With some remarkable performances the men's finals at the 31st Tournament of Masters have ended now.
Du, Weij won on vault with a very good performance! His team mate Teng, Haibin took the victory on parallel bars and with his thrilling routine on high-bar Vlasios Maras from Greece secured himself the gold medal in this final.
Yesterday the first final of the tourmanent on floor was won by the 22-year old Vadim Kuvakin (15,525) from Ukraine in front of...
The Tournament of Masters in Cottbus is over also in the women's field.
Fan Ye from China won the beam final with a perfect performance!
After winning on uneven bars on Saturday Elsa Garcia from Mexico secured herself the gold medal on floor on Sunday. Adding her bronze medal from yesterday on vault, she now is the most succesful female gymnast at this tournament!
On Saturday, March 24th the first women's final (vault) in the "Lausitz Arena" in...
Deviatovski won the first individual title
From Wednesday (March 21) to Sunday (25) the Russian Championships 2007 of men's and women's artistic gymnastics will take place in the Sports Palace of Lobnya, near Moscow.
Maxim Deviatovski - leading after the qualification rounds - won the all-around title of the Russian Championships on women's side Ksenia Semyonova won to the first time this national title.
On Sunday six different men and four different women won the "Russian...
Impressive field of top participants!
Altogether 100 athletes representing 39 nations took part in Friday's qualification rounds of the World Cup in the Lausitz Arena of Cottbus! It was a qualification marathone from 1 to 8 p.m. - this modus is not an act of advertisement for modern gymnastics!
The biggest rush was seen seen on pommel horse: 54 gymnasts were on the start lists there, 53 on parallel bars - and only eight spots for the final were available...!
Meanwhile the long qualification day has...
Women's Qualification!
With 39 gymnasts the women's entry field is quite a bit smaller than the men's one.
The long qualification day is meanwhile over for the women. Quite a few insecurities could be seen but on the other hand also quite a few good routines were presented.
Especially convincing were the performances of young, upcoming talents like Daria Joura (AUS; 2x finals), Jade Barbosa (BRA; 3x finals) ), Elsa Garcia (MEX; 3x) and Aluissa...