaimer<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area news for those who cannot read Japanese. 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On November 8, the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) announced this as the first double-sport event&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":137191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-137190","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-kitakyushu","news-category-sports","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/137190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}