To the 24th time the World Cup organizers of the "Tournament of Masters" every year in spring were also the host for the best European talents of artistic gymnastics, at the "INTERNATIONAL GWG-CUP 2009, which took place from Sep 19 - 20 in Cottbus, Germany.
A strong Dutch delegation came with the European Junior Champion Bart Deurloo, (photo, left), who won the all-around competioon in the age group 15 - 18. The best talents came from...
Olympic gold medalist Sandra Izbasa has snapped her Achilles' tendon and will miss the world gymnastics championships.
The 19-year-old gymnast also broke a bone in her foot during training Thursday in Buzau.
Romanian Gymnastics Federation chairman Adrian Stoica said it will take Izbasa "months, years even, to recover."
She was taken to Bucharest after the injury and will have surgery on Monday, September 21. Izbasa won the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics in the floor exercise...
European All-around Champion beats the Vice ...
The 2009 European All-around champion Fabian Hambuechen (GER) won the 2nd Champions Trophy which was held at the Max-Schmeling Hall in the German capital Berlin.
With a score of 91.575 he beat the 2007 European champion (Amsterdam), the Russian Maxim Deviatovski after a mistake at high bar (88,600) and also the 19-years old British European Vice champion ((2009 Milan), Daniel Keatings, who led after three apparatuses, but failed on parallel bar...
The all-around winner of the 2009 "Vitaly Scherbo Cup" in the Byelorussian capital Minsk were the Olympian Anton Fokin from Uzbekistan and on women's side the 14-years old Galina Ivanets from host Belarus, the winner of the this year's Stella Zacharova Cup.
Among the international guests from France, Canada and Switzerland specially the Swiss men leave a good mark, so Roman Gisi on third in all-around and Roland Häuptli , who won the floor exercises and ranked second on...
German Trials No. 1.
Five weeks before the upcoming Worlds in London European all-around champion Fabian Hambuechen (GER) won the German trials in Achern, in the South of Germany with a score of 88,800 points, inspite of a crash at the floor.
but with the highest score on high bar (15,900).
On second place came Thomas Taranu, with a difference of more than 5 points, followed by Matthias Fahrig on third.
Marcel Nguyen started on five...