Artistic Gymnastics

GYM EXCHANGE - most efficient possibility for Job Hunting

07. März 2007  
Berlin / Germany  
Artistic Gymnastics

GYM EXCHANGE - most efficient possibility for Job Hunting

>> Efficient possibility for offers and jub hunting, worldwide

It is worthwhile to have a special look at the GYMMedia JOB EXCHANGE (- use the button, left) sometimes, because it is the most efficient possibility for gymnastics coaches looking for jobs...
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Flowers for Podkopayeva in Kiev

08. März 2007  
Kiev / Ukraine  
Artistic Gymnastics

Flowers for Podkopayeva in Kiev

Lilia Podkopayeva (UKR)

Today the leaders of the Government of Ukraine held a meeting in honour of tomorrow's International 'Women’s Day, with women from different regions of the country, the Forum’s correspondent informs us.
The Ukrainian Olympic champion (1996) in artistic gymnastics, Liliya Podkopayeva, and the showman Ilya Noyabryov were the presenters of the festive concert in celebration of Women’s Day. All women attending the ceremony were presented with spring flowers.
On Wednesday, March 7, the Ukrainian leaders of the Government held a meeting to celebrate "International Women’s Day" (March 8), with women from different regions of the country. 
The ceremony took place in Ukraine for the first time. The Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Dmytro Tabachnyk and the Labour and Social Policy Minister Mykhaylo Papiyev came to congratulate women on March 8.

Johnson and Horton won Tyson American Cup 2007

02. März 2007  
Jacksonville / USA  
Artistic Gymnastics

Johnson and Horton won Tyson American Cup 2007

Shawn Johnson, Jonathan Horton

Young gymnasts on top...
On Saturday evening Shawn Johnson (USA, Iowa), and defending champion and 2006 USA junior champion  Jonathan Horton (USA, Houston) won the all-around titles at the 2007 Tyson American Cup at the Jacksonville (Fla.) "Veterans Memorial Arena".
Johnson was crowned champion in her first senior competition, while Horton became the first male gymnast to win back-to-back Tyson American Cup titles since the USA’s Blaine Wilson won three straight from 1997-1999....

Johnson finished with a score of 62.050, followed by 2006 team world silver-medalist Natasha Kelley (USA,Texas), in second with a of 61.450.  Mexico’s Elsa Garcia was third at 60.200.  The top scores of the day for the women were all earned by the United States: Kelley on beam with a 16.250; and Johnson on vault, uneven bars and floor with scores of 15.325, 15.750 and 15.525, respectively.
>> Detailed Women's Results

On men's side Jonathan Horton won with a 92.750 and Takuya Nakase of Japan placed second with a score of 92.150. Russia’s Maxim Devyatovsky was third, followed by 2006 pommel horse world bronze-medalist Alexander Artemev .

Horton got a great start on his first event, pommel horse. After earning a 15.550 on rings, Horton jumped from third to lead the men’s field after three events.
The best men’s performers of the day on each apparatus were: - Horton on floor and parallel bars with a 15.900 and a 15.750, respectively;
-  Artemev on pommel horse with a 15.400;
- Nakase on rings with a 15.750,
- Devyatovsky on vault with a 16.200; and Germany’s
- Fabian Hambuechen with a 15.800 on high bar,
but Horton’s high-flying horizontal bar routine earned him a 15.350 to clinch his second straight Tyson American Cup title.
>> Detailed Men's Results

ALL-around qualifikation
The German Fabian Hambuechen led at the 2007 Tyson American Cup after the all-around qualification with 90,750, in front of  Jonathan Horton and Alexander Artemev (- both USA).

In women's category five Americans led: In front Shawn Johnson (62,100), Natasha Kelly, Shayla Worley...
on sixth place came the first foreign gymnast, Elsa Garcia (MEX)...

