Artistic Gymnastics

World Cup Salamunov Memorial 2005

30. Oktober 2005  
Maribor / Slovenia  
Artistic Gymnastics

World Cup Salamunov Memorial 2005

Only two days after the Grand Prix Glasgow and one week after the DTB Cup in Stuttgart is held the third event of the F.I.G World Cup Circuit 2005/6, the 38th SALAMUNOV MEMORIAL 2005' in the Slovanian city Maribor, hometown of the gymnastics legend Leon Stukelj.

It is not a favorable density of events this autumn in sequence of the date of the World Championships at the end of November this year. So the world class athletes selected between these different world cup highlights.

On Friday was held the qualification rounds in Maribor...:
After the first day of decisions will held part two of the apparatus finals on Sunday.....

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World Cup: 38th SALAMUNOV MEMORIAL 2005
- Maribor, Slovenia, October 28 - 30 -

RESULTS, MEN's FINALS

FLOOR EXERCISES
1 DRAGULESCU MARIAN ROM 9,587
2 GAL ROBERT HUN 9,425
3 SAVENKOV DENIS BLR 9,162
4 YANEV FILIP BUL 8,962
5 VYORAL DAVID CZE 8,875
6 ALIN JIVAN 8,462
7 UDE FILIP CRO 7,875
8 KONECNY MARTIN CZE 7,850

POMMEL HORSE
1 BERKI KRISZTIAN HUN 9,737
2 CANO VICTOR ESP 9,625
3 VARGAS F. LUIS PUR 9,537
 4 SAGER PHILIPPE SUI 9,475
5 CARBALLO MANUEL ESP 8,937
6 BERTONCELJ SAŠO SLO 8,800
7 SUCIU IOAN ROM 8,550
8 SELIGMAN ROBERT CRO 7,400

STILL RINGS
1 VAN GELDER JURY NED 9,700
2 TORKKEL OLLI FIN 9,562
3 IRODOTOS GEORGALLAS CYP 9,462
4 BOTELLA ISAAC ESP 9,375
5 KIRALY ROLAND HUN 9,362
6 ALIN JIVAN ROM 9,350
7 KAZLOU IHAR BLR 8,975
7 VARGAS F. LUIS PUR 8,975

VAULT
1 DRAGULESCU MARIAN 9,750
2 YANEV FILIP BUL 9,662
3 ALIN JIVAN ROM 9,462
4 KONECNY MARTIN CZE 9,406
5 UDE FILIP CRO 9,312
6 SAPRONENKO EVGENY LAT 9,181
7 HETROVICS MARCELL HUN 9,174
8 BOTELLA ISAAC ESP 9,124

PARALLEL BARS
1 PETKOVŠEK MITJA SLO 9,850
2 CARBALLO MANUEL ESP 9,475
3 VARGAS F. LUIS PUR 9,400
4 SAVENKOV DENIS BLR 9,150
5 VIVO ANDREU ESP 8,825
6 UEBEL JENS GER 8,637
7 ZONDERLAND EPKE NED 8,500
8 PIASECKY SAMUEL SVK 8,287

HIGH BAR
1 PEGAN ALJAŽ SLO 9,775
2 SCHAERER CRISTOPH SUI 9,600
3 CARBALLO MANUEL ESP 9,525
4 ZONDERLAND EPKE NED 9,437
5 PIASECKY SAMUEL SVK 9,412
6 BREZ MARKO CRO 9,225
7 YANEV FILIP BUL 9,187
8 VARGAS F. LUIS PUR 9,137

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Men's Qualification results
FLOOR EXERCISES
1 DRAGULESCU MARIAN ROM 9,600
2 GAL ROBERT HUN 9,400
3 KONECNY MARTIN CZE 9,300
4 YANEV FILIP BUL 9,200
5 VYORAL DAVID CZE 9,150
6 ALIN JIVAN ROM 9,050
7 UDE FILIP CRO 8,975
8 SAVENKOV DENIS BLR 8,825

9 SAVITSKI DIMITRI 8,700
10 PIASECKY SAMUEL SVK 8,600
11 BENKO ALEXANDER SVK 8,600
12 MARKOVIČ TOMISLAV CRO 8,600
13 ARAUJO LUIS POR 8,400
14 GEORGIOS GEORGIU CYP 8,350
15 BERNARDO GRACA POR 8,100
16 SZALONTAI ISTVAN HUN 8,100
17 KLAVORA ROK SLO 7,800
18 BOTELLA ISAAC ESP 7,650
19 UEBEL JENS GER 7,050

POMMEL HORSE
1 BERKI KRISZTIAN HUN 9,725
2 SUCIU IOAN ROM 9,700
3 CANO VICTOR ESP 9,600
4 BERTONCELJ SAŠO SLO 9,500
4 SELIGMAN ROBERT CRO 9,500
6 CARBALLO MANUEL ESP 9,150
7 VARGAS F. LUIS PUR 9,100
8 SAGER PHILIPPE SUI 9,000

9 SAVITSKI DIMITRI BLR 8,900
10 SCHAERER CRISTOPH SUI 8,900
11 WEBER ROBERT GER 8,850
12 BENKO ALEXANDER SVK 8,700
13 SAVENKOV DENIS BLR 8,550
14 DIMIC ALEN SLO 8,500
15 ZONDERLAND EPKE NED 8,500
16 ARAUJO LUIS POR 8,050
17 UDE FILIP CRO 8,000
18 MARKOV ALEKSANDAR BUL 8,000
19 HIDVEGI VID HUN 7,900
20 BERNARDO GRACA POR 7,450
21 STOJANOVSKI PETAR MAC 7,200
22 GEORGIOS GEORGIU CYP 6,500

STILL RINGS
1 VAN GELDER JURY NED 9,800
2 IRODOTOS GEORGALLAS CYP 9,500
3 TORKKEL OLLI FIN 9,450
4 KIRALY ROLAND HUN 9,300
5 BOTELLA ISAAC ESP 9,250
6 ALIN JIVAN ROM 9,075
7 KAZLOU IHAR BLR 8,900
8 VARGAS F. LUIS PUR 8,900

9 WEBER ROBERT GER 8,250
10 ŠTRAUS SEBASTIJAN SLO 7,200

VAULT
1 YANEV FILIP BUL 9,700
2 DRAGULESCU MARIAN ROM 9,687
3 ALIN JIVAN ROM 9,337
4 SAPRONENKO EVGENY LAT 9,300
5 UDE FILIP CRO 9,225
6 KONECNY MARTIN CZE 9,200
7 BOTELLA ISAAC ESP 9,187
8 HETROVICS MARCELL HUN 9,162

9 GAL ROBERT HUN 9,025
10 KAZLOU IHAR BLR 8,875
11 CONSTANTINOS ARISTOTELOUS CYP 8,537
12 ARAUJO LUIS POR 4,612

PARALLEL BARS
1 PETKOVŠEK MITJA SLO 9,700
2 VARGAS F. LUIS PUR 9,475
3 ZONDERLAND EPKE NED 9,050
4 UEBEL JENS GER 8,800
5 SAVENKOV DENIS BLR 8,750
6 VIVO ANDREU ESP 8,650
7 PIASECKY SAMUEL SVK 8,450
8 CARBALLO MANUEL ESP 8,450

