Artistic Gymnastics

Women’s Sports Foundation Award for Chusovitina!

27. Mai 2009  
New York / Lausanne  
Artistic Gymnastics

Women’s Sports Foundation Award for Chusovitina!

Oksana Chusovitina:
Olympic silver medallist with 33 years!

34 year old German gymnast Oxana Chusovitina of Uzbek origin, multiple World Champion and 2008 Beijing Olympic Games Silver Medallist, has been nominated by the Women’s Sports Foundation for the prestigious Wilma Rudolf Courage Award.
Chusovitina was recognised for the exemplary courage and strength she displayed when she increased her participation in international competitions to finance her son Alisher’s health care costs at a time when he was gravely ill.
Today, Alisher is ten years old and has fully recovered; he and Oxana live in Germany, their adoptive country, where they celebrate their greatest victory of all; triumph over affliction. A final decision is expected in June. The Wilma Rudolf Courage Award is awarded to women who have shown extraordinary courage over the course of their sporting careers, and who have demonstrated strength and determination in overcoming adversity. The award was first given to Jackie Joyner-Kersee in 1996.

Oksana Chusovitina für Wilma Rudolf-Preis vorgeschlagen

27. Mai 2009  
New York / Lausanne  
Artistic Gymnastics

Oksana Chusovitina für Wilma Rudolf-Preis vorgeschlagen

Oksana Chusovitina:
Olympisches Silber mit 33 Jahren!

Oxana Chusovitina, die im August 2008 im Alter von 33 Jahren die olympische Silbermedaille für Deutschland gewann, ist von der renommierten  Women’s Sports Foundation für ihren beispielhafte und langjährige Karriere als Olympiasiegerin, mehrfache Welt- und Europameisterin und für ihren harten Kampf um die Gesundheit ihres Sohnes Alisher, für den sie mit Unterstützung deutscher Freunde, weltweiter Solidarität und hartem, eigenen Kampf mit hoher Selbstdisziplin die Mittel für seine Gesundung aufbrachte. Alisher ist jetzt 10 Jahre alt und völlig geheilt und lebt mit seiner ehemals usbekischen Familie in seiner neuen Wahlheimat Deutschland.
Der Wilma Rudolf Courage Preis wird vergeben an Frauen, die sich durcjh außergewönliche Leistungen auf ihrem Karriereweg ausgezeichnet haben und dabei ungewöhnliche Schwierigkeiten überwinden mussten.
Die entgültige Entscheidung über die Preisverleihung fällt im Juni.
Die erste Athletin, die 1996 diese Auszeichnung erhielt war Jackie Joyner-Kersee.
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2nd Pre Olympic Youth Cup 2009

24. Mai 2009  
Bergisch Gladbach, Germany  
Artistic Gymnastics

2nd Pre Olympic Youth Cup 2009

Elisabeth Seitz, Germany

Winner of the elite's all-around competiition of the 2nd Pre OLYMPIC YOUTH CUP 2009 in Bergisch Gladbach (Germany) was the 16-years old Elisabeth SEITZ (LZ Mannheim).
With a score of 54,800 points she topped her teammate Maike ROLL (TG Soellingen; 52,250). On third place came the Dutch Dianne TEUNISSEN from Pro Patria Zoetemeer with 50,650 points.
In the agegroup of 13 - 14 years old girls Naoual QUAZZANI-CHAHDI from Netherlands got the highest score of the competition with 56,300, followed by Sara CATANZARO from Switzerland (54,000) and Tatiana SOLOVYOVA (53,600) from Russia...

* ... more details on our German Website
>> www.gymmedia.de
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2009 Glasgow Grand Prix: Happy Brits !

16. Mai 2009  
Glasgow, Great Britain  
Artistic Gymnastics

2009 Glasgow Grand Prix: Happy Brits !

Louis Smith, Beth Tweddle

The British Team took their home Grand Prix by storm with a magnificent six medals!
Beth Tweddle took two Gold’s to follow her double European championship Success on Bars and Floor. Louis Smith and Daniel Keatings continued the Pommel domination finishing in Gold and Bronze places, Becky Downie produced a great routine to claim Bars Silver and Kristian Thomas took Floor Silver to complete the medal haul....

