12. Juli 2006
Guildford / Great Britain
Artistic Gymnastics
Beth Tweddle - sixth national Titles in a Row...

The 2006 British Championships for Women held in the Guildford Spectrum over the weekend 7/9th July 2006 will be long remembered with two memorable events:
• The 21-year-old “Prima” of British Gymnastics, Beth Tweddle from Liverpool convincingly won her sixth British overall title in a row (Overall score- 60.750), thus leaving only one last record in the sport’s history still unbeaten by herself, i.e. Pat Hurst’s eight British titles, between 1947 and 1956!
In addition to this, Beth...

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29. Juni 2006
Bucharest / Romania
Artistic Gymnastics
Nadia Comaneci- 30 years from a Romanian miracle.

The Rumanian television 'TVR 1' commemorated three decades since Nadia Comaneci won three Olympic titles and the first perfect score, 10, in the history of gymnastics, at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games. Colleagues of Comaneci - as well as officials of the gymnastics federation reminisced and talked with the former gymnast on the phone, as the athlete is taking care of her newborn child Dylan Paul in the U.S. ...

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28. Juni 2006
Kuala Lumpur / Malaysia
Artistic Gymnastics
Malaysian Top gymnast wishes a personal coach

Malaysian Commonwealth Games silver medallist Ng Shu Wai hopes that his plea for a personal coach will be fulfilled by the time he returns from the Asian Gymnastics Championship in Surat, India, next month.
After returning to Malaysia four months ago to compete in the Commonwealth Games in March, Shu Wai, who is based in China, is still waiting to return to his second home.
The 20-year-old gymnast says the sooner the better, as he is preparing for...

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6. Juni 2006
Oklahoma City / USA
Artistic Gymnastics
Baby boy arrives for Comaneci, Conner

Nadia Comaneci and Bart Conner are the parents of a baby boy
Dylan Paul was born Saturday in an Oklahoma City hospital, weighing 4 pounds, 10 ounces. It's the first child for the gold-medal winning gymnasts, so the Oklahoma newspapers reported yesterday.
Comaneci was due to deliver in July, which will be the 30th anniversary of her seven perfect 10s at the Montreal Olympic Games. But the 44-year-old Comaneci instead delivered Dylan by Caesarean section Saturday morning.
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26. Mai 2006
Moscow / Russia
Artistic Gymnastics
World Cup Moscow: European Juniors surprised on Hig Bar

The 18 years old junior Brian Gladow, member of the golden Germat team at the last European Junior Championships in Volos, und the Ukrainian European all-around juniors champion Mykola Kuksenkov ranked on firsat and second position at their very first seniors competition at the world cup in Moscow. The youngsters reproved the world champion Aljaz Pegan from Slovania on third place...

The Russians won three gold medals at the finals for the 'World Stars 2006': Yulia Lozhechko on...

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