Artistic Gymnastics

U.S. Girls beat Favourite Romania

20. August 2003  
Anaheim/USA  
Artistic Gymnastics

U.S. Girls beat Favourite Romania

Chellsie Memmel (USA)
- AA best again!!

In a big fight the U.S. Women's team won the gold medal of the team final with a score of 112,573 points. Titleholder Romania got 110,833 and won silver, but to the first time of history Australia won a team medal: Bronze for the 'Aussies' with 110,335 points!
The Chinese team lost on floor and came on 4th place.
Spain - leading after first rotation (floor) crashed on beam (5) and Russia made mistakes on bars and beam: 6th place only, followed by Ukraine and Brazil... One day before the women's Team Final of the 37th Worlds in Anaheim the U.S.team member Courtney Kupets injured her leftAchilles tendon during afternoon training...

Golden Girls of Anaheim!


Report on U.S gymnastics website
USA Stuns The World With First-Ever World Team Gold Medal
- August 20, 2003 -
by Brian Eaton, USA Gymnastics
- Team USA touted its depth for nearly a year heading into the 2003 World Gymnastics Championships, Aug. 16-24 in Anaheim, Calif. After losing three world medalists to injury and illness this week, the United States found itself only half as deep as originally expected.
Despite the setbacks, Team USA's five remaining members performed flawlessly on the beam and floor to seal the nation's first-ever World Championships team gold medal on Wednesday at the Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim.
Team USA's Chellsie Memmel, Carly Patterson, Hollie Vise, Tasha Schwikert and Terin Humphrey scored a 112.573 to top defending world champion Romania at 110.833.

Tasha Schwickert (USA)

'I don't think it's really sunk in yet that we are the first team ever to win Worlds,' team veteran and 2000 Olympian Tasha Schwikert said. 'We've been through so many different things this week and we are just in shock that we made it through another injury and that we are all still standing. It was awesome.'
Team USA qualified for the final in third place after bobbles on beam and floor, and appeared in danger of dropping a few more places after losing world vault bronze medalist Annia Hatch to a torn ACL, world beam champion Ashley Postell to the flu, and, on Tuesday, losing world uneven bars champ Courtney Kupets to a torn Achilles.
Memmel, the only U.S. athlete to perform on all four events, led the competition with the top all-around mark, including a meet-high 9.637 on the uneven bars and the competition's second-best score on beam of 9.575.
During team prelims on Sunday, Memmel qualified in fourth for the uneven bars event final, and in sixth place for the balance beam final. Teammate Courtney Kupets qualified in second place for the uneven bars final but is unable to compete due to an Achilles tendon injury.
The U.S. women finished with the bronze medal at the 2001 World Championships in Ghent, Belgium. The United States had never before won a team gold medal at the World Championships.
RESULTS: TEAM FINAL, Women

>> Detailed Results, Women Team Final

>> J&F-Webservice: ALL INFORMATION

Kupets injured!

Bad News fom U.S.Team before...
>> 19-Aug: --ANAHEIM – U.S. gymnastic pronounced, that Courtney Kupets injured her left Achilles tendon during afternoon training on Tuesday at the World Gymnastics Championships in Anaheim, Calif.
Kupets, the 2003 U.S. All-Around champion and 2002 uneven bars World Champion, has been taken to a local hospital for evaluation.
“Courtney is obviously distraught by this injury,” said National Team Coordinator Martha Karolyi. “She was a major contributor to the success of our team. We are sad that she will not be able to compete on Wednesday night, or in the event finals this weekend.”
No decision has been made as to the impact on the U.S. line-up or roster for the World Championships.


>> Back to:
J&F Webservice ANAHEIM 2003

Paul Hamm wins first AA Gold for USA

21. August 2003  
Anaheim/USA  
Artistic Gymnastics

Paul Hamm wins first AA Gold for USA

Paul Hamm (USA)

Paul HAMM got the very first historical all-around gold medal for USA in artistic gymnastics worlds yesterday and the second medal in general after Kurt Thomas 1979 in Fort Worth.

Hamm scored 57,744, thats only a difference from 0.064 points to the second placed Chinese YANG, Wei, the Olympic silver medalist (Sydney 2000).