Other stars of the competition were Brazil's Diego Hypolito with Gold on Vault and Floor and routine of the day must go to Epke Zonderland (NED) who closed the competition with an awe inspiring High Bar display.

Glasgow Men’s Finals
The Men’s Floor exercise began an exciting day of finals in Glasgow and it was great to see a British gymnast starting the competition.
Kristian Thomas (2nd in qualification) did not looked phased by the task of competing in front of his home crowd and managed to add a new connection from yesterday’s qualification routine. His score of 15.225 was a fine start and good enough to hold off all of the competition apart from a very exciting performance from Diego Hypolito (Brazil), twice World Champion on this apparatus. Hypolito has had a new move recognised within the code of points, called the ‘Hypolito’, a double Arabian straight with a full twist in the second somersault and with the rest of his routine executed cleanly he was delighted to score 15.85 - Glasgow had witnessed a special routine.
Having had his initial score raised by 0.3, Alexander Shatilov from Israel secured the Bronze medal (15.05) with a clean and elegant routine, pipping Wammes (Netherlands) and Markovic (Croatia). He has recently become the first ever Senior medallist for Israel at a European Championships, when he won the Bronze in Milan earlier this year.

The Pommel Horse got underway with 4-time European Champion, Krisztian Berki showing an incredibly difficult exercise with only a couple of small errors (split legs and a slight struggle into the dismount) which gave him 15.525. Several of the finalists struggled with the high level of difficulty they were trying to achieve and there were quite a few minor breaks in leg form and falls from Hidvegi (Hungary), Rodrigues (Brazil) and Ri (Korea). There was once again a really strong showing from the British competitors, Louis Smith (Olympic bronze medallist) and Daniel Keatings (European bronze medallist, 2009) who have established themselves as formidable competitiors on this piece.
Keatings, looked composed, showing excellent work to capture the BRONZE (15.4) with his team-mate Louis Smith, absolutely superb in executing his difficult fast moving routine for 15.75 and GOLD. A super result for Men’s gymnastics and a very happy Kelvin Hall crowd!
Kristian Berki (Hungary) “I am very happy and I did sleep very well last night which makes me feel very relaxed to perform today. For me it was a very good competition and I feel very happy to have Louis as my big adversary, he is a good gymnast and I appreciate him very much”

Four times winner on Rings in Glasgow, Yuri van Gelder (Netherlands) made it five victories with a fantastic showing of immaculate strength and control, giving nothing away to score 15.65 and the gold medal. It was good to see a gymnast from Jordan, Ali Al-Asi, taking further strides in establishing himself and his nation in gymnastics, in taking the Silver medal (15.425) ahead of 22 year old Russian Konstantin Pluzhnikov (15.35).

First up on Vault was yesterdays surprise package Se Gwang Ri from Korea who had qualified first for this final with two stunning vaults. Unfortunately, his hopes for Gold were dashed when he crashed out on his handspring double front pike with half twist but with an excellent second jump his average of 16.0 was good enough for Silver .
Hypolito, who qualified in 4th mastered both his twisting vaults (handspring 2 ½ twists and Tsukahara 2 ½ twists) really well and was rewarded with an average score of 16.012 and the Gold medal.
Huntingdon’s Luke Folwell gave himself chances of a medal after a clean opening vault but an over rotated handspring double front left him in 4th spot (15.55).
Teammate Theo Seager unfortunately made the same error on the same vault (15.425, 5th).
Jeffery Wammes (NED) showed excellent execution on his vaults (Yurchenko 2 ½ twists and handspring double twist) for 15.875 and the Bronze medal in a high level final.
Diego Hypolito (Brazil) “I am very surprised about my result because this apparatus is not my speciality and from this result is very important and going to reflect in positive way for the men’s artistic gymnastics in Brazil. It is very rare in the Brazil gymnastic history that a Brazilian gymnast win 2 gold medals in the same competition”
On the Parallel Bars, a high standard was set by Jin Hyok Kim (Korea) with double piked and tucked with half out between the bars that was hard to match (15.225, Gold). Slovenian top qualifier Petkovsek perhaps would have piped him to the post without his error when he had to make additional hand movements to keep control. The twice World Champion on this event scored 15.125 (Bronze). Small errors from several gymnasts left the way for Samuel Piasecky to secure a deserved Silver medal for Slovakia with his well paced routine (under-somersault full turn and double pike between the bars, 15.275).

