Artistic Gymnastics

3rd Asian Gymnastics Championships

04. August 2006  
Surat, India  
Artistic Gymnastics

3rd Asian Gymnastics Championships

Ashish Kumar (IND)

'Ashish Kumar does India proud'
With this headline the Indian press celebrates the first ever Indian medal at the Asian level when the gymnast Ashish Kumar clinched the bronze in the floor exercises in the 3rd Asian Gymnastics Championships 2006 at the Indoor Stadium of Surat (IND).
The 16-year-old Ashish scored 15.000 points to match Syria's Bahlawan Fadi as the capacity crowd erupted into loud cheers to celebrate India's success.....


3rd Asian Gymnastics Championships 2006
SURAT (West-central India), Indoor Stadium -

The Allahabad-based gymnast Ashish KUMAR showed good control under pressure to perform better than two Koreans and a Japanese in the eight-player field. Ashish, training under Chinese coach Luo, Yupin, was confident going into the apparatus final. He is the only Indian to reach thus far at this championship.
World Cup bronze medallist, Kai, Zou of China found his match in North Korea's Ri, Jong Song as the two shared points to win gold. Kai, who won back-to-back World Cup bronze medals in 2005 and 2006, scored 15.500 points.
Chinese Taipei struck its first medal of the championship when Lin Hsiang-Wei led a 1-2 finish in the pommel horse event.

Men's TEAM Competition:
 1. China (46.75, 45.20, 46.25, 48.25, 45.55, 45.35) 277.35;
2. Japan (44.00, 43.85, 46.00, 47.25, 46.25, 45.85) 273.20;
3. Korea (44.55, 44.30, 43.35, 47.40, 42.45, 44.40) 266.45;
4. North Korea (42.90, 42.30, 43.90, 48.30, 42.90, 40.10) 260.40
5. India 248.650
6. Uzbekistan 245.400
7. Kazakhstan 243.900; 8. Thailand 243.100; 9. Iran 239.800; 10. Malaysia 235.250; 11. Sri Lanka 222.450; 12. Chinese Taipei 209.500; 13. Kuwait 180.100; 14. Jordan 163.450; 15. Hong Kong 157.850; 16. Bangladesh 129.350; 17. Vietnam 124.600; 18. Syria 97.300.
Men's All-Around
1. Chen Yibing CHN 92.450
2. Tomoharu Sano JPN 91.400
3. Hiroaki Kusu JPN 90.350

4. Liang Fuliang CHN 89.950
5. Yoo Won Chul KOR 89.050
6. Jo Jong Chol PRK 87.900

Chen, Yibing made sure there was no challenge to his domain as the World Cup rings champion won his favourite event after having taken honours in all-around apparatus on Tuesday. Yibing, however, found the going tough as his score of 16.150 was just about threatened by Hong Kong's Zhong Jian (16.100).

Men's results:
 Floor exercise: 1. Kai Zou (CHN) 15.500 and Ri Jong Song (PRK) 15.500, 3. Ashish Kumar (IND) 15.000 and Bahlawan Fadi (SYR) 15.000.
Pommel horse: 1. Lin Hsiang-Wei (TPE) 15.225, 2. Huang Che-Kuei (TPE) 15.075, 3. Kim Ji Hoon (KOR) 15.000.
Still rings: 1. Chen Yibing (CHN) 16.150, 2. Zhong Jian (HKG) 16.100, 3. Weng Shin-Hang (TPE) 15.350
Vault: 1. Ri Jong Song (PRK) 16.363, 2. Ei Segwang (PRK) 16.313, 3. Sain Autalipov (KAZ) 16.188.
Parallel bars: 1. Sano Tomoharu (JPN) 15.850, 2. Zhen Dong Dong (CHN) 15.725, 3. Yoo Won Chul (KOR) 15.400.
High bar: 1. Kai Zou (CHN) 15.775, 2. Ryuta Nakazato (JPN) 15.325, 3. Sano Tomoharu (JPN) 15.150.
Ning, He led the charge in women's artistic gymnastics, winning four gold, including three individual apparatus titles, while Kai Zou took the baton from Liang Fuliang, the hero at the 2003 championship in Guangzhou.
Zou capped his solid performance after having won the team gold and the floor title with another gold medal in the horizontal bar. Zou won the last apparatus final of the championship with 15.775 points.
Fuliang's bad patch continued as he failed to better his silver medal performance of Guangzhou, finishing fourth. In the last meet, Yernar Yerimbatov had taken the horizontal title ahead of Fuliang.

