Reigning World all-around champion Kohei Uchimura and Rie Tanaka won the Japanese Championships, held over Easter weekend in the Yoyogi National Gymnasium, which served as the training gym for the 2011 World Championships.
It was the fifth national title for Uchimura but the first for Tanaka, who has nonetheless become well known in Japan after winning the Longines Prize for Elegance at the 2010 Worlds in Rotterdam.
Although the competition included two full days of competition, results were based solely on the second day, where Tanaka bested Natsumi Sasada and Yumi Iizuka.

* MEN's All-around
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1. Kohei Uchimura, 92.650
2. Kenya Kobayashi, 90.800
3. Shogo Nonomura, 90.050

4. Ryo Kato, 89.800
5. Makoto Okiguchi, 89.700
6. Junpei? Oka, 89.200
7. Kazuhito Tanaka, 89.100
8T. Shoichi Yamamoto, 88.550
8T. Hiroyuki Imai, 88.550
10T. Yusuke Tanaka, 88.350
10T. Yuyu Saito, 88.350
12. Koji Yamamuro, 88.000

In Chinese city Zibo (4.5 million inhabitants) - located between Beijing and Shanghai - was held on Easter weekend this year's only one a FIG A-Cup 2012 of artistic gymnastics
Twelve athletes per apparatus have been charged  (top 8 of the last Worlds, more in accordance with last year's rankings).
After failure of the Paris competition in March, it is the only one of its kind in the course of the year, which will be played without all-around. Performed other individual competitions the FIG after the Challenge Cup system. here in Zibo the final disputed then each of the top four in qualifying.
Surprisingly retained in qualifying four times the Europeans the upper hand. China triumphed initially at the bars, Danell Leyva (USA) on the horizontal bar. However, at the finals the hosts won each 3x, among women and men ...

MEN's FINALS

Floor exercises / Boden
1. Flavius Koczi          (ROU) 15.450
1. Steven Legendre   (USA) 15.450
3. Alexander Shatilov  (ISR) 15.300
   4. Eleftheris Kosmidis (GRE) 14.725

* Pommel Horse / Pferd
1. Krisztian Berki       (HUN)  - 15,750
2. Louis Smith             (GBR)  - 15,600
3. Sasco Bertoncelj   (SLO)  - 14,950
   4. Teng Haibin         (CHN)  - 14,025

* Still Rings / Ringe
1. Chen Yibing                     (CHN) - 15,925
2. Eleftherios Petrounias (GRE) - 15,725
3. Lambertus Van Gelder  (NED)  - 15,425
   4. Igor Radivilov                (UKR)  - 15,325

WOMEN's FINALS

Vault / Sprung
1. Cheng Fei (CHN) 14.512
2. Alexa Moreno ( ) 14.412
3. Yamilet Peña ( ) 14.125
   4.Thi Ha Thanh Phan (VIE) 13.787

Uneven Bars / Stufenbarren
1. Yao Jinnan (CHN) 15.675
2. Huang Qiushang (CHN) 15.200
3. Larissa Miller (RUS) 14.600
   4. Jessica López 13.100

* Balance Beam / Balken
1. Yao Jinnan 15.175 (6.4)
2. Huang Qiushuang 14.775 (5.9)
3. Lauren Mitchell 14.625 (6.2)

Floor exercises / Boden
1. Lauren Mitchell (AUS) 14.400 (6.0)
2. Victoria Moors ( ) 14.025 (6.0, -0.3)
3. Huang Qiushuang ( ) 13.775 (5.6, -0.3)

After publishing her exercise from the Jahnturnfest 2011 in Freyburg (Germany) and her interview there about her philosophy and her active live more than hundredthousand viewers on www.gym-tube.com were thrilled about the fitness of the 86 years old Lady Johanna Quaas from Halle (GER).
Some weeks ago she had a media skill at a German Television Medical program "Hauptsache gesund" and thousends of viewers were responsive to her bars routine ...!!

But at the Challenge Cup in Cottbus last weekend her floor exercise and the parallel bars routine of Johanna Quaas were one of the absolutely highlight in the show program of this FIG competition ....

