2. März 2008
Penza / Russia
Artistic Gymnastics
2008 Russian Cup with two double winners

Ksenia Afanasyeva and Anton Golotsutskov each won two titles at the 2008 Russian Cup for individual events, which took place February 29 to March 1 in Penza.
Afanasyeva won floor exercise and tied Russia's new all-around champion Yulia Lozhechko for the gold on balance beam. Anna Pavlova won vault and Yekaterina Kramarenko on uneven bars.
Other winners on men's side were Andrei Likhovitsky on pommel horse, Alexander Balandin on still rings, Nikolai Kryukov on parallel bars and...

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1. März 2008
Liestal / Switzerland
Artistic Gymnastics
* Personal:Dr. Peter KOTZUREK: Farewell after 27 years ...

In the centre for artistic gymnastics in Liestal in the North of Switzerland, the office of the men's head coach will soon be vacant:
The acting Dr. Peter KOTZUREK resigned from office after three years, stepping down on March 1st. After 27 years of work as a coach in professional sports -  for example as last coach of the East German women's squad, later in in the centre for competitive sports in Bergisch Gladbach and later as the head of the assortment of the Swiss men's national team...

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1. März 2008
New York / USA
Artistic Gymnastics
2008 Tyson American Cup: Gold for Hamm and Liukin (USA)

Three and a half years after winning the Olympic all-around gold medal, the US gymnast  Paul HAMM won his first international competition again.
In New Yorks Madison Square Garden he beat  his teammate  Alexander ARTEMEV (91,150) with a score of 94.400 and the member of the Japanese golden Olympic team 2004 in Athens, Hisashi MIZUTORI, who scored 90,950.
The German all-around vice and high bar world champion Fabian HAMBUECHEN withdrew from a start because of a flu, so...

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1. März 2008
Berlin
Artistic Gymnastics
Japanese Junior- team with hat-trick in Berlin - GYMfamily EVENT -

A young Japanese artistic gymnastics team won the "13th International Junior Team Cup 2008" in Berlin for the third time in a row. The second place went to the hosts of the upcoming European Championships Switzerland and the bronze medal went to Spain. Following behind the medallists were the team from Belarus, a German mixed- team, the team from Lyon (France) and on the 7th place the host team from Berlin.
The victories in the...

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1. März 2008
Penza / Russia
Artistic Gymnastics
2008 Russian All-around Championships

New Russian All-around Champions
At the end of February the Russian Gymnastics Federation started with their All-around Russian Championships of men's and women's artistic gymnastics.
On Thursday, February 28 Sergei Khorokhordin and Yulia Lozhechko won the all-around gold medals in Penza, .... 

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