Bronze went to Hiroyuki TOMITA (JPN), because the best Japanese of preliminaries Tsukahara crashed on high bar.
Marian Dragulescu

YANG, Wei (CHN)

PAUL HAMM (USA) : WORLD CHAMPION
One more time, suspense until the last rotation
- by Vera Atkinson, FIG
The six-piece event in Men's gymnastics is akin to the decathlon in Athletics - it tests the full physical and mental capacities of the gymnasts, and only the strongest survive...
The Men's All-around event in Anaheim was a real fight between gymnasts from America (USA and Cuba), Asia (China, Japan and Kazakhstan) and Europe (Bulgaria, Russia, Romania, Ukraine). It was also a wonderful competition with an incredible climax, when the USA Champion Paul Hamm mounted the podium to perform on High Bar, needing 9.711 and scored 9.775 to produce an ecstatic respond from the audience.

Hiroyuki TOMITA (JPN)

The best gymnasts in the preliminaries, Japanese Naoya Tsukahara fell on his full twisting Kovach and it was all over !
The 2000 Olympic Silver medallist in the all-around, Yang Wei from China, who was on the top of the table from the third until the last rotation, dropped to second, loosing the Gold by 0.64.
The Bronze went to the Japanese Hiroyuki TOMITA, after his extraordinary Parallel Bars and High Bar (both awarded with 9.687). Yenar Yerimbetov from Kazakhstan, sitting in third position for the two last rotations managed 'only' 9.450 on Rings and missed the Bronze.
Europe lost the battle of the continents tonight :
Russia fell from the reckoning as both their men (Bondarenko and Podgorny) fell from High Bar, as did the top Bulgarian Jovchev. Marian Dragulescu, Romania, was the best European having managed the 6th place, followed by the Ukrainian Roman Zozulia - 9th.
The dream of the hosts has come true- an all-around champion from the USA !
By Vera Atkinson /FIG

RESULTS: Men's ALL-AROUND FINAL
>> Detailed Results


>> Back to:
J&F Webservice ANAHEIM 2003

Queen Khorkina wins her third all-around Gold!

22. August 2003  
Anaheim/USA  
Artistic Gymnastics

Queen Khorkina wins her third all-around Gold!

Happy Svetlana Khorkina (RUS)

Svetlana Khorkina from Russia wins an unprecedented third world all-around title of the 28th Women's Worlds and her 10th title in her career, more than any other before!
Carly Patterson from USA wins the silver medal in her first world championships,
and the Chinese Zhang Nan get the bronze, the first ever world all-around medal for China.

The Ukrainian Irina Yaritska came on fourth place, followed by Elena Gomez (ESP) on fifth and the best Romanian Oana Ban on sixth place....

'QUEEN KHORKINA' and her followers: Zhang, Nan (CHN) and Carly Patterson (USA)
(C) Photos by Tom Theobald

Flying Svetlana !

<<-Aug: EVENT REVIEW
+++
Women’s Individual All-around

The Queen is alive! Long live the Queen!
- by Vera Atkinson / GBR, for FIG
First Rotation:
- Zang Nan (China) 9.700 for phenomenal Beam routine and she topes the field of 24 gymnasts.
Second rotation:
- Carly Patterson (USA) takes the leadership over after steady and difficult Beam routine (9.612).
- Zhang moves back in second (9.412, steps after tumbling on Floor);
- Current twice World champion Khorkina (Russia)- impeccable on U.Bars (9.663), comes ahead from seventh into third position.
The Ukraine (Yarotska in fourth) and Spain (Gomez in fifth), ahead of Romania- unheard of, but this competition had produced faults from even the best.
Third rotation:
- Patterson on Floor, 9.573- keeps the leadership.
- Khorkina- a mind-blowing difficulty on Beam- 9.475 and she swaps places with Zhang (9.250 on Vault).
Last rotation:
- Zhang- performs first from the three potential medallists- two mistakes on U.Bars (close to the higher bar after a release-and catch element and bending her knees in a handstand position on the lower bar) but still manages 9.262
- What a climax! Khorkina receives standing ovations for her very artistic Floor routine (not a single difficulty spared)- 9. 675