Women's Results:
 Vault: 1. Hong Un Jong (PRK) 14.825, 2. Hong Su Jong (PRK) 14.550, 3. Ning He (CHN) 14.188.
Uneven bars: 1. Ning He (CHN) 15.475, 2. Zhuoru Zhou (CHN) 15.400, 3. Pyon Kwangsun (PRK) 15.275.
Balance beam: 1. Ning He (CHN) 15.525, 2. Bing Han (CHN) 15.100, 3. Kim Un Hyang (PRK) 14.875.
Floor exercise: 1. Ning He (CHN) 15.025, 2. Zhuoru Zhou (CHN) 15.000, 3. Hong Su Jong (PRK) 14.050.

Women's All-Around
1. Zhou Zhuoru CHN 60.500
2. He Ning CHN 59.950
3. Pyon Kwangsun PRK 57.450

4. Su Jong Hong PRK 57.250
5. Manami Ishizaka JPN 57.050
6. Miki Uemura JPN 56.150

Women's TEAM competition:
1. China (43.700, 41.950, 45.050, 46.800) 177.500;
2. North Korea (41.300, 45.250, 44.750, 39.950) 171.250;
3. Japan (40.400, 42.100, 42.250, 43.500) 168.250;
4. Korea 159.950; 5. Uzbekistan 152.300; 6. Vietnam 134.050; 7. India 130.100; 8. Sri Lanka 106.400; 9. Thailand 94.250; 10. Chinese Taipei 92.900; 11. Hong Kong 90.850 ; 12. Singapore 51.400 ; 13. Malaysia 50.000 ; 14. Bangladesh 37.250

agu.sakura.ne.jp

History of Asian Gymnastics Championships.
The 'Asian Gymnastics Union' (AGU) startet with its first Asian event for juniors only in Tokyo 1971.
The first 'Asian Gymnastics Championships' for the elite started 1996 in Changsha (CHN), followed by the 2nd champs 2003 in Guangshou (CHN).
This year the 3rd Asian Gymnastics Championships are held in Surat (India).

>> The officel website of the AGU: agu.sakura.ne.jp

Alexandr LYLO passed away....

07. August 2005  
Prague / CZE  
Artistic Gymnastics

Alexandr LYLO passed away....

Alexander LYLO (CZE)
* 5.2.1922 - + 28. 7. 2006

After a long time of illness the former President of Men's Technical Committee of the International Gymnastics Federation F.I.G., Mr. Alexandr LYLO passed away on Monday, July 28 in his hometown Prague.
The former gymnast worked as a long time Czech coach and in the Seventies and Eighties as the national coach of the former Czechoslovakian Socialist Republik.
After same irregularities during the qualification rounds in preparation of the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, the former TC-President Ivan IVANCOVIC withdrawn (1976, April 28) and Alexandr LYLO set up to the incumbently President...
... and at the 54th FIG Congress 1976 in Montreal he was elected by a impressively majority of votes (30) in front of his challenger GONZALES (7) from Spain.
Alexandr LYLO worked up to 1984 and was substitute in Los Angeles by the German Karl-Heinz Zschocke - the contemporarily F.I.G.'s Vice President of Honor.

