Two weeks only after the 2011 Artistic Worlds Germany will host a very traditional event of international women's artistic gymnastics:
"Hamburg Gymnastics - Turnkunst International" - it's a high level event for international female talents from the age of 12 years on.
One year before the next European Junior Championships a lot of nations will use this event for their preparations.
The topical roster of partispating nations involved 17 teams, representing 10 different nations, so from 
Egypt, Belgium, France, Great Britain, Austria, Netherlands, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, but also from host country Germany too ...

* The  MODUS
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"Hamburg Gymnastics", that's  preliminaries (qualification round), Main round and Lucky-Loser-Round and the TOP-FIVE-Final.

The 17 Teams will divide into 3 Groups :
- Rank 1 – 3 of qualification > TOP-FIVE-Final
- Rank 4 – 8 of qualification > Main Round
- Rang 9 – 15 of qualification >> Lucky Loser Round.

* The SCHEDULE
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* Friday, 28.10.2011
15:00 - 17:00 pm | Prelim. - Group 1
17:00 - 19:00 pm | Prelim. - Group 2
19:00 - 21:00 pm | Prelim. - Group 3

* Samstag, 29.10.2011
11 am – 13:00 pm: Lucky-Loser Round 
14:00 – 17:00 pm : Main Round 
18:00 – 20:00 pm: TOP FIVE Final
 20:00 pm: FINAL PARTY

* The  SERVICE
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* GYMmedia REVIEW:
> II. Hamburg-Gymnastics 2010
> I. Hamburg Gymnastics 2009

... the forerunner event, the Alster-Cups:
> 1. Alsterpokal 2002; (- 2003 - no Service)
> 3. Alsterpokal 2004 > 4. Alsterpokal 2005
> 5. Alsterpokal 2006

From October 7th to 16th and for the second time after Sabae (1995) Japan is host of ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, which this year are also the first part of the Olympic qualifications. Altogether 258 women and 297 men, representing 83 different nations, inclusiv 24 qualified teams, take part in the fight for the medals (teams, all-around and apparatus) in the Metropolitan Arena of Tokyo and also for Olympic tickets to London 2012.
**TODAY: Second  day of Apparatus Finals - Victories for China, Russia the USA and Korea!
.. before : All-around: Uchimura (JPN) in front of Boy (GER) and Yamamuro (JPN). 
Wieber won in front of Komova and Yao!
China (men) and USA (women) won team gold ...!
** Traditionally the Dutch Co. Janssen-Fritsen supports the daily GYMmedia coverage from these Worlds...!
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The 44th Salamunov Memorial, FIG Challenger tournament in Maribor ended with the second finals day. The first gold medal went to Matthias Fahrig (GER) on vault. Greece's Vasiliki Millousi won on beam. The best on parallel bars was Wang Guanyin from China and Roni Rabinovitz (ISR) won floor. The best gymnast on high-bar was Maras Vlasios from Greece.

On the first finals day yesterday the titel in the men's floor final was shared by Rok Klavora (SLO) and Fadi Bahlawan from Syria.
<< The final on pommel hose was won by China's Zhang Hongtao with a very elegant routine and Eleftherios Petrounias (GRE) won on rings.
Valeria Maksiuta from Israel repeated her good performance from the qualfication and won the title in the women's vault final. The gold medal on uneven bars went to Kristina Palesova from the Czech Republic ...

Women's uneven bars final

1. Vasiliki Millousi (GRE) 14.000 (D-score 6.0)
2. Valeria Maksiuta (ISR) 13.950 (D-score 5.8)
3. Adela Sajn (SLO) 13.400 (D-score 5.2)
4. Kristyna Palesova (CZE) 13.300 (D-score 5.4)
5. Roni Rabinovitz (ISR) 13.250 (D-score 5.4)
6. Elisa Haemmerle (AUT) 13.200 (D-score 5.2)
7. Tina Erceg (CRO) 12.450 (D-score 5.0)
8. Laura Gombas (HUN) 12.350 (D-score 4.3)

In the women's final on beam the highest difficulties were missing. However, most of the competitors proved to be already in shape for the World Championships and got through their routines solidly and without major mistakes. Vasiliki Millousi had to fight to remain on the beam after one turn but got well through the rest of her program . Also the only D-score of 6.0 in this field secured her the gold medal in this final.

