Artistic Gymnastics

Friendly Meet: Great Britain vs Switzerland

30. September 2006  
Lilleshall / Great Britain  
Artistic Gymnastics

Friendly Meet: Great Britain vs Switzerland

Great Britain - Switzerland

The Great Britain women's artistic gymnastics team continued to impress with a confidence boosting International victory over an ever-improving Switzerland Team at Lilleshall NSC.
The British Team finished with a grand total of 226.100 compared to the Swiss Teams 212.200 points.
Britain’s top gymnasts Beth Tweddle (City of Liverpool GC) did her preparations for the World Championships in Aarhus, Denmark (14-21 Nov) no harm with a wining display, scoring 59.950 points. ...
Great Britain vs. Switzerland
- Lilleshall, GBR, 2006, September 30 -

All looks good for the Worlds!
- y Tim Peake & Vera Atkinson (Baga)

Following closely behind Beth came Lynette Lisle (Barry YMCA GC) with a score of 56.400 points. Swiss Gymnast Ariella Kaeslin came an impressive third overall with 55.350 points.
Performance and Technical Director, Matthew Greenwood said: “Despite several injuries the team did well and we have 8 gymnasts well capable of making the cut for the final World Championship Team decided on Monday. Based on today’s results I'm sure that the British Team will have an excellent chance of remaining in the top 12 in Denmark.”
The Swiss Team showed signs of real promise, indicating that there ranking of 20 at the last World Championships in Anaheim has been dramatically improved on, despite this they are clearly still looking to improve further, Eric Demay, Head Coach of Switzerland, said:
“I am disappointed! Our team performs good gymnastics but is obviously not tough enough to endure the psychological pressure, which comes along with the International competitions. Nine falls off the Beam only that was too much two weeks before the World Championships. We have obviously a lot to improve in the remaining two weeks…” With Britain and Switzerland pitted together in the same group in Aarhus, it will be very interesting to see how the Swiss team react to there coaches suggestions.

Vanessa HOBBS, today in Lilleshall...

Amongst the many spectators at Lilleshall was Vanessa Hobbs , 2004 Olympian and member of the GBR Team at the previous World Championships in Anaheim (USA) in 2003.
Hobbs said: “The last time I saw this gym was just before we left for the Olympic Games Athens and the whole atmosphere brings to me deep emotions and moving memories. I was very impressed by our Team and wish them every luck at the approaching World Championships in Aarhus (DEN). Three years ago, in Anaheim we have managed to present 20 out of 20 faultless routines and took the 9th place. I hope these gymnasts will keep this top position.
The guests from Switzerland looked really good at the worming-up but during the competition had a few falls off the apparatus. However, they look a much improved, fit and neat Team. “As for my personal life, I have finished the College this year and will soon start working in a Bank. I also coach pre-school to 13 years old children in Portsmouth and really enjoy it.”
>> Detailed Results: GBR vs SUI

Friedly Meets in Spain - Preparations for the Worlds...

30. September 2006  
Madrid / Spain  
Artistic Gymnastics

Friedly Meets in Spain - Preparations for the Worlds...

Rafael MARTINEZ- best of all-around

Saturday, September 30, the Spanish national teams of artistic gymnastics welcome national squads in preparation for the coming World Championships:

Spanish women lining up against Romanian national team in the Pavilion Multipurpose of Caceres (Western Spain).

Spanish men win their triple meet in the facilities of C.S.D in Madrid. in front of Belarus and Portugal.
Best of all-around was Rafael MARTINEZ in a good constitution again after injury, followed by Dmitri SAVITZKY (BLR) and Sergio MUNOZ (ESP)....

Sergio MUNOZ came on third place at the all-around today ...

Rafael MARTINEZ, winner all-around

Friendly Meet: Spain - Belarus - Portugal
Madrid, 2006, September 30 -

- from Madrid reports Ester TEIJEIRA, Spain -
Today we enjoyed a remarkable triangular competition between three European teams, Spain, Belarus and Portugal, which are fully involved in the preparation of the 2006 World Championships in Aarhus (Denmark), where the qualification for the Olympic Games in Beijing will be decided.
Spanish Men's team started with Rafael Martinez, Gervasio Deferr, Victor Cano, Isaac Botella, Iván San Miguel, Jose Luis Fernandez, Javier Gomez, Sergio Mu?oz.
Hosts started in vault and Belarus in high bar, with Portugal resting and preparing to start. The first two rotations showed that Spain was starting to create a big gap with the other participants, while Portugal was placing before Belarus, which had a very dissapointing performance at the pommel horse and the floor.