... an after than: STANDING OVATIONS in the Lausitz Arena of Cottbus - in the show program of the "Challenge Cup" - after her powerful parallel bars routine!!!

GYMmedia INTERNATIONAL  talked with her about her philosophy of life:
** GYMmedia Video --:


In this GYMmedia-Interview she aked: "Why didn't exist no World or European championships " for older age groups ...?"
An interest question, Mr. Grandi ...!!

... and now the exercises videos of Johanna QUAAS (born 1925) achieved more than a MILLION of hits worldwide on Youtube, for instance!!

International gymnastics field brings talent to Everett
*us-gymnastics --:  From World champions and multiple medal winners to the new up-and-comers, U.S. athletes will be alongside talent from 16 other countries next week in Everett, Wash.
The 2012 Kellogg’s Pacific Rim Championships will feature more than 200 athletes in artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, and trampoline, March 16-18, at the Comcast Arena and Comcast Community Ice Rink in Everett, Wash.

For the men, Takuya Nakase of Japan, who finished fifth on the horizontal bar at the 2008 Olympic Games, will be a star feature beside his teammates Koji Uematsu and Tatsuki Nakashima, who both competed at the 2010 World Championships. Nakase also competed at the 2006, 2007, and 2009 World Championships.
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* HISTORY:
Held every two years, the Pacific Rim Championships were held in Honolulu in 2004 and 2006; San Jose in 2008; and Melbourne, Australia, in 2010.
In 2010, the USA won both the men's and women's team titles and three of the all-around titles - John Orozco of the Bronx, N.Y./U.S. Olympic Training Center, junior men; Jordyn Wieber of DeWitt, Mich./Gedderts' Twistars USA, women's junior title; and Rebecca Bross of Plano, Texas/WOGA, senior women. Past all-around champions include the USA's Paul Hamm, Carly Patterson, and Nastia Liukin.
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** The international artistic gymnastics field
for the 2012 Pacific Rim Championships is as follows:

Senior women
Australia: Lauren Mitchell, Emily Little, Georgia Simpson
Canada: Christine Lee, Victoria Moors, Kristina Vaculik
China: Tan Sixin, Luo Peiru, Shang Chunsong
Chinese Taipei: Yu-Chun Chen, Chia-Jung Tsai
Colombia: Jessica Gil
Costa Rica: Karina Regidor
Hong Kong: Hiu Ying Angel Wong, Nim Yan Choi, Ka Man Leung
Japan: Risa Konishi, Wakiko Ryu, Yuri Ishii
Mexico: Sandra Paola Garcia Victoriano, Karla Adriana Martinez Lozano
Russia: Kristina Sidorova, Anastasiya Marchuk, Diana Elkina
United States: To be determined.

Senior men
Australia: Joshua Jefferis, Thomas Pichler, Samuel Offord
Canada: Anderson Loran, Scott Morgan, Robert Watson
China: Liu Rongbing, Cheng Ran, Wang Peng
Chinese Taipei: Szu-Chieh Chen, Sheng-Meng Huang, I-Hsiang Chen
Colombia: Jorge Giraldo
Hong Kong: Kam Wah Liu, Kiu Chung Ng, Wai Hung Shek
Japan: Takuya Nakase, Koji Uematsu, Tatsuki Nakashima
Mexico: Santos Martinez Reyes, Rodolfo Heron Bonilla Ruiz, Axel German Elias Jimenez
New Zealand: Mikhail Koudinov
Philippines: Jean Nathan Monteclaro
Russia: Mikhail Bodnar, Daniil Kazachkov, Pavel Pavlov
Thailand: Bobby Kriangkum
United States: Chris Brooks, Jake Dalton, Sam Mikulak

