Artistic Gymnastics

British Gymnastics hosting World Forum in Coach Education

03. Dezember 2003  
Shropshire / Great Britain  
Artistic Gymnastics

British Gymnastics hosting World Forum in Coach Education

BAGA pronounced...:

The Britisch Gymnastics Federation pronounced, that a strong group of experts have arrived at Lilleshall National Sports Centre in Shropshire for the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) Academies, Level 3 - the first one that the FIG have organised since this new Educational Scientific Programme has been launched two years ago...

Slava Corn (FIG; CAN)

... more information
The fact reflects the high international recognition and respect that British Gymnastics have won internationally over the last few years.
Top level coaches from all over the world arrived at Lilleshall on Tuesday, 2nd December with ten British coaches getting ready to join the course, which will end with Assessment, Evaluation, and for the successful candidates - Brevet Accreditation on December 9th.
The FIG Vice President Slava Corn who chaired the consolidation meeting of the lecturers at Lilleshall on Tuesday, 2nd December, hopes for 'a very high quality course, which will contribute to raising the level of knowledge of some of the top coaches in the world, thus helping the further development of Gymnastics worldwide'.
Lecturing at the Academies will be recognised experts:
>> Leonid Arkaev (RUS), the most successful gymnastics coach ever, who, between 1973 and 2003, has helped producing 388 medals at Olympic Games and World and European Championships, and is now member of the FIG Executive;
>> Nelly Kim (BLR)- the 1976 and 1980 Olympic Champion on Floor and 1976 Olympic Champion on Vault, now a member of the FIG Women’s Technical Committee;
>> Hardy Fink (CAN) - Vice President of the FIG Men’s Technical Committee;
>>Mariana Bitang (ROM)- National Coach for the Romanian Women’s Team, 2000 Olympic and many times World Champions;
>> Dr John Salmela (CAN) one of the leading expert in Sports Psychology in the world;
>> Prof. Keith Russel from the Saskatchewan (CAN) University; recognised world expert on Coach Education;
>> Eduard Jarov (KAZ), current Canadian Men’s National Coach, who coached the first performer of the triple somersault, Valery Lukin, 1988 Olympic High Bar & Team champion;
>> Brian McVey - lecturer at the Seneca College, Toronto and top Women’s Gymnastics Coach.
The FIG Academies co-ordinator and the man who gave the first and most important contribution to the venture is Adrian Stan, former British Gymnastics Technical Director for Women, who brought the British Women’s’ Team into the first division of world gymnastics.
The importance of the event will also be highlighted by the presence of the FIG President Prof. Bruno Grandi, IOC member who will arrive for the conclusive part of the Academies, on 8th December.
Source: BAGA, by Vera Atkinson

PREVIEW: 2nd European Cup: Final in Charleroi

03. Dezember 2003  
Charlerois / Belgium  
Artistic Gymnastics

PREVIEW: 2nd European Cup: Final in Charleroi

German Participant

The 2nd edition of the European Cup for Clubs in artistic and rhythmic gymnastics will held on December 6 and 7 in Charleroi / Belgium.

The qualified clubs will participate in the semi-finals on Saturday and the final on Sunday.
GYMmedia will report directly from Charlerois!)


II. European Cup for Clubs 2003
The following clubs are qualified for the semi-finals on December 6 and 7 in Charleroi (BEL):

Men's artistic gymnastics:
Jyväskylä (FIN) - Orléans (FRA)
Lille (FRA) - Hanovre (GER)

Women's artistic gymnastics:
Brixia (ITA) - Dunkerque (FRA)
Heathrow (GBR) - Lissone (ITA) + Charleroi, organising club

Rhythmic gymnastics:
Gallarate (ITA) - Brno (CZE)
Montpellier (FRA) - Fano (ITA)

>> (GYMmedia reports on Sunday evening)

II. European Cup: Orleans wins in Charleroi

07. Dezember 2003  
Charleroi / Belgium  
Artistic Gymnastics

II. European Cup: Orleans wins in Charleroi

Orleans vs Lille in the Sunday's Final
The French team of Orleans, winner of the first event of Saturday's semi-final, was also the best in the Sunday's final competion:
Orleans won against Lille with 165,388 : 158,438 points.

In women's category the team of Brixia beat the girls from Lissone (both Italy), with 105,925 : 104,900 points.

In Rhythmic gymnastics - also with two Italien clubs - Fano won clear against Gallarate (267,550 : 260,475)...
Sunday's FINAL RESULTS
>> Detailed Results, Men's Teams

>> Detailed Results, Women's Teams

>> Detailed Results, Rhythmic Gymnastics
Saturday's SEMI FINAL, reported by UEG:
In men’s gymnastics, the game between Hanover, without Toba and Nonin, as announced, and Lille was exciting until the last routine. After five rotations, the two teams where separated by only 0,25 points. The last apparatus for both teams was the high-bar. Gaétan Dupont, the best French boy, has obtained 9,413 for his routine (start value 10.0). Kharkov, with 4 spectacular flying elements and a good reception pushed his team with 9,050 points to the final qualification.

Heathrow in women’s gymnastics was competing without any input guest. So it was very hard for the young English girls to fight against the two other clubs Lissone (qualified for the final) and Charleroi (bronce medal),which was qualified as the hosting club.

