Artistic Gymnastics

Canada s Kyle Shewfelt serves notice comeback is for real

10. Juli 2008  
Canada  
Artistic Gymnastics

Canada s Kyle Shewfelt serves notice comeback is for real

<< Kyle SHEWFELT, Canada's 2004 Olympic champion (floor exercises) hated the idea of embarrassing himself in his first judged gymnastics competition since breaking both of his legs 10 months ago.
Turns out, the charismatic Calgarian need not have worried in the lead-up to an Olympic test event  at Edmonton's Capital City Gymnastics Club. ...

 Last week Gymnastics Canada Gymnastique (GCG) announced its 2008 men's Olympic team, which will compete in Beijing next month ...:

Kyle Shewfelt headlines the team, which also includes:
- Nathan Gafuik, Grant Golding, David Kikuchi, Brandon O'Neill and Adam Wong.
Alternates are Ken Ikeda and Jared Walls.

Shewfelt's return to the team caps a remarkable comeback following a double knee injury prior to the 2007 World Championships in Stuttgart.
He missed the Canadian Championships in early June, but competed at the two team trials since.
* source:
Canadian Gymn. Federation; IGonline; canada.com

Dasha Joura leads Australia s gymnastics charge to Beijing

30. Juni 2008  
Australia  
Artistic Gymnastics

Dasha Joura leads Australia s gymnastics charge to Beijing

Daria JOURA (AUS)

Three-time national champion of Australia, Daria JOURA (18; photo, left)) will spearhead the Australian women's artistic gymnastics team at the Beijing Olympics.
Australian coach Peggy Liddick today named 18-year-old Daria JOURA alongside five other Olympic first-timers in the team following the final selection trials at the AIS in Canberra at the weekend.
On Friday this week the Australian National Olympic Committee will official nominate the women's artistic gymnastics team...
The full Aussie women's team comprises
- Daria Joura, fellow West Australians
- Lauren Mitchell, 16, and
- Olivia Vivian, 18, and the Victorian trio
-  Shona Morgan, Ashleigh Brennan, both 17, and 18-year-old
- Georgia Bonora, 18.
Victorian Emma Dennis was named reserve and will continue to train with the team, which will be chasing Australia's first-ever artistic gymnasts medal at an Olympic Games.

* Along with Sam Simpson (men's artistic), Ben Wilden (men's trampoline) and Naazmi Johnston (rhythmic), Gymnastics Australia will officially nominate the women's artistic team to the AOC for Beijing selection on Friday, the Australian press  reported.

Johnson and Liukin nominated at US Olympic Team

23. Juni 2008  
Philadelphia, Pa./USA  
Artistic Gymnastics

Johnson and Liukin nominated at US Olympic Team

Johnson, Liukin nominated ...

US gymnastics reports, that Shawn Johnson of West Des Moines, Iowa, and Nastia Liukin of Parker, Texas, automatically qualified for nomination to the 2008 U.S. Olympic Women’s Gymnastics Team following the conclusion of the women’s competition at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Gymnastics at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, Pa. Ten women were also selected to attend a final selection camp on July 16-20, where the balance of the squad will be nominated to the U.S. Olympic Team pending approval from the U.S. Olympic Committee.

<< Johnson and Liukin finished (Photo: WCh Stuttgart 2007) with two-day totals of 127.650 and 125.850, respectively. ...


The top two all-around competitors at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials (based on a combined two-day score) automatically qualified for the U.S. Olympic Team.
* source: US gymnastics

* R E S U L T S
>> All-around   I  > Vault  I  > Uneven bars  I  > Balance Beam  I  Floor exercises

GYMmedia Exclusive: Daniel Keatings is dreaming from Beijing already ...New: KEATINGS selected for Beijing!

13. Juni 2008  
Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire  
Artistic Gymnastics

GYMmedia Exclusive: Daniel Keatings is dreaming from Beijing already ...New: KEATINGS selected for Beijing!

