17. August 2005
Yokohama / Japan
Artistic Gymnastics
2005 All Japan Junior Championships .

All Japanese Junior Championships 2005 was held in Yokohama, August 16 - 17.
Men's all around winner is Kyoichi Watanabe. He finished with 53.500 points. He said he regards Isao Yoneda highly. On second place came the Asian junior champion Tatsuki Nakajima. His point is 52.700. And two gymnasts are third place , Naoyuki Terao and Kouhei Uchimura,their point are 52.250.

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16. August 2005
Izmir / Turkey
Artistic Gymnastics
23. UNIVERSIADE: Overwhelming Asiatic Dominance !

The Chinese FAN, Ye and the Japanese Hiroyuki Tomita were the all-around winner of the all-around final of the second day of the 23rd UNIVERSIADE in Izmir, Turkey.
Also five of the six medals of the team decisions were won bei Asiatic teams.
The artistic gymnastics competizions will be finish on Monday with the event finals...

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14. August 2005
Indianapolis / USA
Artistic Gymnastics
Liukin and Thornton win 2005 U.S. Visa Championships

Todd Thornton of Pearland, Texas/Team Chevron is the winner of the men’s all-around after the second day of competition at the 2005 USA Visa Championships at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Ind in front of David Sender of Arlington Heights, Ill./Stanford University.
Nastia Liukin wins the senior women's title. She finished with 76.164 points, 0.367 points ahead of Chellsie Memmel, a double gold medalist at the 2003 worlds, scored 75.797 points. Jana Bieger was third with 74.680.

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10. August 2005
Kiev / Ukraine
Artistic Gymnastics
Madonna, the Russian Birch has gone...

Polina Astakhova passed away
With great sadness the Ukrainian gymnastics family feels sorrow Polina ASTAKHOVA's death, August 5.

The three-times Soviet Olympic gold medallist of artistic gymnastics - her nickname in the Fifties was "The Russian Birch", passed away at age 69 in the Ukraine capital Kiev, where the former world star lived the last years...

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9. August 2005
Indianapolis / USA
Artistic Gymnastics
2005 Visa Championships boasts strong women’s field

us.gymnastics:--- — The Visa Championships 2005, USA Gymnastics’ national championships for men’s and women’s artistic and rhythmic gymnastics and also the national team trials for acrobatic gymnastics will held from August 10 to 13 at the Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. It is the first major competition in preparation for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.....

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