This competition had everything could the remarkable Russian once again mount the podium in the first place. It rested with Carly Patterson from the USA to produce 9.45 with the last exercise of the competition the Vault..
Never has a scoreboard been so carefully and closely scrutinised, but with a 9.7 Start Value Carly had to be perfect. Not so and (a step after the landing) and THE QUEEN reigns on.
What can one say about Khorkina?
She is udoubtly still the best and most beautiful gymnast who possesses extreme beauty and a mind of steel! Her third World All-around title (after Lausanne’97 and Ghent’01) is a new record for the World of Gymnastics.

Since the first World Championships for Women held in 1934, only Vlasta Dekanova, (TCH) in 1934 and 1938, Larissa Latinina (USSR) in 1958 and 1962 and Ludmila Turischeva (USSR) in 1970 and 1974, have managed to win two World titles.
Another best achievement ever Anaheim will be remembered with, is the first World All-around medal for China- Bronze for Zang Nan.
V.Atkinson, FIG


QUOTES of Svetlana Khorkina, Russia

...On her reaction to winning:
Svetlana : “I went to wash my hands and when I came back, it was done. My coach told me I had won. I didn’t think I could do it, but I did.”
“When I’m competing I try to express myself from my heart. I feel so empty [because I gave] all my heart to the crowd.”

...On Russia’s performance:
Svetlana : “I was very angry all week, but not tired.”

...On event finals:
Svetlana : “I am queen of the uneven bars and I do not know what is going on here.”

...On her third World title:
Svetlana : “This World Championship is very important to me. It will be the last for me. I will go to Athens, but this is my last Worlds.”
(source: website of host

J&F SERVICE Anaheim 2003

R E S U L T S: 28th Women's World Championships
>> Detailed Results: Women's All-around

Event Finals I: Golden Rain at the first day

24. August 2003  
Anaheim/USA  
Artistic Gymnastics

Event Finals I: Golden Rain at the first day

Jovchev (BUL), Tambakos (GRE)
Double winners on rings

Eight golden medals went to the athletes at the first final day: On every of the three men's apparatuses were two winners :
- Floor: Paul Hamm (USA & Jordan Jovtchev (BUL),
- Pommel: Teng (CHN) & Kashima (JPN) and
-Jovchev again and Tambakos (GRE).
Also in women's finals two medals on bars went to the US-gymnasts Chellsie Memmel and Hollie Vise.
The oldest gymnast of these Worlds, Oksana Chusovitina (UZB) got her first title on vault....

All-around Champion Paul HAMM (USA): Second Gold on Floor
(C) Photos by Tom Theobald, San Diego


... Couverage of the host:
WCh Website Anaheim

INFORMATION, ALL:
>> J&F Web Service ANAHEIM 2003

Paul HAMM - one of the gold medallists


FLOOR EXERCISES:
Bulgaria's Jordan Jovtchev and the USA's Paul Hamm tie for the gold medal! Canada's Kyle Shewfelt wins his first world medal with the bronze.
1 HAMM Paul USA 9.762
1 JOVTCHEV Jordan BUL 9.762
3 SHEWFELT Kyle CAN 9.737
4 HYPOLITO Diego BRA 9.662
4 DRAGULESCU Marian ROM 9.662
6 VIHROVS Igors LAT 9.612
7 GAL Robert HUN 9.487
8 NG Shu Wai MAS 9.475

Takehiro Kashima (JPN) &
Teng, Haibin (CHN)