9 ŠTRAUS SEBASTIJAN SLO 7,900
10 SAVITSKI DIMITRI BLR 7,350
11 SUCIU IOAN ROM 7,200
12 SAGER PHILIPPE SUI 7,200
13 BERNARDO GRACA POR 6,950

HIGH BAR
1 SCHAERER CRISTOPH SUI 9,600
2 ZONDERLAND EPKE NED 9,450
3 PIASECKY SAMUEL SVK 9,400
4 BREZ MARKO CRO 9,350
5 PEGAN ALJAŽ SLO 9,300
6 VARGAS F. LUIS PUR 9,250
7 YANEV FILIP BUL 9,150
8 CARBALLO MANUEL ESP 9,150

9 MARKOV ALEKSANDAR BUL 8,850
10 DRAGULESCU MARIAN ROM 8,750
11 SAVENKOV DENIS BLR 8,700
12 SAGER PHILIPPE SUI 8,600
13 KONECNY MARTIN CZE 8,500
14 UEBEL JENS GER 8,400
15 SAVITSKI DIMITRI BLR 8,400
16 MOŽNIK MARIJO CRO 8,050
17 WEBER ROBERT GER 8,000
18 DIMIC ALEN SLO 7,850
19 BERNARDO GRACA POR 7,550
20 CONSTANTINOS ARISTOTELOUS CYP 7,350
21 VIVO ANDREU ESP 7,050
RESULTS, WOMEN's FINALS

VAULT
1 KOMRSKOVA JANA CZE 9,112
2 BROWN ALYSSA CAN 8,850
3 MAYER SANDRA AUT 8,762
4 ERCEG TINA CRO 8,700
5 TKALČEC TIJANA CRO 8,700
6 HARMES SUSANNE NED 8,475
7 SIMBHUDAS REBECCA CAN 8,212
8 LEONIDA FLORICA ROM 4,000

UNEVEN BARS
1 SIKULOVA JANA CZE 9,350
2 SIMBHUDAS REBECCA CAN 9,075
3 HARMES SUSANNE NED 9,050
4 ERCEG TINA CRO 8,925
5 MARESOVA KATERINA CZE 8,650
6 BROWN ALYSSA CAN 8,600
7 GRATT TANJA AUT 8,375
8 MAYER SANDRA AUT 7,850

BALANCE BEAM
1 PONOR CATALINA ROM 9,550
2 HARMES SUSANNE NED 8,900
3 EREMIA ALEXANDRA ROM 8,600
4 BLOUNT MONIQUE AUS 8,550
5 ROBERTS MELANIE GBR 8,475
6 ERCEG TINA CRO 7,775
7 KOMRSKOVA JANA CZE 7,400
8 BROWN ALYSSA CAN 6,300

FLOOR EXERCISES
1 HARMES SUSANNE NED 9,050
2 ERCEG TINA CRO 8,825
3 LEONIDA FLORICA ROM 8,800
4 ROBERTS MELANIE GBR 8,775
5 BROWN ALYSSA CAN 8,500
6 VRŠČAJ BOJANA SLO 8,300
7 MARESOVA KATERINA CZE 8,225
8 SIKULOVA JANA CZE 8,175
9 IVANOVA GERGANA BUL 8,125

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Women's Qualification results
VAULT
1 KOMRSKOVA JANA CZE 9,100
2 MAYER SANDRA AUT 8,925
3 BROWN ALYSSA CAN 8,850
4 ERCEG TINA CRO 8,812
5 TKALČEC TIJANA CRO 8,800
6 LEONIDA FLORICA ROM 8,687
7 SIMBHUDAS REBECCA CAN 8,675
8 HARMES SUSANNE NED 8,637

9 MARESOVA KATERINA CZE 8,600
10 ROSU MONICA ROM 8,412
11 TANKOUCHEVA NIKOLINA BUL 8,387
12 HORVAT CARMEN SLO 8,187

UNEVEN BARS
1 TWEDDLE BETH GBR 9,425
2 SIMBHUDAS REBECCA CAN 9,150
3 HARMES SUSANNE NED 9,100
4 SIKULOVA JANA CZE 9,025
5 BROWN ALYSSA CAN 8,800
6 ERCEG TINA CRO 8,725
7 LEONIDA FLORICA ROM 8,525
8 MARESOVA KATERINA CZE 8,475

9 GRATT TANJA AUT 8,250
10 MAYER SANDRA AUT 8,200
11 PUGH RHIAN GBR 7,950
12 DELLADIO TANJA CRO 7,950
13 ARCHER BELINDA AUS 7,550
14 IVANOVA GERGANA BUL 7,400

BALANCE BEAM
1 PONOR CATALINA ROM 9,600
2 BLOUNT MONIQUE AUS 8,950
3 HARMES SUSANNE NED 8,925
4 EREMIA ALEXANDRA ROM 8,800
5 ROBERTS MELANIE GBR 8,625
6 KOMRSKOVA JANA CZE 8,375
7 BROWN ALYSSA CAN 8,000
8 ERCEG TINA CRO 7,800

9 MAYER SANDRA AUT 7,725
10 IVANOVA GERGANA BUL 7,625
11 SIKULOVA JANA CZE 7,600
12 SIMBHUDAS REBECCA CAN 7,075
13 TANKOUCHEVA NIKOLINA BUL 6,850
14 HORVAT CARMEN SLO 6,750
15 KAMNAR JULIJA SLO 6,700
16 DELLADIO TANJA CRO 6,400

FLOOR EXERCISES
1 LEONIDA FLORICA ROM 8,850
2 HARMES SUSANNE NED 8,775
3 BROWN ALYSSA CAN 8,700
4 ERCEG TINA CRO 8,625
5 ROBERTS MELANIE GBR 8,400
6 IVANOVA GERGANA BUL 8,275
7 SIKULOVA JANA CZE 8,050
8 MARESOVA KATERINA CZE 7,925

9 VRŠČAJ BOJANA SLO 7,875
10 SIMBHUDAS REBECCA CAN 7,800
11 MAYER SANDRA AUT 7,500

Grand Prix Glasgow: World Cup

26. Oktober 2005  
Glasgow / Great Britain  
Artistic Gymnastics

Grand Prix Glasgow: World Cup

Beth Tweddle (GBR)

Squeezed between the 'DTB Cup' (Germany) and Maribor 'Solomunov Memorial' (Slovenia), the Glasgow Grand Prix attracted none but the brave and the enduring.
The Glasgow Men’s Floor Champion was Canada’s Brandon O'Neil. The battle on Rings saw Yuri Van Gelder of Nederlands just win Gold ahead of Russia’s Alexander Safoshkin. Lesnek Blanik of Poland won the Vault Gold. Dezhi Li of China was an easy winner of the Parallel Bars Final with a superb display of difficulty above, through and below the Bars. On High Australia’s Phillippe Rizzo take the Gold, 2 tenths ahead of the World’s greatest High Bar expert, Aljaz Pegan of Slovenia. ..
<< Great Britain had it’s greatest Grand Prix day with Men’s and Women’s medals; so Beth Tweddle was the most successful gymnast ...