In rhythmic gymnastics, the Italian club from Fano took the lead after the first rotation and won this game very easily thanks the good routines from Laura Zacchilli, a world top-ten gymnast, and the Georgian input Inga Tavdishvili. The young Belgian girls from Verviers, with their team leader Donatienne Geron, hjave been for this event qualified after the retreat of Montpellier and Oduba.
Three teams have played their first Joker successfully: Hanover (pommel horse), Charleroi (floor) and Lissone (beam).
source: ueg-website

All Results:
Artistic Gymnastics, Men
Lille (FRA) - NTT TK Hannover (GER) 157,963 : 157,838
Orleans (FRA) - Jyvaskylä (FIN) 164,276 : 154,676
>> Detailed results, Orleans-Jyväskylä
>> Detailed results, Lille - Hannover

FINAL:
Orleans - Lille

Artistic Gymnastics, Women:
Brixia (ITA) - Dunkerque (FRA) 103,075 : 97,125
Lissone (FRA)- Charleroi (FRA) - Heathrow (GBR) 103,625 :101,225:98,500
>> Detailed results, Brixia-Dunkerque
>> Detailed results, Lissone-Charleroi-Heathrow

FINAL:
Brixia - Lissone

Rhythmic Gymnastics
Gallarate (ITA) - Brno (CZE) 262,875 : 199,925
Fano (ITA) - Verviers (BEL) 259,525 : 200,650
>> Detailed results, Galarate-Brno
>> Detailed results, Fano-Verviers

FINAL:
Gallarate - Fano

GYMmedia World Ranking: Final Standing 2003 after Stuttgart

03. Dezember 2003  
Stuttgart / Berlin  
Artistic Gymnastics

GYMmedia World Ranking: Final Standing 2003 after Stuttgart

Eight Years GYMmedia World Ranking List
The both tops of the world ranking became solid their positions also after the last world cup 2003, the '21st DTB -Pokal' last weekend in Stuttgart.
Svetlana Khorkina (RUS), but also the Bulgarion Jordan Jovtchev are the unchallenged 'NUMBER ONE' in the world of artistic gymnastics
GYMmedia published these world ranking before a certain time from the Olympic Games of Atlanta 1996 on. seit den Olympischen Spielen von Atlanta 1996. The topical lists includes 235 male and 245 female gymnasts, coming from 46 different countries, which are present on the international podiums...

Vice world champion Kyle Shewfeldt

GYMmedia World Ranking, Final Standing 2003:
MEN
- Canada's Kyle Shewfeldt, the winner on floor and third on vault was the most successful athlet, together with the Romanian Ioan Suciu and the Australian Philippe Rizzo: Each of them won 20 world ranking points, and Rizzo made a jump in the list from 45 to 37 place!

All together 35 male gymnasts were qualified for the finals an they came from 21 (!) different countries. The medal winners came from 10, the winners from 6 different nations.

>> GYMmedia World Ranking List, Men

>> Stuttgart: Superscore, Men

Oksana Tschusowitina-
jumped to rank 3!

GYMmedia World Ranking, Final Standing 2003:
WOMEN
Behind the sovereign leading Svetlana Khorkina came the second Russian, the double Olympic Champion Elena Zamolodchikova, but the little sensation is the third place of the 28 years old Oksana Chusovitina, an exeption among the top of world gymnastics!

Only 18 differnt female gymnasts were qualified for the finals and they came from 11 coubtries.
The medals went to 6 , nations the winners came from 4 different federations.
The topical world ranking list includes 235 gymnasts from 35 nations.
>> GYMmedia World Ranking List

>> Stuttgart: Superscore, Women

(C) GYMmedia 2003
- byEckhard Herholz and Falk Naundorf

21st DTB-Cup: 2nd final day

30. November 2003  
Stuttgart / GER  
Artistic Gymnastics

21st DTB-Cup: 2nd final day

Ryota Suzuki (JPN) -
winner on high bars

On the second final day of the DTB-Cup 2003 in Stuttgart Kyle Shewfelt (CAN) won on floor against Isao Yoneda (JPN). On women's vault Olympic Champion Elena Zamolodchikova (RUS) won the winners final against World Champion Oksana Chusovitina (UZB). The best gymnast on parallel bars was Mitja Petkovsek (SLO) in front of Philippe Rizzo (AUS).
On beam two Romanians took part in the winners final: Catalina Ponor was better than Oana Ban. On high bars Ryota Suzuki (JPN) won - and Philippe Rizzo got 2nd place again.

Kyle Shewfelt (CAN) - winner on floor

It could be seen that even at this late stage during the year a lot of World- class performances were presented. The entry field has been mixed with well-known stars like Svetlana Khorkina or Marius Urzica and new faces like Li Di or Emilie Lepennec. Svetlana Khorkina has reached all 4 finals in Stuttgart but shortly missed the winner’s final in three of them. Finally she ended up three times on the 3rd rank and won the silver medal on floor. Self-consiously she then commented that if this had been an even more important competition like e.g. World Championships, she certainly would have won.
No athlete this year managed to win 2 finals. The 10 different winners came from 8 different countries. Only Romania and Russia will be able to take home 2 gold medals.

The GYMmedia-Team for DTB-Cup:
Lisa Worthmann, Rainer Weishaar, Sven Karg. Photos: Volker Minkus; Translation: Lisa Worthmann
Editor: Sonja Schmeißer

Sven Kwiatkowski (GER)

floor men

Winners Final
1. Shewfelt Kyle CAN 9,862
2. Yoneda Isao JPN 9,162

Final
1. Shewfelt Kyle CAN 9,775
2. Yoneda Isao JPN 9,687
3. Suciu Ioan Silviu ROM 9,662
4. Dragulescu Marian ROM 9,650
5. Sapronenko Evgeni LAT 9,625
6. Vyoral David CZE 9,412
7. Zozulia Roman UKR 9,387
8. Kwiatkowski Sven GER 9,062
9. Gal Robert HUN 8,987
Floor men
This final took place on a vey high level and the audience got to see a fireworks of acrobatics.
Marian Dragulescu from Romania presented a brilliant routine with double layout – salto fw. – salto fw. 1 1/2 twists - forward role; whip - layout bw. 1 1/2 twists – layout fw. 1/1 twist – layout fw. 1 1/2 twists - salto fw. tucked to front support; a Super-E element at the end with his tucked double-double. With slight insecurities in his routine he missed the winner’s final (9.650).
Kyle Shefwelt started tremendously with whip – layout bw. 1 1/2 twists – layout fw. 1 1/2 twists; layout bw. 2 1/2 twists – layout fw. 1 1/2 twists –forward role; and he also ended tremendously with a tucked double-double (9.775).
Another brilliant routine followed from Ioan Silviu Sucia with layout bw. 1 1/2 twists – salto fw. 1/1 twist – salto fw. 1 1/2 twist; layout bw. 2 1/2 twists – salto fw. – 1 1/2 salto fw. - forward role; in the end a tucked Tsukahara, a clean and good presentation (9.662).
Isao Yoneda with layout bw. 2 1/2 twists – layout fw. 1/1 twists – layout fw. 1 1/2 twists; layout bw. 2 1/2 twists – tucked salto fw. – 1 1/2 salto fw.; in the end tucked Tsukahara – a very nice composed routine which he also presented brilliantly! (9.687)