POMMEL HORSE
China's Teng Haibin and Japan's Takehiro Kashima tie for the gold medal! Nikolai Kryukov wins the bronze. Two-time defending champion Marius Urzica and two-time runner-up Xiao Qin both finished out of the medals.
1 TENG Haibin CHN 9.762
1 KASHIMA Takehiro JPN 9.762
3 KRYUKOV Nikolai RUS 9.725
4 SUCIU Ioan Silviu ROM 9.712
5 URZICA Marius Daniel ROM 9.650
6 IVANKOV Ivan BLR 9.575
7 XIAO Qin CHN 9.350
8 CASIMIR Eric FRA 9.150
STILL RINGS:
Improbability: A score of 9.600, that's tha last place on rings!! Ingedible high level of technics and power on this apparatus.
Gold went to the Greece Olympic silvermedallist Dimosthenis Tambakos, after winning bronze in 1999. A second gold wins the world champion from Ghent, Jordan Jovchev - his second title this year. There are also two bronze medals for the two Italian Andrea Coppolino and Matteo Morandi.
1 Dimosthenis Tambakos )GRE) 9,787
1 Jordan Jovchev (BUL) 9,787
3 Andrea Coppolino (ITA) 7,700
3 Matteo Morandi (ITA) 9,700
 5 Tatsuya Tamado (JPN) 9,687
6 Blaine Wilson (USA) 9,675
7Jason Gatson (USA) 9,602
8 Pierre- Yves Beny (FRA) 9,600

Oxana Chusovitina- Silver in Ghent, Gold in Anaheim

VAULT
12 years after her first world championships appearance, Oksana Chusovitina wins the gold on vault! Chusovitina has been twice second (1991, 2002) and three times third (1992, 1993, 2002) on the vault, but this is her first world title on the event. North Korea's Kang Yun Mi and defending champion Yelena Zamolodchikova of Russia tie for second.
1 CHUSOVITINA Oksana UZB 9.481
2 KANG Yun Mi PRK 9.443
2 ZAMOLODCHIKOVA Elena RUS 9.443
3 ROSU Monica ROM 9.374
4 PAVLOVA Anna RUS 9.356
5 CHACON Coralie FRA 9.306
6 GONZALEZ CALERO Leyanet CUB 9.275
7 KVASHA Alona UKR 9.031

Beth Tweddle (GBR)
Flying to the first medal ever

UNEVEN BARS:
: Chellsie Memmel and Hollie Vise , both from USA, tie for the gold medal! Beth Tweddle wins the first-ever world championship medal for a British woman!
1 MEMMEL, Chellsie (USA) 9,612
1 VISE, Holly (USA) 9,612
3 TWEDDLE, Beth (GBR) 9,512
 4 PYONG, Kwang Sun PRK 9,500
5 LIN, Li (CHN) 9,350
6 Irina Yarotska (UKR) 9,300
7 KRASNYANSKAYA, Irina (UKR) 8,875
8 FAN, Ye (CHN) 8,525
source: INTERNATIONAL GYMNAST. Thanks!


INFORMATION, ALL: >> J&F Web Service ANAHEIM 2003

Most successful: USA and China and the Asian gymnastics

24. August 2003  
Anaheim/USA  
Artistic Gymnastics

Most successful: USA and China and the Asian gymnastics

Daiane dos Santos- first Gold for Brazil!

To the first time in history the women's finals of the 28th World Championships in Anaheim (USA) finished today without any title on the apparatuses for European women's gymnastics .
The Chinese FAN, Ye won the gold medal on beam and Daniele dos Santos on floor got the very first gold ever for Brasilia.
Double winner in men's competition was the Chinese LI, Xiao-Peng on vault and parallel bars, and HUANG, Xu won silver on bars.
Also the Japanese Takehiro Kashima wo her second gold after pommel horse yesterday, on high bar now.

Seven of the gol medals of these champs were won by Asian gymnasts.

LI, Xiaopeng (CHN)

MEN's VAULT:
With two 10.00 rated vaults, Li Xiaopeng of China successfully defends his world title on vault. Former world champion Marian Dragulescu wins the silver, and Kyle Shewfelt wins his second medal of the meet with the bronze.

