In 2003 the German Gymnastics League 'DEUTSCHE TURNLGA' will test a very new system of points. This system is a proposal of the president of the German team master EnBW KTV Stuttgart, Dr. Karsten Ewald'.
The new point system named 'SCORE SYSTEM' and it is an attempt, to make the gymnastics events between teams more efficient for media, the spectators in the competion halls and for sponsors....
>> ALL INFORMATION on www.deutsche-turnliga.de

In 2003 the German Gymnastics League 'DEUTSCHE TURNLGA' will test a very new system of points. This system is a proposal of the president of the German team master EnBW KTV Stuttgart, Dr. Karsten Ewald'.
The new point system named 'SCORE SYSTEM' and it is an attempt, to make the gymnastics events between teams more efficient for media, the spectators in the competion halls and for sponsors....
>> ALL INFORMATION on www.deutsche-turnliga.de

The German women's team of artistic gymnastics started from January the 1st on the special training camp for the world championships in Anaheim (August 2003).
Thirteen gymnasts from eight different German clubs will work from now on two weeks in Cologne, at the German Highscholl of Physical Culture 'Deutsche Sporthochschule', which is also the home of the TURNTEAM TOYOTA Cologne, folowed by one week training at the different home clubs of the athletes.
After a break of more than 8 years the former world star Angelika HELLMANN (married Keilig) is back in the team of German coaches as choreographer...
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From 1997 to 2000 she was one of the stars of the French artistic gymnastics women team and Nelly Ramassamy was member of the French Olympic and world championships Equipe.
At last Nelly participated in autumn 2002 at the Massilia GYM Trophy in Marseille...
In 2003 the 19 years old gymnast have to fight agains the new and younger talents in national Frech gymnastics...
>> ... read more (in French) about Nelly Ramassamy (... > in German)

. The Australian Youth Olympic Festival is a multi-sport event for young Olympic aspirants between the ages of 14-19 yrs. an take place from January 9 to 13.
Gymnastics Competition will be held at the State Sport Centre, which is located at Sydney Olympic Park, Homebush Bay.
>> The Japanese brothers Kazuki (53,65) and Hidetoshi Mizutori (53,25) won the men's all-around competition.
>> Monette Russo from Australia won the women's all-around with a score of 36,10.
> The winners of the team competitions of artistic gymnastics are:
> Girls Teams: 1. China, 2. AUS; 3. CAN
> Boys Teams: 1. JPN; 2. AUS; 3. CHN.
>> FINAL results
> The winner of rhythmic gymnastics competition was the team of Japan.

The Royal Dutch Gymnastics Federation and the technical committee of women's gymnastics give an invitation to the best 8 nations to a test event on a podium at the first weekend in May in Groeningen.
Also the Dutch technical committee of women's gymnastices decided, that the national Dutch championships in the next three years will be only held in the city of Nijmegen, because there is a big venue with a visitor capacity of more than 1,500 seats....
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The three years old sun Alisher of the Olympic Champion Oksana Chusovitina (27) from Uzbekistan has been diagnosed with leukemia!
Alisher is in the hospital of Cologne (Germany) in best medical treatment.
The solidarity of the international gymnastics family is growing up: Last weekend the sum of benefaction of the GYMmedia users crossed over the border of 16,000.- Euro!
Thanks, in the name of Oksana and her family!! But herfamily needs more financial help, to pay for a good attendance and for a good end of this bad story!!
>> You can also help under
www.gymmedia.com/HELP

All together three of the four events of the 2003 F.I.G. Worldcup circuit will held in March.
The firts will be in Paris, the FRANCETELECOM (March 15-16), than comes Cottbus Tournament of Masters (21 - 23), followed by the newcomer of this series, the Greece city THESSALONIKI, on March 28-29, in the country of the coming Olympic Games 2004.
The serie 2003 ends with the 21. DTB-Pokal' in Stuttgart (November, 28-30)

The world-wide wellknown company SPIETH Gymnastic from Esslingen, Germany- long-time online partner of GYMmedia and producer of the vaulting table ERGOJET - is the Official Supplier of the artistic and rhythmic gymnastics events of the World Championships of Students (Universiade) coming August in the Korean city Daegu.
Also SPIETH is the official partner of the world cup Cottbus Tournament of Masters
(March21 - 23).
After than the SPIETH apparatusses will be used at the European Team Championships in Moscow (April).
In autumn SPIETH is the official supplier of the special tumbling track at the World Age Group Games of trampoline/tumbling in Hanover (GER).

The former double world champion of Lubljana 1970 on beam and vault, ERIKA ZUCHOLD is a remarkable and wellknown artist and sculptor in Germany, now.
This week she opened an exposition and performance in the business building of Berlins housing co-operative NEUES BERLIN. In four floors she presents a lot of work of arts: Pictures, sketches, sculptures designed with many artistic technologies of wood, stone and other materials and a lot of pictures and motives about her active times of a world star in artistic gymnastics: Erika Zuchld was the first woman who celebrated the flic flac on beam in 1964.
>> Report of the Vernissage .