In the winner’s final the presentation from Shefwelt got even better. He presented a brilliant routine (9.862)! Yoneda with major mistakes in the first series and a large step on the landing at the end of the routine (9.162). So this final has been decided and the victory went to Kyle Shefwelt.

Elena Zamolodchikova (RUS)

vault women

Winners Final
1. Zamolodchikova Elena RUS 9,431
2. Chusovitina Oksana UZB 9,337

Final
1. Zamolodchikova Elena RUS 9,362
2. Chusovitina Oksana UZB 9,275
3. Khorkina Svetlana RUS 9,268
4. Harmes Suzanne NED 9,081
5. Dos Santos Daiane BRA 9,056
6. Musik Yvonne GER 9,024
7. Soupe Nelly FRA 8,931
8. Yang Yun CHN 8,781
Vault women
After having won this event in Stuttgart during the last 4 years, Oksana Chusovitina once again reached the winner’s final this year but in the she narrowly missed the gold medal.
Oksana Chusovitina: 1st Handspring- salto fw. 1 1/2 turn (9.200) ; 2nd layout Tsukahara 1 1/2 turn, with a stuck landing (9.350).
Svetlana Khorkina: 1st Yurchenko 1 1/2 twists, well presented but with a small step on the landing (9.100); 2nd Khorkina with slight technical mistakes but a safe landing (9.437).
Elena Zamolodchikova: 1st Yurchenko double twist, very high, only a small step on the landing (9.350); 2nd Tsukahara double twist with a stuck landing (9.362).

In the winner’s final both competitors, Chusovitina and Zamolodchikova, started again with good presentations. In the end Zamolodchikova narrowly won this final.

Mitja Petkovsek (SLO)

parallel bars men

Winners Final
1. Petkovsek Mitja SLO 9,775
2. Rizzo Philippe AUS 8,600
Finale
1. Petkovsek Mitja SLO 9,687
2. Rizzo Philippe AUS 9,637
3. Goncharov Valeri UKR 9,600
4. McClure Brett USA 9,425
5. Kryukov Nikolai RUS 9,100
6. Urzica Marius ROM 8,837
7. Maree Florent FRA 8,687
8. Andergassen Thomas GER 8,600
Bars men
Another very high-level final in the men’s field.
Mitja Petkovsek opened this final with a World-class routine. Well-presented basket-combinations; high straddled salto fw. to support and a stuck landing of his double salto dismount (SV 10.000; final score 9.687).
Philippe Rizzo with a good combination Healy from one bar – Healy; basket – Belle; double salto dismount with only a slight step on the landing (SV10.000, final score 9.637).
Valeri Goncharov with basket – piked Belle ; slight problems with his combination Healy from one bar – Healy; in the end a very well presented double piked dismount (SV 10.000, final score 9.600).
Petkovsek presented another great routine in the winner’s final while Rizzo had a fall from the apparatus at his Healy from one bar. So the decision in this final was clear and the victory went to Mitja Petkovsek.

Catalina Ponor (ROM)

beam women

Winners Final
1. Ponor Catalina ROM 9,587
2. Ban Oana Mihaela ROM 9,475

Finale
1. Ponor Catalina ROM 9,437
2. Ban Oana Mihaela ROM 9,287
3. Khorkina Svetlana RUS 9,225
4. Pavlova Anna RUS 9,037
5. Harmes Suzanne NED 9,025
6. Chusovitina Oksana UZB 8,925
7. Hobbs Vanessa GBR 8,812
8. Slater Allana
Beam women
The audience got to see a nice beam finale with interesting routines and only few major errors.
Catalina Ponor from Romania showed a beautiful routine with only very slight insecurities; ff 1/2 turn – Menichelli – split layout fw.; layout fw. – Menichelli – Menichelli one-armed; double piked dismount (SV 10.000/ final score 9.437).
Oana Ban with a speedy routine; Menichelli – ff – layout bw. 1/1 turn; slight insecurities at her tucked front, double salto tucked sicmount with a stuck landing (SV 9.900/ final score 9.287).
Svetlana Chorkina started off with a good and safely presented split layout fw. followed by Menichelli – split layout bw. – Rulfova; Menichelli 1/1 turn; nice and clean gymnastics jumps; Gainer 3/1 twists dismount of which she slightly missed to finish the last rotation (SV 9.900/ final score 9.225).
The audience has not been happy at all with the score of 8.925 for Oksana Chusovitina who presented a nice routine. However, with her SV of 9.500 she didn’t have the chance to reach the winner’s final.

In the winner’s final the two Romanian gymnasts Ponor and Ban even managed to improve their performance from before; two very well and speedy presented routines. In the end probably the one tenth higher SV made the difference and the victory went to Catalina Ponor.

