WITH less than a month to go until the 2015 World Gymnastics Championships in Glasgow, organisers have unveiled the medals up for grabs.
A record 615 gymnasts from 91 countries are set to descend on the SSE Hydro from October 23 until November 1.
It will be the biggest sporting event on Scottish soil since the 2014 Commonwealth Games and Ryder Cup last year.
Gymnasts will contest medals in 14 events with team and individual all-around competitions for both men and women, plus individual apparatus finals for men on vault, floor, pommel horse, parallel bars, rings and high bar and for women on vault, floor, asymmetric bars and beam.
Among those expected to be in action are reigning world champions Kohei Uchimura (Japan) and Simone Biles (USA) who will be going for their sixth and third consecutive all-around titles respectively.
Romania’s darling Larisa Iordache – a five-time European gold medallist dubbed “the new Nadia Comaneci” – is also tipped to be among the big names competing.
The Scots vying for a place in the Great Britain team include Commonwealth Games gold medallists Daniel Purvis and Daniel Keatings.
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