Artistic Gymnastics

Sergej Pfeifer injured

17. Februar 2003  
Hanover/Germany  
Artistic Gymnastics

Sergej Pfeifer injured

Sergej Pfeifer- TK Hannover injured

The German Champion on floor 2002 and German all-round champion 2000 Sergej Pfeifer had been operated last week on knee.
So the 25 years old gymnast from TK Hanover cannot start at the coming three world cup events in Paris, Coottbus and Thessaloniki.
The German chief coach Andreas Hirsch hopes, that Pfeifer will be fit again to the GermanWorld Champs qualifications in summer this year.
>> .. look to Website Turnklubb Hannover

Hall of Fame will reward five new Top Individuals

22. Februar 2003  
Oklahoma-City/USA  
Artistic Gymnastics

Hall of Fame will reward five new Top Individuals

Karin JANZ (GDR):
Olympic Champion 1972 (Munich)

The International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in Oklahoma-City (USA) will reward five new individuals of gymnastics this year.
They are Dimitri Bilozerchev (RUS), Kurt Thomas (USA), Karin Buettner-Janz (GER/GDR), Franco Menichelli (ITA) and, posthumously, former FIG Secretary General, Max Bangerter (SUI).

The Olympic Champion on pommelhorse, rings and with the Soviet team (SeouL, 1988), the eight-time world champion Dmitri Bilozertchev was the artistiv gymnastics super star of the eighties in the last century.

GYMmediaTV Producer in Cottbus again

08. März 2003  
Berlin/Cottbus, Germany  
Artistic Gymnastics

GYMmediaTV Producer in Cottbus again

GYMmedia als TV-Producer

After the TV premiere last year the world cup organizers booked again the responsible equipment of GYMmedia-TV, to realize the TV production of the Cottbus World Cup 'Tournament of Masters'.
The Swedish agency IEC in sports makes the brokerage of TV rights and sells the signal into more than 70 countries worldwide.
... more about the GYMmedia-TV-Equipment

Svetlana Khorkina and Sergei Tikhonovsky - New Russian Champions

07. März 2003  
Moscow/Russia  
Artistic Gymnastics

Svetlana Khorkina and Sergei Tikhonovsky - New Russian Champions

Svetlana Chorkina (RUS)

Svetlana Khorkina leads also after the second day of the 2003 Russian AA Championships in the Olympic Sports Komplex of Moscow and is the new Russian Champion 2003. On second place came the titleholder 2002, Anna Pavlova. Third is Natalia Ziganshina.
Best in mens's category after six apparatusses was Alexei Bondarenko, but the new Russion Champion now, after the all-around final, is Sergei Tikhonovsky from Sysran....
Nikolai Krukov ws the triple winner of the event finals of the 2003 RUSSIAN CUP

Results of RUSSIAN CUP Apparatusses Finals

Titleholder: Anna Pavlova

Russian Championships2003
RESULTS:

Women's Teams:
1. St. Petersburg 178,075
2. Central Russia 178,050
3. Moscow 172,450

Women's All-around Final:
1. Svetlana Khorkina 37,900
2. Anna Pavlova 37,175
3. Natalia Ziganshina 35,425
4. Yekaterina Orlova 35.775
5. Alyona Zmeu 35.600
6. Alexandra Shevchenko 35.275
7. Yelena Anoshina 35.150
8. Olga Azarkevich 35.050
9. Yelena Zamolodchikova 34.825
10. Polina Miller 34.775
11. Lidia Sidorova 34.300
12. Yekaterina Privalova 33.875
13. Lyudmila Yezhova 33.850
14. Elvina Khusainova 33.850
15. Yekaterina Petrova 33.800

Women's All-Around Qualifiers:
1. Svetlana Khorkina 37.425
2. Anna Pavlova 37.250
3. Natalia Ziganshina 37.025
4. Yelena Anoshina 36.250
5. Alexandra Shevchenko 35.925
n.p. Nadezhda Ivanova 35.550
6. Yelena Zamolodchikova 35.200
6. Polina Miller 35.200
8. Lyudmila Yezhova 35.100
9. Olga Azarkevich 35.025
10. Yekaterina Orlova 34.600
11. Olga Ugarova 34.100
12. Alyona Zmeu 34.050
13. Alexandra Zanina 34.050
14. Inna Vinogradova 33.950
15. Lidia Sidorova 33.900
16. Yekaterina Privalova 33.800
17. Maria Kiseleva 33.750
18. Leilia Gruzdeva 33.725
19. Alexandra Vanin 33.700
20. Maria Kryuchkova 33.400
20. Maria Klyukina 33.400
22. Oksana Vitkova 33.350
22. Yekaterina Petrova 33.350
24. Gulnara Ziganshina 33.200
25. Elvina Khusainova 33.100

Men's Teams:
1. Siberia 272,000
2. Moscow 267, 500
3. Volga Region 266,35

Alexei Bondarenko: Sixth place, only!

