24. Dezember 2008
Moscow, Russia
Artistic Gymnastics
... Personalities:Russia engages Ukrainian star coach Ostapenko ...

The Russian Gymnastics Federation announced last week that the former head coach of Ukraine and Brazil, Oleg OSTAPENKO, will be the new junior women's coach for Russia. He will take this new responsibility under the lead of the new Russian head  Alexander Alexandrov, who returned to Russia last month after working for 15 years in Texas.
Ostapenko - who had been working as the Brazilian head coach since 2001 - returned to Ukraine in November 2008, initially with the...

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20. Dezember 2008
Moscow, Russia
Artistic Gymnastics
Last International Competition this Year: Voronin Cup

Host Russia captured three of four all-around titles (elite & juniors) at the annual "Voronin Cup 2008", which concluded last week (Dec 18) in Mosocw.
Russia's Kristina Goryunova (59.950) and Japan's Hiroyuki Imai (87.800) won the senior all-around titles on Wednesday and the title at the parallel bars final. 
Goryunova won also vault and uneven bars and the
third placed in all-around, Dmitri GOGOTOV, was the winner at the final on floor exercise on Tuesday....

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20. Dezember 2008
Sofia, Bulgaria
Artistic Gymnastics
Jordan Jovtchev elected head of Bulgarian Gymnastics Federation

Jordan Jovtchev, one of Bulgaria's most successful male gymnasts in history, has officially been elected the head of the Bulgarian Sports Gymnastics Federation, Dnevnik daily reported on December 19.
The four-time world champion and silver Olympic medallist from Athens will take over from Nikola Prodanov. Yovchev has been voted unanimously by the participants in the federation's congress.
Another former legend in Bulgarian sports gymnastics, the silver medallist from the Atlanta Olympics in 1996 on...

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14. Dezember 2008
Madrid, Spain
Artistic Gymnastics
CHENG, Fei - The most successful gymnast at the WORLD CUP FINAL

At the 14th WORLD CUP FINAL 2008 in artistic gymnastics the top-ranking gymnast on floor, Diego HYPOLITO from Brazil, won the last competition on his best apparatus this year. He was particularly happy about this victory, because he was ill and injured before the Olympics in Beijing ...!
The Chinese ZHANG, Hongtao beat the European specialist Krisztian Berki on pommel horse and the Ukrainian Alexander VOROBYOV was the best on rings, ahead of veteran Jordan Jovtchev and the...

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12. Dezember 2008
Madrid, Spain
Artistic Gymnastics
Preview: Artictic Gymnastics World Cup Final 2009

As the basis for invitations to the World Cup Final on 13-14 December in Madrid, the international gymnastics federation, the F.I.G., published its world cup individual apparatus rankings at the end of November following the last World Cup of the series. As a result, the best eight gymnasts on each apparatus were now qualified, and in the event that a gymnast did not take up the invitation, their place would be taken by the next gymnast in the rankings  ...

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