Junior women
Australia: Alexandra Eade, Madelaine Leydin, Jazminne Casis
Canada: Maegan Chant, Jordyn Pedersen, Victoria Kayen Woo
China: Mei Jie, Wang Wei, Lou Nina
Chinese Taipei: Wan-Yin Chen, Yu-Chun Lai
Costa Rica: Angela Arce
Japan: Yuki Uchiyama, Sakura Yumoto
Mexico: Federica Scheiman Hernandez, Andrea Fernanda Mora Ramirez, Shaden Michelle Cortes Herrera
New Zealand: Hanna Malloch, Courtney Mcgregor, Rebecca Morrison, Brittany Robertson, Charlotte Sullivan, Millie Williamson
Panama: Ana Victoria De Leon, Valentina Brostella
Russia: Ekaterina Baturina, Maria Kharenkova, Anastasia Belova
United States: To be determined.

Junior men
Australia: Brody-Jai Hennessy, Lachlan Savill, Kent Pieterse
Canada: Cory Paterson, Zachary Clay, Joshua Stuart
China: Wu Guanhua, Xu Kangye, Xiao Ruoteng
Chinese Taipei: Fu-Li Liu, Yu-Chin Chao, Jia-En Lin
Costa Rica: Tarik Soto
Hong Kong: Chun Kit Poon, Tzn Tak Seto
Japan: Kaito Imabayashi, Koji Nonomura, Kenzo Seryu
Mexico: Rodolfo Gomez Grosso, Andres Esteban Resendiz Sanchez, Sergio Elias Borquez
New Zealand: Reegan Edwards, Leo Golder
Russia: Grigorii Zyrianov, Nikolay Kovinov, Sergey Stepanov
United States: Marvin Kimble, Sean Melton, Akash Modi

** Senior rhythmic
Australia: Janine Murray, Danielle Prince, Jaelle Cohen
Canada: Jessica Ho, Maria Kitkarska, Nerissa Mo
China: Yang Yuqing, Peng Linyi, Liu Jiahui
Chinese Taipei: Yuan-Yuan Wang, Yun Kung
Hong Kong: Hung Yan Wong
Korea: SuLin Lee
Mexico: Veronica Alejandra Navarro Blizzard, Alejandra Vazquez Lopez, Karla Diaz Arnal
New Zealand: Amelia Coleman
United States: Julie Zetlin, Polina Kozitskiy, Alexis Page

Junior rhythmic
Australia: Michaela Joannides, Amy Quinn, Michaela Whitehouse
Canada: Patricia Bezzoubenko, Kiah Dick, Alexandra Fomina
China: Xu Xiaolan, Xu Kemeng, Ding Ziyi
Chinese Taipei: Chia-Hui Sung, Chia-Yi Lu
Hong Kong: Hiu Wing Heung, Stacey Devina Chan, Lai Chun Cheng
Korea: Song E Chun, NaKyung Lee
Malaysia: Fatin Zakirah Jalany Zain Jalany, Emma Ooi, Qing Tong Tai
Mexico: Marialicia Ortega Elizondo, Cindy Hassel Gallegos Barrera, Edna Maryel Garcia Amor
New Zealand: Mackenzie Figgitt, Annaleise Graham
United States: Laura Zeng, Julia Garbuz, Jennifer Rokhman

** Senior men trampoline
Australia: Blake Gaudry, Shaun Swadling
Canada: Jason Burnett, Keegan Soehn
Mexico: Jose Alberto Vargas Garcia, Yael Tellez
Russia: Mikhail Melnik, Aleksey Ilichev
United States: Steven Gluckstein, Neil Gulati

Senior women trampoline
Australia: Alexandra Freeman, Eva Kierath
Canada: Karen Cockburn, Rosannagh Maclennan
Mexico: Alejandra Fernandez Lomeli
New Zealand: Penny Bennett
Russia: Galina Goncharenro, Victoria Voronina
United States: Savannah Vinsant, Alaina Williams

Junior men trampoline
Australia: Luke Seal, Blake Rutherford
Canada: Trevor Stirling
Mexico: Esaul Ceballos Cervera, Cesar Prieto Angel
New Zealand: Dylan Schmidt
Russia: Andrey Yudin, Oleg Selyutin
United States: Cody Gesuelli, Colin Duda

