26. Oktober 2004
Dornbirn / Austria
Artistic Gymnastics
TeamGym-EM 2004: All medals go to Skandinavia!

>> Hattrick for 'Rodovre og Omegns GF' (DEN) !!

With excellent shows, highclass performances and the expected wins of Scandinavians the finals of the 5th European Championships in TeamGym in the stadion of Dornbirn (Austria) ended today. Denmark has won with team 'Rodovre og Omegns GF' and 25,250 points the mixed competition for the third time in sequence (European Champion!). They also won with 'HSG Slagelse' (27,300) in the male competition. The female 'Team Asker' (25,950) from Norway...

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25. Oktober 2004
Antalya / Turkey
Artistic Gymnastics
KIM and STOICA leading the artistic gymnastics TC’s

Romania’s Adrian STOICA has been elected as president of the men’s artistic gymnastics technical committee of the FIG at the elections in Antalya (TUR). With Kazakhstan native Nelli KIM who ran for Belarus for the first time an Olympic Champion has been elected as president of the technical committee in women’s artistic gymnastics. Both of them were elected with a large majority in the 1st round (Kim: 56 out of 91 valid votes; Stoica: 62 out of 97 valid votes)…

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23. Oktober 2004
Montevarchi / Italy
Artistic Gymnastics
Italian Juniors beat Germany

The Italian national juniors team won its dual meet against the guests from Germany with 206,575 vs. 205,650 points.
In the Palazzetto delo Sport of Montevarchi near Florence the German team made a lot of mistakes and started without their stars Hambuechen, Eichorn and Boy...
Best gymnast in all-around was the Italian Paolo Oravi with 52,45, followed by his teammate Matteo Corona and the German Thomas Taranu (- both 51,90).

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22. Oktober 2004
Antalya / TURK
Artistic Gymnastics
FIG Congress: President Grandi confirmed in Office

At the 75th General Assembly (Congress) of FIG in Antalya, the Italian Bruno Grandi has been confirmed in office as President from 86 of the 96 nations.
In the first ballot, both the French Dr. Michel Leglise as well as the Japanese Koji Takizawa were elected as Vice-Presidents by the delegate; in the second ballot the Canadian Slava Corn was also elected.
Romania's Gymnastics President Vieru has not been re-elected, the Swiss Ivan Weber had already canceled his...

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22. Oktober 2004
Great Britain
Artistic Gymnastics
Kanukai JACKSON retired

The Britisch Gymnastics Association (BAGA) pronounced, that one of the best British gymnasts ever, Kanukai Jackson, the 2002 Commonwealth Games All-around Champion, 2002 European Bronze medallist on Vault, and 2000 and 2002 British All-around Champion, has decided to retire from competition.
He is already in Montreal, starting his new career as a member of the cast of the renowned Canadian “Cirque du Soleil”.

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