At the first day of the 36th World Championships in Artistic Gymnastics in Debrecen (HUN) Elena Zamoloschikova (RUS/floor) and Courtney Kupets (USA) were the winners, also Marian Dragulescu (ROM/floor), Marius Urzica (ROM/pommel horse) and Szilveszter Csollany (HUN/rings).
On 2nd day, Ashley Postell (USA) on beam and Elena Gomez (ESP) becam World Champions. Li Xiao-Peng (CHN) won on vault and parallel bars, Vlasios Maras (GRE) won on high bar.
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Olympic Champion on bars LI, Xiaopeng and the Olympic all-around silver medallist YANG, Wei are on top of the Chinese national team, which will start at the upcoming world championships in Debrecen (HUN) next week.
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The traditional competition of women's artistic gymnastics 'Trophy Massilia 2002' was won by the Romanian team. The host France got the silver medal and the Netherland girls scored on third place, behind them came Russia on fifth place.
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The German juniors team beats the Italian and the Spain boys in a tri-meet in Bad Wipfen/Germany (near Heilbronn):
208,05 : 205,05 : 200,40.
The best gymnast in all-around was the Italian Luca Forte (52,80), second was the German Rene Piephard (52,35) - bronze medallist of European Champs in Patras.
On third came Ivan San Miguel from Spain with a score of 51,65 points
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The European Champion of 2002, the Romanian men's team won a tri-meet in Geneva lst weekend with a score of 219,05 points.
On second place came the European Champion of 1998 France with 217,025 and on third came the Swiss team with 212,425 points.
Best gymnast in all-around was Benoit Caranobe from France with 55,95 points. On three apparatusses he presented 10 point start values, also like the second, Dan Potra (ROM), the European All-around Champion from Patras...