1- LI Xiaopeng CHN 9.818
2- DRAGULESCU Marian ROM 9.687
3- SHEWFELT Kyle CAN 9.612

 4- DRIGGS SANTOS Abel CUB 9.537
4- GAL Robert HUN 9.537
6- SUCIU Ioan Silviu ROM 9.443
7-HYPOLITO Diego BRA 9.387
8- GOLOTSUTSKOV Anton RUS 9.150
MEN's PARALLEL BARS:
Li Xiaopeng wins the parallel bars title, the third straight gold of the night for China. His teammate Huang Xu ties for the silver with Russia's Alexei Nemov, who wins his first world medal since 1999.
1- LI Xiao-Peng CHN 9.825
2- HUANG Xu CHN 9.762
2- NEMOV Alexei RUS 9.762

 4-TSUKAHARA Naoya JPN 9.675
4- CHO Seong Min KOR 9.637
6- WILSON Blaine USA 9.625
7- LOPEZ RIOS Eric CUB 9.575
8- PETKOVSEK Mitja SLO 9.562

Takehiro Kashima (JPN)

MEN's HIGH BAR:
Japan's Takehiro Kashima wins his second gold of the meet. Italy's Igor Cassina wins the silver medal, and Alexei Nemov wins his second medal of the day with the bronze.
1- KASHIMA Takehiro JPN 9.775 2- CASSINA Igor ITA 9.750
3- NEMOV Alexei RUS 9.737

4- RIZZO Philippe AUS 9.700
5- LI Xiao-Peng CHN 9.662
6-JELTKOV Alexander CAN 9.187
7- IVANKOV Ivan BLR 8.762
8-MAREE Florent FRA 8.600

>> Men's FINAL RESULTS, all

FAN, Ye (CHN)

WOMEN's BALANCE BEAM:
China's Fan Ye wins the beam title with the highest score so far of the women's competition! First-up Catalina Ponor (Romania) wins the silver, and anchor Lyudmila Yezhova of Russia takes the bronze.

1- FAN Ye CHN 9.812
2- PONOR Catalina ROM 9.587
3- EZHOVA Liudmila RUS 9.550

4- LI Ya CHN 9.450
5-GOMEZ Elena ESP 8.887
6-MEMMEL Chellsie USA 8.837
7-KRASNYNSKA Irina UKR 8.550
8-RUSSO Monette AUS 8.537

Daiane dos Santos- dynamic girl!

WOMEN's FLOOR EXERCISES:
Daiane dos Santos wins the gold medal on the floor exercise, the first ever gold medal for a Brazilian gymnast in world championship history! The crowd was really behind dos Santos from her first high tumbling pass on.

1- DOS SANTOS Daiane BRA 9.737
2- PONOR Catalina ROM 9.700
3- GOMEZ Elena ESP 9.675

4- MUNTEANU Aura Andreea ROM 9.400
5- LEPENNEC Emilie FRA 9.387
6- HARMES Suzanne NED 9.287
7- PAVLOVA Anna RUS 9.237
8- KVASHA Alona UKR 7.687

>> Women's FINAL RESULTS, all
>> INFORMATION ALL about the 37th World you will find on:
J&F Online Service ANAHEIM2003

Worlds finished, and Brazil celebrate their first World Title!

24. August 2003  
Anaheim/USA  
Artistic Gymnastics

Worlds finished, and Brazil celebrate their first World Title!

Daiane dos Santos - Brazil!

Host USA and China - winning 5 gold medals at the Pre-olympic World Championschips of artistic gymnastics - were the most successful nations after the last day in Anaheim, Cal./USA.
China won three gold medals at last: LI, Xiao-Peng (vault and bars) and FAN, Ye on beam.
Also the high bar title went to Asia, to the pommel horse winner yesterday, to Takehiro Kashima.
First time in history a world champion comes from South America: Brazilian Daiane dos Santos is the new floor world champion.
Top nation Romania got no title, Belarus and Ukraine not any medal and only Tambakos (GRE) and Jovchev (BUL), the champions on rings, vindicated the honour of European gymnastics...
<< The oldest participant of these world championships, the 28 years old Oksana Chusovitina won the title on vault yesterday, her first title on this apparatus in a long career of more than 12 years!
(ALL INFORMATION you can can get about the button '(AG) WCh Anaheim 03', left).

'QUEEN KHORKINA' and her followers: Zhang, Nan (CHN) and Carly Patterson (USA)
(C) Photos by Tom Theobald

Oxana Chusovitina (UZB)-Gold with 28 years!

