From September 18 on the T.J. Maxx Tour of Gymnastics Champions is on tour across the USA, featuring members of the 2004 U. S. Olympic Team. The high-flying T.J. Maxx tour format combines elements of Cirque du Soleil-style modern performance art with elite gymnastics to push the boundaries of athleticism and gymnastics to all-new levels. The Tour is runnning September 18 to November 28 and will stopp in 39 cities....

The high-flying T.J. Maxx Tour format combines elements of Cirque du Soleil-style modern performance art with elite gymnastics to push the boundaries of athleticism and gymnastics to all-new levels.
'The 2004 T.J. Maxx Tour will be an amazing athletic and artistic spectacle like no other gymnastics tour ever conducted,' said USA Gymnastics President Bob Colarossi. 'The 2004 T.J. Maxx Tour will celebrate our teams' success at the Athens Olympic Games by delivering Olympic-caliber gymnastics in an entertaining and creative format. We are honored to have T.J. Maxx on board as title sponsor as we partner together to present traditional and creative gymnastics as it has never been done before.'

Grigori Misiutin (UKR), Olympic Champion from 1992 and recently head coach of the Ukrainian junior team which won the bronze medal at the European Championships in Ljubljana this year, wants to move to Saarland/ Germany.
The main reason for this is that his wife Yevgenia recently has obtained German citizenship. Her parents have been living in the city Saarbrücken for a couple of years already....

...his most important achievements:
1991: all-around World Champion in Indianapolis (in front of Vitali Cherbo and Valeri Liukin);
1992: Team Olympic Champion with the last USSR team in history; all-around silver medal behind Cherbo and in front of Belenki; silver medals on floor, vault and high bar;
1992: DTB-Cup: 3rd ranks floor and high bar, overall 5 spots in finals;
WCh's in Paris: World Champion on high bar, 3rd on rings;
1993: WCh's Birmingham: World Champion on floor, 8th rank in the all-around;
1994: WCh's Brisbane, 4th on floor, 8th on vault;
1995: WCh's Sabae, 5th with the team, 3rd on floor;
1996: WCh's San Juan, 3rd on floor
1996: Olympic Games, Atlanta, 3rd with the team.

Five weeks only after winning the Olympic gold medal with their team in Athens the Romanian top gymnasts Oana BAN and Silvia STROESCU degleared their retirement from international top sport
The reasons are continuing injuries in the last years.

Germany's oldest international event
The traditional 'LEVERKUSEN CUP' for women's artistic gymnastics celebrates it's 29th anniversary this year.
On Saturday, October, the 30th the chief-organizer Dieter Schulz and his well-tried team will welcome guests from 10 nations in the venue 'Wilhelm-Dopatka-Halle' in Leverkusen.

This tournament started in 1972 with two small events, followed from 1975 on, year by year, by a wellknown top adress for an international competition now!
Also in this year the Mayor of the city of Leverkusen is the patronizer again...

Leverkusen-Cup - traditional partner of GYMmedia
The organizers of the traditional Levercusen Cup booked the GYMmedia Event Service in the last 4 yours and were the long-time online partners of the European online service.

Will Hamm return his medal...?
Olympic all-around champion Paul Hamm had to appear in a hearing of the International Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) in Lausanne where he met again his Olympic competitor Yang, Tae Young. Four weeks after the Olympic Games in Athens ended the highest court for sports issues now takes care of the case of the US- gymnast. South Korea had informed the CAS on the mistake of the judges already during the Olympic Games.

«I have the feeling that I had to win 3 times: Once in the competition, once against the media and now in front of the CAS», explained Hamm before the hearing. However, later then he modified this statement:…

Does this issue only concern the gold medal or the overall future of gymnastics...?
>> A comment on this topic by GYMmedia’s chief editor Eckhard Herholz is published in the artistic gymnastics section of the >GYMforum also in English…

The winner of the 19th International GWG Cup 2004 of European talents of artistic gymnastics (age group 10 - 14) was the Ukrainian Victor Stepanenko with a score of 52,30, followed by Rokas Guscinas (LTU; 51,225) and Daniel Keatings (GBR; 50,850).
Winner of the age group 15 - 18 years was Dennis Mannhart from Switzerland (Turnverband Zurich) with a score of 52,750 points.
On second place came Andrei Isayev from the Ukrainian Bronze team of the last European junior championships, followed by Brian Gladow (51,300) from the German Silver team(Ljubljana 2004).
The Ukrainian Victor Stepanenko (13 y.) was the most successful gymnast at the final day of this European tournament. All together the Ukraine got 8 gold medals and led the medal sheet in Cottbus, followed by Switzerland (3) and Germany (2) and Great Britain (1)...