At last Alexandr LYLO was very glad, when the young Czech from Prague, Martin Konecny, won a European medal again for Czech gymnastics after a long break of 25 years!
The worldwide gymnastics family will keep in mind Alexandr Lylo!
Information: J. Travnicek / K.-H. Zschocke

Monaco withdrawn - Wold cup in Sao Paulo again

01. August 2006  
Neuchatel / Switzerland  
Artistic Gymnastics

Monaco withdrawn - Wold cup in Sao Paulo again

Robert Gal (HUN)
- Double winner in Sao Paulo 2005

The International Gymnastics Federation F.I.G. pronounced, that the 13th World Cup Final of Artistic Gymnastics - planned for December 15 & 16, 2006 - will no longer take place in Monaco. The new place will be Sao Paulo (BRA) again....
The Monegasque organizers have officially informed the FIG that they have been unable to raise the necessary funds that would allow them to stage this major event of the F.I.G. calendar.
With the support of its National Olympic Committee, the Brazilian Gymnastics Federation has immediately made a bid, which has received the favorable and unanimous vote of the members of the FIG Executive Committee, meeting in a regular session in the City of Neuchâtel (SUI).

GYMmedia News, March 2006

Dos Santos - Brazilian Host again!

World Cup No. 13 - to the second time in Sao Pauo...
This 13th World Cup of Artistic Gymnastics will now be organized in Sao Paulo at the dates initially selected.
The World Cup Final of Artistic Gymnastics is intended for the 8 best gymnasts per apparatus on the FIG World Ranking List.
Until the Sao Paulo Final, the tournaments in Maribor (SLO), Glasgow (GBR), and the world championships in Aarhus (DEN) will be the last competitions of the current cycle, during which the gymnasts can accumulate the indispensable FIG points to qualify themselves among the 8 finalists.
(edit.: The 2006 DTB Cup in Stuttgart is component of the next following serie 2007/08 already)

>> ... look at FIG-News: All Decisions/Comments of Executive...
GYMmedia Remembering...:
To the first time Brazil hosted a world cup two years ago, in Rio de Janeiro 2004,
the '1st Siegfried Fischer Trophy', named in memoriam of the FIG- Vice President, Siegfried Fischer, who passed away in March 2003.

>> To the second time Brazil hosted the world in 2005, the II. Siegfried Fischer Trophy. It was world cup No. 4 of the running circuit.

Tomita and Ishizaka win NHK Cup

21. Juli 2006  
Chiba, Japan  
Artistic Gymnastics

Tomita and Ishizaka win NHK Cup

Tomita wins NHK Cup 2006

The traditional Japanese 45th NHK Cup 2006 was held at the Event Hall at Makuhari Messe, in Chiba, about 40 minutes from Tokyo Station.
The total score of both the secondary trials and the NHK Cup will decide the World Championships team (Aarhus) and the Asian Games team (Doha).
The reigning world champion, Hiroyuki Tomita, won the NHK Cup with a very big margin.
Even with new routines for the new code, Manami Ishizaka was still the most stable and reliable gymnast. She won her fourth consecutive NHK Cup...!
Hiroyuki Tomita topped the all-around silver medalist from Melbourne (2005) Hisashi Mizutori by more than four points. Tomita and Mizutori will compete at the 2006 World Championships, to be held Oct. 14-22 in Aarhus, Denmark, and the Asian Games, to be held Dec. 2-6 in Doha, Qatar.

Manami Ishizaka (JPN)

Bronze medalist Takuya Nakase and Naoya Tsukahara, fourth, will also compete in Aarhus.
The top four men's gymnasts after the NHK Cup automatically qualified for the world championships, and the other two gymnasts qualified through a point system.
>> Men's detailed AA results
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On women's side Manami Ishizaka was still the most stable and reliable gymnast. She won her fourth consecutive NHK Cup! Her only mistake was a hand support on an acrobat element on beam on the second day.
The runner up was Miki Uemura, the national champion last year. She was not confident on her weak event, floor exercise (unstable landings on both days), but maintained the difficulty in her routines on uneven bars and beam according to the current code.

Mayu Kuroda

The champion of the 2006 Friendship Classic in the United States, Mayu Kuroda, finished third.
Her beautiful execution throughout the routine on uneven bars and beam was absolutely world class! Her routine on bars, on which she placed fourth in the 2005 World Championships, did not change very much; she only added a Ray after the overshoot to handstand on low bar.