Dan KEATINGS (GBR)
- 3-times European gold medallist

The former gymnast of the German gymnastics premier league "1st Bundesliga" and member of the top club "SV Halle", Nico TANDEL,  just now and temporarily resides nearby Cambridge and is working as a coach of the wellknown Britisch Gymnastics Club Huntingdon", where four of the British team members of the 2007 Worlds in Stuttgart are coming from - Louis Smith, Daniel Keatings, Luke Folwell and Marissa King all made the GB team and have made Huntingdon Gymnastics Club very proud.
As a special GYMmedia correspondent Nico Tandel  had the occasion to speak with the young British pommel horse wonder Daniel KRATINGS, winning three gold medals at the European Junior Championships and best of juniors all-around in May, in Lausanne, Switzerland ...:

Atmosphere at the 'Huntingdon Olympic Gymnastics Club'

Daniel Keatings: At the World Cup in Cottbus won Berki, but the European Champion on pommel horse was beat at the World Cup in Moscow at the end of May...!

* GYMmedia exclusive Interview
   with the reigning British all-around champion and three-times gold medallist of the 2008 Junior Europeans
* Daniel KEATINGS

Nico Tandel / GYMmedia:--- The last weeks were very hard for you!  You’ve been the best gymnast in the Junior European Championchips and on the pommel horse you have won the World Cup in Moscow, all these against the famous gymnast Krisztian Berki (Hun). Congratulation for these results.

Daniel Keatings: Thank you, I enjoyed myself!

Nico: ---  What are your next aims? You will join the Olympic Games in Beijing?

Keatings: Yes – I hope to be on the plane to Beijing – that is my main target.

The young Daniel some years ago at the 'GWG Cup' with his coach Popov

Nico: ---  When did you start with artistic gymnastics?
Keatings: I was 5 and I went to a local club in my home town of Corby.

Nico: ---  What you do professional and what you want to become?
Keatings: At the moment I am a full time gymnast. I travel an hour each way to the gym at Huntingdon and struggle to do anything else. I would like to continue working in sport but will explore my options after my gymnastics is done.

Nico: ---   A coach from this club has said, that it is normal here, that all gymnasts made a lot of circles, how many have you made and was are the best results in one time?
Keatings: When I was young, we did hundreds and hundreds of circles. My best amount on the mushroom is 279 in one go. You need to build up to this amount though.

Two world class pommel horse gymnasts Louis SMITH and Dan KEATINGS (right) with their caoch Paul HALL (middle)

Nico: ---  You train in Huntingdon club, not far from London. How old is this club and how many members has this club?
Keatings: The club is 30 years old and has 700 members.

Nico: --- I have heard, that this club will become bigger, is this official?
Keatings: We have exciting plans for a new building next to the existing one. It is our dream to have one facility for our elite athletes and another one for the community. We need to find 4 million pounds!
Nico: ---  What aims and success has this club, also in view of London 2012?
Keatings: We aim to continue producing international gymnasts and Olympians as well as serving the wider community by offering gymnastics lessons for people of all ages and ability.

GYMmedia correspondent:
Nico TANDEL

Nico: ---  A private question for the feminine fans J, do you have girlfriend?
Keatings: Not at the moment.

Nico: ---  Luis Smith, also a good gymnast from Huntingdon and the second master on the pommelhorse in the World Cup in Moscow - is he your friend or enemy
Keatings: Louis is my great friend: We help each other in training and support each other in competition.

Nico: ---  Thanks for this interview. Gymmedia wishs you good luck and best results for the next competitions and enjoy the beautiful discipline artistic gymnastic!
Thanks for the answers!

* The " HUNTINGDON OLYMPIC GYMNASTICS CLUB"
The club was founded approximately 28 years ago by Head Coach, Terry Sharpington, operating in a local school with 20 gymnasts and a minimum of apparatus ( 2 mats, a vaulting horse and a mone made springboard!):
A few parents volunteered to help and eventually trained to become qualified coaches.

