30. LEVERKUSEN CUP 2005
- Leverkusen, 12-Nov-2005 -

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Gymnastics Gala to the 125th F.I.G.'s 125 Anniversary...
'This is a first time offer from the FIG for such a celebration. Since development of gymnastics in Malaysia has been very good over the last 20 years, based on this, the FIG selected Malaysia as one of the 10 countries to host this big event,' said Shanmugarajah.

The non-competitive event, scheduled for May 21, 2006, will see the best gymnasts from the seven respective disciplines perform for two hours.
The disciplines are artistic (men and women), rhythmic gymnastics, sports acrobatics, aerobic gymnastics, trampoline and general gymnastics. 'For example, artistic gymnast Ng Shu Wai will probably perform the rings as he is the country's best in that particular exercise. Similarly, the best gymnasts from other disciplines will also perform,' added Shanmugarajah.
As Malaysia has yet to introduce the trampoline and acrobatic gymnastics to the local scene, the top gymnasts for these two disciplines will be invited from other South East Asian countries.
Malaysia has only recently introduced aerobic gymnastics.

The event will also be a good opportunity for all training centres established under the eight core sports programmes to try an outdo each other for a chance to perform in the event, especially in general gymnastics, the basics of all disciplines.
'General gymnastics is taught in all the centres, and the best of each district may get a chance to perform at the gala,' Shanmugarajah said.
SOURCE: New Straits Time, Malaysia; by Ranjini Thangaraju

For the gymnasts of 12 different countries from all over the World it was a great experience to present their routines at this international tournament in Ljubljana. Although the most difficult elements were missing and a few inconsistencies could be seen, therefore scores about 9.00 were rare, the audience got to see some nice routines.

The two 15- and 16- year old gymnasts from the Netherlands Danila Koster and Lichelle Wong had a better day:
They continued with the Dutch tradition of beautifull routines on uneven bars and also the rest of the competition went quite well for them. With an especially strong performance on beam (9.300/ SV 9.700) Lichelle Wong secured herself the victory in the all-around ranking of this qualification.


The gymnasts from Canada had the longest trip to arrive in Ljubljana, Brittnee Habbib entertained the crowd with her funky floor routine to “Toxic” by Britney Spears.

>> Tomorrow’s apparatus finals start at 10.00 am CET. The best 7 gymnasts per apparatus have qualified for them, not more than 2 per country and the hosts of ŠIŠKA Gim Klub have the option for a wild card in every final. That means the audience will get to see 7 or 8 gymnasts in every final.

>>GYMmedia’s report on the finals will follow after the end of the competition around 12.30 pm

>> Apparatus finals

>> ... read more about the ŠIŠKA Gym International 2005 (preview)

Vault
In the vault final Lichelle Wong from the Netherlands managed to continue with her good performance of the day before and won the first final of the day with her Tsukahara 1/1 twist and Yurchenko 1/1 twist. Most of the other competitors managed to show their vaults without major errors (only Rea Kolbl (SLO) fell on her second vault) but not perfectly executed.

Results vault final
1st Lichelle Wong NED: 8.869 (1st: 8.838; 2nd: 8.900)
2nd Tanja Delladio CRO: 8.763 (1st: 8.675; 2nd: 8.850)
3rd Tijana Tkalčec CRO: 8.638 (1st: 8.950; 2nd: 8.325)
4th Adela Pavoukova CZE: 8.600 (1st: 8.600; 2nd: 8.600)
4th Lara Marx LUX: 8.600 (1st: 9.00; 2nd: 8.200)
6th Mandy Loes LUX: 8.413 (1st: 8.450; 2nd: 8.375)
7th Alenka Dolničar SLO: 8.250(1st: 8.450; 2nd: 8.050)
8th Rea Kolbl SLO: 8.088 (1st 8.375; 2nd 7.800)

Floor
The last final of the SISKA Gym International brought the first victory for Slovenia. Supported by a lot of cheers from the audience Adela Šajn presented a beautiful routine including especially nice twists and pirouettes. Reaching the ranks 2 and 3, Wong and Koster completed the Dutch success at this tournament. Leonida (ROM) fell on the triple twist at the end of her routine.