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Oksana Chusovitina (UZB)
World champion 2003, winning in Glasgow 2005

Great Britain had it’s greatest Grand Prix day with Men’s and Women’s medals:
Imogen Cairns took Bronze in Vault and Floor.
Beth Tweddle won Gold at Floor and Bars with a Bronze at Beam. So Beth was the most successful gymnast in Glasgow winning two Golds!
Louis Smith won bronze on Pommels. He scored 9.612 in a truly World Class field just behind he legendary Marius Urzica of Romania and less than a single tenth from the Gold medallist Kristian Berki of Hungary.
Lili Wang of China took the Beam title with a beautiful demonstration of quality and skill.
Veteran of 4 Olympic Games, Oksana Chusovitina of Uzbekistan claimed the Vault Gold.
Glasgow has provided the FIG with an outstanding Grand Prix and British Gymnasts delivered a unique result to a packed house at the Kelvin Hall.
Source: Baga website

WORLD CUP: 2005 Glasgow Grand Prix
- Kelvin Hall - Glasgow; 25 - 26 October 2005 -

>> Men's FINAL RESULTS // >> Women's FINAL RESULTS


1st Day's Qualification
Media star of the qualifications was the 30 year old Oksana Chusovitina (Uzbekistan), 4 time Olympian and mother who led the field on Beam and Vault.
The British camp were delighted with final places for David Eaton (floor and high bar), the young Louis Smith (pommels), and Ross Brewer (Vault). Beth Tweddle top scored on Floor and made Beam and uneven bars finals. Chinese HUANG, Lu leads at bars, in front of Beth Tweddle and the Russian Polina Miller. After her success in Stuttgart (GER), Bronze on Floor, and 4th place on Vault, Imogen Cairns qualified for the Finals in Glasgow on the same two apparatus.
Rhian Pugh, (2004 Junior European Champion on uneven bars, also qualified to give GBR 2 of the coveted 8 Final places.

Media star of the qualifications was the 30 year old Oksana Chusovitina (Uzbekistan), 4 time Olympian and mother ...:
>> 'Why success has become a family matter for Chussovitina' (Source: 'The Herald')
The leading athletes at men's qualifying:
The Canadian Brendon O'Neill (floor), Romanian veteran Marius Urzica (pommels), Russian Alexander Safoshkin in front of Dutch van Gelder - like in Stuttgart last weekend.
On vault there was no qualification, because only 8 athletes want to start.
Mitja Petkovsek (SLO) on parallel bars and Jeffrey Wammes (NED) on high bar are the residuary top scorer.
With the Finals starting new life scoring there is every chance of a rare collection of Grand Prix medals for Great Britain.
Source: Trevor Low / Baga


Grand Prix Glasgow 2005
Glasgow, Kelvin Hall, October 25 -

RESULTS
>> Men's Qualification Results
>> Women's Qualification Results


GYMmedia Special: All medallists of the World cup circuit 2005/06
>> Women's medallists, all // >> Men's medallists, all

23rd DTB-Cup: Second day of finals

23. Oktober 2005  
Stuttgart / GERMANY  
Artistic Gymnastics

23rd DTB-Cup: Second day of finals

Catalina Ponor (ROM),
one start, one victory

During the 23rd DTB-Cup - Worldcup - in Stuttgart, the Russian Nikolai Krjukov achieved the first rank of the pommel horse final, after top runner Marius Urzica (ROM) had dropped out in the qualification already.
Lais Souza (BRA) won the women's vault final.
There were two champions in the high bar final: After the spectators' reclamations, Aljaz Pegan's (SLO) score was upvalued, so that he achieved the same position as Vlasios Maras from Greece.

Front-runner and threefold Olympic Champion Catalina Ponor from Romania won the beam final. ....
Brandon O'Neill from Canada won the floor final in the end.

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Nikolai Krjukov (RUS): '...I'm very satisfied!'

Reporting from Stuttgart: Eckhard Herholz

Pommel horse
1. Nikolai Krjukov RUS 9,725
2. Zhang , Hongtao CHN 9,700
3. Victor Cano ESP 9,662
4. Ioan Suciu ROM 9.625
5. Vid Hidvegi HUN 9.462
6. Alberto Busnari ITA 9.425
7. Alexei Ihnatovich BLR 9.312
8. Louis Smith GBR 9.225

The final's highlight was presented by the Russian Nikolai Krjukov , who showed his great experience in his exercise. He 'celebrated' a wonderful handstand-drop with several turns over the whole horse.
Ioan Suciu with excellent elements on one pommel before the end of his exercise.
Victor Cano showed very attractive straddles across and the youngest of the field Lousi Smith from Great Britain presented all versions across, partly done with vigor in the end, however.

Lais Souza (BRA): - Brazil, best nation in women's category!

Vault women
1. Lais Souza BRA 9.237
2. Joanna Skowronska POL 9.175
3. Monette Russo AUS 9.156
4. Imogen Cairns GBR 9.093
5. Katheleen Lindor FRA 9.000
6. Jana Komrskova CZE 8.975
7. Oksana Chusovitina UZB 8.968
8. Valeriya Maksyuta UKR 8.706

All in all it was a rather low level at this apparatus - the break between the old scoring rules and the expected new ones has been sensible: No one has been taking a risk.
The only exception to that was the leading gymnast of the qualification, Oksana Chusovitina (UZB), who started with a basic score of 9,80 twice, but left the mat with a kneeling down after her second vault (Tsukahara straight with one and a half screws).

Aljaz Pegan (SLO) explained Krukov: 'I was shure, it was a clearly 10 start value!'

High bar final
1. Aljaz Pegan SLO 9.750
1. Vlasios Maras GRE 9.750
3. Christoph Schaerer SUI 9.700
4. Yann Cucherat FRA 9.687
5. Daisuke Nakano JPN 9.675
6. Robert Juckel GER 9.212
7. Valeri Goncharov UKR 8.387
8. Zhou, Kai CHN 8.200

The Slovanian Aljaz Pegan excellently performed flights at his favourite apparatus, including his own element, of course - the Pegan somersault - forward, half a turn - with the threefold combination Tkatschew-Tkatschew-Gienger and a supersafe threefold somersault in the end. The rules only prescribed a basic score of 9,90, he received a score of 9,650 - which made the spectators wheeze loudly in the Schleyer-Halle.
Twofold World Champion (2001/ 02) and winner of the qualification Vlasios Maras presented an excellent performance , including a Kovacs with one turn and a lot of elegantly performed turns, which made the high score of 9,750 justified.
The Chinese Zhou, Kai foozled with the Def and had to leave the apparatus.
Valeri Goncharov was unlucky, too, he fell during his Kovacs with a turn.
Robert Juckel , who had been the German hope after the dropping- out of Fabian Hambüchen, did the ducked Markelow well, but had to accept deductions due to his open legs during the Stalder-revulsions and in the end (double Tsukahara straight with a big lunge).
After some discussions, Pegan's score was upvalued and was then equal with the one of champion Maras - hence there were two champions in the high bar final of the DTB-Cup 2005.