>>Special GYMmedia Service:
>> WOMEN's SUPERS SCORE
>> GYMmedia World Ranking List, Women

Ryota Suzuki (JPN)

high bars

Winners Final
1. Suzuki Ryota JPN 9,700
2. Rizzo Philippe AUS 9,662

Finale
1. Rizzo Philippe AUS 9,687
2. Suzuki Ryota JPN 9,650
2. Pegan Aljaz SLO 9,650
4. Yoneda Isao JPN 9,562
5. Kwiatkowski Sven GER 9,525
6. Jeltkov Alexander CAN 9,087
6. Tanskanen Jani FIN 9,087
8. Maras Vlasios GRE 8,887
High bar men In contrast to the two previous men’s final on this Sunday, the high bar final did’t take place on the same high level. Nonetheless the audience has been thrilled.
Ryota Suzuki started with secure El-grip combinations, eagle swing 1/1 turn combined with layout Markelov; layout double-double dismount with a stuck landing (SV 10.000/ final score 9.650).
Philippe Rizzo at the beginning of the routine with eagle swing 1/1 turn combined with clean El-grip combinations; eagle swing 1/2 - Deff; again a stuck layout double-double dismount (SV 10.000/ final score 9.687).
Aljaz Pegan with a perfect presented Pegan; Tkatchev piked – Tkatchev straddled – Gienger; dismount triple salto tucked which was landed a little bit low (SV 10.000/ final score 9.650).
At the end of this final two 2nd places could be seen for Suzuki and Rizzo. In the World Cup regulations it is stated that in these cases the SV’s of the routines as well as the deductions of the B- judging panel are considered. The gymnasts which received less deductions by the B- judges in the end is the one who reaches the higher rank. In this case it has been Philippe Rizzo. In the winner’s final again two World- class routines were shown. Both participants, Suzuki (9.7000) and Rizzo (9.662) finished their routines without mistakes. In the end the victory narrowly went to the Japanese gymnast.

>>Special GYMmedia Service:
>> MEN's SUPERS SCORE
>> GYMmedia World Ranking List, Men

>> Report, first Final Day (Saturday)
>> Report: Qualification (Friday)

21st DTB-Cup: 1st final day

29. November 2003  
Stuttgart / GER  
Artistic Gymnastics

21st DTB-Cup: 1st final day


Many great performances were presented on this first final's day of the 21st DTB-Cup in Stuttgart.

On pommel horse China's Li, Di won the Winners Final against Olympic Champion Marius Urzica. The best on women's floor was Daiane Dos Santos (BRA), the winner on vault became Marian Dragulescu (ROM).
Emilie Lepennec (FRA) won on uneven bars, Alexander Safoshkin (RUS) was the best gymnast on rings today.

The first day of finals at the World Cup in Stuttgart 2003 already begann in a sportive way with performances by young gymnasts from the Stuttgart region. Traditionally in Stuttgart the finals don’t take place in the Olympic order. So on today’s Saturday the finals on floor and uneven bars in the women’s field and on pommel horse, vault and rings in the men’s one were presented.

On Saturday the audience has been thrilled by a World- premiere. Even the experts in the audience exchanged surprised views and asked themselves if they really just have seen what they thought to have seen… – Daiane Dos Santos from Brazil upgraded her floor routine in the winner’s final with a layout arabian at the beginning of her routine! The current World Champion then explained that previously she only had tried this element twice on floor. Otherwise it only had been trained on the tubling lane. “However, my coach said you are ready to do it and can make it, so I just tried it.”
With pommel horse gymnastics in perfection presented himself the young Chinese gymnast Li Di. Internationally still unknown, he mentioned “Well, actually I am only a member of our second team. At home we have many good gymnasts and also I had been injured last year.” In future Li Di certainly will have his chances to get also in China’s first team.

Di, Li from China with a very good
performance (9.925)!

pommel horse

Winners Final
1. Li Di CHN 9,925
2. Urzica Marius ROM 9,387

Finale
1. Urzica Marius ROM 9,912
2. Li Di CHN 9,900
3. Suciu Ioan Silviu ROM 9,850
4. Casimir Eric FRA 9,787
5. Andergassen Thomas GER 9,712
6. Kryukov Nikolai RUS 9,650
7. Busnari Alberto ITA 9,587
8. Artemev Alexander USA 9,025
9. Beny Pierre-Yves FRA 8,937
Ioan Silviu Suciu set a highlight already at the beginning of the pommel horse final. He started with clean presented travel combinations and very well executed flops (9.850, 3rd rank). Li Di from China with beautiful amplitudes and a perfect technical execution throughout the routine which could be seen at his Thomas flanks with full spindel. – Pommel horse gymnastics in perfection which secured him a spot in the winner's final (9.900). Marius Urzica presented his routine in his already well-known quality. Great Russian wendeswings on one pommel, nice travel variations combined with Thomas flanks with full spindel. (9.912).
All routines in this final were presented on a high level of performance.

Li Di then started in the winner’s final again with a very good performance (9.925). Marius Urzica followed with a for him quite unusual fall from the apparatus at his Moguilny shortly before the dismount (9.387). So the decision in this final had been made and the virst victory at the DTB-Cup in Stuttgart 2003 went to China.

Daiane Dos Santos - World
Champion and winner
in Stuttgart

floor women

Winners Final
1. Dos Santos Daiane BRA 9,337
2. Khorkina Svetlana RUS 9,187

Finale
1. Dos Santos Daiane BRA 9,337
2. Khorkina Svetlana RUS 9,275
3. Ponor Catalina ROM 9,237
4. Hobbs Vanessa GBR 8,925
5. Ban Oana Mihaela ROM 8,812
6. Chusovitina Oksana UZB 8,787
7. Slater Allana AUS 8,687
8. Musik Yvonne GER 8,587
9. Zamolodchikova Elena RUS 8,137
Floor women
Already in yesterday’s qualification the audience was thrilled by the performance of the current World Champion on this apparatus Daiane dos Santos from Brazil. Today again she showed a great routine. Only after her piked arabian in the first series she shortly stepped out of bounds (but this didn’t cost her more than one tenth). A double layout followed directly in the next acrobatic series. Daiane also convinced through high gymnastics jumps and safe pirouettes. – A great routine! (9.337)
All-around queen Svetlana Khorkina with a strong beginning, whip – tripple twist. She showed a very elegant routine whith nice gymnastics elements and convinced today also with her acrobatics.
Catalina Ponor with the typical Romanian fireworks of acrobatics, but with very slight insecurities. She is a very elegant gymnast with an extraordinary choreography which has been well-liked by the audience.
The winner’s final begann with a surprise. Daiane Dos Santos changed her routine and started with a layout arabian - a World premiere! Again she very slightly stepped out of bounds – but apart from that a World-class routine! (9.337).Svetlana Khorkina presented also her second routine very good but with slight insecurities like a not finished rotation on her triple twist (9.187). That secured the victory for Daiane dos Santos in this final.

