At the world cup, the 14th France International in Paris-Bercy (France) the Number ONE' of the world ranking list, Marian Dragulescu won the finals on floor and vault, and superstar Marius Urzica was the top scorer on pommelhorse once again (9,800).
The specialist on rings Yuri van Gelder (NED), Johan Mounard (FRA; p.bars) and Igor Cassina (ITA; h.bar) were the other winners of this event.
Alicia Sacromone from USA won the world cup on vault, Daiane dos Santos (BRA) on floor and the French host won on beam with Marine Debauve and on bars with Emelie Lepennec ...

Resultate FRAUEN
Freitag, 20. Mai 2005

>> VAULT

>> U.BARS

>> B.BEAM

>> FLOOR EXERCISES

INTERNATIONAL GYMNAST reports...:
Having amassed more than 50 World and Olympic medals, four legends of gymnastics will be honored on May 20, 2005 at the ninth annual International Gymnastics Hall of Fame induction ceremony. The black-tie induction ceremony will take place at 7:30 p.m. at the Sheraton Hotel in Oklahoma City. The outstanding class of 2005 consists of Olympic legends Svetlana Boginskaya (Belarus), Valery Liukin (Kazakhstan), Akinori Nakayama (Japan), and Erika Zuchold (Germany).
Daniel Baumat, Technology Manager of Swiss Timing, will receive the 'International Order of Merit' for Lifetime Achievement.....

72 Gymnasts (!!) competed in the all around competition of the Japanese 'Worlds Secondary Trials 2005', which were held at Tokyo's Yoyogi Stadium .

Hiroyuki Tomita won the overall competition on first but also on second day. His best events were rings and horizontal bar. His rings have added a slow back roll to maltese cross from a beautiful planche.
This year the 2005 Universiade will be held in Izmir, Turkey.
Five Japanese men qualified for the Japanese Universiade team.

These men include:
Hiroyuki Tomita, Takehiro Kashima, Yosuke Baba, Shun Kuwabara and Takehito Moriy....

Second Day (Thursday
Kashima is past world champion on side horse and horizontal bar. In this competition, his parallel bars and rings substantially improved. His rings, for example, had a lack of strong stunts, but what he did (kip to maltese cross, lower to back lever and pull to cross) did not look weak by any stretch of the imagination.
Baba was also strong on every event.... but his best was parallel bars, where he performed a high and clean piked morisue (double back sommie to overarm hang.)
Kuwabara's best stunt was a laid out thomas on floor exercise (one and a half back sommie with one and a half twist to forward roll.)
Mori had a very weak ring routine, but finished with a beautiful piked double front sommie dismount. On horizontal bar he performed a piatti with full twist.... (stoop circle to reverse hecht with full twist). Today, however, he performed the piatti without a full twist... just a straight body reverse hecht with legs together.

Women's 2nd Day competition
While the number of mistakes increased in the last session, Manami Ishizaka - winner of the 1st day's all-around - was notably different from the others; she showed mental strength and that her gymnastics was unbeatable. She hit every routine, and nobody could imagine an error from her. She currently is the top qualifier not only for the NHK Cup but also for the World Championships and East Asian Games.
Uemura and Oshima, who were second and third respectively, were not up for today. Uemura was completely out of shape, missing vault and uneven bars, and going out of bounds on floor. Oshima made big mistakes on every event except vault....
At this competition, women's Japanese Universiade squad would be selected, and the battle for the five spot was extreamly excited. The three spot went to Ishizaka, Uemura, and Sahara withtou doubt, but the rest of them was unpredictable. Yamamoto had a fall on uneven bars, and Mizoguchi missed again on beam like yersterday. Yamamoto, however, was calm on the later events and got the one spot. Even though the reigning national champion Ichikawa chased up with strong performance on beam and floor, Tanaka got the final spot over Ichikawa by only 0.025. Tanaka had small breaks on beam but she cleanly hit a beautiful Yurchenko with 1 1/2 twist to score 9.000, which would let her go to Universiade.
source: website of JGF

It was 41 years ago, when the young German gymnast Erika Barth (GDR) was the first woman worldwide who risked a flic-flac on balance beam.But shortly before the Olympic Games of Tokyo 1946 her Achilles tendon fissured and throwed her back.....
But as Erika Zuchold she made a sensational comeback and from the world championships 1966 (Dortmund) to the Olympic Games 1972 (Munich) she developed to one of the most renowned gymnasts worldwide....
Now she got an invitation of the 'International Gymnastics Hall of Fame' in Oklahoma City at the end of May....

The winners of the 2nd World Cup Ghent 2005 in men's category came from 6 different countries: Brandon O'Neil from Great Britain (floor), Robert Seligmann from Croatia (pommel), Yuri van Gelder from Netherlands (rings), Razvan Selariu from Romania (vault), Andreu Vivo from Spain (p.bars) and on high bar Yernar Yerimbetov from Kazhakhstan...
Most successful in women's category was Alicia Saramone from USA, winning vault and floor. Best gymnast on bars was the British Beth Tweddle and Olympic Champion Catalina Ponor was top on balance beam....

FINAL RESULTS, WOMEN:

>> Vaulting table

>> Uneven Bars

>> Balance Beam

>> Floor Exc.


<< Catalina Ponor (ROM) is back...!

This weekend in Budapest, the FIG President and Executive Commission are met with the Men’s and Women’s Technical Committees, the Presidents of the Continental Unions' Technical Committee and one of their members, as well as a group of distinguished experts from around the world,
including Marta Karolyi (USA), Leonid Arkayev and Andrei Rodionenko (RUS), Jesus Carballo sr. (ESP), Kurt Knirsch (GER), Ivan Cuk (SLO), Bruno Franceschetti (ITA), Viktor Doylidov (BLR), and David Kerwin (GBR).
The FIG will vote on whether or not to implement the new judging system at the 2005 FIG Council meeting, to be held May 27-28 in Helsinki. ....