 

American Cup 2007
- All-aroundQualification round -

Men's all-around, qualification    

Rank Name Country Floor Pommel Rings Vault P Bars H Bar AA
1 Fabian Hambuechen GER 15.150 13.300 15.050 16.150 15.400 15.700 90.750
2 Jonathan Horton USA 15.500 12.700 15.400 15.600 15.600 15.350 90.150
3 Alexander Artemev USA 15.200 14.400 14.650 16.150 14.400 15.300 90.100
4 Nakase Takuya JPN 14.550 13.400 14.900 16.150 15.500 15.300 89.800
5 Guillermo Alvarez USA 14.700 14.550 15.050 15.700 14.900 14.500 89.400
6 Dzmitry Savitski BLR 15.150 14.000 15.700 15.400 15.250 13.850 89.350
7 Maxim Devyatovsky RUS 15.200 13.550 15.400 15.800 15.300 13.950 89.200
8 Lu Bo CHN 14.700 12.850 15.450 16.200 15.600 13.650 88.450
9 Luis Vargas PUR 14.150 13.950 14.350 15.400 15.000 14.750 87.600
10 Flavius Koczi ROM 15.200 12.950 14.300 16.050 14.150 14.350 87.000
11 Adam Wong CAN 15.050 11.950 15.350 15.700 14.850 13.800 86.700
12 Raj Bhavsar USA 13.650 13.900 14.800 15.600 14.150 13.100 85.200
13 Daniel Corral MEX 14.150 12.450 13.900 15.750 14.000 0.000 70.250

Women's all-around, qualification
 

Rank Name Country AA Out
1 Shawn Johnson USA 62.100 0.000
2 Natasha Kelley USA 61.200 0.900
3 Shayla Worley USA 60.700 1.400
4 Bianca Flohr USA 60.550 1.550
5 Samantha Peszek USA 60.300 1.800
6 Elsa Garcia MEX 59.450 2.650
7 Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs CAN 58.950 3.150
8 Zhou Zhuoru CHN 58.050 4.050
9 Daria Joura AUS 56.750 5.350
10 Dariya Zgoba UKR 56.700 5.400
11 Kristina Pravdina RUS 55.800 6.300
12 Kyoko Oshima JPN 54.050 8.050
13 Andreea Grigore ROM 53.800 8.300
14 Katja Abel GER 53.050 9.050
15 Danielle Englert SUI 14.400 47.700
16 Nathalia Sanchez COL 13.100 49.000

Star Orbit - name of a spectacular show with a lot of Stars

28. Februar 2007  
Sofia / Bulgaria  
Artistic Gymnastics

Star Orbit - name of a spectacular show with a lot of Stars

More than 3,500 people enjoyed the gymnastics show "Star Orbit" that took place in Sofia's National Palace of Culture on Sunday.
The host of the event was Bulgaria's best gymnast Jordan Jovtchev, who raised the audience to their feet with his parallel bars performance. Jovtchev showed an extremely interesting combination of standing exercises. The world champion Vanessa Ferrari's beam performance has also been tumultuously welcomed by the spectators in the hall.
2000 Olympic champion Alexei Nemov, ....

Bulgarian Super star, Jordan Jovtchev

.... 2005 world champion Marian Dragulescu from Romania and Bulgaria's Simona Peicheva were among the gym stars of the show.
The special guest of the performance was the President Georgi Parvanov, who awarded Jordan Jovtchev the honorary head-of-state sign for his exceptional achievements in sports gymnastics earlier in the day.
The gala-show “Star Orbit” hit the spot in hall №1 of the National Palace of Culture in Sofia, Bulgaria, as the Bulgarian medias informs.

The idea for the show belongs to the four-time world champion in gymnastics – Jordan Jovtchev, who invited some of the greatest names in world gymnastics.
Such prominent figures as Alexei Nemov (RUS), Yuri Checci, (ITA),  Marian Dragulescu (ROU) , Ivan Ivanov (BUL), Dmitri Karbanenko (FRA) took part in the show.
The world champion for 2006, Vanessa Ferrari (ITA), whose mother is Bulgarian, also took part in the gala-show.
The unprecedented for Bulgaria show took place
- on the occasion of the accession of Bulgaria to the European Union,
- 125th anniversary International Gymnastics Federation and the
- 34th birthday of the Bulgarian champion, Jordan Jovtchev.

