18. Mai 2009
Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
Artistic Gymnastics
PREVIEW: 2nd Pre-Olympic Youth Cup 2009 ** GYMfamily Event

On the weekend of 22/23 May the Rheinischer Turnerbund (GER) will be continuing the tradition it began last year of holding a high-level international competition for female junior gymnasts.
Invitations are therefore now being issued to the "Second Pre-Olympic Youth Cup 2009" in Bergisch Gladbach.
The main competitions on 23 May are all-around contests for the 12/13 and 14/15 age groups and also for the Elite category. A remarkable feature is the unusually high amount of prize money for a junior competition! This...

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16. Mai 2009
Glasgow, Great Britain
Artistic Gymnastics
2009 Glasgow Grand Prix: Happy Brits !

The British Team took their home Grand Prix by storm with a magnificent six medals!
Beth Tweddle took two Gold’s to follow her double European championship Success on Bars and Floor. Louis Smith and Daniel Keatings continued the Pommel domination finishing in Gold and Bronze places, Becky Downie produced a great routine to claim Bars Silver and Kristian Thomas took Floor Silver to complete the medal haul....

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9. Mai 2009
Beijing, China
Artistic Gymnastics
Chineses Olympic Champion YANG, Wei announced Retirement ...

An extraordinary Career of an extraordinary Athlete...!
The Chinese media reported, that the three-time Olympic champion of gymnastics YANG Wei, double Olympic gold medallist of the 2008 Beijing Games, confirmed his retirement on Thursday, May 7.
The 29-year-old spearheaded China to the men's team title and collected all-around individual to cap his prolific career.
Yang was also a member in China's gold team 2000 Sydney Olympics.
Before culminating in Beijing, Yang also won seven...

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8. Mai 2009
Hanover, Germany
Artistic Gymnastics
Yann Cucherat starts in the German Premier League

The Lower Saxon team (NTT), that lost their last competition in the first German artistic gymnastic league against the TG Saar because of the dramatic crash of the national team member Robert WEBER (> GYMmedia-News) got itself with this in the "problem zone".
The NTT wants to change that fact with the spectacular purchase of the European champion on parallel bar and vice on high bar Yann CUCHERAT. He is supposed to start already May 16...

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4. Mai 2009
Biel, Switzerland
Artistic Gymnastics
Swiss Gymnastics Expert Claus Haller passed away ...

On May, 3rd, the long time member of the Men's Technical Committee of the European Gymnastics Union, Claus HALLER, died at the age of only 53 because of an internal bleeding. 
With Claus Haller looses the international and the Swiss gymnastics a great gymnastics personality. Claus Haller dedicated his life to this sport and especially to artistic gymnastics. He worked for more than 27 years for the Swiss Gymnastics Association (STV). He was furthermore coach, also for the national...

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