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Women's floor final:

1. Roni Rabinovitz (ISR) 13.600 (D-score 5.4)
2. Tina Erceg (CRO) 13.200 (D-score 4.9)
3. Adela Sajn (SLO) 13.000 (D-score 5.2)
4. Fiona Novak (SLO) 12.750 (D-score 4.9)
5. Elisa Haemmerle (AUT) 12.550 (D-score 5.1)
6. Kristyna Palesova (CZE) 12.250 (D-score 4.1)
7. Tina Larsen (NOR) 12.200 (D-score 4.4)
8. Lisa Ecker (AUT) 11.450 (D-score 4.7)

After having been satisfied with her own performance already in the beam final, Roni Rabinovitz won the women's floor final. She got through her routine solidly and with 5.4 also had the highest D-score in the field.

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* Women's vault final

1. Valeria Maksiuta (ISR) 14.125
2. Teja Belak (SLO)12.875
3. Orsolya Nagy (HUN) 12.800
4. Thelma Hermannsdottir (ISL) 12.600
5. Jasmin Mader (AUT) 12.525
6. Dina Madir (CRO) 12.350
7. Tina Larsen (NOR) 12.300
8. Agnes Suto (ISL) 12.025

In the women's vault final Valeria Maksiuta from Israel especially convinced with her very well executed second vault, handspring – somersault fwd. piked with 1/1 turn. The rest of the field didn't manage to reach her level of performance as well regarding the difficulty as also regarding the execution.
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Women's uneven bars final

1. Kristina Palesova (CZE) 13,750 (D-score 5.5)
2. Valeria Maksiuta (ISR) 13.100 (D-score 5.3)
3. Tina Erceg (CRO) 12.800 (D-score 5.0)
4. Jasmin Mader (AUT) 12.55 (D-score 4.9)
5. Roni Rabinovitz (ISR) 12.050 (D-score 5.5)
5. Vasiliki Milousi (GRE) 12.050 (D-score 5.4)
7. Fiona Novak (SLO) 11.950 (D-score 5.0)
8. Laura Gombas (HUN) 11.350 (D-score 5.1)

With a powerful performance Kristina Palesova (CZE) won the final on uneven bars. The second place went to Valeria Maksiuta from Israel who had a few problems with the rhythm during her routine but in the end was very happy about having stuck the landing of her new dismount double somersault fwd. with 1/1 turn.

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The Salamunov Memorial in artistic gymnastics in Maribor started today with the men's and women's qualification. The tournament belongs to the FIG Challenge Cup tournaments (B-World Cup Series).
28 gymnasts are present in the women's field. While the big names are missing it is a good chance for the remaining gymnasts to earn some World Cup points. The men's field is more than twice as large with 83 gymnasts originally listed of which a few entries were cancelled at short notice.
With first places on three apparatus China was the most successful nation during today's men's qualification. In the women's field also Israel reached three first places

* Women's Qualification
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Only 13 gymnasts took part in the women's qualification on vault. The level of performance overall was not that high. In the end Valeria Maksiuta from Israel took the lead with the score of 14.012. The qualification on uneven bars was won by Kristina Palesova (13.900).