Marian Dragulescu - winner on vault

vault men

Winners Final
1. Dragulescu Marian ROM 9,700
2. Blanik Leszek POL 9,693

Finale
1. Blanik Leszek POL 9,743
2. Dragulescu Marian ROM 9,631
3. Shewfelt Kyle CAN 9,612
4. Wammes Jeffrey NED 9,575
5. Hypolito Diego BRA 9,549
6. Kryukov Nikolai RUS 9,525
7. Suciu Ioan Silviu ROM 9,418
8. Yamada Tatsuya JPN
Vault men
The vault final of the men 2003 took place on an extremely high level of performance. The audience got to see many great vaults!
Marian Dragulescu: 1st Handspring – double salto fw. tucked with 1/2 turn – small step, otherwise presented very well (9.750); 2nd Kasamatsu 1 1/2 turn – slightly overrotated and the landing had to be secured with one step (9.462).
Jeffrey Wammes : 1st Yurchenko layout 2 1/2 turn – very high and clean, only slight wobble on the landing (9.625) ; 2nd Kasamatsu 1 1/2 turn with slight mistakes in the execution (9.525).
Leszek Blanik: 1st Handspring – double salto fw. tucked – very secure on the landing (9.787); 2nd Tsukahara double piked – another secure landing (9.700).
Kyle Shewfelt: 1st Yurchenko 2 1/2 turn – very well presented with only a slight wobble on the landing (9.712); However, his 2nd vault, Yurchenko double twist, simply was not difficult enough for this World class final (9.512).
Winner’s Final: Both participants Dragulescu and Blanik again with good performances. Dragulescu, however, slightly missed the middle of the vaulting table on his 2nd vault and had to secure the landing with a large step to the side (9.700). Blanik also not with the same security like before, both of his landings were a little low. In a very tight decision the victory then finally went to Marian Dragulescu.

Elisabeth Tweddle (GBR) -
2nd on uneven bars

uneven bars

winners Final
1. Lepennec Emilie FRA 9,625
2. Tweddle Elizabeth GBR 9,475

Finale
1. Lepennec Emilie FRA 9,575
2. Tweddle Elizabeth GBR 9,462
3. Khorkina Svetlana RUS 9,425
4. Yarotska Irina UKR 9,375
5. Brüggemann Lisa GER 8,737
6. Dos Santos Daiane BRA 8,700
7. Lin Li CHN 8,612
8. Soupe Nelly FRA 8,13
Uneven bars women Bars- queen Svetlana Khorkina presented her routine as clean as usual but with slight insecurities in the combinations on the lower bar (SV 9.8, Final Score 9.45).
Elizabeth Tweddle with very clean turns through the El-grip. Her release move, the “Khorkina”, also has been presented safely and she stuck her dismount (SV 10.00, final score 9.475).
Emilie Lepennec then presented a fireworks on uneven bars and reconfirmed her performance from the qualification – giants with hop- 1/1 turn, combined with Deff, dismount double-double (SV 10.00, final score 9.75).

In the Winner’s Final Lepennec presented an even better performance. Tweddle reconfirmed her performance from before with a slight wobble on the landing (9.475). However, she didn’t have a chance in this final and the victory went to France.

Alexander Safoshkin (RUS) with
a nearly perfect performance

rings

Winners Final
1. Safoshkin Alexander RUS 9,675
2. Jovtchev Jordan BUL 9,612

Finale
1. Jovtchev Jordan BUL 9,737
2. Safoshkin Alexander RUS 9,725
3. Coppolino Andrea ITA 9,687
4. Beny Pierre-Yves FRA 9,662
5. Van Gelder Yuri NED 9,650
6. Yamada Tatsuya JPN 9,587
7. Zozulia Roman UKR 9,575
8. Schweizer Andreas SUI 9,550
9. Andergassen Thomas GER 9,475
Rings men
The rings final took place on an extremly high level of performance, all participants competed with a start value of 10.000.
Jordan Jovtchev as expected with a sovereign routine, slight mistake in a combination at the beginning (Honma to cross hang), he then stuck the landing of his Tsukahara dismount (9.737).
Andrea Coppolino presented his routine not as strongly as recently in Anaheim but it still has been a very good performance (9.687).
Alexander Safoshkin The internationally still unknown Russian gymnast showed an excellent routine with exact body positioning in the strength elements.

Winner’s Final The body positioning in Jovtchev’s strength elements was improved compared to his routine before, slight insecurities on his dismount (9.612).Safoshkin then followed with a nearly perfect performance, all strength elements were presented very clean and he stuck his dismount (9.675). – A deserved winner in this high-quality final!

>> Report: Zweiter Finaltag

21st DTB-Cup: Qualifications

29. November 2003  
Stuttgart / GER  
Artistic Gymnastics

21st DTB-Cup: Qualifications

Today at the 21st International DTB-Cup - World Cup - in Stuttgart will take place 5 finals: Men's finals on vault, pommel horse and rings, women's finals on floor and uneven bars. The competitions start on 2.00 p.m.
Until November 30th the world best gymnasts are fighting for World Cup points.
8 World Champions from the WCh's 2003 and 5 Olympic Champions take part in the competitions.
The highest score of yesterday's qualification has been received by Olympic Champion Marius Urzica (ROM) on pommel horse - 9,912 points! About 4.000 spectators spent their sympathy for World Champion Daiane Dos Santos (BRA) on floor.