>> Women's detailed AA results

2006 Japanese Team Selections:

MEN: World Championships Team:
Hiroyuki Tomita ; Hisashi Mizutori ; Takuya Nakase ; Naoya Tsukahara ; Eiichi Sekiguchi ; Takehito Mori.

MEN: Asian Games Team:
Hiroyuki Tomita ; Hisashi Mizutori ; Shun Kuwabara ; Ryosuke Baba ; Kenya Kobayashi ; Yuki Yoshimura.
WOMEN: World Championships=Asian Games Team
Manami Ishizaka ; Miki Uemura ; Mayu Kuroda ; Kyoko Oshima ; Ayaka Sahara ; Erika Mizoguchi.
Source: Jap, Gymn. Fed.

African Union of Gymnastics goes online

15. Juli 2006  
Africa  
Artistic Gymnastics

African Union of Gymnastics goes online

Welcome in Internet!
www.uagym.org

In these days the 'African Union of Gymnastics' started with it's own new website.
It is a historical days for the 'UAG' and its President Mr. Mohamed Yamani said: 'It's a small step in the information world, but a great step to the African Gymnastic Union!'
Step by step the new internet address www.uagym.org will store a huge amount of documents, rules, calendars, pictures, event reports, which will be posted and available for the Union Members and the public. A website is also a welcome desk, a visit card and a wonderful communication tool for the whole African Gymnastics Union.

UAG President: Mohamed YAMANI

'African Union of Gymnastics' (UAG)
Fifteen years ago the African Gymnastic Union was born in Algiers.
Since then, i.e, 1990, UAG moved from 8 African federations, normally affiliated to IGF and UAG, to 24 created federations including 14 taking part regularly in our activities ( - from all together 54 African countries).
Concerning of the Championships, UAG moved from two (2002) specialties (men's and women's artistic gymnastics) to five (2005) specialties: Additionally rhythmic gymnastics, trampolining and tumbling - both in juniors and seniors categories for the whole of the specialties.
The still young Union is today running a great number of events and shows its passion and motivation.
From Wilaya in Algeria, to Kloof / Durban in South Africa, all gymnastics activities are spectacularly increasing, allowing Africa to take all benefit of this on the international Gymnastics scene.
Source: uag-website; fig

Beth Tweddle - sixth national Titles in a Row...

12. Juli 2006  
Guildford / Great Britain  
Artistic Gymnastics

Beth Tweddle - sixth national Titles in a Row...

Beth Tweddle - sixth national title in a row!

The 2006 British Championships for Women held in the Guildford Spectrum over the weekend 7/9th July 2006 will be long remembered with two memorable events:
• The 21-year-old “Prima” of British Gymnastics, Beth Tweddle from Liverpool convincingly won her sixth British overall title in a row (Overall score- 60.750), thus leaving only one last record in the sport’s history still unbeaten by herself, i.e. Pat Hurst’s eight British titles, between 1947 and 1956!
In addition to this, Beth won the 2006 British titles on U. Bars, Beam and Floor and was awarded with three very special Trophies...
- Pat Hurst Trophy for the highest score on A. Bars (16.050)
- The Elite Trophy for the highest score on Vault or Floor (15.450, Floor)
- The Arun Trophy for the highest score on Beam- 14.850

>>
SENIORS, App. Finals:
Beth Tweddle - 3 Gold medals, Emma White -1

Vault
Gold - Emma White (Huntingdon)- 13.500
Silver - Imogen Cairns (The Academy) - 13.450
Bronze - Leigh Rogers (Heathrow) - 13.025

Uneven Bars
Gold- Beth Tweddle (Liverpool) - 15.850
Silver- Lynette Lisle (Barry Girls)- 14.300
Bronze- Imogen Cairns (The Academy)- 13.500