Women's vault finalists: 1. Valeria Maksiuta (ISR), 2. Teja Belak (SLO), 3. Orsolya Nagy (HUN), 4. Jasmin Mader (AUT), 5. Dina Madir (CRO), 6.Tina Larsen (NOR), 7. Sherine Ahmed El Zeiny (EGY), 8. Agnes Suto (ISL)
     >> Detailed Results
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Women's uneven bars finalists:
1. Kristina Palesova (CZE), 2. Valeria Maksiuta (ISR), 3. Tina Ercec (CRO), 4. Vasiliki Milousi (GRE), 5. Fiona Novak (SLO), 6. Roni Rabinovitz (ISR), 7. Jasmin Mader (AUT), 8. Laura Gombas (HUN) 
 >> Detailed Results
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In the women's field on balance beam Valeria Maksiuta from Israel again took the lead after having won already the vault qualification. The experienced Adela Sajn secured herself the second place for the Slovenian hosts.
Women's balance beam finalists: 1. Valeria Maksiuta (ISR), 2. Adela Sajn (SLO), 3. Roni Rabinovitz (ISR), 4. Elisa Haemmerle (AUT), 5. Laura Gombas (HUN), 6. Ivana Kamnikar (SLO), 7. Vasiliki Millousi (GRE), 8. Kristyna Palesova (CZE) 
 >> Detailed Results
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In the women's floor qualification Roni Rabinovitz from Israel took the lead with 13.500. Like alread before on beam, Adela Sajn (SLO) secured herself the second place (13.350) with her expressive routine.
Women's floor finalists:: 1. Roni Rabinovitz (ISR), 2.Adela Sajn (SLO), 3. Elisa Haemmerle (AUT), 4. Lisa Ecker (AUT), 5. Kristyna Palesova (CZE), 6. Ivana Kamnikar (SLO), 7. Tina Ercec (CRO), 8. Tina Larsen (NOR) 
 >> Detailed Results
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2011 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships team selection British Gymnastics is delighted to announce the men’s and women’s artistic gymnastics team selected to compete at the World Championships in Tokyo from the 10-16th October. The 2011 World Championships act as the first qualification competition for places at the 2012 Olympic Games with the British teams aiming to finish in the top 8 to qualify full teams for London.

All the pomp (and a lot of the circumstances) of the London 2012 Olympic Games will be coming at 'cha in 3D next Summer. There will also be some very cool new tools for viewing the spectacle in the third dimension.
This news (and a whole lot more) has been sprung at the huge European electronics show IFA (International Funkaustellung) now running in Berlin. As sponsor of the first ever 3D Olympics broadcasts (and longtime Olympic games A/V equipment supplier), Panasonic got to tell the story at its IFA press conference.
In 2004, the first High Definition Olympic feeds were served up from Athens, with some commentators scoffing that "no one will be watching." Today, with more than 65 million sets sold domestically, there's at least one HD TV in the majority of U.S. homes.

At the same time like the  German Nationals  the 2011 Romanian Championships of artistic gymnastics take place in the "Nadia Comanesi Hall" of Onesti (ROU).

On Friday the first title in all-around went to the world champion on beam, to Ana PORGRAS, scoring 58,650 points, followed by Amelia RACEA (58,250) and Raluca HAIDU (57,625).

The competition continues Saturday with the men's team and all-around.
World champion Marian Dragulescu is set to make his 2011 competitive debut.

Once again showing her trademark consistency, 2004 Olympic champion Catalina PONOR) notched 15.775 (6.4) for a near-perfect beam routine (ro two-foot layout; double turn; Onodi, ff whip; switch leap, Kochetkova; front aerial, ff layout stepout; double pike).

Ponor, who began training again with the national team in April, also had the third-best score on floor exercise (two whips to tucked full-in; triple twist; double pike).

Jordyn Wieber lived up to the hype and then some, winning her first title at the 2011 U.S. Artistic Gymnastics Championships in a rout Saturday night. Wieber finished with 121.30 points, 6.15 points ahead of McKayla Maroney. The 16-year-old from DeWitt, Mich., also finished with the highest scores on floor exercise and uneven bars.
Danell Leyva, who won his first U.S. title Friday night, was named to the American squad for the world gymnastics championships in Tokyo. Runner-up Jonathan Horton, John Orozco, Jake Dalton, Steve Legendre and Alexander Naddour also made the team.

* Men's competition
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Jonathan Horton and Danell Leyva were separated by 30 feet and three-tenths of a point as they stalked their respective events - high bar for Horton, parallel bars for Leyva - in the stretch drive Friday night of the USA Gymnastics men's national championships.
Leyva, the first-night leader, went first.


