26. Mai 2007
Melbourne / Australia
Artistic Gymnastics
Australia s Artistic National Championships 2007

Daria Joura and junior Emma Dennis were the this years Australia's All-around Champions of artistic gymnastics.
The nationals took place in Melbourne this weekend and the the women's competitions included two days of all-around.

Joura also earned the apparatus titles on vault, uneven bars and floor exercises. Second placed Lauren Mitchell won the balance beam title in front of  Hollie Dykes. On third in all-around came Chloe Sims...

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26. Mai 2007
Moscow / Russia
Artistic Gymnastics
Artistic World Cup in Moscow - strong Chineses

Chinese gymnasts on Saturday took two titles at the finals of the artistic gymnastics World Cup in Moscow.
Zhang Hongtao won the men's pommel horse with a score of 16.100 and Yan Mingyong took gold medal in the men's Rings with a score of 16.400.  Chinese girls also performed well and gained medals in the event.
Liao Huifan took the silver medal in women's vault and Zhou Zhuoru, second in uneven bars. But Chinese team failed...

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23. Mai 2007
Orlando / USA
Artistic Gymnastics
F.I.G Council finished in Orlando

From May 19 to 20 the F.I.G. Council met in Orlando, USA and accepted unanimously the new Code of Discipline and decided, that   in the future basically the Artistic Worlds will take place in October, the Rhythmic Worlds in September, the Trampoline Worlds in November, the Acrobatic Worlds in March and the Aerobic Worlds in June.

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13. Mai 2007
Ghent / Belgium
Artistic Gymnastics
World Cup Finals in Belgium

Today the men's World cup event in Ghent, Belgium ends with the victories of six different gymnasts, representing six different nations.
For instance the former Ukrainian junior Mykola Kuksenkov won his first world cup title (high bar) in the elite category, but also the specialists were defeated again, like Berki (HUN) on pommel horse, van Gelder (NED) on rings and Petkovsek (SLO) on parallel bars...

On the women's side Steliana Nistor was the double winner (beam, floor).
The Russian Anna...

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8. Mai 2007
Bucharest / Romania
Artistic Gymnastics
Ponor will train for this year s Worlds and next year s Olympics

Olympic Champion Ponor reunites with Former Coach
Romania's triple Olympic champion Catalina Ponor said to the press she would rejoin her former coach Mariana Bitang to train for this year's world championships and the 2008 Beijing Games.
Ponor told that Matei Stanei, who has been coaching her from January, has health problems and that the switch to Bitang will improve her chances of winning Olympic gold in China ...

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