Artistic Gymnastics

Friendly Meet: Romanian Women beat France

30. März 2010  
Arques, France  
Artistic Gymnastics

Friendly Meet: Romanian Women beat France

Diana Chelaru (ROU)
- best in All-around

Women’s artistic gymnastics team of Romania won the competition against France’s team, held in French Arques locality, within the preparations for the 29th European Championships, organized in Birmingham from April 21st to 25th 2010.
Romania’s artistic gymnastics senior team won the competition against France by 167.800 points to 166.550 points.
As for Women’s Individual, Diana Chelaru ranked first, with a total of 57.550 points. Chelaru got the highest mark for jumps – 14.700.
Romania ranked on top also with its junior team, with a total of 162.200 points, followed by France, 160.500 points and Great Britain, 157.950 points.
As regards Women’s Individual All-Around Larisa Iordache finished on top, with 55.600 points.
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* GYMfamily Event Hungary wins the 1. AUSTRIAN Women s TEAM OPEN 2010 ...

27. März 2010  
Vienna ,Austria  
Artistic Gymnastics

* GYMfamily Event Hungary wins the 1. AUSTRIAN Women s TEAM OPEN 2010 ...

Hungarys Winning team in Vienna

... and Vorarlberg the Austrian championship!
The first international opening ceremony of the Austrian Team Country championship offered high quality gymnastics just a month before the European Championship in Birmingham:
Hungarys European Championship-squad pushed itself - at the premiere of the"I. AUSTRIAN TEAM OPEN" in Vienna-Brigittenau - with 150.650 ahead of Austria/Vorarlberg (146.800) and Austria/Tirol (143.950) – who therewith won Gold and Silver at the national team country championship which took place at the same time. 

Like Austria also Hungary and Israel tested their European Championship squads, and Canada came along as an overseas guest.
The „1st Austrian Team Open Artistic Gymnastics“ will end tomorrow on Sunday (28.3.) with the men applicant:
So Austrias country wide teams will meet Hungary, Slowakia and Slowenia.

Hungary infront of the two best Austrian Teams Vorarlberg and Tirol
>

'1. AUSTRIAN TEAM OPEN 2010'
  - Vienna-Brigittenau, 27. March -
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* Team-Results
1. HUNGARY                     - 15,650
2. AUSTRIA-Vorarlberg - 146,800
3. AUSTRIA-Tirol            - 143,950

4. ISRAEL  - 143,900
5. CANADA  - 138,850
6. ISRAEL II  - 133,850
  >> Detaillierte Resultate

Vorarlberg is for the fourth time in a row Austrian Team Countrywide Winner.
Vorarlbergs trainer Christine Frauenknecht was happy for her gymnasts Elisa Hämmerle, Barbara Gasser, Katharina Fa, Olivia Jochum and Elena Metzler „especially“ about this fourth title in a row, „which we did not expect, but thanks to our stable achievements we earned it“.
Tirols gymnasts have to be content as a team with the vice title for the fourth time in a row, after winning all five single-countrywide titles a few months ago.
Singles-all around champion Hanna Grosch: „The result is clear and is ok. Unfortunately we did not have an optimal preparation, also in the competition there were too many mistakesr“.
The Bronze medal of the countrywide championship was secured by Upper Austria with the more stable achievement than Vienna (international rank 7 and 8).
Tirols trainer Petr Koudela: „Only two months after her knee operation I was very positively surprised today by Jasmin Mader who was 5th in the singles rankings.

Rabinowitz (ISR), Hämmerle (AUT)

* Singles all around competition:
Behind the allaround winner Roni Rabinowitz from Israel
from the hosts perspective, the only 14 year old strong>Elisa Hämmerle was especially outstanding with 2nd place of the international singles rankings. The gymnast from Lustenau is the„outstanding hope for the future", said state supervisor Katharina Wieser, who summed up satisfied , „that our best state selected gymnasts have done better than the teams from Israel and Canada“ (positions 4 and 5).
** ERGEBNISSE:
1. Roni Rabinowitz   (ISR) - 51,500
2. Elisa Hämmerle   (AUT) - 49,500
3. Dora Szabo           (HUN) - 44,500

4. Lilla Lukacsi  (UNG) - 49,400
5. Jasmin Mader (AUT/Innsbruck - 49,300
6. Dorina Jelencsics  (HUN) - 49,050
  >> Detailed results

 For the second round from the18. to the 20. March 2011 in Vienna alrealdy more than a dozen countries have shown their interest. Viennas gymnastics president Harald Reichel: „Even the Premiere is so attractive, that I am sure: This meeting will soon grow to be an important and secure event in the international calendar“.
* Source: ÖFT / R. Labner


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Bad news for the German womens gymnastics...