9,912 points for Olympic Champion Marius Urzica (ROM)

Results women

vault
1. Chusovitina, Oksana UZB 9,349
2. Khorkina, Svetlana RUS 9,293
3. Zamolodchikova, Elena RUS 9,212
4. Soupe, Nelly FRA 9,081
5. Harmes, Suzanne NED 9,037
6. Dos Santos, Daiane BRA 8,993
7. Yang, Yun CHN 8,912
8. Musik, Ivonne GER 8,843 9. Brüggemann, Lisa GER 8,806, 10. Comin, Camila BRA 8,768, 11. Slater, Allana AUS 8,768, 12. Lindes, Loes NED 8,687, 13. Szarka, Krisztina HUN 8,656, 14. Skowronska, Joanna POL 8,462

Anna Pavlova (RUS)

beam
1. Harmes, Suzanne NED 9,037
2. Slater, Allana AUS 9,012
3. Khorkina, Svetlana RUS 8,987
4. Ponor, Catalina ROM 8,825
5. Chusovitina, Oksana UZB 8,762
6. Hobbs, Vanessa GBR 8,712
7. Lindes, Loes NED 8,562
8. Pavlova, Anna RUS 8,475
9. Ban, Oana Mihaela ROM 8,387, 10. Postell, Ashley USA 8,387, 11. Brüggemann, Lisa GER 8,262, 12. Archer, Belinda AUS 8,225, 13. Comin, Camilla BRA 8,200, 14. Wagner, Veronica SWE 8,112, 15. Musik, Ivonne GER 8,050, 16. Gratt, Tanja AUT 7,762, 17. Yarotska, Iryna UKR 7,762, 18. Marti, Melanie SUI 7,662, 19. Szarka, Krisztina HUN 7,662, 20. Lepennec, Emilie FRA 7,537, 21. Ozanova, Veronika CZE 7,400, 22. Heenan, Katie USA 7,262, 23. Lin, Li CHN 7,200, 24. Kamnar, Julija SLO 6,637

Yvonne Musik (GER)

uneven bars
1. Lepennec, Emilie FRA 9,650
2. Khorkina, Svetlana RUS 9,500
3. Tweddle, Elisabeth GBR 9,475
4. Lin, Li CHN 9,000
5. Brüggemann, Lisa GER 9,000
6. Soupe, Nelly FRA 8,987
7. Dos Santos, Daiane BRA 8,962
8. Yarotska, Iryna UKR 8,900
9. Pavlova, Anna RUS 8,875, 10. Musik, Ivonne GER 8,862, 11. Marti, Melanie SUI 8,787, 12. Slater, Allana AUS 8,637, 13. Chusovitina, Oksana UZB 8,587, 14. Postell, Ashley USA 8,500, 15. Archer, Belinda AUS 8,162, 16. Heenan, Katie USA 8,112, 17. Skowronska, Joanna POL 7,962, 18. Gratt, Tanja AUT 7,687, 19. Harmes, Suzanne NED 7,662, 20. Comin, Camila BRA 7,187, 21. Kamnar, Julija SLO 7,100

floor
1. Dos Santos, Daiane BRA 9,512
2. Khorkina, Svetlana RUS 9,425
3. Ponor, Catalina ROM 9,312
4. Ban, Oana Mihaela ROM 9,175
5. Zamolodchikova, Elena RUS 9,012
6. Slater, Allana AUS 8,725
7. Chusovitina, Oksana UZB 8,712
8. Hobbs, Vanessa GBR 8,525
9. Harmes, Suzanne NED 8,35 , 10. Brüggemann, Lisa GER 8,150, 11. Yarotska, Iryna UKR 8,137, 12. Lin, Li CHN 8,137, 13. Marti, Melanie SUI 8,025, 14. Musik, Ivonne GER 7,750, 15. Ozanova, Veronika CZE 7,737, 16. Yang, Yun CHN 7,687, 17. Gratt, Tanja AUT 7,562, 18. Szarka, Krisztina HUN 7,150
Results men

floor
1. Suciu, Ioan Silviu ROM 9,637
2. Dragulescu, Marian ROM 9,562
3. Shewfelt, Kyle CAN 9,525
4. Gal, Robert HUN 9,475
5. Vyoral, David CZE 9,450
6. Yoneda, Isao JPN 9,437
7. Sapronenko, Evgeni LAT 9,350
8. Zozulya, Roman UKR 9,212
9. Jovtchev, Jordan BUL 9,200, 10. Fardan, Kaspar DEN 9,075, 11. Kwiatkowski, Sven GER 9,037, 12. Ude, Filip CRO 9,012, 13. Dominguez, Patrick SUI 8,962, 14. Palgen, Sascha LUX 8,850, 15. Couckhuyt, Gunther BEL 8,637, 16. Pozzo, Enrico ITA 8,562, 17. Jeltkov, Alexander CAN 8,550, 18. Hypolito, Diego BRA 8,512, 19. Suzuki, Ryota JPN 8,387, 20. Wammes, Jeffrey NED 8,375, 21. Boström, Jimmi SWE 8,350, 22. Mayr, Marco AUT 8,250, 23. Rodrigues, Mosiah BRA 8,225, 24. Ziesmer, Ronny GER 8,125

vault
1. Dragulescu, Marian ROM 9,662
2. Shewfelt, Kyle CAN 9,500
3. Hypolito, Diego BRA 9,387
4. Kryukov, Nikolay RUS 9,356
5. Yamada, Tatsuya JPN 9,306
6. Blanik, Leszek POL 9,287
7. Wammes, Jeffrey NED 9,181
8. Suciu, Ioan Silviu ROM 9,156
9. Sapronenko, Evgeni LAT 9,106, 10. Gal, Robert HUN 9,081, 11. Konecny, Martin CZE 9,006, 12. Dominguez, Patrick SUI 9,000, 13. Mayr, Marco AUT 8,931, 14. Fardan, Kaspar DEN 8,893, 15. Vyoral, David CZE 8,787, 16. Palgen, Sascha LUX 8,224