Results floor final
1st Adela Šajn SLO: 8.838 (SV 9.500)
2nd Lichelle Wong NED: 8.800 (SV 9.500)
3rd Danila Koster NED 8.500 (SV 9.600)
4th Paula Plichta POL: 8.425 (SV 9.500)
4th Veronika Ozanova CZE: 8.425 (SV 9.300)
6th Floarea Leonida ROM: 8.038 (SV 9.700)
6th Tanja Delladio CRO: 8.038 (SV: 9.00)
7th Mandy Loes LUX: 7.975 (SV: 9.200)
8th Saša Golob SLO: 7.375 (SV: 8.900)

reporting from Ljubljana: Lisa Worthmann
photos by nbb

>>... back to the First Day's Qualifications

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Omen of the near future...
China Daily reports, that China have brought a lot of young gymnasts to Macao' 'East Asian Games' to prepare for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
They are even willing to sacrifice some of their champions in order to guarantee a dazzling show before the a patriotic and increasingly sports-crazy home crowd. Such is their dominance in the sport that even their new-look team was too good for the rest of East Asia.
China have taken all four golds offered so far, with the keenly awaited China-Japan contest nowhere in sight.
China have shrugged off their humiliating memory of the Athens Olympics, when they finished a poor fifth in the men's and a humiliating seventh in the women's events, with only a gold and a bronze. 'I'm very confident now and I can feel the power inside me,' said Zhang, Nan. the all-round bronze medallist in Athens and the floor winner at the just concluded National Games.

Monday, 31-Oct-05
China wins gymnastics women's team title at EAG
China claimed the gold medal in gymnastics women's team event at the East Asian Games in Macao on Monday.

The heavily-favored Chinese team, consisting of Cheng Fei, Fan Ye, Li Ya, Pang Panpan, Zhang Nan and Zhang Yufei, scored a total of 152.584 points.
Japan took the silver medal with 145.022 points, and the bronze medal went to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea () on 144.708 points.

>> China won seven more gold medals in the apparatus finals at the East Asian Games, which concluded Wednesday in Macau:

MEN's R E S U L T S
Men's Floor Exercises
1. Ri Jong Song PRK 9.587
2. Tabara Naoya JPN 9.425
2. Kim Seung Il KOR 9.425
4. Du Wei CHN 9.262
5. Jo Jong Chol PRK 9.225
6. Xu Wei MAC 9.050
7. Yang Tae Young KOR 8.912
8. Lu Bo CHN 8.400

Pommel Horse
1. Xiao Qin CHN 9.800
1. Xu Wei MAC 9.800
3. Huang Chekuei TPE 9.662
4. Lin Hsiang Wei TPE 9.600
5. Du Wei CHN 9.562
6. Yang Tae Young KOR 9.537
7. Ogawa Yasuhiro JPN 8.837
8. Kobayashi Kenya JPN 8.275

Still Rings
1. Lu Bo CHN 9.700
1. Lin Yunghsi TPE 9.700
3. Yang Tae Young KOR 9.600
3. Ro Chol Jin PRK 9.600
5. Lu Bin CHN 9.575
6. Kobayashi Kenya JPN 9.562
7. Kusu Hiroaki JPN 9.550
7. Ri Segwang PRK 9.550

Men's Vault
1. Lu Bin CHN 9.787
2. Huang Yihsueh TPE 9.718
3. Ri Segwang PRK 9.693
4. Ri Jong Song PRK 9.681
5. Du Wei CHN 9.424
6. Lin Yunghsi TPE 9.256
7. Zhang Bin MAC 9.187
8. Xu Wei MAC 9.156