Ivan Ivankov for Belarus on three apparatus

However, with the next rotations, Belarus started to show its strength, above all with the rings, where they took the best score beating Spain, with Ivan Ivankov reaching an extraordinary 16.200 score. This way they got to end in the second position in the final team's ranking and showed they probably have much more to show than they did today.
But, though the hard efforts of the Byelorussian team to recover the disadvantage, Spain managed to mantain it, and even make it bigger.
Rafael Martínez had a very consistent (and promising for Aarhus) performance, with his natural regularity with all his exercises above 15 points unless the floor one, where he got 'only' 14.800. With that scores, he got the first position in AA with 90.950 points.

Gervasio Deferr, 15.800 on vault...

The Spanish team was favoured by the rising of the young promise Sergio Mu?oz, who finished third in the all-around with 88,450 points, showing he's the future star of the team, as well as that there exists a new pushing generation in Spain for the next years to come, together with Jose Luis Fernández (4th in AA) and Javier Gómez (who, in spite of starting out of competition, would have got the 5th place in AA).

Sergio Mu?oz managed even to beat the double Olympic champion in vault, Gervasio Deferr, in 'his' apparatus, where Mu?oz got an impressive 16,200 while the judges gave a 15,800 for Gervasio Deferr.
Portugal placed third and last today, but they showed several interesting exercises, and even some remarkable ones, like the 15,750 for Felipe Bezugo (who represented Portugal in Athens 2004) in vault or the 15,650 for Luis Araujo in the same apparatus (the very best rotation for Portugal today) together with a good performance of the team in the pommel horse, where we could see a 14,800 for and .
The best Portuguese gymnast in the all-around was Pedro Almeida, the most regular one of the team, who placed 6th with a total score of 85,700 points
The team is improving a lot, and one can notice the hard work they are doing to get nearer to the best teams in Europe.

The event took place in the premises of the Consejo Nacional de Deportes of Spain, in Madrid, with a cheering audience composed mainly by young gymnasts and relatives, in a friendly atmosphere and with a brilliant organization by the Spanish Federation.
- Esther Teijeira reporting for GYMmedia

>> Detailed Results: Teams -- // -- >> Detailed Results: All-around


In Caceres / Spain was held a friendly meet of
>> Spanish women team vs. Rumania

Italy s women and Russia s Men won Friendly Meets

28. August 2006  
Trieste / Italy  
Artistic Gymnastics

Italy s women and Russia s Men won Friendly Meets

Vanessa Ferrari (ITA)

Italy's Vanessa Ferrari was the only one femal gymnast presenting a top leval at the friendly meet versus Russia last weekend in Trieste. Russia came with a young team, but also Anna Pavlova didn'd present a high level...

So Italian host won this competiition 231.300 : 222.900 and Ferrari was the absulutely best in all-around (61.050), with a difference of 4.25 points to the best Russian gymnast.

In contrast Russia's men's team won the meet with 359.100 : 355.700 points.
Dmitri Gogotov won with 88,750 in front of Italy's Matteo Morandi (88,500) ...
Friendly MEET: TIALY vs. RUSSIA
Trieste, Italy, August 26 -
Men's Team Results
1. RUSSIA 359.100
(FX 59.200; PH 58.000; SR 60.050; VA 62.850; PB 60.000; HB 59.000)
2. ITALIA 355.700
(FX 57.050; PH 56.700; SR 62.800; VA 62.950; PB 56.500; HB 59.700)<

Men's Individual Results
1. Dmitriy Gogotov (RUS) 88.750
2. Matteo Morandi (ITA) 88.500
3. Maxsim Deviatovski (RUS) 87.600
 4. Yuriy Riasanov (RUS) 87.550
5. Aleksey Bondarenko (RUS) 87.100
6. Paolo Ottavi (ITA) 85.250
7. Sergei Chorochordin (RUS) 75.250
8. Enrico Pozzo (ITA) 74.700
9. Igor Cassina (ITA) 73.950
10. Matteo Angioletti (ITA) 59.750
11. Andrea Coppolino (ITA) 56.800
12. Alexander Safosukin (RUS) 30.550
Women's TEAM Results

1. ITALIA 231.300
 (VA 57.950; UB 57.200; BB 59.250; FX 56.900)
2. RUSSIA 222.900
(VA 58.200; UB 53.000; BB 57.400; FX 54.300)