Men, ALL-around:
1. Juri Tikchonovsky - 55,200
2. Nikolai Krukov - 55,000
3. Evgeni Krylov - 54,950
 4. Sergei Khorokhcordin - 54,950
5. Georgi Grebenkov - 54,600
6. Alexei Bondarenko - 54,500
7. Anton Golotsutskov - 54.450
8. Maxim Devyatovsky - 53.850
9. Dmitry Barkalov - 53.600
10. Yuri Timofeyev - 53.150

Men's All-Around Qualifiers:
1. Alexei Bondarenko 55.450
2. Nikolai Kryukov 55.400
3. Yevgeny Podgorny 55.350
4. Maxim Devyatovsky 55.200
5. Georgy Grebyenkov 55.050
6. Yevgeny Krylov 13 55.000
7. Anton Golotsutskov 54.150
7 Sergei Khorokhordin 54.150
9. Dmitry Drevin 53.600
10. Yuri Kryukov 53.300
11. Maxim Alyoshin 300 53.150
12. Rashid Kasumov 53.100
13. Timur Kuzmin 53.050
14. Yuri Tikhonovsky 52.800
15. Yuri Timofeyev 52.500
16. Yevgeny Vasilyev 52.250
17. Boris Stanogin 52.150
17. Dmitry Paramonov 52.150
17. Dmitry Barkalov 52.150
20. Andrei Belusov 52.100
20. Anatoly Vasilyev 52.100
22. Dmitry Gogotov 52.000
23. Alexander Kalinin 51.950
24. Anton Lobachyov 51.700
>> Results of 2003 RUSSIAN CUP

P R E V I E W :
2003 Russian Cup, All-around in June 17/18....

>> Remembering:
Russian Championships 2002

Canabis: It is three Month!

06. März 2003  
Moutier/ Switzerland  
Artistic Gymnastics

Canabis: It is three Month!

Gervasio Deferr (ESP

The Royal Spanish Federation of Gymnastics returned its verdict on the case of the Spanish gymnast Gervasio Deferr, who had tested positive for cannabis (- News from February, 19)
The athlete was given a three-month suspension to begin on January 7, 2003 for the charges against him at the 2002 national championships in Vitoria.
Concerning the case of the Paris-Bercy Tournament and the World Championships in Debrecen, it will be the responsibility of the three independent members of the Disciplinary Commission of the FIG to convene and rule.
The Commission will have to decide specifically, whether the sentence should become effective the day when the blood sample was taken, which would be on October 12, 2002.
A meeting of the Disciplinary Commission will be on the calendar of the next few weeks.
(Source: FIG-phs/cj)

More information: News from 2003, February, 19

World Cup Cottbus with top Participation

05. März 2003  
Cottbus  
Artistic Gymnastics

World Cup Cottbus with top Participation

World Top Stars in Cottbus!

The organizers of the World Cup '27th TOURNAMENT of Masters' in Cottbus, Germany are happy about the list of participants: 44 nations and more than 140 athletes - this will be a new record in the 30 years old history of this event.
But also the world elite will come.:Names like the Olympic Champion Igors Vichrovs (LAT), Szilveszter Csollany (HUN), Marius Urzica (RUM) the Chineses Huang, Xu and Xing, Aowei, but also the worldchampions like Marian Dragulescu (ROM), Jordan Jovtchev (BUL) and after a long time again the powerfull athletes from USA Blaine Wilson, Paul and Morgan Hamm.

Visa American Cup in Faifax opened the International Pre-Olympic Season

02. März 2003  
Fairfax/USA  
Artistic Gymnastics

Visa American Cup in Faifax opened the International Pre-Olympic Season

Blaine Wilson (USA)

US-Gymnastics pronounced, that the two-time Olympian Blaine Wilson (USA) and 2002 U.S. Junior National Champion Carly Patterson captured the all-around titles in front of 7,111 fans at the 2003 VISA American Cup on yesterday at George Mason University's Patriot Center.