LEYVA  sailed through a world-class routine, nailed his dismount, clutched his fists and let out a loud whoop as he moved a step closer to his first all-around title. And then, as Leyva and the rest of the crowd at the Xcel Energy Center watched, Horton, the two-time defending national champion, walked up to the high bar, the apparatus on which he won a silver medal at the 2008 Olympics. Teen on top Horton began his routine, whipped twice around the bar to build momentum, then launched himself in the air for a release move called the Cassina, after the Italian gymnast who perfected the maneuver. As he descended, he reached for the bar, grabbed it ... and lost his grip. Horton picked himself off the floor and finished the routine, but the moment was lost, and so were his chances at a third title. Leyva, 19, the Cuban-born resident of Miami, won the title with a two-day score of 183.8 points, finishing the night by nailing another high-scoring, high-risk high bar routine.
Horton, 25, was second with 181.050 points. Both are headed for the world championships in October in Tokyo, but it is Leyva who will be, at least for the moment, the front man as the U.S. men's team prepares for the 2012 London Olympics.
Friday's title change, however, was not an awkward moment. Horton trotted to the side of the high bar platform and hugged Leyva, saying, "That's what we need. Team USA, right?" Leyva hugged back and, as the two parted, said, "Love you, Jonny." Leyva took the top step on the medals platform in large part because of his superior difficulty on parallel bars and high bar, on which he was the event's top scorer, and in part because he landed on his feet on 12 routines over two nights when Horton could not.
Horton was on the second step in large part because, for the second competition in a row, he came up short on one event. Wednesday, it was the pommel horse. Friday, it was high bar - arguably his best event, but also the one with the largest chance for miscues.
" I'll be back, and we'll battle it out again," Horton said.
Entering high bar, Horton had eaten up all but three-tenths of Leyva's 2.1-point first-night lead. Horton fell to fifth place on his second rotation after a watered-down rings routine to protect an ailing right shoulder. But then he hurled himself back into contention on vault with a 16.7 score on by landing a vault known as the Dragalescu - a handspring double-front somersault with a half-twist - that is one of the highest scoring in the gymnastics' scoring system. Brooks takes fourth That got Horton back into the race, but he lost points on high bar to end his hopes of another title. 
First-year senior John Orozco was third with 180.5 points, and Chris Brooks of Houston, the former Oklahoma gymnast who returned to his hometown earlier this year to train at Cypress Academy of Gymnastics alongside Horton, was fourth at 178.6. "In the short amount of time I've had to train, I'm pleased," Brooks said. "I think I'm on track for possibly making the world team." 
   >> All-around Men's Results

* fig - --: On August 19, 2011, the FIG Disciplinary Commission announced its decision with regard to Chinese judge Mr Shao Bin, found guilty of fraud at the 2010 Asian Games. Shao Bin has seen his judging brevet downgraded to a category four, and will be responsible for covering the CHF 7,200 in legal costs.

The 3rd  2011 Challenger took place  from 3 to 4 September in the “Topsporthal Vlaanderen” in Ghent - venue of the 2001 World Championships with the premiere of the new vaulting table "Pegases" ...
This was a World Cup of artistic gymnastics for men and women, organized by the Flemish Gymnastics Federation.
For this World Cup race of the FIG (International Gymnastics Federation) have already signed up 39 countries. 145 gymnasts are expected with 56 women and 99 men.
It was the third of six Challenge Cups 2001: After Cottbus and Doha in spring will follow at this autumn Maribor (SLO), Osiejek (CRO) and Ostrava (CZE).
<< The Chinese Olympic Champion ZOU Kai won the high bar with the world's best difficulty score of 7.7 ...!!

SCHEDULE / Program:
* Saturday, September 3, 2011
09.30-21.30: Qualifications

* Sunday, September 4, 2011
13.30 - 17.00 - FINALS
17.35: Medal ceremony