Women's Individual Results
1.Vanessa Ferrari (ITA) 61.050
2. Federica Macr? (ITA) 56.950
3. Svetlana Kliukina (RUS) 56.800
4. Monica Bergamelli (ITA) 56.800
5. Kristina Pravdina (RUS) 56.000
6. Sara Bradaschia (ITA) 55.600
7. Lorena Coza (ITA) 54.450
8. Anna Pavlova (RUS) 53.750
9. Anna Grudko (RUS) 41.450
10. Elvira Chusainova (RUS) 40.850
11. Tatiana Kazantseva (RUS) 40.600
12. Lia Parolari (ITA) 28.200

Friendly Meet Great Britain vs. Romania

28. August 2006  
Newcastle /Great Britain  
Artistic Gymnastics

Friendly Meet Great Britain vs. Romania

Steliana NISTOR, winning all-around

GREAT BRITAIN vs. ROMANIA
Three times Olympic, seven times World and four times European Team Champions, Romania, won the friendly Women’s Gymnastics International in Newcastle versus Great Britain both in the Team (231.80 : 223.45) and the Individual All-around events.

Best in all-around competition were Steliana NISTOR (59,450) from team Romania, followed by her teammates Sandra IZBASA (58.750) and the Romanian junior Aluissa LACUSTEANU.

The best of British team, Aisling WILLIAMS (56.700), came on fourth place, Lynette Lisle (55.700) ranked sixth...
2006 GBR v ROM Senior Women's Gymnastics International
- Benfield Centre for Sporting Excellence, Newcastle upon Tyne
Saturday, 26./ 27. August- Team & All-around & Apparatus Finals

 Team and All-around Event
- reported by Vera ATKINSON, Baga -

The meet, held according to the 6-5-4-competition format, served as a timely and very useful rehearsal for the World Championships in Aarhus (DEN), in October.
Romania competed with two Juniors in the team (Lacusteanu and Grigore), while GBR introduced changes in their line-up a week before the event, giving a chance to three talented gymnasts without big international experience - Kerri Upton, Olivia Bryl and Emma White.
Both Teams started the event according to the draw for Aarhus (i.e. GBR on Vault and Romania on A. Bars).
Strong Britishers on uneven bars
+ Even without their top performers on uneven bars (the European Champion Beth Tweddle, Shavahn Church and Amy Nunes), the British dominated on this apparatus, 56.15 vs. 55.20 for Romania.
The highest score in the Saturday’s contest belong to Sandra Izbasa – 15.50 on Floor (full in, double pike, 2 1/2 punch front into 1 1/2 , finishing with a triple twist).
“I am very happy with some of the performances; our team competed on a very decent level. Given the fact that none of the teams have achieved their top competitive form as yet, this was an extremely useful competition to make our analyses with regard to the preparation for the World Championships. As for Romania, I wish them success in Aarhus, this time they will really need it!”, said Adrian Stan, British Gymnastics Technical Director for Women.
' As you know, gymnastics coaches are never satisfied. This competition indicated to me some weak sides of our preparation and in the remaining 7-8 weeks we shall pay special attention to them ', said Nicolae Forminte, Head Coach of the Romanian Team.
Source: Baga, V. Atkinson
AA-Results:

1. Steliana Nistor ROM) 59.450
2. Sandra Izbasa (ROM) 58.750
3. Aluissa Lacusteanu (ROM) 57.100
4. Aisling Williams (GBR) 56.700 :::
6. Lynette Lisle (GBR) 55.700

>> Detailed Results

Chinese Olympic veterans set to compete in gymnastics worlds

11. August 2006  
Beijing / China  
Artistic Gymnastics

Chinese Olympic veterans set to compete in gymnastics worlds

Yang, Wei and HUANG, Xu

China will send a team combined with veterans and youths to the Aarhus World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in October, the Chinese press reported.
Chinese head coach HUANG, Yubin hinted yesterday that Sydney Olympic champions YANG, Wei and HUANG, Xu, who missed the 2005 Melbourne championships to make places for rookies, would compete in Aarhus.... ,

Chinese coach HUANG, Yubin, on the way to the 'Number One' again...!

.... although their leading gymnast LI, Xiaopeng had been confirmed to be absent due to injury.

HUANG, Yubin said: ''Different from the Melbourne tournament, this time we will select gymnasts depending on their performances. I think it will be a squad consisting of veterans and young gymnasts.'