Balance Beam
Gold- Beth Tweddle (Liverpool)- 14.850
Silver- Aisling Williams (Liverpool)- 14.300
Bronze- Lynette Lisle (Barry Girls)- 14.250

Floor Exercises
Gold- Beth Tweddle (Liverpool)- 15.350
Silver- Imogen Cairns (The Academy)- 14.250
Bronze- Aisling Williams (Liverpool)- 13.950
Source: baga

Chineses dominated World Cup in Shanghai

16. Juli 2006  
Shanghai / China  
Artistic Gymnastics

Chineses dominated World Cup in Shanghai

Quin, Xiao, Chinese winner on pommel horse

Chinese gymnasts won eight gold medals, two silver and two bronze at the World Cup event in Shanghai over this weekend:
Winner on floor was the world champion from Brazil Diego Hypolito.
Best on pommel horse was the Chinese Quin, Xiao and his compatriot Chen Yibing won on rings.
On second day the Chinese men won vault by Du, Wei and also parallel bars by Feng, Zhe. Young Russians came on the first two places on high bar: Dmitri Bogulov, followed by Andrei Nikhovitzky.

In women's category also the host dominated by Zheng, Fei (vault) and Xiao, Tingting (uneven bars)....
China grabbed four out of the five gold medals on the second day of Federation of International Gymnastics (FIG) 2006 World Cup Gymnastics in Shanghai, China, one of the six FIG World Cup competitions, representing the A-class event of FIG.

Of the five finals Saturday, China secured four gold medals, one silver medal and two bronze medals. The only gold medal that did not go to China's pocket was the men's floor exercise.

FLOOR EXERCISES
1. Diego HYPOLITO (BRA) 15,725
 2. Brandon O'NEILL (CAN) 15,500
3. DU, Wei (CHN) 15,400
>> Detailed results: Floor Exercises

POMMEL HORSE
1. XIAO, Qin (CHN) 16,300
2. FENG, Haibing (CHN) 15,875
3. Robert SELIGMANN (CRO) 15,150
>> Detailed results: Pommel Horse

STILL RINGS
1. CHEN, Yibing (CHN) 16,550
2. Alexander SAFOSHKIN (RUS) 16,400
3. YAN, Yongmin (CHN) 16,075
>> Detailed results: Still Rings

VAULT
1. DU, Wei (CHN) 16,325
 2. Brandon O'NEILL (CAN) 16,122
3. Yevgeni SAPRONENKO (LAT) 16,075
>> Detailed results: Vault

PARALLEL BARS
1. FENG, Zhe (CHN) 16,375
2. TENG, Haibing (CHN) 16,050
3. Dmitri GOGOTOV 15,100
>> Detailed results: Parallel Bars

HIGH BAR
1. Dmitri GOGOTOV (RUS) 15,400
 2. Andrei LIKHOVITSKI (RUS) 15,375
3. Robert JUCKEL (GER) 15,225
>> Detailed results: High Bar

In the women's competitions, China's Cheng Fei chose an easier jump but still defended her gold medal in the vault.
China's Xiao Tingting got her first gold medal in the uneven bars, finishing with six 'flying' elements perfectly during her debut performance in the international competitions.
On Sunday PANG, Panpan (CHN) took gold in the women's beam while CHENG, Fei took the gold medal in women's floor.
Women's VAULT
1. Cheng Fei CHN 14,975
2. Anna Pavlova RUS 14,925
3. Anna Grudko RUS 14,525
>> Detailed results: Vault

UNEVEN BARS
1. Xiao Tingting CHN 15,675
2. Yulia Lozhechko RUS 15,300
3. Kristina Pravdina RUS 14,975
>> Detailed results: Uneven Bars

BALANCE BEAM
1. Pang Panpan CHN 15,600
2. Li Ya CHN 15,400
3. Anna Pavlova RUS 15,400
>> Detailed results: Balance Beam

Women's FLOOR EXERCISES
1. Cheng Fei CHN 15,400
2. Pang Panpan CHN 15,300
3. Daria Joura AUS 15,075
>> Detailed results: Floor Exercises

Nadia Comaneci- 30 years from a Romanian miracle.