High bar: The finals apparatus of the day arguably saved the best routine till last. Epke Zonderland (NED) produced a jaw dropping 15.525 High Bar routine that even his competitors couldn’t help but smile at. Zonderland and his great rival Aljaz Pegan (SLO) – 15.350) both made this apparatus a must see and left the audience smiling with there back-to-back routines closing the day. 
Dutch gymnast Jeffrey Wammes came in third with 14.775.

* Men's Final RESULTS
> Final - Mens Floor  > Final - Pommel Horse  > Final - Rings 
> Final - Mens Vault  > Final - Parallel Bars      > Final - Highbar

Women’s Finals Competition got underway for the women on the
>  Asymmetric Bars with yesterdays top qualifier Beth Tweddle having the difficult task of leading off the field. Beth corrected the error from yesterday (fall on Shaposnikova ½ transition from low to high bar) and was more precise overall than her qualification performance. Her score of 15.275 set a standard that could not be matched as the final unfolded. However, the crowd at the Kelvin Hall were delighted that her closest challenger was her compatriot Becky Downie who also qualified with a fall, but looked really determined here to score 14.6, with a difficult exercise, highlighted by a beautiful Ricna somersault. She secured the SILVER medal ahead of the Russian Ekaterina Kurbatova (14.425) who competed a very clean routine. This was a fantastic start to the day for the British girls, Gold and Sliver!

> Vault: The 7 ladies who lined up for the Vault had not had to go through the process of qualification yesterday as they were the only gymnasts opting to take part in the second of the four finals. Aside from the 2 Russian gymnasts, the level of work was quite simple and with several errors, including falls from Britain’s Becky Downie (12.925), Yasmin Zimmerman (Switzerland, 12.975) and Romanian Chelaru (12.875). This left the way for Ekaterina Kurbatova (14.0), with a double twisting Yurchenko and Yurchenko half on, straight front half twist, to take the Gold over her compatriot Yulia Berger (13.9), the Silver medallist from this year’s European championships in Milan. With two cleanly executed vaults, Columbian Jessica Gil took the Bronze medal (13.8).
> On the Balance Beam the crowd were excited with the opening performance of Sanne Wevers (Netherlands) who is a master of spins! The Dutch girl showed double spins with her leg held straight and then in the tucked position as well as a triple spin to score 14.075 and the Gold medal, repeating her position from last year.
Britain’s Becky Downie put in a solid Beam performance, highlighted by her excellent double pike dismount, but with a missed leap series connection she was in 6th place (13.3). 16 year old Spaniard, Ana Maria Izurieta showed a controlled exercise, including a wonderful acrobatic series of 2 back flips into a layout to two feet to share the Gold with Wevers (14.075).
Top qualifier, Dragoi (Romania) worked with lovely tempo and confidence, but a few small wobbles left her with the Bronze medal (13.95).
> The ladies Floor exercise got off to a fine start with the enjoyable exercise that Chelaru (Romania) performed. Spritely dance and difficult tumbling (full in back out, triple twist) for 13.2. Gold medallist on floor in this years Europeans, Beth Tweddle got a wonderful reception from the crowd with her routine which showed marvellous tumbles (1 ½ twist walk out into double Arabian tucked, double Arabian piked) as well as excellent leaps for 14.9 and another Gold medal for Beth.
Russian Berger was expressive in her dance as well and powerful in her tumbles (although stepping out the area twice) for 13.45 whilst Izurieta (Spain) once again demonstrated lovely style scoring 13.975 and a pleasing Bronze medal, just pipping the entertaining Zimmermann (Switzerland).
The second Russian Anna Myzdrikova showed some very unusual and pleasing work (triple twist, rebound into tuck back, 2 ½ twist, Barani into stag leap), lovely choreography and pushed Beth all the way for 14.7 (Silver).
* Source: British Gymnastics

