The City of Liverpool “A” team (Beth Tweddle, Carol Galashan, Melanie Roberts, Kim Lyon, Aisling Williams and Hannah Clowes coached by Sarah Attwell and Claire Duffy), won the British Team title for the third consecutive time at the Championships in Guildford on 3/4th April (137.650 points), ahead of South Durham (132.175) who celebrated their first Team Silver medal, and the last years runners-up from Heathrow “A” team in third (130.950)....
'Siegfried Fischer Trophy 2004'
For the first time after 26 years (Sao Paolo, 1978) an artistic gymnastics world cup will be held in America again:
The Brazilian Diego HYPOLITO was the only one double winner (floor, vault), but Yernar Yerimbetov from Kazakhstan was the most successful athlet, winning 3 silver medals...
Most successful in women's category was the oldest femal gymnast, the world champion on vault, Oksana Chusovitina, winning vault and bronze medal on...
Credit: NOC of Romania
Legendary gymnast Nadia Comaneci has been awarded the Olympic Order by the IOC President, Jacques Rogge, during an official ceremony in Bucharest (Romania).
IOC President Rogge was in the Romanian Capital for the celebration of the 90th anniversary of the Romanian Olympic Committee, whose President is Ion Tiriac.
Furthermore, President Rogge has been bestowed with the title of Commander of the National Order of Merit of Romania....
Great Britain vs France 105.375 : 10.275
Saturday, March 27 was held a dual meet between host Great Britain and a French team of women's artistic gymnastics at the Rushmore Gymnastics Academy.
Britain host won with a score of 105.375 points, France scored 102.275 points.
The experenced Nelly Ramassamy (FRA) was the best in all-around, followed by Vanessa Hobbs and Katy Lennon...
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The awards ceremony of the first Laureus China top ten athletes was held in Shanghai.
<< The Chinese top ten are male gymnast Li Xiaopeng,
female diver Guo Jingjing, female table tennis players Wang Nan and Zhang Yining, female swimmer Luo Xuejuan, female short-track speed skating athlete Yang Yang (A), men's 110m hurdles athlete Liu Xiang, figure skating pair Shen Xue/Zhao Hongbo, men's basketball player Yao Ming,and female volleyball player Zhao Ruirui.
All the...