Now, many years later Huntingdon Gymnastics Club boasts some of the best gymnasts in Great Britain with many of our gymnasts competing internationally. Not only do we train gymnasts of international standard but we also have champions at every level - from club through county, regional and national.
We also run an extensive recreational programme which reaches children of all ages and ability.
Our disability programme is very popular and we look forward to being able to extend this service in the future.
From the 13th February 2008, HOGC became incorporated as Huntingdon Gymnastics Club Ltd.
We are now in the process of applying for charitable status and once this has been obtained we hope to surge ahead with our building plans.
* source: Website of Huntingdon Olympic Gymnastics Club
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>> Last News: Daniel Keatings selected for Beijing!!
13-Jun-2008

The British Olympic Association have today announced that Huntingdon’s Louis Smith and Daniel Keatings have been selected to compete for Great Britain at the years Olympic Games in Beijing.

Matthew Greenwood, British Gymnastics Performance Director: "Louis and Daniel fully deserve their place in the Olympic Games. They have been fantastic and consistent performers on the World stage over the last 2 years and have surprised many of the World best gymnasts. Their inclusion in the Olympics marks a significant stage in the development of Men's' Artistic Gymnastics in Great Britain, and I am fully confident that they have the ability to achieve great things in Beijing."
Daniel Keatings: "It's a great honour to be able to represent my country in something which has been my dream for my whole life.  It hasn't really sunk in yet, but I am very excited and I just want to get going now."

Louis Smith: "Fourteen years of hard work is starting to pay off and doing a clean routine at the Olympics would consolidate all the time and effort I have contributed to my sport, which has been the passion of my life.  I am very proud to be representing GB in Beijing."

Further to Daniel and Louis being selected, British Gymnastics would also like to congratulate Southport’s Daniel Purvis who has been selected as the reserve gymnast indicating his fantastic development in recent years.
* Source: V. Atkinson, British Gymnastics

Beijing Olympic Games - Drawing of Lots

16. Mai 2008  
Tianjin / China  
Artistic Gymnastics

Beijing Olympic Games - Drawing of Lots

Drawing of Lots...

The International Gymnastics Federation  F.I.G. has published the results of the drawing of lots for the three Olympic gymnastics disciplines, which where held in Tianjin (China), host of the 1999 artistic gymnastics Worlds.
Here are the starting orders for all the qualification rounds in artistic, rhythmic and trampoline gymnastics qualification rounds...:
* MEN's Artistic Gymnastics

>> Qualification
>> All Around Finals
>> Apparatus Finals
>> Team Finals
>> Mixed Groups

* WOMEN's Artistic Gymnastics

>> Qualification
>> All Around Finals
>> Apparatus Finals
>> Team Finals
>> Mixed Groups
* Trampoline, MEN & WOMEN

>> Qualifications 

* Rhythmic Gymnastics

>> Group All Around Qualification   >> Group All Around Final

>> Individual All Around Qualification   >> Individual All Around Final
* Quelle: F.I.G.

First Japanese national Olympic Trials in Tokyo

16. April 2008  
Tokio / Japan  
Artistic Gymnastics

First Japanese national Olympic Trials in Tokyo

Kohei UCHIMURA (JPN) - a youngster won the trials!

The 19-year-old Koehei UCHIMURA beats the expierenced members of the Japanese golden Olympic team at the first national Olympic trials with a score of 182.500 points after the second day in Tokyo.

Uchimura made his first international events in Europe last year and was finalist of the world cup event in Paris...