Thomas Andergassen (GER)

pommel horse
1. Urzica, Marius ROM 9,912
2. Li, Di CHN 9,900
3. Suciu, Ioan Silviu ROM 9,837
4. Casimir, Eric FRA 9,750
5. Kryukov, Nikolay RUS 9,687
6. Artemev, Alexander USA 9,575
7. Beny, Pierre-Yves FRA 9,550
8. Busnari, Alberto ITA 9,550
9. Yoneda, Isao JPN 9,475, 10. McClure, Brett USA 9,450, 11. Fekete, Levente HUN 9,425, 12. Kwiatkowski, Sven GER 9,387, 13. Couckhuyt, Günther BEL 9,350, 14. Schärer, Christoph SUI 9,350, 15. Rodrigues, Mosiah BRA 9,275, 16. Suzuki, Ryota JPN 9,212, 17. Andergassen, Thomas GER 9,162,
18. Pozzo, Enrico ITA 9,062, 19. Tanskanen, Jani FIN 9,025, 20. Ude, Filip CRO 9,025, 21. Jackson, Kanukai GBR 8,600, 22. Hjorth, Michael SWE 8,550, 23. Maras, Vlasios GRE 8,475, 24. Berki, Krisztian HUN 8,425, 25. Alexandersson, Runar ISL 8,387, 26. Goncharov, Valeriy UKR 8,325, 27. Hypolito, Diego BRA 8,225, 28. Konecny, Martin CZE 8,000, 29. Rizzo, Philippe AUS 7,950, 30. Baldauf, Marco AUT 7,925, 31. Boström, Jimmi SWE 7,800, 32. Palgen, Sascha LUX 7,775, 33. Savenkou, Denis BLR 7,625

rings
1. Safoshkin, Alexander RUS 9,662
2. Coppolino, Andrea ITA 9,625
3. Van Gelder, Yuri NED 9,612
4. Zozulya, Roman UKR 9,612
5. Jovtchev, Jordan BUL 9,600
6. Yamada, Tatsuya JPN 9,562
7. Beny, Pierre-Yves FRA 9,562
8. Schweizer, Andreas SUI 9,525
9. Torkkel, Olli FIN 9,500, 10. Dong, Zhen CHN 9,462, 11. Fekete, Levente HUN 9,400, 12. Andergassen, Thomas GER 9,400, 13. Jackson, Kanukai GBR 9,325, 14. Dominguez, Patrick SUI 9,312, 15. Novotny, Vladimir CZE 9,050, 16. Massam, David GBR 8,737, 17. Slanvall, Björn SWE 8,200, 18. Ziesmer, Ronny GER 8,175, 19. Rodrigues, Mosiah BRA 7,950, 20. Mayr, Marco AUT 7,550

Vlasios Maras (GRE)

parallel bars
1. Kryukov, Nikolay RUS 9,637
2. Petkovsek, Mitja SLO 9,600
3. Maree, Florent FRA 9,550
4. Urzika, Marious ROM 9,537
5. Andergassen, Thomas GER 9,512
6. McClure, Brett USA 9,512
7. Goncharov, Valeriy UKR 9,500
8. Rizzo, Philippe AUS 9,487
9. Nemov, Alexei RUS 9,487, 10. Yoneda, Isao JPN 9,437, 11. Artemev, Alexander USA 9,375, 12. Savenkou, Denis BLR 9,337, 13. Maras, Vlasios GRE 9,275, 14. Zozulya, Roman UKR 8,987, 15. Ziesmer, Ronny GER 8,787, 16. Schärer, Christoph SUI 8,625, 17. Rodrigues, Mosiah BRA 8,262, 18. Hjorth, Michael SWE 7,962, 19. Couckhuyt, Günther BEL 7,700, 20. Alexandersson, Runar ISL 6,150

Nikolay Kryukov (RUS)

high bars
1. Jeltkov, Alexander CAN 9,662
2. Maras, Vlasios GRE 9,600
3. Pegan, Aljaz SLO 9,600
4. Yoneda, Isao JPN 9,587
5. Suzuki, Ryota JPN 9,567
6. Rizzo, Philippe AUS 9,500
7. Kwiatkowski, Sven GER 9,487
8. Tanskanen, Jani FIN 9,462
9. Schärer, Christoph SUI 9,412, 10. Dragulescu, Marian ROM 9,412, 11. Mönkkönen, Jari FIN 9,325, 12. Busnari, Alberto ITA 9,287, 13. Baldauf, Marco AUT 9,262, 14. Brandtoft, Rasmus DEN 9,262, 15. Konecny, Martin CZE 9,187, 16. Rodrigues, Mosiah BRA 9,175, 17. Goncharov, Valeriy UKR 9,000, 18. Casimir, Eric FRA 8,987, 19. Pozzo, Enrico ITA 8,937, 20. McClure, Brett USA 8,912, 21. Suciu, Ioan Silviu ROM 8,912, 22. Wammes, Jeffrey NED 8,875, 23. Maree, Florent FRA 8,787, 24. Savenkou, Denis BLR 8,750 25. Artemev, Alexander USA 8,625, 26. Kryukov, Nikolay RUS 8,275, 27. Slanvall, Björn SWE 7,950, 28. Nemov, Alexei RUS 7,950

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21st DTB-Cup: Qualifications in Stuttgart

28. November 2003  
Stuttgart / GER  
Artistic Gymnastics

21st DTB-Cup: Qualifications in Stuttgart


Today the 21st International DTB-Cup - World Cup - will start with qualification competitions of women and men in Stuttgart. Until to November 30th the world best gymnasts will fight for the world cup points.
8 World Champions from the WCh's 2003 and 5 Olympic Champions have confirmed their participation, lead by three-time all-around World Champion Svetlana Chorkina from Russia.