A special guest of the show was the great Bulgarian singer Lili Ivanova, who used to be a gymnast as well. Representatives of all types of gymnastics participated in the show.
Source: Bulgarian media

Hambuechen leads after Qualification round

02. März 2007  
Jacksonville / USA  
Artistic Gymnastics

Hambuechen leads after Qualification round

Hambuechen, Germany

The German Fabian Hambuechen leads at the 2007 Tyson American Cup after the all-around qualification with 90,750, in front of  Jonathan Horton anfd Alexander Artemev (- both USA).

In women's category five Americans lead: In front Shawn Johnson (62,100), Natasha Kelly, Shayla Worley...
on sixth place came the first foreign gymnast, Elsa Garcia (MEX)...

American Cup 2007
- All-aroundQualification round -

Men's all-around, qualification    

Rank Name Country Floor Pommel Rings Vault P Bars H Bar AA
1 Fabian Hambuechen GER 15.150 13.300 15.050 16.150 15.400 15.700 90.750
2 Jonathan Horton USA 15.500 12.700 15.400 15.600 15.600 15.350 90.150
3 Alexander Artemev USA 15.200 14.400 14.650 16.150 14.400 15.300 90.100
4 Nakase Takuya JPN 14.550 13.400 14.900 16.150 15.500 15.300 89.800
5 Guillermo Alvarez USA 14.700 14.550 15.050 15.700 14.900 14.500 89.400
6 Dzmitry Savitski BLR 15.150 14.000 15.700 15.400 15.250 13.850 89.350
7 Maxim Devyatovsky RUS 15.200 13.550 15.400 15.800 15.300 13.950 89.200
8 Lu Bo CHN 14.700 12.850 15.450 16.200 15.600 13.650 88.450
9 Luis Vargas PUR 14.150 13.950 14.350 15.400 15.000 14.750 87.600
10 Flavius Koczi ROM 15.200 12.950 14.300 16.050 14.150 14.350 87.000
11 Adam Wong CAN 15.050 11.950 15.350 15.700 14.850 13.800 86.700
12 Raj Bhavsar USA 13.650 13.900 14.800 15.600 14.150 13.100 85.200
13 Daniel Corral MEX 14.150 12.450 13.900 15.750 14.000 0.000 70.250

Women's all-around, qualification
 
Rank Name Country AA Out
1 Shawn Johnson USA 62.100 0.000
2 Natasha Kelley USA 61.200 0.900
3 Shayla Worley USA 60.700 1.400
4 Bianca Flohr USA 60.550 1.550
5 Samantha Peszek USA 60.300 1.800
6 Elsa Garcia MEX 59.450 2.650
7 Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs CAN 58.950 3.150
8 Zhou Zhuoru CHN 58.050 4.050
9 Daria Joura AUS 56.750 5.350
10 Dariya Zgoba UKR 56.700 5.400
11 Kristina Pravdina RUS 55.800 6.300
12 Kyoko Oshima JPN 54.050 8.050
13 Andreea Grigore ROM 53.800 8.300
14 Katja Abel GER 53.050 9.050
15 Danielle Englert SUI 14.400 47.700
16 Nathalia Sanchez COL 13.100 49.000

F.I.G.: A second Olympic Chance...

01. März 2007  
Neuchatel / Switzerland  
Artistic Gymnastics

F.I.G.: A second Olympic Chance...

F.I.G. announcement...

Gymnasts to get two opportunities to reach Olympics
Gymnasts will have a second chance to qualify for the Olympics starting with the 2012 London Games.
The International Gymnastics Federation F.I.G. made the announcement at its new home city Neuchatel in Switzerland....
Currently, gymnasts can only qualify for the Summer Games at the world championships in the year preceding the Olympics, but following a directive from the International Olympic Committee ...  to provide athletes with a second opportunity, the F.I.G. put together a proposal it expects to submit to the IOC by the end of the year.

