1. The 15th World Gymnaestrada 2015

The World Gym­naestrada is a ma­jor gym­nas­tics event, that hap­pens ev­ery fourth year and for the first time is held in Fin­land. The 15th World Gym­naestrada 2015 in Hel­sinki is fea­tur­ing a whole spec­trum of dif­fer­ent and spec­tac­u­lar per­for­mances.

The WG2015’s goal is to let you en­joy breath-tak­ing per­for­mances. This gym­nas­tics fes­ti­val doesn’t in­clude any com­pe­ti­tion, the WG2015 is a mat­ter of joy­ing per­for­mances both watch­ing and per­form­ing one­self.

Place: Hel­sinki, Fin­land

Venues: Mes­sukeskus Hel­sinki Expo and Con­ven­tion Cen­tre; Olympic Sta­dium; Son­era Sta­dium; Ice Hall, Töölö Sports Hall, Paavo Nurmi Square, Sen­ate Square, Lin­nan­mäki Amuse­ment Park

Du­ra­tion: 12th – 18th of July 2015

Or­gan­iser: Finnish Gym­nas­tics Fed­er­a­tion in part­ner­ship with the City of Hel­sinki and the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion and Cul­ture

Holder: In­ter­na­tional Gym­nas­tics Fed­er­a­tion, of­fi­cially called FIG Fédéra­tion In­ter­na­tionale de Gym­nas­tique

Val­ues: To­gether, Openly, With a Big Heart

Mis­sion: We will ful­fill our dream by or­gan­is­ing the World Gym­naestrada in Fin­land. We will host an in­ter­na­tional gym­nas­tics fam­ily and in­crease the at­trac­tion of gym­nas­tics in Fin­land.

Vi­sion: The 15th World Gym­naestrada 2015 Hel­sinki is a unique ex­pe­ri­ence to each and ev­ery gym­nast.

Slo­gan: Make the Earth Move

Par­tic­i­pants: Ap­prox­i­mately 21 000 and over 50 coun­tries from five dif­fer­ent con­ti­nents

Vol­un­teers: Ap­prox­i­mately 4 000