Hiroyuki Tomita (JPN)
- best foreign athlet

RESULTS, Visa Americans Cup 2003
Fairfax, USA; 01-March-2003

All-Around, Women
1. Carly Patterson (USA), 38.662
2. Courtney Kupets (USA), 38.199
3. Ashley Postell (USA), 37.899

... The Number TWO of the GYMmedia WORLD RANKING LIST, Yelena Zamolodchikova started only on two apparatusses.
>> ... full scores

Winner, FINALS, Women
Vault -Annia Hatch (USA)
Uneven Bars - Courtney Kupets (USA)
Balance Beam - Carly Patterson (USA)
Floor Exercise - Annia Hatch (USA)

All-around,Men
1. Blaine Wilson (USA), 56.900
2. Brett McClure (USA), 56.350
3. Hiroyuki Tomita (JPN), 55.850

... the Number TWO of the men's GYMmedia WORLD RANKING LIST, Yordan Yovtchev (BUL) made mistakes on pommel horse and high bar.

>> ... full scores, men

Winner, Finals, Men
Floor Exercise - Blaine Wilson (USA)
Pommel Horse - Brett McClure (USA)
Still Rings - Blaine Wilson (USA)
Vault - Dzianis Savenkov (BLR)
Parallel Bars - Blaine Wilson (USA)
High Bar - Dzianis Savenkov (BLR)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Klaus Koeste

27. Februar 2003  
Leipzig/Germany  
Artistic Gymnastics

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Klaus Koeste

Klaus Koeste:
Olympic Champion on Vault, Munich 1972

Today the German Olympic Champion of artistic gymnastics (Munich 1972), Klaus KOESTE, celebrates his 60th birthday. Koeste lives in the little village Jesenitz, near the city Leipzig in the middle of Germany.
From 1961 to 1974 Koeste won 11 international medals, was the member of the GDR Olympic Bronze team 1964, 1968 and 1972 and he was two times European high bar champion (1971 and 1973).
Last year he was also the Champion in his age group at the German Gymnastics Festival 2002 in his hometown Leipzig.
With all together 34 national titles Koeste is the German record holder, together with his former rival from the German west side, Eberhard Gienger.

Klaus Köste and Alfred Schwarzmann (died 2000)
The German Magazine 'Kicker elected the German Olympic Champion (1936) in 1999 to the


Moscow: Stars of the World cancelled

25. Februar 2003  
Moskau  
Artistic Gymnastics

Moscow: Stars of the World cancelled

Russian Gymnastics Federation cancelled

Successor of the former competition of artistic gymnastics 'Moscow News' the event 'Stars of the World' was the biggest international highlight in the Russian capital in the last years. But now the Russian Gymnastics Federation had cancelled this event due to a lack of funds. The tournament last year was also cancelled.
The Russian championships will be held March, 2-8, followed by the Moscow Grand Prix of Rhythmic Gymnastics (March 6-9).
In May 2003 Moscow will host the European Championships of Teams.

Romanian Star coaches Belu and Bitang attempted to resign this week...

21. Februar 2003  
Deva/Romania  
Artistic Gymnastics

Romanian Star coaches Belu and Bitang attempted to resign this week...

Octavian Belu (ROM)

The Romanian newspaper Evenimentul Zilei pronounced today, that the both star coaches of the women's team champion Romania, Octavian Belu and Mariana Bitang retired, yesterday and want to cancel their contracts with the Romanian Gymnastics Federation...but the Federation declined to accept any resignation from Belu and Bitang, who have an employment contract with the Romanian Olympic Committee through the 2004 Olympic Games...
Rumanian Startrainers Belu and Bitang give notice
Octavian Belu and Mariana Bitang, star trainers and coordinators of the Rumanian National Women's Team gave their notice yesterday. The reason given was anger over the accusations of several women gymnasts. Both of the famous Rumanian trainers - who have achieved 10 titles in the last 20 years in World Championships, Olympic games and European Championships - have been accused by a number of women gymnasts of gross mistreatment and of having embezzled money. Belu and Bitang left the Olympic base in Deva yesterday and returned to Bucarest in order to personally turn in their notice. 'I was fed up with coming to the gymnasium and looking upon the gymnasts as probable accusers. I believe that there is no way back,' said Bitang.
Octavian Belu shared this opinion as well.

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