- WCh INFORMATIONEN ALL; ANAHEIM 2003 -
<- This coverage is a special service of the 'Official Olympic Supplier ATHENS 2004, JANSSEN&FRITSEN (NED)

>> 23,/24.Aug:--The APPARATUS FINALS
After winning gold medals in women's teams and men's all-round by Paul Hamm yesterday the host team of USA added three more titles at the first day of the event finals, and China did the same at the last day ...>>

>> Results & Reports, FINALS, DAY 2

>> Results & Reports, FINALS, DAY 1

>> J&F-WM-Service ANAHEIM 2003

Svetlana Khorkina - most successfull in history!

22-Aug:-- WOMEN's ALL-AROUND DECISION

Svetlana Khorkina from Russia wins an unprecedented third world all-around title of the 28th Women's Worlds and her 10th title in her career, participating at her 9th world championships on - more than any other before!
Carly Patterson from USA - still leading after two rotations - and representing the new generation, wins the silver in her first world championships,
and the Chinese Zhang Nan get the bronze, the first ever world all-around medal for China.

On fourth place came the Ukrainian Irina Yarotska (37,311), the leading gymnast afer qualification, Elena Gomez from Spain, scored on fifth and the best Romanian Oana Ban on sixth place... >> Results & Daily Report: Women's All-around

Wei and Patterson - most elegance!

21-Aug:-- Anaheim, USA/Saint-Imier, SUI:--- Nadia Comaneci's perfect 10 at the 1976 American Cup at Madison Square Garden has been voted the most memorable moment in time ...

The Chinese Wei Yang and Carly Patterson (USA) are winners of the 'Longines Prize for Elegance'...
>> a href=http://www.gymmedia,com/Anahaeim03/Longines/prize03.htm>... read more >> ...full story

Paul Hamm -
- first AA World Champion of USA

22-Aug:-- MEN's ALL-AROUND DECISION

After the 6th rotation of the men's all around decision of the 37 World Championships in Anaheim USA, and after the victory of U.S. women's team now comes the next success of hosts:
With the highest score on high bar (9,775) in his last rotation and alltogether 57.774 points Paul HAMM (USA) wins the all-around gold medal yesterday!
HAMM is the first American male world champion and the first American world all-around medalist since Kurt Thomas in 1979....

Best European gymnast was Marian Dragulescu (ROM), ranked 6th, who scored the highest result of competition on vault (9,850)...

>> >> Detailed Results

Golden U.S.-Girls!

20-Aug:-- TEAM FINAL, Women

In a big fight the U.S. Women's team won the gold medal of the team final with a score of 112,573 points.
Titleholder Romania got 110,833 and won silver, but to the first time of history Australia won a team medal: Bronze for the 'Aussies' with 1110,835 points!
The Chinese team lost on floor and came on 4th place.
Spain - leading after first rotation (floor) crashed on beam (5) and Russia made mistakes on bars and beam: 6th place only, followed by Ukraine and Brazil


INFORMATION
International Gymnast pronounced:
Deduction Costs China Bronze Medal!
Team loses 0.2 points over back handspring, tuck jumps
A .2 deduction incurred by the Chinese team at Wedneday night's team final cost China the bronze medal. Fan, Ye performed a back handspring on the podium and jumps while waiting to begin her beam routine.
Under this new format, the gymnasts are not allowed to warm up on the podium prior to competition. The rules state that a gymnast may only stretch, but may not flip, while waiting for the green light to begin the routine.
The deduction was enough to leave China in fourth place, .076 behind Australia. (source: IG, Amanda Turner)

>> Daily Report: Women's Team Final

Gold for Chinese Men

19-Aug:-- Men's decision TEAM FINAL
A very thrilling fight China once again won the gold medal! The U.S. successfully defends its silver medal from the 2001 Worlds. Japan won bronze....
Final Results:
GOLD: 1. China 171.996
Silver: 2. USA 171.121
Bronze: 3. Japan 170.708
4. Russia 168.771
5. Romania 167.909
6. Korea 166.283
7. France 165.546
8. Ukraine 165.108