* Women's FINAL RESULTS
> Final - Womens Vault   >  Final - Asymmetric Bars
> Final - Beam                   > Final - Womens Floor
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* Friday, May 15
   Qualification Day in Glasgow
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After the Thursday's podium training Friday, May 15 held the World Cup qualification rounds of the this year's Grand Prix in the Kelvin Hall of Glasgow.
The finals will held Saturday, May 16.
24 countries took part at these World Cup event in Scotland - 21 of them are taking part in the Men’s competition, and 12, in the Women’s.
The hosts from Great Britain have the most numerous delegation in Glasgow – 9 gymnasts, five of whom were Olympians in Beijing ....Slovenia has also come with their best (6 men and 2 women) and Russia, with 7 gymnasts (4 men and 3 women). The media were also quick to the floor, with Scots Daniel Keatings and Daniel Purvis the most prized interviewees. 

* Flashback: The 2008 winners in Glasgow:
Sanne Wevers NED (A. Bars and Beam), Alexander Shatilov ISR (Floor), Kristian Berki HUN (Pommels), Yuri Van Gelder NED (Rings), Mitja Petkovsek SLO (P. Bars) and Alen Dimic SLO (High Bar), are all back to defend their titles.

The Floor master Diego Hypolito BRA, fresh from his victory in the previous World Cup event in Maribor SLO, in April, is expected to “throw” a new signature element on Floor in Glasgow.
One of the nice surprises for the day was to see the A. Bars specialist Jana Sikulova CZE, joining the ranks, which, in the presence of the British superstar Beth Tweddle, British Champion Beckie Downie, Sanne Wevers NED, and the Russian Ekaterina Kurbatova, promises indeed to be a thrilling competition on this apparatus.

Swiss National coach Zoltan Jordanov revealed the reason for Ariella Kaeslin pulling out of the competition.  The Olympic Vault Finalist and European All-around Bronze medallist has a broken toe, during pivot on the beam, which happened in the last few days.
There is still hope that the visa problems of Olexander Vorobyov UKR, the 2008 Olympic Bronze medallist on Ring, could be resolved in time and he could be in the Qualifications line-up on Friday.

*  Qualifications on Friday, 15/05- 1:00- 6:30 pm local time
*  Finals on Saturday.16/05  1:30-6:30

** BBC TV: >> Live on Saturday and Highlights on Sunday, 17/05 from 2:00-3:30 pm, local time (BBC 2)
* Friday's Qualification Results
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 A total of 11 finals for the British gymnasts on home soil in the Glasgow Grand Prix World Cup Event.
Olympic Bronze medallist Louis Smith in the pommels alongside Scottish star Daniel Keatings, and double European Champion Beth Tweddle make Bars and Floor final as expected.
British Champion Rebecca Downie has qualified for Bars, Beam and Vault.
Men’s British Champion, Kristian Thomas qualifies for High Bar and Floor, Luke Folwell and Theo Seager will both compete on Vault.
Bailie Liz Cameron, Chair of Culture and Sport Glasgow, said: "It has been a wonderful day of competition, which has thrilled audiences at the Kelvin Hall. Everyone is looking forward to the Grand Prix hotting up as it moves towards it’s climax tomorrow. We wish all the gymnasts the very best of luck in their quest for medals.”