Junior women trampoline
Australia: Nikita Wilson-Beddoe, Leanne Janse Van Rensburg
Canada: Alexandria Giesbrecht, Karine Dufour
Mexico: Dafne Carolina Navarro, Karina Cantu Martinez
Russia: Yana Pavlova, Susana Kochesor
United States: Shaylee Dunavin, Maggie Gallagher
* Source: us gymnastics

ECh-test of the exciting spevial class!
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On the last weekend in April - just a week before the upcoming European Championships in Brussels (Belgium) - there will be a high-profile and interesting triple meet of women's artistic gymnastics:
Hosts Germany to receive the last World Cup surprise medaillenlos remained Romanians and the ambitious Olympic host team from the United Kingdom, which ranked fifth at the last Worlds in Tokyo in front of the national team of Germany!

Jordyn WIEBER kicked off her Olympic year with a victory and may have found a new threat to her gold medal hopes. Wieber, the reigning world champion, captured her third American Cup at New York's Madison Square Garden, finishing with a score of 61.032 to beat teammate Alexandra Raisman by two-tenths of a point in the first major prep for the London Games.
In the men's event, American Danell LYVA roared back from a slow start to win, surging from fourth to first in the final rotation with a thrilling high bar performance.

The 2012 "AT&T American Cup", part of the International Gymnastics Federation World Cup series, marks the start of the road to London for many of the world’s top gymnasts seeking to make history this summer.
2011 World all-around champion Jordyn Wieber of DeWitt, Mich./Gedderts' Twistars USA; 2011 World parallel bars champion Danell Leyva o(Miami/Team Hilton HHonors; Universal Gymnastics); 2011 World team champion Alexandra Raisman of Needham, Mass./Brestyan's American Gymnastics;
and 2011 World team bronze-medalist John Orozco of the Bronx, N.Y./Team Hilton HHonors (U.S. Olympic Training Center), who finished fifth in the all-around at the 2011 World Championships, will represent the USA at this prestigious event.

After Philipp BOY now the second German athlete, the 2011 Worlds debutante and all-around tenth in Tokyo, Nadine JAROSCH, refused the invitation to the "2012 American Cup" at the first March weekend in New York.
Because an impression in her right foot the 17-years old gymnast from the TV Detmold have to take a break of her physical strain in the coming two weeks

So the German Gymnastics Federation DTB will start with two athletes only at the 2012 American Cup, with Marcel Nguyen (TSV Unterhaching) and Lisa-Katherina Hill (TuS Chemnitz-Altendorf) - and the new A-World Cup modus of FIG becomes an awkward phase more and more in its second season...! 

The 2012 International Elite competition WOGA CLASSIC will take place Saturday, 18 February, in the Dr Pepper Arena and Frisco Conference Center, with a smaller than most prior editions and only Ukrainians Krystyna Sankova and Olena Vasylieva making it international.
<< The big news of the competition is Rebecca Bross’ (USA) return to competition! Bross saw her 2011 season cut short when she dislocated her knee in August at the United States Visa National Championships. Others expected to compete include junior standout Katelyn Ohashi and Polina Shennikova.
... more later.

<< Kristina VACULIK of Whitby, Ont., won the women’s all around title on the first day of competition Friday at the Elite Canada artistic gymnastics meet.
Vaculik, competing for the first time since helping Canada qualify a full women’s team for the 2012 Olympics in January  in London (GBR), topped the field on beam, placed second on floor and uneven bars and was sixth on vault for a total score of 56.350 points.
On men's side after the first day's all-around competition the former junior Robert WATSON (Richmond Gymnastics) won with a score of 84,100, but at the final day Anderson LORAN got two golds at the apparatus ...

At the women's final day four different girls won the apparatus titel, but all-around champion Victoria Vaculik won two silver (bars, beam) and one bronze (floor)...: 

* App. FINALS - Champions:
* Elli Black                  (vault)
* Brittany Rogers      (Uneven bars)
* Madeline Gardiner (Balence beam) and
* Victoria Moors       (Floor exerc.)
     > Women's results