23rd UEG Congress 2009
*UEG-press--: The delegates of the 47 UEG federations have elected with 24 votes Georges Guelzec, France, actual vice – president, to the presidency for the next period 2010 to 2013.
The leaving president Dimitrios Dimitropoulos has received 22 votes.
Four candidates were running for the 3 mandates of vice-presidency.
The new presidential board of the UEG will be formed, in addition to the President Georges Guelzec, of
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Swiss trainer caroussel is still moving
*stv-info --: With the hiring of the 42 year old, French Laurent Tricoire the Swiss trainer team national squad artistic gymnastics is again complete as of the 1st of January 2010.
<< Laurent TRICOIRE will train the national squad artistic gymnastics mens in Maggalingen with the chief trainer Bernhard Fluck and Frédéric Forrler from the 1st of January 2010. Laurent Tricoire worked from 1993 until 2009 as a trainer in the artistic...
FIG President Prof Bruno Grandi recently presented Mr Uli Spieth, Director of Spieth Gymnastic, with a copy of the book prefaced with his De Arte Gymnastica; Spieth has been an official FIG partner and apparatus supplier for nearly 54 years. The gift is a token of the exemplary collaboration that has spanned multiple generations.
From its production site in Esslingen (GER) near Stuttgart, the company was swift to expand its export business beyond its own borders. In 1956, it...
Rudolf SPIETH, born on the 2nd November 1909, was one of the western impulse givers for German and also interational apparatus and artistic gymnastics.
The once in 1831 of great, great-grandfather Wilhelm Ludwig Spieth in Oberesslingen fouded carpenters shop, developed over the genertions to one of the world wide best known makes of gymnastics apparati.
Especially after the second world war and and due to the personal partnership between Rudolf Spieth and Richard Reuther, an Oppauer artistic gymnast and constructor, essentail technological...
One expected anything but a German double win at the 31st SWISS CUP 2009, but the championship coupling of Kim BUI and Matthias FAHRIG as Germany I proved to be the Swiss dream team at the end of the final and won with 30,400 points ahead of the Germany II team with Elisabeth SEITZ / Thomas TARANU, which could keep - with a breath of 0,025 points - the host-duo Ariella KAESLIN / Niki BOESCHENSTEIN (29,675) at a distance. The fourth place in this final was taken...