The national side started a five-day test match on Monday and the results would be counted as qualifying reference. Huang said Yang and Huang Xu were quite good in the test.
He promised that Chinese team, eager to make a strong comeback after Athens waterloo in 2004, would exert themselves for good results.
'This tournament will be the first world championships to adopt new rules and therefore is very important for each team. And it's an opportunity for us to restore image. We will try our bets,' he said.
Source: Chinese press










Olympic champion Li Xiaopeng will miss Worlds and Asiad

09. August 2006  
Beijing / China  
Artistic Gymnastics

Olympic champion Li Xiaopeng will miss Worlds and Asiad

LI, Xiaopeng will miss in Aarhus

China's Olympic and world champion LI, Xiaopeng will surely miss October's world championships of artistic gymnastics and also the year-end 'Asian Games' in Qatar while recovering from an ankle injury, the Chinese coach CHEN, Xiong told the press: 'When he returns depends on his recovery. He may not come back until next year' he added.
The 25-year-old gymnast, who claimed the team and parallel bars gold medals at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and settled for a bronze in Athens four years later, failed to show up at the ongoing internal test of the national team while still nursing a left ankle injury. Li sustained the injury during last Octorber's 10th National Games in Nanjing, East China, and had an operation on the ankle in January after the injury got worse in the following worlds held in Melburne, Australia...
'Li is in good recovery after the operation, and he has regained 50%-60% of his competitive form,' said Chen, 'but he couldn't live up to the demand of the competition. His foot can't stand the impact of jumping. The ankle is still liable to being hurt. Li now can do some basic tricks of vault, but hardly the difficult ones or routines', added Chen.

The difficulty of his routines has been already out of date since the new rules came into effect over half a year ago, and his main task in the second half of this year is to increase the degree of difficulty of his routines, according to Chen.
'We've already designed a new series of routines for Li, and in the second half of this year, he will practise the new routines on vault and parallel bars to raise his starting point,' said Chen.
Source: Xinhua

Drawing of Lots: World Championships Aarhus 2006

25. Juli 2006  
Neuchatel / Switzerland  
Artistic Gymnastics

Drawing of Lots: World Championships Aarhus 2006

39th Men's Worlds 2006
30th Women's Worlds 2006

Monday, July 24, the International Gymnastics Federation executed the drawing of lots for the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships 2006, wich will held in Aarhus, Denmark, October 14 - 21 this year.
It was the first official act of a highly strategic competition, held at the new F.Ig: heafquarter in Neuchatel (SUI) since it represents for the gymnasts the first step toward the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
To qualify for the Games, the teams must compete in the next year's qualifying world championships (Stuttgart, Germany), but only the best 24 teams of the 2006 worlds in Aarhus will be able to go to Germany!
All other federations have a limited participation of 3 gymnasts maximum. Therefore, all teams registered for Aarhus are preparing themselves for this event with utmost determination, in anticipation of an Olympic qualification.
On July 13, the registration deadline, the F.I.G. announced a participation of 62 federations, representing 521 gymnasts (287 male, 234 female) from five continents.

Men's Qualification rounds will include 9 subdivisions, with 44 complete teams and individual gymnasts, starting in ( >> Mixed groups 1 - 6).

Men's Drawing of lots results such interest constellations...:
Subdivision 1: >> USA; CZE; Mix2; KOR; RUS, MEX.
Subdiv. 2:: >> CHN; JPN; NOR; NED; ISL; BLR.
Subdiv. 3: >> ---; ---; POR; ALG; GBR; KAZ.
Subdiv. 4: >> AUT; TUR; ITA; ISR; AUS; TPE.
Subdiv. 5:: >> CAN; ROM; EGY; FRA; Mix1; SUI.
Subdiv. 6: >> LAT; HUN; VEN; BUL; Mix5; FIN.
Subdiv. 7: >> Mix4; DEN; Mix6; ESP; Mix3; GRE.
Subdiv. 8: >> RSA; GER; PUR; ---; BRA; SWE.
Subdiv. 9:>> UKR; SLO; POL; CHI; --- ; ECU.

>> Men's Qualification rounds (Comp. I)

In women's category will start alltogether 33 complete national teams,
but also 6 Mixed groups , wich will start in 10 subdivisions:

Subdivision 1: >> GRE; SWE; ITA; PRK.
Subdiv. 2:: >> FRA; Mix5; GER; CHI.
Subdiv. 3:: >> ESP; BRA; Mix4; POL.
Subdiv. 4:: >> JPN; CAN; DEN; Mix6.
Subdiv. 5:: >> USA; ISL; Mix1; AUS.
Subdiv. 6:: >> VEN; PUR; BUL; NOR.
Subdiv. 7:: >> Mix2; ROM; ARG; MEX.
Subdiv. 8:: >> BLR; KOR; Mix3; RUS.
Subdiv. 9:: >> GBR; HUN; CZE; SUI.
Subdiv. 10:: >> NED; UKR; CHN; FIN.

>> Women's Qualification rounds, (Comp. I)

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