Bruno Grandi (ITA)

FIG president Bruno Grandi said: 
"With just one qualifying competition, some of the world's best gymnasts have missed the Olympics.
If they were injured or missed qualifying for any other reason, problems with the federation, then we would be missing some of the athletes at the Olympics. We can't afford that.
The Olympics are too important for athletes nowadays for them to miss the games. We're trying to find a valid solution."
Under the FIG's proposal, the 2011 world championships would still serve as the main qualifying competition for all three disciplines -- artistic and rhythmic gymnastics, and trampoline -- for the 2012 Olympics.
But the FIG also wants to use test events the year before the games as a second qualifying competition for the London Games.
"We hope the IOC will understand our need to use the test events as the second qualification for the Olympic Games to avoid the introduction of another new event, since we already have a lot of them," Grandi said.

The quota of gymnasts at Beijing will be 324, up 12 from the Athens Olympics, to allow for more competitors in the rhythmic gymnastics competition.
Also, Grandi said he plans to run for re-election in 2009.
The Italian has been president since 1996.
"I am not finished with my work and I think have a duty to finish it," said Grandi, who was behind the overhaul of the sport's judging system after a series of controversies at the 2004 Athens Olympics.
Source:  fig-information, SI.com

The Italian gymnastics legend Giovanni CARMINUCCI has died

28. Februar 2007  
Italy  
Artistic Gymnastics

The Italian gymnastics legend Giovanni CARMINUCCI has died

Giovanni CARMINUCCI
*14.11.1939 - + 19.02.2007

... everybody called him "Don Giovanni",
- in the days in the "Terme de Caracalla", when 21 year old Giovanni Carminucci won Olympic silver, just 0.025 points behind parallel bars gold medallist Boris SCHACHLIN  - and ahead of Japan's Takashi ONO - as well as the jubilantly received bronze medal for the national team of the host country, Italy, alongside the 19 year old Franco MENICHELLI.

As a 32 year old, he was still putting on a brilliant performance at the Madrid Palacio de Deportes in 1971, where he won the European championships - his Stutzkehr with a full turn to the upper arm position came to be known as a 'Carminucci'.

Our editors learned today that one of the most scintillating figures of European elite gymnastics of the sixties of the last century, the Italian Giovanni CARMINUCCI, died on February 19, aged only 67 years.

Photo: Flick Flack - World Stage of Gymnastics

... a 'nobleman' of gymnastics
Not at all like Mozert's rather unscrupulous character, Giovanni Carminucci became a noble sportsman in Italy and dominated Italian gymnastics for a decade along with Franco Menichelli.
Between 1959 (Kopenhagen) and 1971 (Madrid) he participated in six European Championships, won bronze all-round in Luxemburg in 1961 and was one of the top ten allrounders five times.

Carminucci won the title of European champion at the vault (1961), the high bar (Belgrade, 1963) and, at his last European championships in 1971 and at no less than 32 years of age (!), on the parallel bars, for which he had previously won a bronze medal twice, being a virtuoso between the bars.
He had a debt of gratitude in particular to the Swiss trainer Jack Günthardt, who led the Italian team to three Olympic bronze medals in 1960 in just two years of training: team, floor (Menichelli) and Carminucci's medal on the parallel bars.

"Gymnastics... formed and strengthend my character and trained me to pursue seemingly unattainable goals successfully', Giovanni Carminucci once said retrospectively.
The European gymnastics family pays tribute to this magnificent Italian athlete!
(c) Eckhard Herholz, GYMmedia,
Quotes from "Flick Flack - World Stage of Gymnastics";
A. Götze/H.-J. Zeume

TODAY: Finals in Cottbus with strong South-Americans

25. März 2007  
Cottbus / Germany  
Artistic Gymnastics

TODAY: Finals in Cottbus with strong South-Americans

With the record number of entries from 41 different countries the '31. Turnier der Meister'  (31st  Tournament of Masters) took place from Friday,  March 23rd to Sunday, March 25th.
Surprisingly two Mexican victories in the women's finals and also strong South American athletes on the men's side characterized this traditional competition in Germany with altogether 100 male and 39 female gymnasts, representing 41 different coutries.

It was a very well presented overture of the year of the world championships in Germany, which will held from September 1 to 9.