* Women’s Qualification report
23 female gymnasts gathered for qualification at the Kelvin Hall and with only 7 gymnasts wishing to take part in the vault qualification, the competition moved straight to the Asymetric Bars.
Rebecca Downie was going very smoothly, until she uncharacteristically put her hands down on her dismount but still qualified for Saturday’s final in 6th spot (13.0).
Beth Tweddle comfortably led the qualification (14.85) from Tacchelli (Switzerland – 14.2) and Kurbatova (Russia – 14.075) despite a fall on her low to high bar transition.
The remainder of the routine was outstanding with Beth looking in a league of her own, which bodes well for tomorrow. A very confident and fast-moving routine from Romanian Gabriela Dragoi, beam medallist at this year’s Europeans, led the field on this apparatus, with Rebecca Downie qualifying for her second final after finishing in 6th spot (13.775).
Liverpool gymnast Hannah Whelan was disappointed after falling from the apparatus (13.225, 9th) in what was her only appearance in Glasgow. Tweddle again showed her supremacy and focus on floor with a high scoring routine at 15.025 and 1st place, ahead of an energetic routine from Russian Anna Myzdrikova (14.65) and young Spaniard Ana Maria Izurieta (Spain, 14.175).

* WOMEN's  R E S U L T S
> Womens Vault   > Asymmetric Bars

> Balance Beam    > Floor Exercises
* Men’s Qualification report
The largest entry for qualifications came on the first piece, floor exercise. Diego Hypolito (Brazil, hungry for success after Olympic disappointment, debuted a new move (straight double Arabian with a full twist in the second somersault) which helped to earn him top spot in qualification. His score of 15.325 just pushed Britain’s Kristan Thomas into second place (15.3).
Diego Hypolito, Brazil: ‘Here in Glasgow this year I am determined to show another new gymnastic move that I have been working on. I hope to gain more experience in this Grand Prix, and to prepare myself for the forth coming World Championship in London this October The new gymnastic move that I will perform here in Glasgow will be named ‘Hypolito’ the difference in the moves is the body shape in tucked position. I hope to have a good performance of this new move.
The Brazilian team has grown in number of gymnasts in international artistic gymnastics competitions and the performance levels have also grown. Brazilians are becoming known on the artistic gymnastic scene and both the public and other international gymnasts looking forward to seeing them perform."

Recently crowned European Champion on pommel horse Krisztian Berki (Hungary) topped the field in Glasgow, with Louis Smith (3rd, 15.225) and Daniel Keatings (5th, 14.7) earning their places in the final. Outstanding performances on rings (15.825) and vault (16.537) from Ri Se Gwang (People’s Republic of Korea) made him a surprise leader after qualifications on these two pieces. His vault score was achieved through two hugely difficult and well-executed vaults.
Brits Luke Folwell (equal 4th, 15.837) and Theo Seager (7th, 15.4) also proceed to the final on that event. 2008 Glasgow winner on Parallel Bars, Mitja Petkovsek (Slovenia, 15.250) once again led the way on his favourite event whilst team-mate Alijaz Pegan came out on top on High Bar (15.250).
* Source: British Gymnastics

* Men's R E S U L T S
> Men's Floor Exercises  > Pommel Horse     > Rings  
> Men's Vault                     > Parallel Bars          > High bar

Yann Cucherat starts in the German Premier League

08. Mai 2009  
Hanover, Germany  
Artistic Gymnastics

Yann Cucherat starts in the German Premier League

French Parallel bar specialist Yann Cucherat in ordinary of NTT

The Lower Saxon team (NTT), that lost their last competition in the first German artistic gymnastic league against the TG Saar because of the dramatic crash of the national team member Robert WEBER (> GYMmedia-News) got itself with this in the "problem zone".
The NTT wants to change that fact with the spectacular purchase of the European champion on parallel bar and vice on high bar Yann CUCHERAT. He is supposed to start already May 16 (in Berlin)  at the competition against the German titleholder SC Cottbus...
The injured Robert Weber was operated on Tuesday (> GYMmedia-News) and already left the Sophien hospital in Hannover.
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Chineses Olympic Champion YANG, Wei announced Retirement ...

09. Mai 2009  
Beijing, China  
Artistic Gymnastics

Chineses Olympic Champion YANG, Wei announced Retirement ...

YANG Wei announced retirement, but planned to return at the Chinese Games 2009 October...