22. März 2010  
Karlsruhe  
Artistic Gymnastics

Bad news for the German womens gymnastics...

Maike Roll: not enough stress relief

Anja Brinker (TV Herkenrath) stands before a further operation, Olympic gymnast Joeline Möbius (TuS Chemnitz-Altendorf) ends her career surprisingly in due time, Marie Sophie Hindermann injured just before the country comparisons and now this on top of everything:
Shortly after her World Cup participation in Cottbus also Maike Roll (TG Söllingen), decided to no longer be part of the German gymnastics federation! Her reason being too much stress particularly in selection processes. She will however remain part of her state team TG Karlsruhe-Söllingen for the coming  Team start in Cologne.
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Romania in front of Host Great Britain... Germans with big problems ...

21. März 2010  
Lilleshall, Great Britain  
Artistic Gymnastics

Romania in front of Host Great Britain... Germans with big problems ...

Diana Chelaru (ROU)
- best in All-around

*baga: -- The majority of the top British, Romanian and German Artistic gymnastics women used the 5-day Friendly International training camp and competition at the Lilleshall National Sports Centre in Shropshire, Great Britain, to check their preparation on the road to the European Championships in Birmingham (28 April-2 May 2010). Romania, multiple Olympic, World and European Champions, tested their rejuvenated team in this relaxed Friendly International on Saturday, 20 March, putting together a total of 221.850 points against 221.600 for Great Britain.
Germany entered only three Senior gymnasts, with Marie-Sophie Hindermann having to rest after sustaining a slight injury during training on Friday.
Friendly Meet Greaut Britain - Romania - (Germany)
  - Lilleshall, March 20 -
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Diana Chelaru and Ana Porgras from Romania took the top two individual positions in the competition (56.800 and 56.050 points respectively), followed by Niamh Rippin, Great Britain in third place, 54.650.
Fourth was Raluca Haidu (ROU), 54.300pts, fifth, Elizabeth Seitz (GER), 54.100pts, sixth, Amelia Racea (ROM), 54.000pts.
The British Gymnastics Superstar Beth Tweddle, World Champion on A. Bars in 2006 and World Champion on Floor in 2009, competed only on her “crown” apparatus scoring highest on both of them (15.700 A.B. and 15.050 FX). The highest Team score on anyone apparatus was 57.700pts. for Great Britain on A. Bars.
* source: British Gymnastics

Germany s gymnast Jenny Brunner says goodbye to professional sports

15. März 2010  
Cottbus  
Artistic Gymnastics

Germany s gymnast Jenny Brunner says goodbye to professional sports

Flowers and goodbye

She bravely smiled to the audience, but with a sore heart, as the member of the German Gymnastics Team Jenny BRUNNER said goodbye and stepped out of the German Team Masters 2008, TuS Chemnitz-Altendorf, and left the rows of the German national team. It is a nice gesture, that the German Gymnastics Federation gave a leaving ceremony to Jenny, infront of the attactive auditorium - as always, on Sunday in the Lausitz Arena at the  World Cup in Cottbus, in which Jenny was just recently active herself and was in the finals on the floor and uneven bars.
The flowers for her goodbye, were given to her by the DTB-Vice-President Rosemarie Napp (Foto, le.). DTB-Sportsdirector Wolfgang Willam acknowledged the achievements of the now 20 year old, who had already outed her wish to  step out of the active professional sports .
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Volcano ash delays the beginning of the gymnastics European Championship

16. April 2010  
Birmingham  
Artistic Gymnastics

Volcano ash delays the beginning of the gymnastics European Championship

DELAY for 1 day !!

Crisis management met at the GYMnastics-European Championships in Bremen
On Sunday the official training for the Gymnastics European Championship- Mens should have started in Birmingham.  But the ash of the volcano Eyjafjalla hasn't only delayed flight. It also delayed the punctual arrival of 38 national teams in England.  So the European Championship start has been delayed for a day!

Bus instead of plane:
30 instead of two hours of travel for Austrias National Team 
Austria and Slowakia will be travelling with the bus, together and will take between 24 and 30 hours instead of two...Very unfortunate also for the Russians and Ukrainians - just to name two countries - whose travels to get to the European Championships will be extremely inconvenient.

Austrias Routinier Marco Baldauf, who is hoping to have good chances on the highbar comments:
„I would rather fly a few days later - if necessary directly to the competition, but unfortunately we cannot tell when the airports will be open again. So we have to use the transport that will get us to the championship on time for sure.“
Austrias state master Fabian Leimlehner  has good chances to go far in the European Championships all-around competition and looks ahead: „An endless bus trip to the highlight of the season is really uncomfortable, but I must not let it get me down. I will surely still achieve“.
Before the actual European Championship start  - now postponed to Thursday the 22.April -  the compulsory two day podium trainings have to take place...
* Source: ÖFT, UEG

** The UEG informed:
In Birmingham, the organisers, in agreement with the UEG, have already modified the programme.
The beginning of the men’s competition was postponed by one day
>> to Thursday April 22nd, 2010 in order to enable the delegations, as far as possible, to arrive with good conditions in Birmingham.