Participating in Stuttgart: World Champion Svetlana Chorkina (RUS)

In the high-quality entry field of the traditional event in Stuttgart can be found:
Vault World Champion Oksana Chusovitina (UZB), Floor- World Champion Daiane Dos Santos (BRA) and Vault Olympic Champion Yelena Yamolodchikova (RUS).
An exciting competition can be expected on rings with World Champion Jordan Jovchev (BUL) - who also is the current World Champion on floor - and Dimosthenes Tambakos (GRE). The field of World Champions is completed by high bar champion Takehiro Kashima (JPN).
Great Britain's star on unveven bars Elizabeth Tweddle (GBR) will fight to get ahead of gymnastics queen Svetlana Chorkina on this event. The delegations from Romania and Russia will arrive with their WCh's medalists Oana Ban, Catalina Ponor, Monica Rosu (ROM / silver) - Alana Slater, Jacqui Dunn, Belinda Archer (AUS / bronze).
Gymnastics Legends
The audience will be thrilled to see again gymnastics-idol Alexei Nemov (RUS) who has already had a few successful events in Stuttgart in the past. The Olympic high bar champion from Sydney who also has won the bronze medal on this apparatus at the WCh's this year is looking forward to another success in Stuttgart.
Further apparatus specialists which are true gymnastics legends will also come to Stuttgart: Leszek Blanik (POL), Olympic Champion 2000 and World Champion 2002 on vault; Marius Urzica (ROM), famous on pommel horse where he is the current Olympic Champion as well as Aljaz Pegan (SLO), who will certainly present another great flight show on high bar.
Also Olympic floor champion Igor Vihors from Lithuania is looking forward to another success in Stuttgart.
Altogether 70 male and 45 female gymnasts from 32 countries will participate in the qualification on Friday. The total price money for this World Cup event is EUR 75,000.
Program DTB-Cup

Friday, 28th November 2003
c. 1.00 - 6.30 pm
Qualification men and women

Saturday, 29th November 2003
c. 2.00-5.00 pm
Finals
Men: pommel horse, vault, rings
Women: floor, uneven bars

Sunday, 30th November 2003
c. 12.30-5.00 pm
Finals
Men: floor, bars, high bar
Women: vault, balance beam

Swiss Boys wins friendly Meet

23. November 2003  
Zurich/Switzerland  
Artistic Gymnastics

Swiss Boys wins friendly Meet

Swiss victor!

Yesterday, one day before the 25th SWISS CUS, which will held today afternoon in Zurich, the Swiss Juniors team (U 16) won their competition against the teams from France, Germany and Great Britain....
Friendly Meet SUI-FRA-GER-GBR
- Under 16 years -
<7b> RESULTS
- U 16-Teams -
Results U16:
1. Schweiz 252,45 (Bo 42,40, Pf 42,25, Ri 40,70, Spr 42,60, Bar 42,45, Re 42,05).
2. France 250,15 (42,55, 41,25, 40,40, 43,80, 41,15, 41,00)
3. Germany 247, 65 (42,15, 38,45, 40,10, 42,85, 43,10, 41,00)
4. Great Britain 236,15 (40,95, 35,15, 38,35, 43,10, 37,90, 40,70)

Individual:
1. Ismael Wermuth (SUI, born 1987) 51,35 (8,50, 8,70, 8,50, 9,00, 8,30, 8,35)
2. Hamilton Sabot (FRA, 87) 51,20
3. Fabian Leimlehner (SUI, 87) 50,60
4. Manuel Rickli (Sz, 87) 50,55
5. Dimitri Petrowski (FRA, 87) 50,30
6. Rudy Marton (FRA, 88) 50,05
7. Max Finzel (GER,.....
....and the other Swiss gymnasts:
8. Davor Studer (SUI, 88) 49,85).
10. Jean-Philippe Hayoz (SUI, 88) 49,70.
15. Nils Haller (SUI, 89) 48,35

>> Complete Results
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>> ... today afternoon will held in Zurich:
25th SWISS-CUP.

Romanians won 20th Arthur Gander Memorial

21. November 2003  
Morges / SUI  
Artistic Gymnastics

Romanians won 20th Arthur Gander Memorial

Romanians Marian Dragulescu and Catalina Ponor won the all-around competitions of the 20th Arthur Gander Memorial, held on November 19th in Morges, Switzerland.
At the Gander Memorial, the men competed only on four apparatuses, the womens on three apparatuses.
Defending champion Jordan Jovtchev (BUL) got second place because of mistakes on floor exercise.
Results All Around competitions

Women
1. Catalina Ponor ROM 28.000
2. Oana Ban ROM 27.900
3. Oxana Chusovitina UZB 27.250
4. Irina Yarotskaya UKR 27.100; 5. Melanie Marti SUI 26.325; 6. Kylie Stone CAN 26.325; 7. Vanessa Hobbs GBR 25.900; 8. Ariella Käslin SUI 25.475; 9. Birgit Schweigert GER 22.600; 10. Viktoria Karpenko BUL 12.175

Men
1. Marian Dragulescu ROM 37.225
2. Jordan Jovtchev BUL 36.625
3. Ivan Ivankov BLR 36.600
4. Niki Böschenstein SUI 36.225; 5. Patrick Dominguez SUI 36.175; 6. Ronny Ziesmer GER 36.125; 7. Christof Schärer SUI 35.550; 8. Dmitry Karbanenko FRA 35.525; 9. Igor Cassina ITA 35.075; 10. Valery Goncharov UKR 35.075; 11. Philippe Rizzo AUS 33.825

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