23rd UEG Congress 2009
*UEG-press--: The delegates of the 47 UEG federations have elected with 24 votes Georges Guelzec, France, actual vice – president, to the presidency for the next period 2010 to 2013.
The leaving president Dimitrios Dimitropoulos has received 22 votes.
Four candidates were running for the 3 mandates of vice-presidency.
The new presidential board of the UEG will be formed, in addition to the President Georges Guelzec, of
- Mrs. Malin Eggerts Forsmark SWE (new),
- Mr. Ruedi Hediger SUI (new) and Paul Garber GBR (re-elected).

 

Swiss trainer caroussel is still moving
*stv-info --: With the hiring of the 42 year old, French Laurent Tricoire the Swiss trainer team national squad artistic gymnastics is again complete as of the 1st of January 2010.
<< Laurent TRICOIRE will train the national squad artistic gymnastics mens in Maggalingen with the chief trainer Bernhard Fluck and Frédéric Forrler from the 1st of January 2010. Laurent Tricoire worked from 1993 until 2009 as a trainer in the artistic gymnastics centre for women in Marseille, France.

GOAL: Olympics qualifications 2012
The Swiss gymnastics association is convinced to have achieved optimal conditions for the new trainer team, in order to reach the goal of a «qualification of the team for the Olympic games 2012 in London».

 

* Source, STV, Renate Ried, Medienchefin STV

To the 24th time the World Cup organizers of the "Tournament of Masters" every year in spring were also the host for the best European talents of artistic gymnastics, at the "INTERNATIONAL GWG-CUP 2009, which took place from Sep 19 - 20 in Cottbus, Germany.
A strong Dutch delegation came with the European Junior Champion Bart Deurloo, (photo, left), who won the all-around competioon in the age group 15 - 18. The best talents came from Switzerland, Great Britain and also Lituania, with the winner of the age group 11 - 14, Tomas Kuzmickas (LTU).

The best of these participants in Cottbus will be the favourites of the 2010 European Junior Championships in Birmingham ....

One expected anything but a German double win at the 31st SWISS CUP 2009, but the championship coupling of Kim BUI and Matthias FAHRIG as Germany I proved to be the Swiss dream team at the end of the final and won with 30,400 points ahead of the Germany II team with Elisabeth SEITZ / Thomas TARANU, which could keep - with a breath of 0,025 points - the host-duo Ariella KAESLIN / Niki BOESCHENSTEIN (29,675) at a distance. The fourth place in this final was taken by Mykola KUKSENKOV / Yana DEMYANCHUK of the Ukraine. Romania with Dragulescu and Russia with Semenova dropped out early. 

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* fig-press--: Former world champion Daiane dos Santos from Brasil tested positive for Furosemide during a non-competition doping control in July this year. Santos' club, Pinheiros, confirmed the International Gymnastics Federation notice on Friday.
Following standard procedure and after notifying the gymnast in question, the case was submitted to the F.I.G. Disciplinary Commission on October 29, 2009.
The gymnast’s right to reserve a hearing extends to November 13, 2009, after which date the Commission will rule and submit its conclusions to the FIG Presidential Commission for a final decision.
The gymnast has 21 days to appeal to the FIG Appeal Tribunal.

Pinheiros also said Brazil's Gymnastics Federation and the nation's Olympic committee had been informed of Santos' use of Furosemide while she was out of competition and had been asked to pass on the information to FIG.
The Brazil federation removed Santos from its Olympic squad in October 2008, which Pinheiros' statement said excluded her from having to undergo drug testing.
After hours calls to FIG were not immediately returned to clarify if an athlete no longer competing or on a national squad was free from testing.
* Source: Brazil & Canadian press

Rudolf SPIETH, born on the 2nd November 1909, was one of the western impulse givers for German and also interational apparatus and artistic gymnastics.
The once in 1831 of great, great-grandfather Wilhelm Ludwig Spieth in Oberesslingen fouded carpenters shop, developed over the genertions to one of the world wide best known makes of gymnastics apparati.
Especially after the second world war and and due to the personal partnership between Rudolf Spieth and Richard Reuther, an Oppauer artistic gymnast and constructor, essentail technological accents of the making of modern artistic gymnastics apparati were made.
One of the first and most important developments were for instance the construction of a new type of coil spring board.

Rudolf Spieth - then as artistic gymnastics referree of the DTB and at the end rather unlucky - whose top gymnast career was hindered by the consequences of a child paralysis, produced the most modern gymnastics apparati in Eßlingen.
For instance mats with double swing floor for floor gymnastics (cost then : 8,000 Marks) or an especially elastic unevenbar (development costs : 50,000 Marks).
Both neu developments were officially established for all international championships by the international gymnastics alliance, of which Rudolf Spieth was Vice President o the technical commission.
So the Businessman from Essling supplied the Olympics gymnastics championships in 1964 in Tokio and was also the Olympics supplier in Mexiko 1968. 40 countries bought already then, the Spieth products of Spieth licences for reproduction. On his double floor and on the bar the best of the world experienced their top achievements.

