Friday, 08-July-2005
Apparatus Finals

Results, Apparatus Finals

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Thursday, 07-Juli-2005
All-around Final
The indoor stadium of Latisana was crowded and there were a lot of fans to support Federica Macr? from Trieste and Vanessa Ferrari from Lombardy. The present European vault title-holder Federica Benolli, currently injured, has been among the public and has never stopped to cheer on her two friends with her Italian flag. After the prize-giving ceremony a lot of budding gymnasts have surrounded Vanessa Ferrari asking for an autograph and hoping to take a picture with her.

... read mor at our GYMmedia-EYOF-PREVIEW

London was awarded the 2012 Olympics on Wednesday, narrowly defeating European rival Paris in the final round of voting to take the games back to the British capital for the first time since 1948.

After Moscow (15), New York (16) and Madrid (31) were eliminated in the first three rounds, London beat its cross-Channel opponent 54-50 on the fourth ballot of the International Olympic Committee vote _ capping the most glamorous and hotly contested bid race in Olympic history.

'8th European Youth Olympic Festival 2005, EYOF
Lignano, Italy; Juli 03 - 08

About 2.500 athletes aged 14 to 18 from 48 countries take part in 11 sports disciplines (football, basketball, handball, volleyball, judo, athletics, table tennis, tennis, swimming, canoe & kayak and women's artistic gymnastics).

HISTORY:
The idea of organising a multidisciplinary sports event for young European athletes was born in the late 1980s.
So the first event took place in 1991 in Belgium (Brussels); further events were held in Netherlands (Valkenswaerd) in 1993; in Great Britain (Bath) in Portugal 1995 (Lisbon) in 1997.

'8th European Youth Olympic Festival 2005'

>> Participating gymnasts 2005 have to be born in 1990/1991.
A team includes a maximum of three gymnasts, the two best scores counting for the team result. Each team (2 or 3 gymnasts) must include a judge (FIG brevet).
35 NOCs have registered a full team (28 NOCs) or an individual gymnast.

The team event could hardly have been more closely contested, with Britain scoring 145.520 points to China's 145.450 after a most exciting encounter at Liverpool's Park Road sports centre.
Tweddle scored 9.325 in the vault, a magnificent 9.625 on the asymmetric bars, a slightly less impressive 8.50 on the beam and then a superb 9.650 on the floor to remind everyone that she is as brilliant in that discipline as on the bars.
The great Fan Ye responded with 8.4, 9.425, 9.30 and 9.525 in her favourite event, the floor, but still could not prevent the British team pipping them for the title.
And Sunday Tweddle was in even more confident mood, taking no fewer than three individual golds on the bars, the vault and on the floor, where she tied with the girl generally regarded as the best in the world at that event.

The Mediterranean Games Palace will debut, on a competitive level, with the Spanish Cup for Gymnastics.
The best national specialists, among whom host country's Rafael Martínez, and Marine Debauve (France) recent Champions of Europe, will gather in Almería. Saturday afternoon will be the men’s competition while the women will compete on Sunday morning.

Tickets to attend this competition will be completely free. COJMA and the Spanish Gymnastics Federation hope that Almería spectators fill the complex which, in two weeks, will host the artistic gymnastics event in the XV. Mediterranean Games.

Sunday, June 26:
Women's All-around: Vanessa Ferrari wins another gold for Italian gymnastics
The young gymnast Vanessa Ferrari captivated spectators with her great performance and dominated the women’s individual competition with 37.750 points. She won on three apparatus –vault, beam and floor- and was second on the uneven bars.
Spain took silver thanks to the concentration and fine effort of Tania Gener, who won on the uneven bars.

Spain sweeps to victory in the men’s team competition
Spain won its first gold in artistic gymnastics, with a score of 165.725. Andreu Vivó, Manuel Carballo, Rafael Martínez, Víctor Cano and Iván San Miguel performed brilliantly in the team competition which brought the public to their feet. They were the best in four apparatus –floor, pommel horse, parallel bars and horizontal bars- and finished in second place in rings and vault.
Italy won the silver medal five points behind Spain (160.050), and France was the third with 159.725 points.
>> Men's Team Results

Monday, June 27
It’s raining medals for the Spanish team:
Three gold, a silver and two bronze, the medal tally for Spain

The Spanish medal table spectacularly increases with every artistic gymnastics trial. On Monday (June 27) saw the finals of the individual apparatus finals.
For the men, Rafael Martínez polished his third gold medal of the Games. This time it was on the floor, with a mark of 9.313.
Víctor Cano was the highlight of the day, winning gold on the pommel horse. He gave a professional performance which was reflected in his mark of 9.500. The rings was the only event in which the Spanish came away with nothing. The victory went to the Italian Matteo Morandi with a mark of 9.713.

Finals Part II: Tuesday, June 28
The artistic gymnastics bids farewell to the Palace with another gold for Rafa Martínez
There have been two gymnastic stars of the Games: for the men Rafael Martínez, with four golds (teams, individuals, the balance beam and the floor) and a bronze (the parallel bars).
For the women, the exceptionally young gymnast Vanessa Ferrari, with five golds (teams, individuals, the floor, the parallel bars and the vault) and a silver (asymmetric bars). The artistic gymnastic event has left Almeria in the best possible way: with a full and devoted Palace cheering them on whilst humming the Spanish National Anthem in honour of Rafael Martínez’ last gold, won on the balance beam with a score of 9.613.
On the parallel bars, the champion was the Slovenian Mitja Petkovsek with an average of 9.650, finishing in front of Manuel Carballo and Rafael Martínez, silver and bronze respectively. The vault was won by the Tunisian Wajdi Bouallegue, scoring 9.413, whilst Ivan San Miguel and the Italian Matteo Angioletti shared silver, both scoring 9.356.

Rhythmic Gymnastics in Almer?a
In the Mediterranean Games in Almería 2005 Rhythmic Gymnastics will form a part of the sports programme for the first time.

The competition will be held in the 'Moisés Ruiz' Sports Hall from July 1 - 2.

Dutch Open 2005
Nijmegen / NED, 18-Jun-2005 -

All-around / Mehrkampf
1. Suzanne Harmes NED 36,437
2. Pang, Panpan CHN 36,000
3. Loes Linders NED 35,724
4. Zhang, Yufei CHN 35,537
5. Verona van de Leur NED 35,524
6. Hanneke Hoefnagel NED 33,925
7. Danila Koster NED 33,700
8. Melanie Roberts GBR 33,075
9. Katja El Halabi GER 32,962
10. Carina Hasenöhrl AUT 32,950

>> Detailed Results, AA, Elite
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Mehrkampf / AA, Juniors
1. Sandra Izbasa ROM 36,412
2. Sanne Wevers NED 35,400
3. Marie- Sophie Hindermann GER 35,262
4. Andra Stanescu ROM 34,887
5. Lichelle Wong NED 34,487
6. Alina Stanculescu ROM 34,200

>> Detaillierte Resultate, Mehrkampf Juniors

Through the introduction of a team contest as well as the integration of the juniors competition in 1994, European Championships became a large and important event. Last year almost 300 gymnasts from 35 nations were at the start in Ljubljana (Slovenia) .

In 2006, the European Men's European AG Championships will take place in Croatia, hosted by the city of in Zagreb; for the women's event however the UEG could not determine a host city.
The XXIX. European Championships in 2007 will be held in France. The city to host the event though has not been specified so far.
Info/source: STV; gymmedia