17. März 2008
Blackpool / Great Britain
Artistic Gymnastics
French Europeans host won outwards in Great Britain

The host of the upcoming European Championships in Clermont-Ferrand won a dual meet versus Great Britain in Blackpool/GBR last Saturday.
French team won with 229,300 : 227,500 and  Pauline Morel (FRA) was the best gymnast in all-around (58,250), followed by the best British gymnast, Becky Downie (58,100) and Laura Jones (57,250).
France and Great Britain placed sixth and seventh, respectively at the last Worlds 2007 in Stuttgart.
British juniors defeated the French team  219,650 :...

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15. März 2008
Friedberg / Germany
Artistic Gymnastics
German victory and Europeans Nomination

The German women's national team celebrated a clear victory in the international meeting versus the Netherlands in Friedberg, Bavaria, winning clearly with 174,15 to 152,05 Punkten.

Best in all-around was Katja ABEL from Berlin with 56,70 points.
After the competition, which was the second qualification for the European Championships at the same time, the German EuCh-team was nominated. The Saxonian federation will be the strongest in the team for the EuCh in France, with the two gymnastsJoeline Möbius and Jenny Brunner...

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15. März 2008
Beijing / China
Artistic Gymnastics
Olympic Wild Cards to Yemen and Vietnam

The US gymnastics magazine "International Gymnast" reports, that
the final remaining berths for the 2008 Olympic Games have been awarded to a female from Vietnam and a male from Yemen:
Vietnam's Thuong Di Thi Ngan (19) and Yemen's Nashwan Al-Hazari are the reported recipients of the Wild Card berths selected by a tripartite commission.

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12. März 2008
Berlin / Germany
Artistic Gymnastics
German Capital BERLIN - applies for Europeans 2011

The German Gymnastics Federation (DTB) made a request for the 2011 European Championships of Artistic Gymnastics, men and women.
Berlin would host such a continental event for the first time, although, in history, 10 out of 11 European titles won by Germans were gained by the legendary  "DYNAMO" gymnasts from Berlin: Maxi Gnauck (5), Prof. Dr. Karin Buettner-Janz (4) and Angelika Hellmann-Keilig (1)
* ... read more on our German GYMmedia Portal...

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8. März 2008
Jesolo / Italy
Artistic Gymnastics
USA and Shawn Johnson won in Italy

The US artistic gymnastics women team won a friendly meet in Italy versus the host, followed by Spain and Poland.
The reigning 2007 all-around champion Shawn JOHNSON (USA) was the best in all-around (61,700) and beat the 2006 world champion, Vanessa FERRARI (60,100). On third came Samantha PESZEK (59,050) from USA.
The USA also won the junior competition (181,050) with a difference of nearly nine points in front of host Italy, a Rumanian team and...

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