They form the credo also of the most modern apparati developments and generations of the "SPIETH Gymnastic Ltd., whose last great innovation, the vault table "Ergojet", aswell as also all other following modern championship and trainings apparati - which meet the current requirements of the worlds best athletes and take part n the technological top standards at Olympic games, world- and European championships in the memory of  Rudolf Spieths.
(c) Eckhard Herholz, GYMmedia INTERNATIONAL

Keatings continues to shine
*baga--:  World all around Silver medallist Daniel Keatings proved why he is one the best by taking the 2009 British Senior Championships.The Huntingdon superstar returned to action in front of a familiar London crowd to re-claim the prestigious tile he won in 2007 from last year’s winner Kristian Thomas of Earls, who like Dan also excelled at the recent World Championships when he finished in 6th place at the o2.
The Bronze medal went to Daniel’s Huntingdon teammate Luke Folwell.

* Juniors.
The under 16 and under 18 events ran simultaneously giving the audience a chance to see the all of the future stars of British Gymnastics together.
* Under 18:
Reiss Beckford (South Essex) moved seamlessly up to the under 18 age-group to be comfortably crowned 2009 British Champion with a winning score of 83.600 from club teammate Anthony Hughes (79.400), with Huntingdon’s Cameron Mackenzie in all-around Bronze (79.200).

The Swiss Nr.1 gymnast Ariella Kaeslin also made her mark at home after her world championship silver in London .
The 22 year old from Luzern won three days before the  SWISS CUP 2009 on Wednesday the 26th Artur Gander- Memorial 2009 in Morges.
At this invitation-competition, which somewhat counts as the Swiss-Cup overture, she won with 42,4 points infront of the Romanian Diana Chelaru (41,95) and the Russian Ksenia Semenowa (40,45). However the Olympics finalist refused the highest difficulty level on the vault table and in a clever way secured the all-around win ( 3 of 4 apparati of chooice, excluding floor). The favorite Semenowa previously fell out with a fall on the uneven bars.
In the Mens competition, the current floor and vault world champion Marian Dragulescu was the achiever.

The German world championship starter Elisabeth Seitz from Mannheim - who will make the 2nd German starter couple with Eugen Spiridonov on Saturday - managed (despite a few beam uncertainties) a good 7th place in the womens competition. 

>> detailed results

US-gymnastics --: The junior U.S. men’s team convincingly defeated Germany and Canada in a friendly competition at the Olympic Training Center on October 24, 2009, in Colorado Springs, Colo.
The U.S team earned 346.750 total points, finishing first on every apparatus. Germany finished in second place with 324.900, while Canada took third with 324.250. A sweep of the all-around by the USA was led by CJ Maestas, who won with a total of 87.000. Maestas also took first on still rings (15.100) and parallel bars (14.700). Jesse Silverstein earned second in the all-around with 85.400. Sam Mikulak took third with an all-around score of 84.900, winning vault (16.050) and tying for first on horizontal bar (14.100) with Robert Watson (CAN), who ranked on fourth in all-around ...

... all in good hands with "Reichel"!!
With it's highbar straps, the brand "Reichel" Germany's gymnast Fabian Hambuechen for instance became world champion, the Italian highbar Olympics winner Igor Cassina got the Olympics gold. The quality products of the German saddlery  "Reichel" from Gahlenz, a district of Saxon Oederan, are worn by modern gymnastics starts, by Olympics winners, world- and european champions, national champions and many newcomer gymnasts all over the world. The protective hand leathers for the highbar, bars, uneven bars, with the quality seal "R."  from the origin country of these disciplines, are much sought after worldwide. One cannot imagine high class or amateur sports without thesm and many stars get them personally fitted and individually made. This German craft enterprice under the thoughtful management of Albrecht Reichel celebrated it's 125th anniversary and has gained a worldwide reputation for unbeaten quality. 

Mainly meant are the ex-highbar world champion Fabian Hambuechen, Olympic winner Igor Cassina (ITA) or Morgan Hamm (USA), a great part of the Swiss and Austrian and Spanish national teams, as well as the entire Italian team. 

Especially highlighted is the provision of leathers for the artistic gymnastics newcomers, particularly under the aspect of preservation of resillience.
Therefore the Boss Albrecht Reichel is present at many of the newcomer competitions and in direct contact with the trainings and practises and their exponents and is concerned with the individual special manufacture of customers requirements.
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