Chellsie Memmel of West Allis., Wis., the all-around champion at the 2005 Pan Am Championships, is one of six women participating in the T.J. Maxx U.S. Women’s Team Selection Camp for the 2005 World Championships, Nov. 22-27, in Melbourne, Australia.
The four-woman squad will be announced on November 14; selection is based on performances during the camp, November 9-13.
The six U.S. women are:
Jana Bieger, Coconut Creek, Fla./Twisters Gymnastics Academy; Annie DiLuzio, Folsom, Calif./Byers Gymnastics Center; Nastia Liukin, Plano, Texas/World Olympic Gymnastics Academy; Kassi Price, Plantation, Fla./Orlando Metro; Alicia Sacramone, Winchester, Mass./Brestyan's American Gymnastics; and Memmel, who trains at M&M Gymnastics....

Since the Visa Championships, Memmel, Sacramone, Price and Bieger have had success internationally.

At last month’s Pan Am Championships 2005 in Rio de Janeiro (BRA), Memmel and Sacramone split the available gold medals, with Memmel topping in the all-around, uneven bars and balance beam and Sacramone winning on the vault and floor exercise.

Jana Bieger claimed the vault silver and the floor exercise bronze at the Pan Am Championships.
At the Massilia Cup 2005, Price won the all-around, uneven bars and floor exercise gold medals, as well as the silver medal on vault.

The U.S. Men’s Team
for the World Championships is comprised of:
Jason Gatson of Mesa, Ariz./Team Chevron;
Sean Golden of Houston/Houston Gymnastics Academy/GymMasters;
Justin Spring of Burke, Va./University of Illinois;
Kevin Tan of Fremont, Calif./Penn State University;
Todd Thornton of Pearland, Texas/Team Chevron; and
Yewki Tomita of Tucson, Ariz./Team Chevron. David Sender of Arlington Heights, Ill., who competes for Stanford University, is the alternate.

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At the edge of a conference of the men's and women's Technical committees in the Belarusian capital Minsk, the FIG announced the results of the 2005 World Championships draw. This draw assigned the preliminary competition order for more than 420 gymnasts from 64 nations scheduled to compete at the 2005 World Championships, to be held in Melbourne (AUS) in November.
>> Men's Competitive Draw // >> Women's Competitive Draw

Following the 2009 Individual World Championships Artistic Gymnastics in London next month the Olympic qualification will seriously start next year at the World Championships 2010 in Rotterdam.
24 teams will pre-qualify at this first selection competition.
The event will be held in the renovated AHOY complex in Rotterdam, where Janssen-Fritsen will supply all the equipment as they did for the Olympic Games in Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008.
During the world championships' training days there will be seminars by one or more top gymnastics coaches on the latest methodical training methods ...

European All-around Champion beats the Vice ...

The 2009 European All-around champion Fabian Hambuechen (GER) won the 2nd Champions Trophy which was held at the Max-Schmeling Hall in the German capital Berlin.

With a score of 91.575 he beat the 2007 European champion (Amsterdam), the Russian Maxim Deviatovski after a mistake at high bar (88,600) and also the 19-years old British European Vice champion ((2009 Milan), Daniel Keatings, who led after three apparatuses, but failed on parallel bar (88,425).

On fourth place came the Italian Enrico Pozzo (87,725), followed by Tim Hagerty (USA; 87,475) and the second German athlete, Helge LIebrich (86,875).

German Trials No. 1.
Five weeks before the upcoming Worlds in London European all-around champion Fabian Hambuechen (GER) won the German trials in Achern, in the South of Germany with a score of 88,800 points, inspite of a crash at the floor.
but with the highest score on high bar (15,900).
On second place came Thomas Taranu, with a difference of more than 5 points, followed by Matthias Fahrig on third.
Marcel Nguyen started on five apparatuses only (without rings) and Philipp Boy and Robert Juckel were stopped by the swine influenza. Eugen Spiridonov absented for job-related reasons...
Because the unclear situation and a lot of missing athlets the German chief coach Andreas Hirsch concludes a second national trial ...