29. Juni 2006  
Bucharest / Romania  
Artistic Gymnastics

Nadia Comaneci- 30 years from a Romanian miracle.

The Rumanian television 'TVR 1' commemorated three decades since Nadia Comaneci won three Olympic titles and the first perfect score, 10, in the history of gymnastics, at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games. Colleagues of Comaneci - as well as officials of the gymnastics federation reminisced and talked with the former gymnast on the phone, as the athlete is taking care of her newborn child Dylan Paul in the U.S. ...


... read mor in a article by Ciprian Domnisoru,
published at 'Bucharest DAILY NEWS':
>> 'Nadia Comaneci- 30 years from a Romanian miracle'

Malaysian Top gymnast wishes a personal coach

28. Juni 2006  
Kuala Lumpur / Malaysia  
Artistic Gymnastics

Malaysian Top gymnast wishes a personal coach

NG, Shu Wai (MAL)

Malaysian Commonwealth Games silver medallist Ng Shu Wai hopes that his plea for a personal coach will be fulfilled by the time he returns from the Asian Gymnastics Championship in Surat, India, next month.
After returning to Malaysia four months ago to compete in the Commonwealth Games in March, Shu Wai, who is based in China, is still waiting to return to his second home.
The 20-year-old gymnast says the sooner the better, as he is preparing for two major championships this year; the World Championships in Denmark in October, and the Doha Asian Games in December.
'I hope that by the time I return from the competition in India, I will hear some good news about my new coach. I’m not complaining about training in Malaysia as I am under the tutelage of Zhang Jun here whom I don’t have a problem with. 'But getting exposure from abroad is invaluable and a rare opportunity. Plus I am preparing for two major events this year....', said Shu Wai....


In his three years abroad, Shu Wai had taken orders from four different coaches, where his last coach was his former teammate, Xing Ao Wei.
Awkwardness aside, the artistic gymnast also sensed some inexperience in Ao Wei, leading him to contact the NSC to handle his problem.
With his own personal mentor, Shu Wai, who is ranked number nine in the world, hopes that it will help him achieve his best ever results at the this year's worlds in Denmark and in Doha. He has already set his atrget for both meets.
'I hope to make it to the Individual-All-Around and Apparatus finals. The new code of points are tougher, and my standard has dropped compared to gymnasts from Japan, Canada, China, South Korea and Russia, but I’m training hard to adjust to it,'.
For the Asian Championships, Shu Wai hopes to be a medallist this time, after he finished fourth in the IAAF in Guangzhou, China in 2003.
Source: Malaysian press

Baby boy arrives for Comaneci, Conner

06. Juni 2006  
Oklahoma City / USA  
Artistic Gymnastics

Baby boy arrives for Comaneci, Conner

Nadia Comaneci - a happy mother now

Nadia Comaneci and Bart Conner are the parents of a baby boy
Dylan Paul was born Saturday in an Oklahoma City hospital, weighing 4 pounds, 10 ounces. It's the first child for the gold-medal winning gymnasts, so the Oklahoma newspapers reported yesterday.
Comaneci was due to deliver in July, which will be the 30th anniversary of her seven perfect 10s at the Montreal Olympic Games. But the 44-year-old Comaneci instead delivered Dylan by Caesarean section Saturday morning.
The delivery room staff created a poster proclaiming the boy a ``perfect 10.''
The 48-year-old father Bart Conner....

Bart Connar, Nadia Comaneci

.... won two gold medals in the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.

He married Comaneci in Bucharest, Romania, in 1996, and the couple still lives in Oklahoma.
Conner said the baby was named after his favorite musician, Bob Dylan, and former coach and business partner Paul Ziert, chief editor of 'International Gymnast'. The godparents are Ziert and Romanian native Anastasia Soare, IG reported. 'He (Dylan Paul) already has definition in his deltoids and his biceps,' Conner welcomed his son.

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