Catalina Ponor (ROM) - first mobile phone contacts with home after the competition!

Beam
1. Catalina Ponor ROM 9.650
2. Wang, Lili CHN 9.512
3. Marine Debauve FRA 9.350
4. Zhou, Zhuoru CHN 9.150
5. Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs CAN 8.837
6. Valeria Maksyuta UKR 8.750
7. Monette Russo AUS 8.550
8. Daria Zgoba UKR 7.700

European Champion and threefold Olympic Champion Catalina Ponor from Romania on the beam was the attractive last point of the women's concurrence of the 23rd DTB-Cup in Stuttgart. She presented herself in shape for the World ChShips already, showing the best exercise, including two threefold combinations and a safe double ducked somersault.
The Chinese's ranking on the second position led to amazement - in front of vice European Champion on this apparatus und allround European Champion Marine Debauve (FRA), who convinced with the longest exercise with many difficult elements and still only achieved the third rank.
Both gymnasts from the Ukraine had to leave the apparatus and the Australian Monette Russo had to leave the beam involuntarily after a long row.

All results of the women's finals
Floor men
1. Brandon O´Neill CAN 9.562
2. Patrick Dominguez SUI 9.525
3. Robert Gal HUN 9.362
4. Eugen Spiridonov GER 9.087
5. Jeffrey Wammes NED 9.050
6. Daisuke Nakano JPN 9.000
7. Zhou, Kai CHN 8.700
8. Alin Jivan ROM 8.150

The old scoring rules, applied for the last time at the DTB-Cup, were received with wheezing by the spectators.
Especially the Dutch Champion of the America Cup, second in Cottbus and Sao Paulo Jeffrey Wammes , who showed a double twist ducked, a double somersault straight with a directly following somersault forward, but had to accept a basic note of 9,40 by the jury must have heard this. He fell back to the fifth rank, a reclamtion by the Dutch coach is being debated, however.
The score of the Japanese Daisuke Nakano effected wheezing as well. He had presented safe stands and outstanding combinations, but received two tenth deduction due to time exceedance.
Eugen Spiridonov (TV Bous) achieved the best German position today - he was fourth of the final with a convincing effort.
It was apparent that outstanding contents and spectacular elements, which enthuse the spectators, are not appreciated adequately in the scoring rules - effecting the public's disapproval.The latter may - as the decision at the high bar shows - lead to the correction of a score at least.
This was no convincing conclusion of the in other respects felicitous DTB-Cup 2005.

All results of the men's finals

German World Championships-team for Melbourne is ready
Kim Bui won her ticket to the World ChShips with her performance at the uneven bars during the DTB-Cup. Junior Marcel Nguyen qualified for the World ChShips in Melbourne at the end of November as well. Chief coach Andreas Hirsch had designated him for the national tournament in Colorado Springs (USA) after the injury of Christian Berczes and Nguyen convinced the jury above all with his performance at the parallel bars.
Parts of the DTB team are furthermore Daria Bijak (TT Köln) and Kim Bui (TSG Tübingen) and of the men Thomas Andergassen (MTV Stuttgart), Robert Juckel (SC Cottbus), Eugen Spiridonov (TV Bous) and Marcel Nguyen (TSV Unterhaching), Matthias Fahrig (SV Halle) and Fabian Hambüchen (TSG Nidergirmes).

Translation: Janka Schmeißer

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German Junior National Team back from US Training Camp

26. Oktober 2005  
Colorado Springs / USA  
Artistic Gymnastics

German Junior National Team back from US Training Camp

After eleven days of practice at the Olympic Centre of the US National Olympic Commitee did the young athletes of the German junior team return home from Colorado Springs on Wednesday.

Beside of an official meet against the hosts was the main cause of the trip the practice together and the sharing of experience and practice methods with the US-boys...

From left: Coach Jens Milbradt, Klaus Nigel; Gymnasts: Marcel Nguyen, Max Finzel, Thomas Taranu, Micheal Stumpf, Helge Liebrich, Philipp Boy, Brian Gladow;
Physiotherapist Tobias Billert; Coach Karsten Oelsch;Judge Dr. Joerg Fetzer

Training Camp at the Olympic Centre of the USA
 Colorado Springs, USA -

As already reported in the news from the Junior Meet USA - Germany followed a one week training camp in Colorado Springs. The practice conditions at the Olympic Training Center were excellent and was similar to the conditions at the German trainingcamp in Kienbaum, nearby Berlin.
The seven German junior athletes practiced together with about 30 young gymnasts from the USA at the age of 12 to 18 and almost their 20 (!!) home coaches took part at this course of instruction!
Of course the visit was also a superbly possibility to get to know the country and people. There was next to a shopping tour also a day trip into the mountains around Colorado Springs on the program. Our boys saw within many other things the Royal George Bridge - the highest cable bridge of the world.
A great Thank You to all clubs, sponsors and gymnasts which made this trip possible. The German Gymnastics Federation (DTB) could only pay parts of the trip (caused of the 'promotion group 4', the lowest promotion level in Germany ).

Jens Milbradt (li.) becomes at the side of the German national Championships the check from Robert Juckel for the coats

A special Thanks
goes to the German national team member Robert Juckel from SC Cottbus, who gave, over his personal sponsor ''Erima'', warm coats in a worth of 1.000 Euros to the complete delegation

This trip brought next to new training methods a lot of motivation to the boys for upcomeing tasks.

From Colorado Springs: Jens Milbradt, German National Junior Coach

Team photo Official Junior Meet USA - Germany

USA - Germany Men s Dual Meet Competition and Camp

20. Oktober 2005  
Colorado Springs / USA  
Artistic Gymnastics

USA - Germany Men s Dual Meet Competition and Camp

Ryan Lieberman (USA
best all-around

The United States and German Junior National Teams have come together at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs for a joint training camp and competition.

The dual meet juniors competition US - Germany was held Tuesday, October 18. The United States fielded two teams - USA 1 and USA 2 in competition with the team from Germany. Each team was made up of seven athletes with six athletes competing on each event and four scores counting toward the team total. This was a fantastic, exciting and very close competition with great performances from each team.
USA team won with a score of 206.575, Germany scored 206.300, followed by USA II (201,200)...
The results of the team competition were:
1. USA 1 - 206.575 2. Germany - 206.300
3. USA 2 - 201.200

The All Around results were:
1. Ryan Lieberman, USA - 51.500
2. Phillip Boy, Germany - 51.200
3. Helge Liebrich, Germany - 51.000

The USA Team 1 was made up of Kyson Bunthuwong, Golden Bear Gymnastics;, Jason Chu, Scats Gymnastics; Tim Gentry, World Olympic Gymnastics Academy; Seung Tai Lee, Orlando Metro; Phillip Onorato, World Olympic Gymnastics Academy; Ralph Rosso, University of Michigan; and Cole Storer of World Olympic Gymnastics Academy
The USA Team 2 included Andre Berry, Cypress Gymnastics; Kyle Bunthuwong, Golden Bear Gymnastics; Thomas Kelley, Buffalo Grove Gymnastics; Ryan Lieberman, Buffalo Grove Gymnastics; Chris Lung, Massachusetts Gymnastics Center; Edward Mesa, Universal Gymnastics; and Miguel Pineda of Hocking Valley Gymnastics.

