British and Russian Teams competing in Worlds 2006....

BAGA-info: --- British Gymnastics are delighted to announce the Men’s and Women’s Artistic gymnastics Teams that will shortly depart for Aarhus (DEN) to compete in the World Championships, 13 - 21 October 2006.
The Women’s and the Men’s Teams feature a very strong group of gymnasts with Beth Tweddle (City of Liverpool) and Ross Brewer (Sutton GC) leading the way.....

Strong British National Gymnastics Teams on the way to Aarhus 2006

Beth Tweddle, Melbourne 2005

World Championships in Artistic Gymnastics (Men & Women)
- by Vera Atkinson and Tim Peake; Oct 4, 2006 -

..... For Beth TWEDDLE, Britain’s greatest ever gymnast, the World Championships represent another competition where she can aim for victory on A. Bars against the world’s finest gymnastic talent. Having already won two Bronze World Championships medals (Anaheim 2003 and Melbourne 2005), Beth will be hoping for even better in Aarhus.
Women's last training session
The Women’s Team features a young group of gymnasts who have all developed hugely over the last year.
Melanie Roberts and Aisling Williams, both from the City of Liverpool, contributed to the GB Teams 7th place finish in this year’s European Championships in Volos (GRE).
Welsh Champion Lynette Lisle (Barry), 2006 British Vault Champion Emma White (Huntingdon Olympic GC) and UK Schools Games all-around champion Olivia Bryl (Barry) will also be looking to impress on the world stage.

The British Women’s Team took 9th place at the last World Championships in Anaheim (USA) in 2003 and their target is to keep their place between the World’s elite.

Ross Brewer, ECh Volos 2006

Three times British Men’s Champion Ross BREWER meanwhile will be aiming to continue his good form that saw him lead England to a team Bronze in the 2006 Commonwealth Games.

Men's last training session
For the Men, Commonwealth Games gymnasts Ryan Bradley (Earls School), Adam Cox (City of Leeds) and Luke Folwell (Huntingdon Olympic) will be expecting to produce there best and finish in the top 24 teams in order to participate in the next year’s World Championships in Stuttgart (GER), where only the top 12 Teams will gain Olympic Qualification for Beijing 2008.

Sam Hunter (Notts GC) member of the 4th place Junior European Team, (>> EJCh Volos / GRE) and Danny Lawrence (South Essex) European Senior Team gymnast complete the GB’s ever-improving men’s team.

Source: BAGA press release

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Russian Gymnastics Federation named its national teams:

WOMEN
Yelena Zamolodchikova, Anna Grudko, Svetlana Klyukina, Yulia Lozhechko, Polina Miller, Anna Pavlova, Kristina Pravdina.

MEN:
Alexander Safoshkin, Nikolai Kryukov, Alexei Bondarenko, Maxim Devyatovsky, Dmitry Gogotov, Sergei Khorokhordin, Yuri Ryazanov.

European men's floor exercise champion Anton Golotsutskov and women's European team members Irina Isayeva and Nadezhda Ivanova will miss worlds because of injuries and health problems.
Russian's men won the team title at the 2006 European Championships in Volos - women finished third.
But at the last team world championships (ANAHEIM 2003) both teams finished out of the medals.