Additional training halls have been prepared.
The competition will end Sunday as scheduled.
A positive information: the Swiss Timing material necessary for the scoring system arrived on site by busses and the ferry boat.

* ECh TRampoline & Tumbling: In Varna, the technical committee is not yet on site but is in permanent contact with the organisers.
* Source: u e g

* The GYMmedia-Website "Gymnastics-European Championships, Mens", will go online on Monday, the 19. April !
Also GYMnastics-European Championship-Federation with crisis management ... 
Departure of the delegations after the volcano eruption problematic
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Due to the difficult situation on the European airports and the current transport problems following the volcano ash cloud over Europe, the organising committee (OK) of the European Championships of Rhythmic Gymnastics has formed a crisis management team. „Wir have to think about what to do when the many hundred actives and their supervisors cannot depart on Monday due to cancelled flights“, said Organising Committee-member Matthias Wiatrek.
At the moment the capacity of the partner hotels is beging checked for the beginning of the coming week aswell as travel alternatives for instance with the train or ferry.
„We are observing the situation every minute“, said Wiatrek.
One has to think about emergency accomodation.
Bremens Organising Committee boss Horst Neumann encouraged the teams to think about travel alternatives and if necessary to make changes.
For the European Championships that were opened on Friday there are currently 600 delegation members from 35 countries in the city. 
The competitions had their first highlights with the openeing ceremony and the senior single with the Olympic winner  Evgenia Kanaeva from Russland.
* Source: EM-OK, Bremen
* ... more on the  > GYMmedia-Event-Website

4th Artistic World Cup - the last one before the Europeans

11. April 2010  
Paris-Bercy, France  
Artistic Gymnastics

4th Artistic World Cup - the last one before the Europeans

After Montreal, Cottbus and Doha the World Cup -Gymnastics Circus was stationed in Paris this weekend. For the 17th time the mens and womens competitions "FRANCE INTERNATIONAL" took place in the traditional Omnisports-hall of Paris-Bercy - where the first singles gymnastics world championships took place in 1992. With 148 registered participants in total - 53 women and 95 men - from 35 countries in total, these competitions had quantitatively and qualitatively  the best World Cup participation ever - honored by an audience of over 5000!
The French hosts got three finals wins with Cyril Tommasone (pommel horse), Samir Aid Sait (rings) and Youna Dufournet (vault). The Spanish Isaac Botella won the vault in the mens, best on the beam was Wu, Lifang from China, her country woman He, Kexin won the uneven bars and Englands star Beth Tweddle triumphed on the floor. 


* FIG World Cup No. 4 / 2010
2010 Internationaux de France Paris (FRA), 
  - Paris Bercy, April 10 – 11
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* M E N's  R E S U L T S

>> Floor Exercises                >> POMM. HORSE
       > Qualification FX                    > Qualificication PH

>> STILL RINGS                       >> V A U L T
      > Qualification RI                     > Qualification VA

>> PARALLEL BARS                >> HIGH BAR
       > Qualification PB                     > Qualification HB

 ** > Participants / Startlist
*  WOMEN's R E S U L T S

>> VAULT                          >> UNEVEN BARS
      > Qualification VA           > Qualification UB

>> BALANCE BEAM         >> FLOOR EXERCISES
      > Qualification BB                    > Qualification FX

 ** > Participants / Start list

Romania Men s team better than Dutch team

30. März 2010  
Hellendorn, Netherlands  
Artistic Gymnastics

Romania Men s team better than Dutch team

Carlo van Minde (NED)

Men’s gymnastics national team of Romania won the competition against the Netherlands team held in Hellend, within the preparations for the 29th European Championships, organized in Birmingham from April 21 to 25, 2010.
Romania’s team accumulated 256.85 points compared to 255.50 of the Netherlands.

As for Men’s Individual All-Around Carlo van Minde ranked first, with 83.85 points followed by Cristian Bataga, 83.80 points, Melvin Ornek, 82.65 points, Jorian Ilbrink
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* GYMfamily Event I. AUSTRIAN TEAM CUP: Hungarian Double - perfect!

28. März 2010  
Vienna, Austria  
Artistic Gymnastics

* GYMfamily Event I. AUSTRIAN TEAM CUP: Hungarian Double - perfect!