Friendly Meet: US talents and the German national junior team, now will follow same days of collectively training


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23rd DTB-Cup with new Record of Participants !TODAY: Qualification rounds....

21. Oktober 2005  
Stuttgart / Germany  
Artistic Gymnastics

23rd DTB-Cup with new Record of Participants !TODAY: Qualification rounds....

Fabian Hambuechen
- as DTB Cup 'Cover Boy'

'Wimbledon of Gymnastics'
At the 23rd Anniversary of the traditional DTB-Cup the German hosts expect 48 female and 92 male gymnasts representing 41 Nations - a new record in the history of this event! Among them are a lot of Olympic, World and continental champions. The 'Cr?me de la Cr?me' of the international gymnastics scene will be in Stuttgart, the City of the 2007 World Championships
It was the former Belorussian world star Ivan Ivankov who once during the 90ies compared the DTB Cup with the tennis tournament of Wimbledon.
Of course it will also be a very good possibilty to see a lot of the favourites for the upcoming World Championships (Melbourne, November 2005) and for the German hosts to celebrate the performances of their young star Fabian Hambuechen...

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Daiane dos Santos (BRA)
- Floor World Champion 2003 in Anaheim

23rd DTB-Cup 2005, A- Worldcup
- Stuttgart, Oct. 21st - 23rd 2005
in the venue Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle -

A great entry field will be present – the most impressive facts are certainly presented by Romania:
With 3-time Olympic Champion Catalina Ponor, 2-time Olympic and European Champion Monica Rosu as well as pommel horse legend Marius Urzica and World- and European Champion Marian Dragulescu this team can present a variety of titles which can’t be excelled.

High- quality women’s field
A lot of cheers by the aucience in Stutgart can be expected when the Romanian stars will meet e.g. floor World Champion Daiane dos Santos from Brazil or also Suzanne Harmes from the Netherlands.
>> ... please see also Olympic Games 2004
>> ... and 22nd DTB-Cup 2004 (- 1st Worldcup of the series 2005/06)

Yuri van Gelder (NED) - specialist on rings -

Who will be Stuttgart’s
'Lord of the rings...'?

On rings a spectacular duel can be expected:
With Yuri van Gelder and Dimosthenis Tampakos two absolute specialists will meet: The number one on the World ranking list from the Netherlands and the current World and Olympic Champion from Greece!
Are the true all-arounders becoming more and more rare....?

A remarkable “all-arounder” comes from Japan: Team Olympic Champion 2004 Daisuke Nakano. However, also in one or the other apparatus final he can be expected in the top ranks. In order to reach a top position he certainly will have to deal with Olympic Champion Valeri Goncharev (UKR) on parallel bars and on high-bar with European Champion Manuel Carballo from Spain…

High- bar European Champion Fabian Hambüchen
at the ECh's 2005 in Debrecen


...High-bar: A true highlight

A drama couldn’t be written better:
The high-bar final at the end of the 3 competition days in Germany with the newly-crowned European Champion from Debrecen 2005, Fabian Hambuechen! However, the decision in this final will only have been made after the last dismount will have been carried out. A thrilling final can anyway be expected when a highly motivated “Fabi” will compete against e.g. Australia’s Philippe Rizzo or former World- and European Champion Vlavios Maras (GRE).
...latest news regarding the entry field:
>> Italy confirmed the participation of Vice-European Champion 2004 on pommel horse Alberto Busnari as well as Matteo Angioletti;
>>... Belgium had to withdraw their complete team due to the flu.
SCHEDULE of the DTB-Cup 2005
Friday, Oct. 21st::
- women’s qualification: 12.15 – 3.15 pm, - men’s qualification: 4.45 – 8.30 pm
(- in between: autograph sessions and further activities)

Saturday, Oct. 22nd: 12.00 noon: opening of the venue
FINAL 1: men: rings, parallel bars, vault; - women: uneven bars, floor.

Sunday Oct. 23rd: 12.00 noon: opening of the venue
FINAL 2: men: pommel horse, floor, high-bar; - women: beam, vault.

- Always before the competition on the finals’ days start: autograph sessions and further activities
- End of the competitions on Saturday and Sunday around 5.00 pm

Gymnastics - highly demanded by the TV-stations!

DTB-Cup in the German TV:
The local TV station SWR will broacast on Saturday between 5.00 – 6.00 pm included in their program “Sport am Samstag”.

Also the stations ARD (Sunday afternoon around 3.25 pm) and ZDF (Sunday afternoon starting around 5.05 pm) will report about the DTB-Cup within their sports broadcasts.

GYMNASTICS -
an internationally demanded TV- product:

The DTB- Cup will be broadcasted by the following TV-stations from all over the World:


Sport Plus, France; Supersport, South Africa; ESPN Star, Hong Kong; NTV, Russia; Sport TV, Portugal; Supersport, Greece; TVE, Spain; Sport TV, Romania; Rai, Italy; Poverkhnost, Ukraine; and SPORT-Expressen, Sweden. A Brazilian TV station even will send an own team to Stuttgart to prepare special reports and stories about the Brazilian gymnasts.
>> Altogether more than 96 million TV-households will be reached!
GYMmedia, according to information by STB/DTB
GYMmedia SPECIAL SERVICE:
The World Cups of the series 2005/06 up to now:
>> (9) Salamunov Memorial, Maribor/SLO, (Oct. 28 - 30) (- non-booked GYMmedia Service)
>> (8) Grand Prix, Glasgow, (Oct. 25 - 26) (- non-booked GYMmedia Service)

>> (7) 23. DTB-Pokal, Stuttgart (Oct 2005) Event Service booked)
>> (6) French International, Paris-Bercy, (May 2005)
>> (5) Ghent World Cup, Ghent (Apr. 2005)
>> (4) II. Siegfried Fischer Trophy, Sao Paolo (Apr. 2005)
>> (3) 29th Tournament of Masters, Cottbus (Mar. 2005)
>> (2) American Cup, Nassau (Feb. 2005)
>> (1) 22nd DTB-Cup, Stuttgart (Nov. 2004)

>> ... more GYMmedia Specials:
>> WC Circuit 2005/06: All male MEDAL WINNERSr

>> WC Circuit 2005/06: All femal MEDAL WINNERS
>> Stuttgart booked the GYMmedia Event-Service, so GYMmedia will report from the DTB-Cup during the 3 competition days.