Olympic champion Nastia Liukin (USA) withdrew her name from consideration for the world gymnastics championships, saying she hasn't had enough time to train.
Liukin, the third U.S. woman in history to win the Olympic title, has been in high demand since she left Beijing, but the schedule wreaked havoc on her training regimen.
Liukin said she still intends to compete for a spot on the 2012 Olympic team but is not prepared now to compete on the world level....

US Gymnastics reported, that the 2008 Olympic team silver-medalist Chellsie Memmel has withdrawn from the final selection process for the U.S. Team for the 2009 World Championships, Oct. 13-15, in London, England. Memmel, a former world champion, has been working her way back into competitive gymnastics after ankle surgery in late 2008 ...

This month the drawing of lots for the 41st Artistic Gymnastics World Championships (October 13 - 18, London) was held in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The draw was conducted at the FIG Head Office in presence of Men's Technical Committee President Adrian Stoica (ROU), Women's Technical Committee delegate Donatella Sacchi (ITA) and FIG Competition Manager Céline Cachemaille for Artistic.
At that time the FIG had registered the participation of 75 federations represented by 457 athletes; a total of 283 men and 174 women.

Competitions will be held in the spectacular O2 Arena, one of London's finest concert and sporting venues.

An incredible hall offers gymnasts flawless conditions in which to compete, and it is here that the 2012 Olympic events will unfold, making these world championships into somewhat of an Olympic dress rehearsal.
The 41st World Championships will be organised by British Gymnastics.
*Source: fig press

Veteran and world record holder Espen JANSEN ...
Norwegian Espen JANSEN was not only the by far oldest gymnast (39) in Lausitz-Arena at the last Gymnastics World Cup in Cottbus, but also the only participant who started on all the six apparatuses - he was therewith (unofficially) the best in the all-around competition in this event and gained remarkable 81,725 points. 
Already at the last World Championships 2007 in Stuttgart the man from Oslo was the oldest WOLRDS-participant and holds a record of 13 participations in World Championships since his debut in 1991 in Indianapolis. This record was formerly held by Austrian Thomas Zimmermann with 12 WORLDS-participations ...
The father of four kids thinks about quitting somedays but hardly about realising it ...

The European Championships in May in Lausanne will be Espen JANSEN'S  12th participation in EuCh since his first in the Globen-Arena in Stockholm in 1989....

... although his compatriot at the World Cup in Cottbus Joachim Hanche-Olsen was barely half as old....!
Apropos age: Jansen's stamina is actually comparable to the one of a gymnastics-dinosaur - Dr. Heikki SAVOLAINEN* (FIN) - Northern as well -  who participated in the Olypmic Games in Helsinki in 1952 at the age of 45 (!!) years and accomplished his 5th Olympic Games there, even winning gold with the Finnish team  ...
(* Savolainen was the first of three gymnasts who went down as speakers of the Olympic oath: he was followed by Takashi Ono (JPN) in 1964 and Nikolai Andrianow (URS) in 1980).

He is a role model for many youngsters due to his attitude towards professional gymnastics  and the fact that he as the world's oldest active gymnast cannot manage the highest difficulties anymore, but stands for passion in gymnastics and for excellent all-around competitions. 
Maybe we can see his universalism in direct connection to his health and his fun doing gymnastics  ...!
We are looking forward to Espen JANSEN as active participant of the upcoming European Championships in Lausanne!

* Eckhard Herholz, Gymmedia

As a tradition,  the European Gymnastics Service GYMmedia INTERNATIONAL
reports from the artistic gymnastics world cup "Tournament of Masters" and will do so this year as well. The tournament is held from April 11 - 13 in Cottbus, Germany.
The German company SPIETH Gymnastic  supports the  GYMmedia Event service for the tenth time in this competition and therewith supports our concern for the worldwide coverage of information on this topic...
... more than 170 athletes, representing 41 nations arrived in Cottbus already!
* You find ALL THE INFORMATION on our special
>> WORLD CUP Event website Cottbus 2008

 TODAY: The medals are assinged ...