The first day of the 35th Men's Artistic Gymnastics European Championships finished after three subdivisions with 159 athletes, representing 37 different nations. At the end Max Whitlock from Great Britain was the best of all-around with a score of 89,365 points. After the third subdivision Oleg Verniayev (UKR) came on second (88,265) and he pushed Russia's David Belyavskiy (88,623) on third place, followed by Oleg Stepko (UKR) on fourth (88,224).
After retirement of the German titleholder Philipp Boy and...
For already the fifth time, the historic 35th Gymnastics European Championships for men and the 34th for Women 2013 in Moscow on 17 - 21 April at the Olympic complex in the Russian capital as so-called "Individual Championships", like this, most recently in Berlin 2011, with all-around and apparatus finals.
To about 160 male gymnasts from 37 European nations are on the entry list, of which only 43% (65 athletes) want to participate in the all-around!...
After drawing of lots by the Technical Committee of the European Gymnastics Union (UEG), the following start constellations for the 35th Men's & 34 Women's European Championships of Artistic Gymnastics Men in Moscow:
> Drawing, Men ( - from April 17 on)
> Drawing, Women ( - from April 18 on)
* ... read more on > Schedule / Zeitplan
Even in the ninth comparison between the national squads of U.S. and Germany were on the weekend in Chemnitz the guests victorious:
The USA won with 234,050 points, ahead of host Germany, scoring 210,600).
The third international match opponent, a young junior team from Romania, finished on third place, with 205,150 points.
Best gymnast in all-around was the more experienced Olympian Kyla Ross (< photo left) was with 59,300 points, followed by her compatriots Simone Biles...
In the "Richard Hartmann-Halle" of Chemnitz took place a friendly triple meet of women artistic gymnastics between Olympic champions USA, Top Nation Romania and hosts Germany, supplemented by a mixed team.
This "international match of the year" as expected, the U.S. girls won in convincing fashion, and 234.050 points in front of host Germany (210.600) as well as a very young Romanian junior team (205.15) .....
<< As the best all-around fighter proved Kyla ROSS from the U.S. gold team (London, 2012), who...