Award criteria

With a view to giving concrete substance to its catchline “Elegance is an attitude” and in its capacity as official partner and timer of all world gymnastics events staged under the patronage of the FIG, Longines of Switzerland has since 1997 regularly awarded its Longines Prize for Elegance. It rewards the team or athlete whose performance has been judged the most elegant during a world or continent-wide artistic or rhythmic gymnastics competition. The winners are selected less on the basis of their technical merits than for their natural gracefulness, inbred elegance and warmth of personality. In other words, the Longines Prize for Elegance rewards the human aspects of sport.