On women's side, the 22-year-old Miki UEMURA from the Japanese WOLRDS- team, which ranked 12th in Stuttgart, won the all-around with 116,900 points ...
2008 Japanese Secondary Olympic Trial
- Tokyo, Japan 2008, April 12-13 -

* Men's All-Around
1. Kohei Uchimura 182.500
2. Hiroyuki Tomita 182.000
3. Kazuhito Tanaka 180.050

4. Takehiro Kashima 179.050
5. Kensuke Murata 179.000
6. Shun Kuwahara 178.400
7. Naoya Tsukahara 178.250
8. Koki Sakamoto 178.100
9. Yosuke Hoshi 177.550
10. Isao Yoneda 177.300

11. Hisashi Mizutori 177.150
12. Kyoichi Watanabe 176.700
13. Eiichi Sekiguchi 175.900
14. Takuya Nakase 175.750
15. Mitsuyasu Ota 175.600
15. Shun Nishimura 175.600
17. Takehito Mori 175.500
18. Makoto Okiguchi 174.800

Miki UEMURA (JPN)


* Women's All-Around
1. Miki Uemura 116.900
2. Koko Tsurumi 116.800
3. Yu Minobe 116.350

4. Kyoko Oshima 115.450
5. Mai Yamagishi 114.900
6. Yuko Shintake 114.500
7. Mayu Kuroda 114.400
8. Keiko Mukumoto 113.250
9. Rie Tanaka 112.450
10. Momoko Ozawa 111.900

11. Erica Lynn Danko* 111.100
12. Setsubai Takaseki (He Xuemei) 110.200
13. Sayuri Minobe 110.050
14. Akiho Sato* 109.450
15. Yuma Imanishi 109.200
16. Haruhi Uchimura 107.900
17. Chinami Otaki 107.350
18. Serina Takeuchi 107.000

Olympic Wild Cards to Yemen and Vietnam

15. März 2008  
Beijing / China  
Artistic Gymnastics

Olympic Wild Cards to Yemen and Vietnam

The US gymnastics magazine "International Gymnast" reports, that
the final remaining berths for the 2008 Olympic Games have been awarded to a female from Vietnam and a male from Yemen:
Vietnam's Thuong Di Thi Ngan (19) and Yemen's Nashwan Al-Hazari are the reported recipients of the Wild Card berths selected by a tripartite commission.
The commission consists of the International Olympic Committee, the International Gymnastics Federation and the Association of National Olympic Committees. Geographic representation at the Olympics is one of the factors for designating Wild Card berths.
Vietnam's Thuong, 19, finished 110th at the 2007 World Championships in Stuttgart. She competed three events at the 2007 World Cup in Ghent, Belgium.

YEMEN's Al-Harazi competed five events at the 2007 Worlds, finishing 176th in preliminaries.

SLOVENIA had organized an international campaign in support of a Wild Card for four-time world medalist Aljaz Pegan.

The MEXICAN government had similarly supported a Wild Card bid for star Elsa Garcia.

* Source: International Gymnast

.... Candidates for the Olympics presented:Sascha PALGEN starts for Luxembourg in Beijing

21. März 2008  
Luxembourg, Stuttgart  
Artistic Gymnastics

.... Candidates for the Olympics presented:Sascha PALGEN starts for Luxembourg in Beijing

Sascha PALGEN (LUX)

For the first time after 44 years, a gymnast from Luxembourg will participate in the Olympic Games!
On August 15th, when the gymnastics competitions in Beijing are taking place,  Sascha PALGEN from Rümlingen will celebrate his 24th birthday in Beijing.
Twenty years before his birth, in 1964, gmynastics legend Josef STOFFEL accomplished his 5th participation in Olympic Games as the last Luxembourger. He therewith hold a record, which could only broken by husky Jordan JOVTCHEV from Bulgaria, if he participates in Beijing....
<< The sympathetic young gymnast is conscious of this kind of historical dimension. GYMmedia met him in the KunstturnForum Stuttgart ....

Focus on strength and learning training

Preparations for the Olympics in Swabia
Per agreement between the Luxembourger gymnastics federation and the Swabian federation, Sascha Palgen trains in the group of the former Cottbus-coach Gunter Schoenherr, together with the German Olympic candidates Robert Juckel, Marcel Nguyen and Thomas Andergassen.
"That's makes a lot more sense, since the conditions here could not be better", says the gymnastof the club "Etoile Rumelange" (Rümlingen) from the south of Luxembourg.
After the athletic conditioning, the phase from learning to exercise training is accomplished step by step. 
On the floor, the gymnast has already added contents compared to last year: The "Hypolito", that is a double twist ducked with a whole twist is included in the first line of the floor exercise (half a point more in the basic score!) and on the horse, he added a 360°-turn in the beginning ("Son") ...
"There remains a lot to do on parallel bars and high bar...", says Sascha, who wants to accomplish his first competition in the World cup in Cottbus in April and wants to do the second, important step towards Beijing one month later in Lausanne at the European Championships.

