180 YEARS OF
180 YEARS OF
180 YEARS OF
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Happy winners: Romania’s<br />
Ana Porgras and Japan’s<br />
Kohei Uchimura won the<br />
Longines Prize for Elegance<br />
at the World Championships<br />
in October 2011 in Tokyo.<br />
displayed to the judges and the public.<br />
ese include the total points and<br />
times from the individual events,<br />
since every exercise has a specic<br />
maximum time.<br />
Longines also takes the opportunity<br />
presented by the elegant, athletic<br />
ambience of the World Cup competitions<br />
to award the Longines Prize for<br />
Elegance to one male and one female<br />
gymnast. Winners are selected by a<br />
jury comprised of representatives<br />
from the watch industry, FIG President<br />
Dr. Bruno Grandi and former<br />
gymnasts. Going even farther beyond<br />
the ocial results of the competition,<br />
the jurors pay particular attention<br />
to the grace, beauty and harmony<br />
of the athlete’s movement –<br />
elegance in the best sense of the word.<br />
Each winner receives a Longines<br />
watch and a monetary prize.<br />
1969<br />
Ice and snow:<br />
Longines timed events<br />
at the 1969 Alpine ski<br />
competitions in<br />
Kitzbühel, Austria.<br />
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