23. DTB-Pokal: Five World Cup Winners crowned

22. Oktober 2005  
Stuttgart / GER  
Artistic Gymnastics

23. DTB-Pokal: Five World Cup Winners crowned

At the 23rd 'DTB-POKAL 2005' there were five final decisions scheduled for today.
On vaulting table Anatoli Vasiliev (RUS) was the best performer.
On uneven bars there was a Chinese double success by Zhou, Zhuoru and Huang, Lu.
The final on parallel bars was won by the Slovenian Mitja Petkovsek , who already lead the qualification. On rings the Russian Alexander Safoshkin convinced with the strongest performance.
The women’s floor final was won by the Brasilian Daiane dos Santos .

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Reporting from Stuttgart: Eckhard Herholz

Final Men's Vaulting Table
1. Anatoli Vasiliev RUS (9,700/9,650) 9,675
2. Alin Jivan ROM (9,450/9,637) 90543
3. Robert Gal HUN (9,537/9,387) 9,462
4. Matthias Fahrig GER (9,225/9,562) 9,393
5. Fabian Hambüchen GER (9,050/9,437) 9,243
6. Alexei Bondarenko RUS (9,00/9,262) 9,131
7. Patrick Dominguez SUI (9,037/9,075) 9,056
8. Jeffrey Wammes NED (7,800/9,725) 8,762

The favourite suffered a fall: Jeffrey Wammes (NED), best in qualification, performed a pretty confused Jurtschenko – however, he proved world class level with his second vault (handspring, layout with double turn) and achieved the highest score: 9,725.
The double second in World Cup Patrick Dominguez (SUI) had severe problems, too. He had to support himself at the landing of both vaults: Handspring, layout with one and a half turns and Kasamatsu layout with one and a half turns.
It has not been the perfect comeback for Alexei Bondarenko (RUS), for he sat down on the mat in his first vault (Roche).
Matthias Fahrig (GER) had to put his hands onto the mat when he landed his Roche piked, Fabian Hambüchen (GER) fell in his vault, round-off, layout with two and a half turns.
Uneven Bars
1. Zhou, Zhuoru CHN (AW 10) 9,650
2. Huang. Lu CHN (10) 9,562
3. Polina Miller RUS (10) 9,537
4. Daria Zgoba UKR (10) 9,487
5. Marine Debauve FRA (10) 9,487
6. Jana Sikulova CZE (10) 9,400
7. Daiane dos Santos BRA (10) 9,337
8. Monette Russo AUS (10) 8,537
a. K. Kim Bui GER (9,80) 9,050

An exquisite uneven bars performance from the celestial empire! Superb technique, superb difficulties, superb execution ... Huang performed two Endos in el grip and a flawless double layout as dismount, for instance – she performed on a higher level than the further finalists.
The best follower-up to both Chinese gymnasts was the winner of qualification Polina Miller (RUS), who performed dynamically with Jaeger somersault, a piked Tkatchev and a tucked Tsukahara as dismount.

Thomas Andergassen (GER)

Parallel Bars
1. Mitja Petkovsek SLO (AW 10) 9,712
2. Zhe, Feng CHN (10) 9,687
with the same score:
3.Vasileios Tsolakidis GRE (10) 9,687
4. Ilja Giorgadze GEO (9,80) 9,412
5. Manuel Carballo ESP (9,80) 9,350
6. Thomas Andergassen GER (9,70) 9,225
7. Epke Zonderland NED (9,50) 9,037
As first performer in this final the French Yann Cucherat made a huge mistake landing in sitting position after a Healy. Otherwise, a balanced final. It was evident, that only those gymnast had a chance to place high, who performed a routine with a start value of 10 points. The latest European Champions performed most elegantly on this apparatus, Tsolakidis (ECh 2002), Petkovsek (ECh 2000) and Carballo (present European Champion).
Once again the piked double somersault proved to be the standard dismount.

Alexander Safoshkin (RUS) - winner of the final

Rings
1. Alexander Safoshkin RUS 9,337
2. Juri van Gelder NED 9,700
3. Matteo Angioletti ITA 9,625
4. Olli Torkkel FIN 9,562
5. Regulo Carmona VEN 9,537
6. Danny Rodrigues FRA 9,512
7. Thomas Andergassen GER 9,475
8. Dimosthenis Tampakos GRE 8,900

Indeed, the Russian Alexander Safoshkin performed extraordinarily today: He mastered all his strength elements of highest difficulty according to the Code de Pointage and with the cleanest execution of all finalists. He finishes with a perfectly secure double layout – the victory!
The favourite Juri van Gelder (NED), however, was not really able to stand up to the expectations, he could not avoid a swinging of the rings towards the end of his routine and had to step behind the better performing Russian.
The Olympic Champion Dimosthenis Tampakos (GRE) did not appear to be in WCh shape landing his layout Tsukahara dismount on the stomach.
An interesting element was presented by the French Danny Rodrigues with a swallow backwards, extremely difficult. He is the only gymnast of the world performing this element.
All finalists presented a start value of 10 points.

Daiane dos Santos (BRA) was the best performer on floor by a huge margin

Women's Floor Exercise
1. Daiane Dos Santos BRA 9,450
2. Kathleen Lindor FRA 9,137
3. Imogen Cairns GBR 9,062
4. Lais Souza BRA 8,900
5. Valeriya Maksyuta UKR 8,775
6. Joanna Skowronska POL 8,400
7. Kim Bui GER 8,287
8. Jana Sikulova CZE 8,250

The scores are the best evidence: Throughout the world, gymnasts have the greatest difficulties on floor to perform according to the requirements.
It was no surprise that the winner of qualification and World Champion 2003, Daiane dos Santos (BRA) won this final – she performed the most difficult programme (SV 9,90) with a double layout, a double piked somersault and another double layout and double piked somersault at the end. Four acrobatic series in total.
The French Kathleen Lindor (SV 9,90), who placed second, was the gymnast who performed on a similar level. She showed three acrobatic series and finished her routine with a double piked somersault.
Stuttgart’s Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle was well attended, even though not sold out, but there was still a great sentiment and a well functioning youth club which contributed to the atmosphere.

In the frame of today’s day of finals, two of the most successful German gymnasts were officially disbanded from the international sport scene: The multiple German Champions Birgit Schweigert and Yvonne Musik were said farewell by the president of the German Gymnastics Federation Rainer Brechtken and director of sports Wolfgang Willam .

Translation: Florian Schmid-Sorg

DTB-Cup: Qualification

02. Oktober 2005  
Stuttgart / GER  
Artistic Gymnastics

DTB-Cup: Qualification

On the first day of the 23rd DTB-Cup 2005 the qualifications take place in Stuttgart.
Yesterday, the qualification on vault, ex-champion Oksana Chusovitina (UZB) took over the leading position, the best at uneven bars was the Russian Polina Miller .
Olympic Champion Catalina Ponor (ROM)
succeeded on the beam and ex-World Champion Daiane dos Santos (BRA) won the qualification on the floor.
On the 92 gymnasts of men’s qualifications this athletes were the best:
Floor - Patrick Dominguez (SUI), pommel horse - Zhang, Hongtao (CHN), rings - Juri van Gelder (NED), vault - Jeffrey Wammes (NED), parallel bars - Mitja Petkovsek (SLO), high bars - Vlasios Maras (GRE).