Please find all reports, results and information on: 
>>  www.turnier-der-meister.de

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Winter Cup kicks off the Pre-Olympic Season in the USA

11. Februar 2007  
Las Vegas / USA  
Artistic Gymnastics

Winter Cup kicks off the Pre-Olympic Season in the USA

Sean Townsend (USA)

The yearly  Winter Cup Challenge is the traditional opening of the artistic gymnastics season in the USA. This year's men's event was held at the Las Vegas Sports Center from February 8 - 10.
2006 pommel horse world bronze-medalist Alexander Artemev of Morrison, Colo./Team Chevron, and 2005-06 Winter Cup Challenge all-around champion David Durante of Garwood, N.J./Team Chevron, are among the 13 members of the current U.S. Men's Senior National Team. Seventeen athletes from the U.S. Men's Junior National Team also participated in the event. Based on performances at the Winter Cup Challenge, seven gymnasts will be added to the U.S. Men's Senior National Team.
David Sender led after the first round, the reigning U.S. national champion Alexander Artemev came second and Houston's Sean Townsend finished third after six apparatuses on the first day...
but after Saturday's second all-around Sean Townsend was the winner (Sasha Artemev from Team Chevron got only 1.50 on the high bar, thus descending to rank 32...)

2007 USA Winter Cup Challenge
- February 8 - 10, Las Vegas, Sports Center -

1

 20 Sean Townsend HGA/GymMasters 88.100 89.050 177.150
2 71 David Sender Stanford 89.450 87.500 176.950
3 6 Guillermo Alvarez Team Chevron/Minn 88.050 88.650 176.700
4 54 Ryan Lieberman Buffalo Grove 84.100 87.150 171.250
5 2 Taqiy Abdullah Oklahoma 83.800 87.350 171.150
6 42 Thomas Kelley Buffalo Grove 84.350 85.950 170.300
7 34 Wesley Haagensen Illinois 84.850 85.350 170.200
8T 5 Raj Bhavsar Team Chevron/HGA 84.950 85.100 170.050
8T 10 Todd Thornton Team Chevron/OTC 85.000 85.050 170.050
10 39 Jamie Henderson Oklahoma 83.550 86.000 169.550
11 35 Bryant Hadden Stanford 83.100 84.900 168.000
12* 68 Paul Ruggeri III CNY 84.800 83.000 167.800

* - best twelve out of a total of 43 competitors
>> Detailed allround results

TOP THREE on apparatus:
-  each the best of two exercises! 
                                     (Start Value) = Final points

Floor
1. Michael Reavis         (16.6) = 15.200
2. Paul Ruggeri III         (15.9) = 15.100
3. Jonathan Horton       (16.6) = 15.000

Pommel Horse:          
1. Yewki Tomita          (15.9) = 15.450
2. Guillermo Alvarez    (15.6) = 14,950
3. David Durante         (15.7) = 14.900

Still Rings
1. Kevin Tan               (17.1) = 16.300
2. Sean Golden          (16.6) = 15.800
3. Raj Bhavsar            (16.6) = 15.550

Vault
1. David Sender          (16.7) = 16.500
2. Jimmy Wickham     (16.7) = 16.300
3. Sean Townsend      (17.4) = 16.100

Parallel Bars
1. Sean Townsend     (16.3) = 15.750
2. DJ Bucher             (16.2) = 15.300
3. Tim McNeill           (16.1) = 15,150

High Bar
1. Joseph Hagerty    (16.3) = 15.250
2. Sean Townsend    (16.0) = 15.200
3. Dylan Carney        (15.9) = 15.150

 


German Label SPIETH Gymnastics presents high-tech innovation

08. Februar 2007  
Stuttgart, Esslingen/Germany  
Artistic Gymnastics

German Label SPIETH Gymnastics presents high-tech innovation

... Free Exercise Floor 'STUTTGART'

The "Official  Supplier" of the 40. Artistic World Championships 2007, which will take place in the Swabian metropolis Stuttgart, the German company  "SPIETH Gymnastics" (Esslingen, near Stuttgart) has announced the launch of a newly F.I.G. certified apparatus, ....


... named "Stuttgart" in honour of the host city and capital of the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg!

For more information and technical details:
>> Free Exercise Floor 'STUTTGART

 

 

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