Daria Joura and junior Emma Dennis were the this years Australia's All-around Champions of artistic gymnastics.
The nationals took place in Melbourne this weekend and the the women's competitions included two days of all-around.
Joura also earned the apparatus titles on vault, uneven bars and floor exercises. Second placed Lauren Mitchell won the balance beam title in front of Hollie Dykes. On third in all-around came Chloe Sims...
From May 19 to 20 the F.I.G. Council met in Orlando, USA and accepted unanimously the new Code of Discipline and decided, that in the future basically the Artistic Worlds will take place in October, the Rhythmic Worlds in September, the Trampoline Worlds in November, the Acrobatic Worlds in March and the Aerobic Worlds in June.
Today the men's World cup event in Ghent, Belgium ends with the victories of six different gymnasts, representing six different nations.
For instance the former Ukrainian junior Mykola Kuksenkov won his first world cup title (high bar) in the elite category, but also the specialists were defeated again, like Berki (HUN) on pommel horse, van Gelder (NED) on rings and Petkovsek (SLO) on parallel bars...
On the women's side Steliana Nistor was the double winner (beam, floor).
The Russian Anna...
Olympic Champion Ponor reunites with Former Coach
Romania's triple Olympic champion Catalina Ponor said to the press she would rejoin her former coach Mariana Bitang to train for this year's world championships and the 2008 Beijing Games.
Ponor told that Matei Stanei, who has been coaching her from January, has health problems and that the switch to Bitang will improve her chances of winning Olympic gold in China ...
An ECh Review ....
These European Championships No. 29 (men) resp. No. 28 (women) in Amsterdam were an absolute highlight in the 52 year history of these continental top events of artistic gymnastics.
It was not so much the sporting performances that made this event into an outstanding competition, but the manner of complex organisation...
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