...as a lot of training centres asked us…
we’ll show again the short-movie “Janssen&Fritsen-DEMONSTRATIONS” that GYMmedia INTERNATIONAL produced at the World Championships in Rotterdam.
The official apparatus provider of these World Championships “Janssen&Fritsen”, together with coaching expert Dieter Hofmann, made their traditional presentation with the topic “Training helping apparatus for young gymnasts” that was very much attended and successful. 

Therefor, there will be made a longer, more detailed larning film during the next weeks and that will be available at GYMmedia INTERNATIONAL from December on...

…that you can order from December 2010 on from us.

** All our GYMmedia-Exclusive-Videos, that were produced in our virtual studio in Rotterdam together with "Janssen&Fritsen" are available at

>> www.gym-tube.com  bzw. >> www.gym-tube.de

The 42nd World Championships in MAG and 33rd Championships in WAG from 16th to 24th October at the Ahoy-Arena in Rotterdam, were remarkably in a lot of ways.
In the middle of the Olympic cycle - it was the first time after the World Championships in Stuttgart 2007 and the Olympic Games 2008 (Beijing) that the different nations could test their ranking at international level – and this possibility was taken by 69 countries, record participation!

Sympathetic Dutch hosts and organizers offered best conditions, not only from the organizational or logistically point of view, but they also created a specially friendly and open-minded atmosphere and meeting-point for the audience, athletes and journalists…

The during decades biggest rival of the Russian gymnasts was Romania, which has fallen back to the third rang after Russia and Great Britain in the European Championships in Birmingham 2010, after the big successes in the Olympic Games of 2000 and 2004.
That's the reason why the team decided to hire again the great coaches Mariana BITANG and Octavian BELU.
Octavian BELU answered our questions about his goals and demands and also about the status of the Romanian women's gymnastics: 
* GYMmedia exclusive -:

... but also big world stars of the international gymnastics of the past came to the World Championships in Rotterdam, and were not only spectators, but, like the twice Olympic Games winner in 1996 and 2000 Simona AMANAR, as vicepresident of the Romanian Gymnastics Federation.
* GYMmedia exclusive-:

The 42nd Men's and 33rd Women's World Championships of Artistic Gymnastics 2010" take place fom October 16 to 24 in the Ahoy Arena of Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Two years before the upcoming Olympic Games in London the best 24 nations will qualify for the Pre-Olympic Worlds next year in Tokyo (JPN).
After the for days of podium training  the approx. 570 athletes representing 69 different countries started from Saturday on with four days of qualifications and five days with the fights for medals and places in team, all-around and final events...
* TODAY:  Men's, Women's Apparatus Finals (2)
* G Y M media INTERNATIONAL reports directly from the Ahoy arena day by day  suported traditionally by  "Janssen&Fritsen", the Official Supplier of these Worlds
>> ... to the GYMmedia- WCh Website

100,30 points - that was the victory by the Italian team of  „Ginnastica Artistica. Lissonese“ which won the coverted trophy of the 35 anniversary of the traditional "LEVERKUSEN CUP".
Exactly 100 points, and the host German squad came on second place in the venue of the Smidt Arena, followed by a representative national  team of Usbekistan with 99,750 points.

Also in all-around the best gymnast gcame from the Italian winner team: On first place Elisa Meneghini (53,15 Points ) beat the German Cagla Akyol (50,65) .

A lot of participants used this competition to a last test some days before the Worlds in Rotterdam, which will start next week...

*... all information on our German Website on
>> www.gymmedia.de

Some day before the Worlds in Rotterdam the last world cup was held in Ostrava, Czech Republic.
It was a meeting of gymnasts from the second line of European countries.
Winner on floor was the Greece Eleftherios Kosmidis, pommelhorse winner Robert Seligman (GRO) and rings Hadi Khenarinezhad (IRI).
Strong Polish athletes dominated on vault (Marek Lyszczarz), on parallel bars (Adam Kierzkowski) and on high bar (Roman Kuleza), followed thre by the two Austrian Masrco Baldauf and Fabian Leimlehner.
On women's side the Czech hosts were happy about the victory of Jana Sikulova on uneven bars, togehther there with Vasiliki Milousi from Greece, who was also the only one double winner in Ostrava, winning also on balance beam ...

Top Class International Artistic Gymnastics
The German Turn-Club 72 Leverkusen invites again to the  35. anniversary of the   "International Leverkusen Cup 2010", which will held at Saturday, October 6 at the "Smidt Arena" of Leverkusen in Germany.
The German host anticipate a strong field of international teams of women's artistic gymnastics, so for instance from Great Britain, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, Slovenia, Republic of South Africa and of course the team of host Germany, of course and, just now announced, also the national team of Uzbekistan, which will do its last test before the Worlds in Rotterdam.
More than 2,000 viewers in the venue, that was the top standard in the last years at this oldest European international artistic gymnastics event on such a top level

The German Squad will start with the German Youth Champion of 2010, Maike Roll, who ranked 8th at the this years European Youth Championships in Birmingham (GBR). Also in the team will be Cagla Akyol, (German Youth Champion) and Adina Hausch, all-around fourth at the national champs.