Results, 2nd Day (Apparatus Finals)

<< Victor Stepanenko from Ukraine was the most successful gymnast. After winning the all-around title he was top on floor, pommel horse and high bar at the second day of the GWG Cup in Cottbus.

>> FINAL RESULTS, AG 10-14

>> FINAL RESULTS, AG 15-18

The traditional 'International GWG Cup - one of the most important European tournament for young male gymnastics talents will held in Cottbus this weekend to the 19th time.
In the same arena like the world cup tournament 'Turnier der Meister' in spring, now 140 young talents of artistic gymnastics at the age of 10 to 18 years coming from 16 nations - inclusive USA - are fighting in the different age groups.
This competiition is a real 'event of the Olympic Champions for tomorrow'...

Organizing Committee:
XIX. Internationales Nachwuchsturnier
Sportclub Cottbus Turnen e.V.
Dresdener Str.18
D-03050 Cottbus
Telefon. ++49-355-486352
Fax ++49-355-472021: e-mail info@scc-turnen.de

The 6th South-East Asian Gymnastics Confederation (SEAGON) Junior Championships
was a huge success for the Malaysian girls- but also a huge disappointment, too...

While the rhythmic gymnasts swept the board, winning all six gold medals and four silvers and two bronzes as well, the artistic gymnasts were a huge failure and were obviously way behind their regional rivals....

“There is a decline in the standard of the women's artistic compared to the men's artistic and the rhythmic gymnasts. We are on the right track for the Manila SEA Games in the men's artistic and rhythmic but not in the women's artistic,” he said. “This decline is of great concern for the MGF. At the SEA Games in Hanoi, they (the women's artistic) failed to defend the overall title.”
“We have Nurul in the national team but she is down with injury. Some of our junior gymnasts are also facing similar situations. We have to look at whether these gymnasts are beyond rehabilitation or whether the coaches are 'overloading' them in training,” he added. Malacca's top three athletes, Nabihah Ali, Tracie Ang and Cheong See Teng, who among them won six gold medals for their state in the Malaysian Games (Sukma) in Negri Sembilan, did not take part in SEAGON. National junior Nabihah is nursing an injury while both Tracie and See Teng are under-aged for the junior meet. The meet is for athletes aged between 12 and 18.

The Malaysian boys artistic team won four of the eight gold medals and showed there were on the right track.
In the three-day junior meet, Yap Kiam Bun and Wan Siti Haniza Wan Izhar were the top performers in the boys' artistic and rhythmic competitions.
Kiam Bun bagged two gold medals (individual all-around and pommel horse) while Siti Haniza pocketed four gold medals (individual all-around, rope, club and team). Jaime Lee also won three gold medals (ball, ribbon and team).
Source: The Maulaysian Star, by RAJES PAUL

BOYS' Results
Team artistic:
1. Malaysia 158.150pts, 2 Vietnam 129.350, 3. Singapore 110.225.
Individual all-around:
1. Yap Kiam Bun (MAS) 54.425pts, 2. Ng Shu Man (MAS) 52.325, 3. Kittipong Yudee (THA) 49.375.

GIRLS' Results
Team artistic:
1. Philippines 91.525pts, 2. Vietnam 91.225, 3. Malaysia 86.425.
Individual all-around:
1. Emille Christa Santos (PHI) 30.950pts, 2. Phan Thi Ma Thanh (VIE) 30.925, 3 Tabitha Tay Jia Hui (SIN) 30.800.
Source: the star / photo: STARpic by I. Montar

This weekend a second world cup of artistic gymnastics in this Olympic year was held in South America:
After Rio de Janeiro (BRA) in spring , April 2 - 4) the next world cup event (category B) took place to the first time in Chile now, from September 9 to 11 in the 'Coliseo' of the city La Serena (CHI).
Double winner in women's category was Carly Janiga (USA; floor, vault) and the Slovak Samuel Piasecky (parallel bars) and the Slovene Aljaz Pegan (high bar) were two of all together 5 European winners - Diego Hypolito (BRA) won on floor...