Coverage of the host: >> ..Men's final standings

<< Men's Report...>>


17/18-Aug:-- WOMEN's TEAM QUALIFICATION
Chinese Women Qualify First for Final
>> After the last subdivisions the team of CHINA was the best with a sensational score of 148,671 points in front of the still reigning world champion ROMANIA (148,120) and the squad of ghost USA (147,697).
In the eighth and last subdivision the Ukraine made strong rotations and came on fourth place (146,994) and beat the Russians on fifth place (145,572), together with the Spain team.
The 'Aussies' scored 144,758 (7), than comes the team of the former Ukrainian star coach Oleg Ostapenko, BRAZIL (143,946 / 8.), followed by the lucky British Girls (143,046), than France (142,835), Canada (142,560) and Germany (142,158) - fighting for the 12th place -lost the Olympic ticket to the little North Korean girls by a difference of 0,04 points (!).
Also the unlucky Dutch team16./ 141.196) is not qualified for Athens 2004, because some injuries (van de Leur, Endel).

>>WOMEN's RESULTS:
>> Detailed Results, Teams.. long downloads, sorry!
>> Detailed Results, Ind. AA.. long downloads, sorry!
... >> please, try the special >>Quick Results, Teams, topical Standings

>> WOMEN's TEAM QUALIFICATION: >> REPORT: Women's Team Qualification

>> 17-Aug: -- MEN's TEAM QUALIFICATION >> REPORT. Men's Team Qualification

>> Current Information, All:J&F-Website Anaheim 2003

F.I.G. INFORMATION
Anaheim (USA), August 18, 2003:-- The Men’s Technical Committee, Chaired by Adrian Stoica (ROM), has submitted for the Executive Committee approval, according to the FIG Technical Regulations (Reg. 4.2, section 2), the following teams and gymnasts qualified the Games of the 28th Olympiad, in Athens 2004, in conformity with the 2003 World Championships.

>> PROVISIONAL OLYMPIC ENTRY LIST, Men / Women
P R E S S - I N T E R N A T I O N A L

>> 24-Aug.: Nomedals, but Satisfaction
>> 23-Aug: US TODAY: Thee more Golds for U.S.
>> 21-Aug: US TORAY: Men's all-around: Hamm makes hostory
>>21-Aug: US TODAY: Women's Team Final: Ailing Americans score stunning gold
>> 19-Aug: US TODAY: 'China holds slim lead at Gymnastics Worlds'
>> 19-Aug: US TODAY: Second Cuban gymnast defects after team competition
>> 17-Aug: US TODAY U.S. men top prelims; women persevere
>> 16-Aug: US TODAY: Hatch, Postell will miss worlds with injury and illness
>> 14-Aug: XINHUA: Chinese head coach confident of upcoming gymnastics worlds


>> 15-Aug: -- OPENING CEREMONY

>> Worlds are opened now.../IMPESSIONS

>> 13./14.Aug: -- >> PODIUM TRAINING MEN and WOMEN

13-Aug: -- WORLD CHAMPS PREVIEW and all information before...>
>> WCh PREVIEW and reports before...

www.janssen-fritsen.com

To the second time after Ghent 2001, the Dutch Pegases Company 'JANSSEN&FRITSEN' take over the title sponsorship of a world championships and presents:

>> ALL INFORMATION: 'ANAHEIM 2003'
J&F in co-operation and publishes by GYMmedia.


... read more on www.gymmedia.com

Once again: The next Auditions of Cirque du Soleil

01. September 2003  
Montreal/Canada  
Artistic Gymnastics

Once again: The next Auditions of Cirque du Soleil

The worldwide wellknown Cirque du Soleil plans once again its next auditions this year:
After Berlin in spring the coming locations will be in London (United Kingdom) and Orlando (United States) in November - December 2003
In 2004, the first city visited will be Budapest (Hungaria) and Las Vegas (United States) in February.
The talent scouts are looking for gymnasts, sports acrobats, trampolinists, tumblers, circus acrobats, martial artists...


>> Send your resumé, Photo and demo.
Auditions will be held on an invitation-only basis!