Parallel Bars
1. Dong Zhendong CHN 9.762
2. Ogawa Yasuhiro JPN 9.737
3. Yang Tae Young KOR 9.725
4. Lu Bo CHN 9.675
5. Baba Ryosuke JPN 9.650
6. Kim Dae Eun KOR 9.625
7. Ro Chol Jin PRK 9.112
8. Jo Jong Chol PRK 9.062

High Bar
1. Kim Dae Eun KOR 9.762
2. Baba Ryosuke JPN 9.625
3. Kuwahara Shun JPN 9.362
4. Huang Chekuei TPE 9.200
5. Kim Jihoon KOR 8.900
6. Xiao Qin CHN 8.775
7. Zhang Bin MAC 8.750

The UEG informed on its website today that after the candidature of Split for the Women’s European Championships was withdrawn, the organizers for the Men’s European Championships (Zagreb) could finally not fulfil all requests from the UEG within the fixed deadlines.
The President’s Board had received the candidature from Greece, and the town of Volos was ready to host not only the women’s Championships, for which they had already submitted a candidature, but also the men’s event.

ECh Rhythmic Gymnastics 2006
The UEG President's board authorized the date of the Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships, which will held unusually 2006, September 18 to 24, organized by the Purtuguese Gymnastics Federation and the City of Portimao. Source: ueg

The most widely accepted is that it represents a corruption of the Mycenaean Iolkos. Founded in the mid 19th century, modern Volos, with 71,000 inhabitants, is a cheerful , lively town, soundly laid out with pleasant broad streets.

Starting in 1996, in the beginning this competition attracted young, unexperienced gymnasts from non-powerhouse gymnastics countries. Often it is their very first international event and sometimes maybe a start into an international top career... like Yevgenia Kusnetzova, Siska winner 2000

The first guests of the 2005 tournament, like the Canadian delegation, already arrived in Ljubljana.

List of Participants (update: 02-Nov-2005)

- ROM: EREMIA Alexandra;LEONIDA Florica;
- CAN: LEZEU Jennifer; HABBIB Brittnee;
- NED: KOSTER Danila, WONG Lichelle;
- CRO: PERANOVIC Bojana, FILIPAJ Martina, FISTER Marija FISTER Marija, TKALCEC Tijana;
- ITA: BENOLLI Francesca, MACRI Federica, BRADASCHIA Sara;
- BEL: Jolien Eggermont, ANNYS Tifanny;
- SVK: RISKOVA Ivana, REHAKOVA Kristina, HOMOLOVA Maria, ANDRASSYOVA Katarina
- CZE: PAVOUKOVA Adela; OZANOVA Veronika;
- LUX: MARX Lara, LOES Mandy;
- POL: PLICHTA Paula, CZERWINSKA Agnieszka;
- HUN: TOLLAY Flora, PASZTOR Renata;
- SCG: KOCIC Alisa
- GBR: LEIGH Hannah, MURRAY Sammi, COYLE Fiona, GRIFFIN Charlotte, BECK Lauren, JENKINS Danielle;

>> Girls from the hosting GIM Klub:

- All SLOVENIANS: DOLNICAR Alenka, GOLOB Sasa, ASANIN GOLE Tjasa, PAVLOVIC Ajda, HORVAT Carmen, SAJN Adela, KAMNAR Julija, KOLBL Rea, VRSCAJ Bojana
Update: Nov 02

Japanese National Championships 2005
- Artistic Gymnastic, Women & Men -
Amagasaki Memorial Park Gymnasium , October 15 - 17 -

RESULTS (- by Japanese Gymn. Federation)
>> Men's all-around // >> Men's Finals

>> Women's all-around // >> >> Women's all-around

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SWISS CUP 2005

The Swiss Niki Böschenstein and his French partner - the 2004 European Champion on floor Isabelle Severino came on fourth place...
More than 2,700 visotors saw an international event on a high level, to the last time in this venue, because next year the SWISS CUP will move into the new 'Hallenstadium' of Zurich...

....reports, results, photos and more on the German portal of >> www.gymmedia.de

>> ... further Swiss Cup information:
GYMmedia-SWISS CUP Preview

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