Stefani Bismbikou and Christos Lympanovnos won the senior women's and men's all-around titles, respectively, at the Greek Championships 2007 that took place March 3-4 in Thessaloniki.
Bismbikou, who finished 15th all-around at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, successfully defended her title. She had the highest score of the all-around on balance beam, but fell in the event final and placed fourth.
The German Fabian Hambuechen leads at the 2007 Tyson American Cup after the all-around qualification with 90,750, in front of Jonathan Horton anfd Alexander Artemev (- both USA).
In women's category five Americans lead: In front Shawn Johnson (62,100), Natasha Kelly, Shayla Worley...
on sixth place came the first foreign gymnast, Elsa Garcia (MEX)...
Young gymnasts on top...
On Saturday evening Shawn Johnson (USA, Iowa), and defending champion and 2006 USA junior champion Jonathan Horton (USA, Houston) won the all-around titles at the 2007 Tyson American Cup at the Jacksonville (Fla.) "Veterans Memorial Arena".
Johnson was crowned champion in her first senior competition, while Horton became the first male gymnast to win back-to-back Tyson American Cup titles since the USA’s Blaine Wilson won three straight from 1997-1999....
Gymnasts to get two opportunities to reach Olympics
Gymnasts will have a second chance to qualify for the Olympics starting with the 2012 London Games.
The International Gymnastics Federation F.I.G. made the announcement at its new home city Neuchatel in Switzerland....
More than 3,500 people enjoyed the gymnastics show "Star Orbit" that took place in Sofia's National Palace of Culture on Sunday.
The host of the event was Bulgaria's best gymnast Jordan Jovtchev, who raised the audience to their feet with his parallel bars performance. Jovtchev showed an extremely interesting combination of standing exercises. The world champion Vanessa Ferrari's beam performance has also been tumultuously welcomed by the spectators in the hall.
2000 Olympic champion Alexei Nemov,...