Swiss girls ... "forgotten" at the victory ceremony...
In a tournament of six countries in the central Italian harbour town of Civitavecchia - ROMANIA won the meet in front of ITALY and FRANCE, followed bei CZECH REPUBLIC, SWITZERLAND and EGYPT.
Allaround world champion Vanessa FERRARI won with a super score of 62,100 points. On second came NISTOR (ROU), followed by PETIT (FRA).
A big surprise was the fourth placed Swiss Ariella KAESLIN, who achieved the best result of...
Sergei KHOROKHORDIN (88,800) and Kristina PRAVDINA (59,050) were the all-around winners of the 2007 Russian Cup, which was held July 16 to 21 in Chelyabinsk.
The Russian championships of apparatus finals saw five different winners on men's side and four at the women's finals...
Schweizerinnen bei Siegerehrung "vergessen" ...
Mit einem Mehrländerkampf in der mittelitalienischen Hafenstadt Civitavecchia - u.a. mit Mehrkampfweltmeisterin Vanessa Ferrari und der rumänischen Riege - begann auch für die Schweizer Kunstturnerinnen am Samstag der Countdown im Hinblick auf die WM in Stuttgart (1. bis 9. September).
Comback einer dreifachen Olympiasiegerin
Erwartungsgemäß hieß dort die Reihenfolge RUMÄNIEN, vor ITALIEN und FRANKREICH. Die Tschechische Mannschaft konnte sich um 0,45 Punkten noch vor den Schweizerinnen und vor Ägypten platzieren.
Weltmeisterin...
Brazil and the U.S. won four golds each in the apparatus finals at the Pan Am Games, held Tuesday in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The Team decision of the artistic gymnastics events ended with a surprising gold medal, won by the men's team of Puerto Rico. in front of host Brazil. On Sunday
Jose Luis FUENTES from Venezuela earned gold in the all-around final as the only one gymnast who scored more than 90 points.
On the...
A hard loss for German and international Gymnastics...
Siegfried FUNK from Augsburg, Germany, the Member of the FIG Men’s Artistic Gymnastics Technical Committee passed away on July 15, 2007, after a long and painful disease.
A few days before he visited the first German trials in Dessau for the upcoming worlds in Stuttgart this year ...