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Reporting from Stuttgart: Eckhard Herholz

Women’s qualifications

Results qualification women

Vault / Uneven bars
It was Oksana Chusovitina from Uzbekistan, with 30 years of age the eldest of the gymnasts and an extraordinary figure of gymnastics out of all who managed to set herself on top of the participants, many of whom only half as old. With 9,262 points at vault, her favourite apparatus, she took over the leading position in the qualification of 24 gymnasts.
Lais Souza (BRA) went on the second position with 9,225 points, followed by Jana Komrskova (CZE) with 9,025 points and Joanna Skowronska from Poland with 9,019. points.
Kim Bui from the German town of Tübingen missed the qualification on the ninth rank (8,825), just as Daria Bijak at uneven bars, who achieved 9,150 points, but missed the national qualification for the Wolrd Championships by a tenth in the basic score (9,800).

Oksana Chusovitina (UZB) was the best at vault

The qualification at uneven bars was dominated by the Russian Polina Miller , who set herself on top of the qualification with a score of 9,531 and left the Chinese Huang, Lu (9,487) and Marine Debauve ( 9,450) from France on the following ranks. The second Chinese Zhou, Zhuoru was fourth with 9,412 points.
Only seven out of 26 gymnasts at uneven bars had a basic score of 10 points.
Beam and Floor
The threefold Olympic Champion Catalina Ponor from Romania has been the unchallenged star of the qualification today. She succeeded on the beam (9,437) with a basic score of 10 points – as the only one - and presented the top performance of the qualification, despite small mistakes. She was closely followed by Marine Debauve (FRA) with 9,412 and Wang, Lili with the same score.
The spectators’ darling seems to become the Brazilian Daiane dos Santos . The Ex-floor World Champion presented the only (!) score above 9 points (9.387, basic score 9,90) on the floor in a rather weak concurrence. Many gymnasts show a lack of contents.

Catalina Ponor (ROM) was the bestgymnast on beam today

The only German, who qualified on the floor was Kim Bui (8,700). Strangely enough, she will not make use of this place in the final, but will use the only Wildcard entitled to the host tomorrow at the uneven bars. Which clause in the rules permits that, stayed unclear so far... ...

It is remarkable that gymnasts from 15 (!) countries will participate in the apparatus finals – of which only one comes from Russia (Miller) and another from Romania (Ponor). The distribution of the final places shows that new times are dawning for the female artistic gymnasts: The Ukraine is on top with five participations in the finals, then Brazil, France and China follow with four participations each.
Results men's qualification

Further information in the .
Men's Qualifications

Floor Exersice
The best on floor was the World Cup winner in Cottbus Patrick Dominguez (SUI) with 9,400 (SV 10) ahead of the Chinese Zou, Kai 9,325 and Daisuke Nakano (JPN/9,212).
Further finalists: Jeffrey Wammes (NED), the World Cup winner in Sao Paulo, Robert Gal (HUN) and Eugen Spiridonow (GER), Brandon O'Neill (CAN) and the only African starter from Tunisia Wajdi Habib Bouallegue . The former floor European Champion Marian Dragulescu (ROM) failed to qualify for the final due to a fall in his second series (8,775).
Parallel Bars
The bars specialist Mitja Petkovsek (SLO) convinced with 9.700, followed by Manuel Carballo (ESP/9,687) and the Chinese Zhe, Feng (9,675). Surprisingly, Epke Zonderland from the Netherlands placed fourth with 9,562 ahead of Vize European Champion Yann Cucherat (FRA/9,537). >br>Further finalists: 6th Vasileios Tsolakidis (GRE/9,487), 7th Ilia Giorgaze (GEO/9,387) and as eighth a gymnast of the host: Thomas Andergassen (GER/9,350).
Vaulting Table
Jeffrey Wammes (NED) presented himself in excellent shape and won the qualification with a superb score of 9,681 points. The German Fabian Hambüchen managed to qualify for his first final at this World Cup – he placed third with 9,593 points. His team-mate Matthias Fahrig also qualified for the final on his favourite apparatus as eighth (9,437).
A good comeback for the Russian Alexei Bondarenko, who suffered a severe injury in the Olympic final and reches the final as seventh (9,444)!
Further placements: 2nd Anatoli Vasiliev (RUS/9,625), 4th Alin Jivan (ROM/9,575), 5th Patrick Dominguez (SUI/9,544), 6th Robert Gal (HUN/9,519).
Rings
The 'Power-Dutchmen' Juri van Gelder does not perform, he celebrates his routine on rings (the highest score of the day: 9,725). A specialist of the highest level, who achieved five of six possible titles in the present World Cup series and who will hardly be vincible here in Stuttgart.
Except the Finnish gymnast, all athletes who qualified for the apparatus final performed routines with a start value of 10 points:
2nd Alexander Safoschkin (RUS/9,637), 3rd Danny Rodriguez (FRA/9,550), 4th Regulo Carmona (VEN/9,537), 5th Matteo Anglioletti (ITA/9,537), 6th Olympic Champion Dimosthenis Tampakos (GRE/9,525), 7th Olli Torkell (FIN/9,487) - and as eighth a representative of the host Thomas Andergassen (GER/9,450)!
Pommel Horse
Marius Urzica performed once again as if coming from another world. He is a most gifted gymnast on this apparatus - and makes a mistakes right at the end of his routine! Therefore, the Romanian did not made the final at his 12th participation in Stuttgart. Unknown Chineses point at Beijing 2008: Zhang, Hongtao won the qualification with 9,737 - in his first international competition...! 'Oldie' Nikolai Krukov (RUS) placed second with 9,662 out of ten points, Ioan Suciu rescues the Romainian honour with a third rank (9,587). The fourth rank is a huge success for the British Junior European Champion Louis Smith (9,562).
Further finalists: 5th Alexei Ignatovich (BLR/9,475), 6th Victor Cano (ESP/9,437), 7th Vid Hedvedgi (HUN/9,387), 8th Alberto Busnari (ITA/9,275).
High Bar
On high bar there were several falls of favourites, too. There are only six weeks left to the WCh and still a high number of instabilities. The strong Jari Monkkonen from Finnland fell off the bar at his second Kovacs somersault, the Russian Andrej Lichovitski left the apparatus at his jaeger layout. Manuel Carballo (ESP) fell at his Tkatchev, Nikolai Krukov (RUS) fell, too, as did the World Champion 1997, Juri Tanskanen (FIN).
Unfortunately, the present European Champion on this apparatus, Fabian Hambüchen from Germany, performed his Tkatchev with too much power – and fell off the bar: He placed as 13th with 9,237. His team-mate Robert Juckel, however, qualified as fifth.
The qualification was won by former World Champion Vlasios Maras (GRE/9,712) ahead of Valeri Goncharov (RUS/9,650) and Aljaz Pegan (SLO/9,500) >br> Further placements: 4th Daisuke Nakano (JPN/9,550), 5th Robert Juckel (GER/9,525), 6th Yann Cucherat (FRA/9,500), 7th Zhou, Kai (CHN/9,487), 8th Christoph Schaerer (SUI/9,425).