Josef Stoffel (LUX) at the new vaulting table 'PEGASES' at its Worlds-premiere in Belgium

Of course he knows Josef STOFFEL, the 80-year-old gymnastics legend from Luxembourg.
He participated in all five olympic Games between 1948 (London)  and 1964 (Tokio) and was vice European Champion on vault of the first European Championships in the history of gymnastics in 1955 in Frankfurt (Main), together with the later (1956) Olympic Champion Helmut Bantz and behind the champion Adalbert Dickhut from Germany...
... and with 36 years Josy Stoffel accomplished his 5th Olympic Games in Tokyo!
When he examined the Worlds-Premiere in Ghent 2001, the new vaulting table "Pegases" , he said then at the age of 73: "That is something - one had to be 50 years younger again",
... as old as his successor, Sascha Palgen, today!

Coach Manfred DIEHL; Sascha Palgen

<< Sascha PALGEN, who has been trained by Manfred DIEHL to become a worldclass gymnast from the age of 8 on, owes a lot to the experienced coach from Germany. 
After Easter, Manfred Diehl will come to the KunsturnForum to Stuttgart for three day , to check if everything's alright!

Sascha already sees his biggest success in the Olympic qualification as individual starter at the Worlds 2007 in Stuttgart (50th, all around): 
"My goal for Beijing is to reach the all around final if possible!".

Sascha as 17-year-old at the GWG-Cup in Cottbus

As a junior gymnast, he was 15th in the all around competition of the continental championships 2002 in Patras, which points at a balanced and multi-faceted basic training. Two years later, in his elite-debut in Ljubljana, he became 17th in the all around competition.
At World cups in Gent last year and in Cottbus the year before he performed in the floor finals.
He is acquainted with Cottbus since being a youngster, due to his regular participation in the first-class quality International GWG-Cup.
2005 he had to refrain from the participation in the European Championships in Debrecen: He had broken a cervical in a tumble on his head - the tragic tumble of Ronny Ziesmer short before the Olympic Games 2004 was still present - 
.... - but Sascha was lucky and escaped a graver injury.
Now, his Olympic dream is supposed to fulfill in faraway China. 
The World cup in Cottbus in April will be almost a home match for him.
(c) Eckhard Herholz; GYMmedia
Translation: Janka Schmeisser

Strong Aussies at the Pre-Olympic Youth Cup 2010 in Germany

29. Mai 2010  
Bergisch Gladbach, Germany  
Artistic Gymnastics

Strong Aussies at the Pre-Olympic Youth Cup 2010 in Germany

A strong Australien quartett dominated the youth category

Four Australien gymnasts were on top at the III. PRE-OLYMPIC YOUTH-CUPS 2010 in Bergisch Gladbach (Germany) at the end of the all-around competition of the age group 14/15
Best of them was Giorgia-Rose BROWN, with a score of 52,900 points - the highest score of the day -  followed by Angela DONALD (52,850), Emma Jane NEDOV (52,250) und Amelia McGRAITH 51,000).
After a strong and  thrilling fight between the Russian  Irina YASHINA (50,700) and the German Cagla AKYOL from the city of Mannheim the Russian girl won with a difference of 0,15 points.
Also in the elite category the Russian Daria Elizarova won the all-around ...

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III. PRE-OLYMPIC YOUTH-CUPS 2010
  - Bergisch Gladbach, Germany, 29./30. May -
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* R E S U L T S

      > All-around, Age Group 14 - 15

      > All-around, Elite, Age Group 16+


* ... for more information
 ... please have a look at the >> German Event Service

Age Group 16+: The 2010 winners in elite category...