* A foretaste of the upcoming event ... :
 This was the atmosphere last year, when the all-around winner, the Mexican Junior Champion Karla SALAZAR started her floor exercises:



From Lettland, from the sports school Ventspils, will come a team with  Dojana Likova, Sabine Gosha und Sabine Kornijanova an.
Slovenia will be present with a team of the partner city of Leverkusen, from Ljubljana, with the gymnasts Tjasa Kysselef, second placed at the World Cup of Doha 2009, Teja Belak, and World Cup winner in Marior 2010 and Fiona Novac, balance beam finalist of the World Cup in Porto 2010. 
Also Italy, Great Britain and Netherlands will come with interest young girls, who all will distinguish themselfes in the run-up to the Olympic Games in London, 2012.
So these 35th anniversary of the 2010 Leverkusen Cup will be a very interesting competition on top international level!

Startlist:
* Germany, Selection:
Adina Hausch, Katja Roll, Cagla Akyol

* Great Britain - National-Team
Claire Natalie Stock, Lara Tanya Wilson, Sydney Eliott-Money

* Italy - Ginnastica Artis. Lissonese
Martine Buro, Elisa Meneghini,  Anna Plebani

* Latvia- Sportschool Ventspils
Doyana Likova, Sabine Gosha, Sabine Korniyanova

* Netherlands - Flik-Flak Den Bosch
Vera van Pol, Julie Dignouts, Evie Schellens

* Slovenia - GD Zelena Jama
Tsasa Kysselef, Teja Belak, Fiona Novak

* Usbekistan - National Team (1)
Luiza Galiulina , Irina Volodchenko, Diana Karimdjanova(2), Asal Sapabaeva, Julia Goreva

The Czech Gymnastic Federation informs that the Grand Prix Ostrava 2010, slated for September 28 - October 2, 2010, will take place in the Sareza Arena instead of the Winter Stadium Poruba.

A conflict of dates and a change in the schedule of the FIBA Women’s World Championships to be held in Ostrava...

* This years World Cup No. 9, intended in Kiev is cancelled
This is to inform you that the Artistic Gymnastics World Cup Tournament B category “Shaklin Cup”, planed in Kiev (UKR) on September 18 – 19, 2010, is cancelled.
The decision was made according to force majeure circumstances. Indeed and by decision of the Sports Ministry Cabinet, the complete hall Sports Palace will be rebuilt in order to host the ice hockey world championships 2011 in the capital. The Ukrainian Gymnastics Federation hopes to meet your understanding.

Anniversary and last national Worlds Trials
This weekend will held the 70th Women's and the 77th Men's German Championships of Artistic Gymnastics. The venue is the Max-Schmeling-Hall, also the location of the 2011 33rd European Championships in April .

To the first time in German gymnastics history the host will use a podium, so this national event will also be a special logistic test before the highlight next year.
Thes Nationals are also the llast test and trials before the upcoming Worlds five weeks before Rotterdam...

GYMmedia INTERNATIONAL will report from there and with the support of the official supplier SPIETH Gymnastic the European Gymnastic Service GYMmedia will complete the coverages with TV reports, videos, interviews, statements and more ...
* ... look at the German Eventwebsite

* International Gymnast Magazine reported  that former Soviet champion Nikolai Andrianov has been suffering from multiple system atrophy (MSA), a disease likely to eventually take his life. MSA is a neurological disorder that affects motor skills and muscle coordination and progresses until it kills the patient.
Andrianov, 58, seems to be in the later stages; IG reports that he is bedridden in his hometown of Vladimir, Russia and his family is searching for someone or something that could help him receive better care.
MSA is a particularly cruel blow for a gymnast as talented as Andrianov.

Andrianov, who won floor, rings and vault in addition to his all-around title, would lead them to gold in 1980 and pick up a second Olympic vault title there as well, as well as silvers on vault and floor and a bronze on high bar. Andrianov is the only gymnast ever to have won Olympic medals on every event in addition to team and all-around competitions.
Andrianov set the standard as an athlete, but also as a coach, molding the younger men on the Soviet junior men's team during the 1980s and coaching in Japan at the behest of his former rival, Mitsuo Tsukahara, during the 1990s, where his most famous protegee was Tsukahara's son, 2004 Olympic team gold medalist Naoya, who has indicated that he would like to come out of retirement and compete for Australia.

2008 Olympic high bar silver-medalist Jonathan HORTON of Houston defended his all-around title tonight at the 2010 Visa Championships at the XL Center in Hartford, Conn. Horton, who trains at Cypress Academy, won his second national all-around title with a total of 181.650.
Rebecca BROSS of Plano, Texas, won her first Visa Championships all-around title with a score of 120.300 at the 2010 Visa Championships at the XL Center in Hartford, Conn. She also took top honors on both the balance beam and uneven bars, with a silver medal for the floor exercise. 2008 Olympic team silver-medalist Alicia Sacramone of Winchester, Mass., became the first U.S. women to win five national vault titles.