An extraordinary Career of an extraordinary Athlete...!
The Chinese media reported, that the three-time Olympic champion of gymnastics YANG Wei, double Olympic gold medallist of the 2008 Beijing Games, confirmed his retirement on Thursday, May 7.
The 29-year-old spearheaded China to the men's team title and collected all-around individual to cap his prolific career.
Yang was also a member in China's gold team 2000 Sydney Olympics.
Before culminating in Beijing, Yang also won seven world titles - so at last at the 2007 Stuttgart worlds, beating the German Fabian Hambuechen -  and two Olympic silvers in an international career spanning 13 years..

Yang Wei in interview after winning the Olympic all-around gold medal in Beijing
(c) GYMmedia

According to Yang, injury problems forced him to retire and give up hope of taking part in China's 11th National Games in October.
"I just cannot handle it now although my mind is still there to compete at least for the national games," said Yang to "China Daily,  who pondered to quit at the aftermath of Athens Olympic debacle. "I think it's the time to retire and it would have been more reasonable to retire at the peak of my career after the Olympics. I'm happy I can stick to my training until now and finished top on the Beijing Olympics podium. "I just wanted to end my career following flop in Athens out of concern of injury and my form, but my coach Huang Yubin persuaded me to hang on. I'm so eager to be part of the Beijing Olympic squad, so I said no to the thought of leaving finally," said Yang.
"The longer you stay, the harder to leave. I decided to battle on for my home province Hubei at this year's national games and started training at the beginning of the year, but it turned out to be difficult for me to continue the harsh training for the pain and sore in my injured left elbow. "And in my age, it's much more difficult for me to recover from injuries than before."
Yang refused to reveal his plans for the immediate future.

Yang Wei world champion 2007 in Stuttgart

The versatile Yang can match top gymnasts in all six disciplines and boasts an integral part of the China team and a strong contender for all-around gold at three Olympics.
> In Sydney 2000, he finished up with silver and arrived in Athens four years later as one of the gold medal favorites. Yang had the title within his grasp after Paul Hamm fell from the vault, but a fall of his own from the high bar meant he returned home empty-handed as China, the world champions, finished fifth in the team competition.
> The 2004 Athens fallout came to Yang's pre-mature thought to quit. Holding cherished expectations for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Yang weathered age and injuries to reach the climax of his career in the National Stadium last August by grabbing the all-around gold, leading his team to the team title and snatching a silver in the rings.


* Yang Wei's Vita ...
Born in the central province of Hubei in 1980, Yang was already attending a sports school part time at the age of five. He entered the national team in 1996 at the age of 16 and three years later was a world champion as part of China's team victory at the 1999 Worlds in Tianjin.

In Sydney 2000 he became an Olympic champion, chipping in with the top score as China claimed its first ever team gold. After his Athens disappointment, Yang missed the 2005 world championships in Melbourne but stormed back with three golds in Arhus of Denmark in 2006 and two golds in Stuttgart one year later.
Yang married his long-term girlfriend Yang Yun, a bronze medallist in the uneven bars at the 2000 Sydney Games, last November in a lavish ceremony that drew some criticism from his compatriots.
Following his golden success in Beijing, Yang took time off to enjoy the celebrity spotlight, but planned to return to competition in 2009. The 11th National Games will be held Oct. 11-23 in Shandong.
"It would have been more reasonable to retire at the peak of my career after the Olympics," he told the Chinese press, " ... but I decided to battle on for my home province, Hubei, at this year's National Games and started training at the beginning of the year."
* Source: Chinese media

Swiss Gymnastics Expert Claus Haller passed away ...

04. Mai 2009  
Biel, Switzerland  
Artistic Gymnastics

Swiss Gymnastics Expert Claus Haller passed away ...

Claus HALLER
*1956 - +2009

On May, 3rd, the long time member of the Men's Technical Committee of the European Gymnastics Union, Claus HALLER, died at the age of only 53 because of an internal bleeding. 
With Claus Haller looses the international and the Swiss gymnastics a great gymnastics personality. Claus Haller dedicated his life to this sport and especially to artistic gymnastics. He worked for more than 27 years for the Swiss Gymnastics Association (STV). He was furthermore coach, also for the national team, international judge and at the end head of the apprenticeship of male artistic gymnastics....