Post adress:
Cirque du Soleil Auditions
8400, 2e Avenue
Montréal, Québec
CANADA H1Z 4M6
... more information:
>>Cirque du Soleil, Casting
Have a look to one of the
>> last auditons of Cirque du Soleil, Berlin 2003

225th Birthday of FRIEDRICH LUDWIG JAHN

11. August 2003  
Lanz/Freyburg / Germany  
Artistic Gymnastics

225th Birthday of FRIEDRICH LUDWIG JAHN

Friedrich Ludwig Jahn
1778 - 1852

Friedrich Ludwig Jahn was born 1778, August , 11th in the little village Lanz, near Lenzen as a son of the pastor.
A big part of his life Jahn lived in the 'Town of Jahn Freyburg'Unstrut' in Saxonia-Anhalt. In October (3 - 5) this year there will held a historical and scientific symposium.
Every year, at the last weekend in August in Freyburg take place the Jahn tournament, a artistic gymnastics competition for all age groups, from 15 to nienty years... >> Read more about Jahn on our special GYMmedia websites, about the Father of Gymnastics, the Town of Jahn and about historical gymnastics traditions in Germany...
Read more about life and works of
>>JAHN, Father of German Gymnastics

>> ... the Town of Jahn Freyburg/Unstrut and the JAHN MEMORIAL 2003

>> 150. Anniversary of F-L.Jahn's Death, Oct. 2002

>> 80th JAHN FESTIVAL 2002
Das 81st Jahn MEMORIAL 2003 will held from August 22 to August 24

UEG Training Camp in Tirrenia

07. August 2003  
Tirrenia / Italy  
Artistic Gymnastics

UEG Training Camp in Tirrenia

UEG-Training camp

26 gymnasts aged 10 to 12 and 21 coaches representing 14 member federations (AUT, FIN, FRA, GBR, GER, IRL, ISR, ITA, LUX, POL, RUS, SLO, SUI, TUR) participated in the 2003 UEG training camp held in Tirrenia (ITA) from July 14th till July 24th.
>> Read an article, written by Marie-Paule Hoffmann, President of UEG Women's Technical Committee...

Participants All, coaches and gymnasts; (c) UEG

Once more, the training centre in Tirrenia proved to be an excellent choice for this event, especially as the situation next to the sea and the infrastructure (two training halls, appropriate accommodation and well balanced meals) are concerned.
The invited expert coaches Gheorghe Condovici (GER), Joszef Lukacs (HUN), Zsuzsa Kalmar (HUN), the choreographer Larissa Efremova (RUS) as well as the representatives of the WTC/UEG, Orna Shai and Donatella Sacchi worked very professionally, in a positive and friendly atmosphere and shared their knowledge with the highly motivated participants.
Training sessions (generally two per day) included physical preparation, flexibility, choreography and training at the apparatus. For reasons of organisation and efficiency the gymnasts were divided into two groups and worked hard under the guidance of the expert coaches in cooperation with the coaches of the federations. Besides the practical sessions in the training hall, lectures on the code of points and methodology of basic elements were held regularly. Furthermore, the UEG had invited Adrian Stan (GBR) in charge of the FIG age groups programs, whose explanations on that program were extremely interesting and highly appreciated by the coaches.
Despite the hard work some free time was left and the participants enjoyed the beach and their trips to Florence and Pisa.
The WTC/UEG is very satisfied with this year's training camp. All participants appreciated the high quality of the training camp and agreed that it was a very positive end rich experience. The WTC/UEG is aware that these young gymnasts are the future of European Gymnastics and that it is important to offer both the coaches and the gymnasts the best possible training and education.
Marie-Paule Hoffmann, President WTC
source: UEG Website

Is Arnie coming to the Team Austria...?

09. August 2003  
Anaheim/USA  
Artistic Gymnastics

Is Arnie coming to the Team Austria...?

Arnold Schwarzenegger
guest in Anaheim..?

One week before the opening of the World Champs of artistic gymnastics the Austrian gymnastics teams arrived just now in Anaheim, coming from its training camp in West-Woodword/Ca.
And just now the election campaign is beginning in California! So the 'Terminator-Governator' Arnold Schwarzenegger today pronounced, that he will make a visit to the Austrian gymnastics team...!
So it was to read on the ÖFT website. Is it a skilful publicity gag or will it be reality....?


>> Back to: J&F Webservice ANAHEIM 2003

Seiten

Subscribe to RSS - Artistic Gymnastics