Winning three titels the French men were the best nations at the second World Cup in Doha, Qatar, which helds from September 28 - 30:
Cyril TOMMASONE (pommel horse) and Rodrigues PINHEIRO (rings) and Thomas BOHAIL (vault) were the French winners, and Chineses won two titles by ZHENDONG Dong (parallel bars) and YUHONG Hu (balance beam) and also two titles wnt to Croatia: Tomislav MARKOVIC (CRO) on floor, and Tijana TKALCEC on...
* Replacement of the former "Alster-Pokal"
A new artistic event the, "Hamburg Gymnastics – International", will held 2009, November 27 - 28 in the German seaport Hamburg.
15 international top teams of women's gymnastics will meet at the sportshall "Wandsbek" with the best gymnasts from the host city, fighting for the new donated Hamburg Team Trophy, ...
The daughter of the former to gymnast Vera Kolesnikova, from the 1985 Soviet gold team of the Worlds in Montreal, the Russian Victoria KOMOVA, won the all-around competition of the 2009 Yokohama Junior International, which took place September 22 - 23.
Komova dominated the women's all-around competition, earning the highest score on all four events, followed by Natsumi Sasada (JPN) ...
Following the 2009 Individual World Championships Artistic Gymnastics in London next month the Olympic qualification will seriously start next year at the World Championships 2010 in Rotterdam.
24 teams will pre-qualify at this first selection competition.
The event will be held in the renovated AHOY complex in Rotterdam, where Janssen-Fritsen will supply all the equipment as they did for the Olympic Games in Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008.
During the world championships'...
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...