Hungarys Mens Team

After the womens win on Saturday Hungary mens gymnasts have gone up another level today:
The Hungarian National team won the „1st Austrian Team Open Artistic Gymnastics“ in Vienna-Brigittenau with a clear advantage ahead of Upper Austria (248.850 to 242.650) and the Hungarian Junior-National team (241.750).
The Team Upper Austria therewith defended its national team-state title ahead of Vorarlberg (238.400) and Vienna (226.750).
Only after them, did Slowakia and Slowenia follow...

Hungarys men won ahead of Upper Austria and Hungary II


I. AUSTRAN TEAM CUP 2010
- Vienna-Brigittenau, 28th March -
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*MEN
The large audience in the Brigittenauer Sports Hall experienced high class gymnastics three weeks before the European Championships:
The Austrian squad and all international teams used the Austrian-Open-Premiere as a qualification for the season highlight in Birmingham. One experienced various world class achievements, above all Marco Baldauf with his new high bar choreography ( with 3 10ths more degree of difficulty of 6.4 for the entire World Cup 8th of the last year): „The exercise wasn't at its optimum today, the grade of the international jury still had a high 15.250 points. That makes me very positive“.
The 30 year old Dornbirner routinier reflects: „As a team we had too many mistakes today to win“.
The team-state title went - like in the last year to Upper Austrias gymnasts. With Fabian Leimlehner, Lukas Kranzmüller, Marco Mayr and Severin Kranzlmüller „the mission was completed and Gold defended“ (Leimlehner).


*RESULT:
1. HUNGARY                              - 248,850
2. AUSTRIA-Upper Austria - 242,650
3. HUNGARY II                           - 241,650

   << Detailed Results, Teams

Upper Austrias Team: International 2nd place, national: successful title defendece

Upper Austrias-Trainer Siegfried Wüstemann: „I didn't expect the success, especially not with such a clear advantage. I congratulate my boys ;. 

Fabian Leimlehner (AUT)
(C) Fotos: Roman Glaser

In the international singles ranking the all around state champion Fabian Leimlehner awoke great hopes for a very strong year;
despite a fall with the Kovacs-double salto-flight element in the high bar exercise he got a high 83.950 points, won ahead of three Hungarians. State supervisor Dieter Egermann concluded a very successful event, which will enrich the international competition calendar: „Great achievements, hard fights for the rankings, honorable winners ;.
ÖFT-Top-sports Director Wolfgang Neumayer: &bdquo: We have christened a competition format of the future!"
* RESULTS, Single:
1. Fabian Leimlehner (AUT)  - 83,950
2. Attila Racz  (HUN)  - 82,6003.
3. Laszlo Czingi  (HUN)  - 82,350
     >> Detailliertes Resultat, Einzelwertung
              >> Detaillierte Resultate, Junioren
* Quelle: ÖFT/R. Labner


>> News: Womens competition (Saturday, 27. March)

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Russian Gymnastics Legend Nikolai Andrianov died

21. März 2011  
Vladimir, Russia  
Artistic Gymnastics

Russian Gymnastics Legend Nikolai Andrianov died

Nikolai ANDRIANOV
* 14.10 1952 - +21.03 2011

The Russian gymnastics legend, Nikolai Andrianov, the most decorated male gymnast of all time, has died after a long illness at the age of 58 in his hometown Vladimir this afternoon.
Andrianov was suffering from the degenerative neurological disorder multiple system atrophy. In the last month of his life he was unable to move his arms or legs or talk. (* > GYMmedia News, 2010, Sep 08)
Nikolai Andrianov was an exceptional sportsman who held the record for men for most Olympic medals at 15, including seven golds, until American swimmer Michael Phelps surpassed him at the 2008 Beijing Games. Andrianov is third on the all-time list of athletes with the most Olympic medals behind fellow gymnast Larissa Latynina (18) and Phelps (16).

Nikolai ANDRIANOV - a idol of young talents worldwide!*Photo: 1977, on the occassion of an international Gym Show in Leipziger (GDR)
Young German winner of the ''Spartakiade', Udo Boettcher and Holger Zeig - later a bronze medallist
at the worlds 1985 in Montreal - were happy about an autograph of the world star!

Andrianov, at his third Olympic Games at home, in Moscow 1980

Munich 1972 - Montreal 1976 - Moscow 1980 ....
The Russian won four golds, including the coveted all-around title, two silvers and a bronze at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, then added two more golds, two silvers and a bronze four years later on home soil in Moscow. He also had a gold, silver and bronze from the 1972 Munich Games.

Andrianov retired shortly after the 1980 Moscow Olympics and began a long coaching career.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, he accepted an invitation from former rival Mitsuo Tsukahara to coach in Japan. He stayed in Japan from 1994 until 2002, when he returned to Vladimir to become head of the same gymnastics school he trained at in his youth.

2001 Nikolai Andrianov was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame.

He is survived by his wife, two-time Olympic gymnastics champion Liubov Burda Andtianova  and two sons, Vladimir and Sergei.

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