Age Group 14/15 (Youth):
Happy faces: The top Australian gymnast, ranking 1 to 4 and also on 8 place.

* Age Group 12/13 (pupils)
The prelude of the III. PRE-OLYMPIC YOUTH-CUPS 2010 in Bergisch Gladbach (Germany) was the all-around competition of the age group 12/12 and a strong fight between the Russian  Irina YASHINA (50,700) and the German Cagla AKYOL from the city of Mannheim: In a thrilling fight the Russian girl won with a difference of 0,15 points.
On Third came Julia RUMBUTIS (48,750) from Sweden, followed by the second german gymnast Anna Wienecke and the Australian Alexandra Eade (48,25) and Emma Larsson (SWE). ...
      > All-around, Age Group 12 - 13

11th Asian Junior Championships finished in Chiba

16. März 2010  
Chiba, Japan  
Artistic Gymnastics

11th Asian Junior Championships finished in Chiba

From March 13 to 16 the 11th Asian Junior Championships 2010 of Artistic and Trampoline Gymnastics took place in Chiba, Japan.
Altogether 12 female and male gymnasts representing 16 nations took part at these events, which were also the official qualifications for the upcoming I. Olympic Youth Games, which will be held in August in Singapore.

In Artistic Gymnastics the Japanese hosts were the winner in team but also at the all-around events ...

11th JUNIOR Asian Championships 2010
- Chiba, Japan, March 13 - 16 - ________________________________________________

The competition first debuted in 1971 in Tokyo (JPN) and has been hosted by the Philippines, Korea, China, India, Qatar and Syria ever since.
The last Junior Asian Championships took place in 2007 in Damascus, where the Iranian boys and Kazakhstani girls prevailed in the Artistic Gymnastics Team competitions.
2010 in Chiba, Japanese gymnasts swept both the boys’ and girls’ Artistic Gymnastics Team competitions, while the country’s Shogo Nonomura and Yoshio Taniguchi took the MAG and WAG All-around titles respectively.
China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia and Uzbekistan went home with medals from the Apparatus Final, whereby China was most successful with 3 Gold medals in each the girls’ and boys’ events.
Erdenebold Ganbat’s Silver on Vault will go down in history as the first medal ever for Mongolia at this championship!

* R E S U L T S
* TEAMS, Male Juniors
1. JAPAN    - 255,450
2. KOREA   - 251,850
3. IRAN       - 233,500

4. KAZAKHSTAN    - 231,550
5. INDIA                   - 226,400
6. SINGAPORE      - 219,800
7. VIETNAM             - 209,900
8. SAUDI ARABIA   - 196,250

* ALL-AROUND, Male gymnasts
1. NONOMURA, Shogo  (JPN)  - 85,150
2. ZHOU, Shixiong         (CHN)  - 84,900
3. BAE, Ga Ram              (KOR)  - 84,200

    >> Detailed Results
 * Qualifiers for Olympic Youth Games 2010

* App. FINALS:
>  Floor Exerc.   >  Pommel h.    >  Still Rings
>  Vault                > Parallel b.      >  High bar
* TEAMS, Female Gymnasts
1. JAPAN   - 168,350
2. CHINA    - 164,350
3. KOREA  - 156,850

4. UZBEK ISTAN   - 144,400
5. KAZAKHSTAN   - 144,250
6. MONGOLIA        - 120,500
7. INDIA                   - 115,750
8. HONKONG        - 115,259
* ALL-AROUND, Female Gymnasts
1. TANIGUCHI, Yoshino  (JPN)  - 55,650
2. TAN, Sixin  (CHN)                    - 55,000
3. CHEN, Shihua  (CHN)             - 54,750

    >> Detailed Results 
* Qualifiers for Olympic Youth Games 2010

* Appar. FINALS:
>> V a u l t                   >> Uneven bars
>> Balance Beam     >> Floor Exercises

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