Translation: Janka Schmeißer / Florian Schmid-Sorg

10th Chinese National Games - Guangdong dominated

16. Oktober 2005  
NANJING / East China  
Artistic Gymnastics

10th Chinese National Games - Guangdong dominated

LU, Bo, AA-around winner

FAN, Ye and LU, Bo...

Chinese Xinhuanet reports that gymnastics giant in China Guangdong proved its superiority by taking four out of the 14 golds at the just-concluded gymnastics competition at the 10th National Games.
The Chinese Lu, Bo was the winner af the all-around men's titel and on Friday the balance beam world champion (Anaheim 2003), Fan, Ye won the all-around title in the women's category.

These 10th National Games were also a big national fight of all the Chinese provinces for the crown in sports...
National Teams Fight
Guangdong, which reaped three golds in the last national games, further extended its gold haul at this Games. Fang and Liang, two top gymnasts in China without chance to compete in Athens Olympics, helped Guangdong defend the coveted men's team title, after a close duel with host Jiangsu.
The national women's team, spearheaded by Zhang Yufei, a rising star who was unfortunately eliminated from China's roster for the Athens Olympics because of injures, repeated its glory by edging old foe Hunan to clinch women's team gold. Liang and Zhang brought in two more golds on floor and uneven bars for Guangdong on Saturday in a gold wave.
Hunan, the second largest gold winner in the last national games, maintained its grip on the second place at this Games by launching a late surge Sunday evening, thanks to its world champion Li Xiaopeng and national team member Han Bing.
Li, Xiaopeng who withdrew from the team final because of new foot injures in the qualifications, proved his dominance on vault and parallel bars and brought in two more golds on the two apparatus for Hunan.
Han Bing won another gold for Hunan after upstaging favorites Zhang Nan and Zhang Yufei on balance beam.

Zhang Nan, the Olympics gymnast from Beijing, had a mixed day when she missed the gold on balance beam but snatched one in floor exercises.
Zhang's teammate Chong Wei unexpectedly got a gold on horizontal bar, bringing the Beijing team to the third place on the overall gymnastics gold medal tally. New star Lu Bo of Jiangsu made his name by defeating Athens Olympic gymnast Yang Wei to snatch the men's all-round crown.
Veteran Huang Xu helped send Jiangsu to the third place on the gymnastics gold medal tally, alongside Beijing, after winning a disputed rings gold from defending champion Dong Zhen from Tianjin.
Xiao Qin, who failed to make into the pommel final in Athens, defended the pommel title and won a gold for the Army team. Hubei reaped its only gold medal with the help of Cheng Fei, China's hopeful for breakthrough in international vault and floor competition, who claimed the vault crown as expected.
'Overall, I am satisfied with the performance of our gymnasts,' Lu Shanzhen, coach of the Chinese women gymnastics team on the sideline of the gymnastics competition. He said the women gymnasts had done a much better job at this Games than in the 2004 Athens Games, in which the Chinese women squad ended up with only an all-around bronze.

But women gymnasts should have increased difficulty and improved arrangment of motions, he said, voicing worries that Chinese women gymnasts may lag behind in their weak apparatus of vault and floor while losing their advantages on their strong uneven bars and beam. Under the international gymnastics federation's new rule, the limit on difficulty of routines will be lifted as of 2006 to encourage intensified competition, which poses a challenge to Chinese women gymnasts who traditionally have skillful arrangement of compositions but lacked difficulty, said Lu.

FAN, Ye - world champion 2003

On Friday World champion Fan Ye won the women's gymnastics all-round goldmedal for Hebei.
World champion Fan Ye stormed to women's gymnastics all-round victory by upstaging two other favorites Zhang Yunfei and Cheng Fei at the National Games on Friday.
The 19-year-old Fan, a member in the Chinese squad in Athens and the balance beam gold medallist in 2003 worlds, stole the spotlight from Cheng and Zhang when she surged to the first place in the second round and firmly held on to it through the rounds.
Except for a comparatively low score of 9.184 in her first round of vault, Fan had outstanding exhibitions on uneven bar, balance and floor, scoring 9.700, 9.787 and 9.684 points respectively.
Cheng, also a member in China's Athens squad, had a joyful start when she scored 9.734 points on her strong vault, the highest among her six-strong group.
Vault and floor are two weak apparatus for most Chinese women gymnasts, but are the strong events for Zhang, which makes her China's hopeful in international events for breakthrough on the two apparatus.
But 9.10 points on uneven bars and 9.550 points on balance beamerode her advantage in the first round and dragged her to fourth place in the third round.
Though she made a strong launch in her last rotation of floor, she failed to narrow the distance with top player Fan and settled for a silver with a total of 38.068.
Zhang Yufei, from gymnastics powerhouse Guangdong, maintained all-round first place in the qualifications and the team final, but failed to move further in the all-round final.

ZHANG, Nan (CHN)... goes for gold in Melbourne!

After a dim start with 9.384 points on vault, she managed to climb from the sixth place to the third place in the uneven bar rotation.
But she suffered a fatal setback in the third round, when she fell from the balance beam following a major wobble, earning only 9.017 points. She finished fifth.

<< Zhang Nan the 2004 Athens Olympics all-round bronze winner, received another bronze in Friday's all-round final. 'I am satisfied with the result,' a beaming Fan told a press conference.

'Balance beam is my strong event,' she said, referringto her score of 9.784 points on beam.
She got only 9.15 points on vault with a start value of 9.4, because vault is her weakest apparatus, she said.
Looking to the coming world gymnastics championship, Fan said she is eyeing a gold medal on balance beam and will also 'do her best on other apparatus.'
Source: Xinhuanet

Janssen&Fritsen: Top equipment at the DOHA Asian Games

29. September 2005  
Helmond / Eindhoven  
Artistic Gymnastics

Janssen&Fritsen: Top equipment at the DOHA Asian Games

Janssen-Fritsen
- Official Supplier of
DOHA Asian Games 2006

The DOHA Asian Games 2006 and the West Asian Games 2005 which will be held in Doha, Qatar as well, will have the same Gymnastics equipment available as used at the Olympic Games in Athens 2004.
Janssen-Fritsen Gymnastics has supplied not only the podium as it was used in Athens, but will also supply the Gymnastics equipment for the training and competition halls for both the West Asian Games in 2005 and for the DOHA Asian Games in 2006. After having shortlisted the main suppliers of Gymnastics equipment in the world a tender procedure favouring premium product quality and service resulted in the selection of Janssen-Fritsen as the supplier for both of these prestigeous events.

Janssen-Fritsen
- Main partner of the European Gymnastics Service
GYMmedia INTERNATIONAL

The serious and objective selection procedure of the DOHA Organizing committee once again underlines the objective of the committee to use the best resources available to make these Asian Games the most succesfull games in Asian Games history.
Source: J&F Press release

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