The former two-times world champion on high bar Jesús Carballo (jr) Martínez (34) was elected as the new president of the Royal Spanish Federation of Gymnastics.
The former world class gymnast won the election with 49 votes, in front of two rival applicants Angelo Madroñal (24 votes) and Cheo Llera (03 votes).
Llera is the former coach of Spanish National team member Laura Campos. So Jesus Carballo (jr) is the youngest president ever of the Spanish Federation.
The Russian all-around world champion Aliya MUSTAFINA (Russia)won the all-around and two events at the 17th Voronin Cup, wich held in Moscow last week.
On second place came her teammate Tatiana Nabiyeva, followed by the Israelian Valeria Maksyuta. Russia's Dmitry BARKALOV won the elite's men's all-around title in front of teammate Andrei Likhovitsky and Japan's Shogo Nonomura.
The competition featured gymnasts from 23 nations from Europe, Asia, and North and South America.
The subsequent competition of the legendary Chunichi Cup with a history of more than three decades is the "TOYOTA International" now, which took place last weekend at the Toyota City, near Tokyo and which closed the 2010 international season of artistic gymnastic events.
Two-time world all-around champion Kohei Uchimura won the gold medal on floor and the silver on horizontal bar and his teammatem Kazuhito Tanaka was the best on parallel bar.
The other winners were:...
Finally, after a very long break due to an injury in February 2010, Kim Bui is back in the arena! She competed at the final of the German Bundesliga held in Berlin last weekend. Bui performed only on the uneven bars (13.35/5.3) for the Stuttgart team, which won the competition easily over the TuS Chemnitz-Altendorf’ team with Joeline Möbius, Susann Herbst, Ruby van Dijk among others. National team members Giulia Hindermann, Pia Tolle and Marie-Sophie Hindermann (beam...
Brits make Twelve Finals!
*baga-news--: The British gymnasts have once again proved they are World powers by making numerous Final at the Glasgow Grand Prix World Cup event.
World Silver medallist Louis Smith topped the Pommel qualification in a truly World Class field that includes the last 2 World Champions. Louis scored 15.500 to lead his great rival, the current World Champion Kristian Berki (HUN) – 15.475.
The British gymnast finished with a magnificent 5 medals at...