5. Oktober 2004
Pulheim-Brauweiler / Germany
Artistic Gymnastics
German Olympic Champion Helmut Bantz passed away...

With great sadness, the German gymnastics family informs, that Mr. Helmut BANTZ, the European Champion on parallel bars at the first continental championships (Frankfurt 1955) and the Olympic champion on vault in Melbourne (1956) passed away, in his hometown near Cologne, yesterday.
Helmut Bantz was a long time coach and teacher at the Sports College of Cologne and generations of students got their knowledges from him...
It's a big loss for the German gymnastics family...
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2. Oktober 2004
Bukarest / Rumänien
Artistic Gymnastics
Retired: Ban and Stroescu

Five weeks only after winning the Olympic gold medal with their team in Athens the Romanian top gymnasts Oana BAN and Silvia STROESCU degleared their retirement from international top sport
The reasons are continuing injuries in the last years.

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28. September 2004
Lausanne /Switzerland
Artistic Gymnastics
Olympic Champion Hamm would accept CAS decision

Will Hamm return his medal...?
Olympic all-around champion Paul Hamm had to appear in a hearing of the International Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) in Lausanne where he met again his Olympic competitor Yang, Tae Young. Four weeks after the Olympic Games in Athens ended the highest court for sports issues now takes care of the case of the US- gymnast. South Korea had informed the CAS on the mistake of the judges already during the Olympic Games.
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19. September 2004
Cottbus / Germany
Artistic Gymnastics
Ukraine most successful at GWG Cup in Cottbus

The winner of the 19th International GWG Cup 2004 of European talents of artistic gymnastics (age group 10 - 14) was the Ukrainian Victor Stepanenko with a score of 52,30, followed by Rokas Guscinas (LTU; 51,225) and Daniel Keatings (GBR; 50,850).
Winner of the age group 15 - 18 years was Dennis Mannhart from Switzerland (Turnverband Zurich) with a score of 52,750 points.
On second place came Andrei Isayev from the Ukrainian Bronze team of the last European...

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17. September 2004
Kuala Lumpur / Malaysia
Artistic Gymnastics
South-East Asian Juniors: Mixed fortunes for Malaysian girls

The 6th South-East Asian Gymnastics Confederation (SEAGON) Junior Championships
was a huge success for the Malaysian girls- but also a huge disappointment, too...

While the rhythmic gymnasts swept the board, winning all six gold medals and four silvers and two bronzes as well, the artistic gymnasts were a huge failure and were obviously way behind their regional rivals....

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