Two days before flying to Anaheim the German men's team of artistic gymnastics made its last test competition in the German training camp Kienbaum near Berlin.
Best of all-round was the German Vice Champion Christian Berczes and so the gymnast from SV Halle came as the number 6 into the WCh team.
Robert Juckel from Cottbus is the emergency men No. 1 and Dmitri Nonin (Berlin) is the the No.8...
26 gymnasts aged 10 to 12 and 21 coaches representing 14 member federations (AUT, FIN, FRA, GBR, GER, IRL, ISR, ITA, LUX, POL, RUS, SLO, SUI, TUR) participated in the 2003 UEG training camp held in Tirrenia (ITA) from July 14th till July 24th.
>> Read an article, written by Marie-Paule Hoffmann, President of UEG Women's Technical Committee...
Members of the German Women's National Gymnastics Team are training at the University of Utah's Dumke Gymnastics Center through Aug. 7 in preparation for the 2003 Gymnastics World Championships in Anaheim, Calif., Aug. 16-24.
Also training with the German Team in Salt Lake is Oksana from Uzbekistan.
Chusovitina (28), who competed in the 1992, 1996, and 2000 Olympic Games, will be trying to qualify for her fourth Olympic Games.
The artistic gymnastics men's team of host Slovakia won a friendly dual meet in Bratislava against Croatia with a score of 210.30 to 203,15 points.
Filip Ude from Croatia was the best gymnast in all-around with a score of 52,55 points.
The Croatian national coach Nenad Solar appointed the national team of his country after this event...:
The Cuban men and the USA women won the team titles at the 2003 Pan American Games, held Saturday in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The USA women's team outscored the defending team champions, Canada, and Brazil.
The Cubans men's team successfully defended their team title from the last Pan Am Games, Winnipeg 1999. The Brazil team won silver and the American men, which defending silver medalists, slipped to bronze behind Brazil.
(CUB), the four times all-around champion...