As chief editor and developer of national competition and test programs he contributed to the technical development of young artistic gymnasts up to a high international level during a few Olympic cycles.

Numerous leaders of the STV from all over Switzerland benefited from his knowledge for apprenticeship courses.

The deceased left his marks on European level. Claus Haller was member of the Men's Technical Committee of the European Gymnastics Union (UEG) since 1993.

* Source: STV

4. International Spieth -Cup 2009

03. Mai 2009  
Berkheim-Esslingen (GER)  
Artistic Gymnastics

4. International Spieth -Cup 2009

In the city of Esslingen, near Stuttgart - hometown of the worldwide wellknown gymnastics label "SPIETH Gymnastics" -  was held the 4th International SPIETH CUP. Winner of the 2009 team cup was the Swedisch "Eskilstuna Gymnastics Academy" in front of SSV Ulm (GER) and "Vorarlberg Team 1" from Austria.
* ... read more at our >> German event coverage
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GYMfamily Event! Friendly Meet: USA women s team beats German s at home

02. Mai 2009  
Bergisch Gladbach, Germany  
Artistic Gymnastics

GYMfamily Event! Friendly Meet: USA women s team beats German s at home

... with(v.l.): Kim Bui, Susann Herbst, Elisabeth Seitz, Anja Brinker, Katja Roll, Désirée Baumert

For the first time after the political changes the German women's gymnastics had a friendly meet with the Olympic silver medallist of Beijing 2008, the national team of USA. It was the eights friendly meet between both nations in history! Four weeks after the 2009 Europeans in Milan, Saturday, May 2, the competition took place at the RWE Rhein-Ruhr Sports Hall in Muelheim, Germany. 
The US team won the competion in a predominant manner against the young german team with 232,40 : 219,700 points.
TOlympic team silver medallist Bridget Sloan was the best in all-around (59,550), best German gymnast was Kim Bui on sixth place (55,750).
** GYMmedia INTERNATIONAL and the Rhenish Gymnastics Federation (RTB) installed a special Event Website on
>> www.gym-events.com/Germany-USA 
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Third World Cup of the Season - Final Day in Maribor

19. April 2009  
Maribor, Slovenia  
Artistic Gymnastics

Third World Cup of the Season - Final Day in Maribor

Diego Hypolito won on floor ...

The hometown of the legendary Slovenian gymnast of the last century, Leon Stukelj (1898 - 1999), Maribor, is host of the oldes European tournament, the 42 anniversary of "SALAMUNOV MEMORIAL".
After the Friday's qualification the world champion Diego HYPOLITO (BRA) won the first decision on floor, followed by Alexander SHATILOV (ISR).
The Belgian Donna-Donny TRUYENS won again after his success in Cottbus, three weeks ago and Konstantin PLUSHNIKOV (RUS) was beats Irodotos GEORGALLAS from Cyprus on rings
Stanislav VALIEV (KAZ) won on vault, Mitja PETKOVSEK (SLO) on parallel bars, of course, but Slovenian veteran Aljaz PEGAN was beaten by the younger Dutch Olympian Epke ZONDERLAND on hig bar.
On women's side all the successes went to young Russian girls, Kristin GORYUNOVA was the double winner on final day ...

WORLD CUP
42. Salamunov Memorial 2009
  - Maribor, Slovenia; Venue "Lukna" -
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* MEN's Results
> Floor Exercises   > Pommel horse   > Still Rings

> Men's Vault            > Parallel Bars      > High Bar

* WOMEN's Final Results

> Sprung / Vault     > Stufenbarren / Uneven Bars

> Balance Beam     > Floor Exercises

Kristin Goryunova (RUS), double winner in Maribor

WORLD CUP
42. Salamunov Memorial 2009
  - Maribor, Slovenia; Venue "Lukna" -
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* Qualification Results, Friday, April 17

> Men's Qualificationen

> Women's Qualificationen

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