19. April 2013
Moscow, Russia
Artistic Gymnastics
Olympic Champion Aliya Mustafina is also the European Queen now ...!

As in the Moscow Olympic Hall today  the 24 best European gymnasts started in their 34th European Championships the Russian hosts desired course a second victory of the day at:
And actually, the fight for title medals played between Romania and the Russians.
At the end Russia's Olympic champion from London, Aliya Mustafina kept the upper hand and won gold with 59.032 points, and so secured the second success of the day and ended up with it after Anna Dementieva (in...

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19. April 2013
Moscow, Russia
Artistic Gymnastics
Russia s David Belyavskiy is the new European All-around Champion

The competition for the European all-around crown of the modern men's artistic gymnastics today ruled the top favorite and Rissian local hero David Beliavsky in an impressive competition for themselve.
The only one of the top quartet he could increase towards the qualifying competition. With 89.799 points he referred to the British best of preliminaries Max WHITLOCK (89.106) finished second, while the strongest rival on the title, the Ukrainian Oleg VERNIAIEV in the last rotation on pmmel  horse too much risked descent...

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18. April 2013
Moscow, Russia
Artistic Gymnastics
Romanian Double Peak with Iordache and Bulimar vs. Russian Stars

The 34th WOMEN's Artistic Gymnastics European Championships 2013, - the 5th since 2005 as so-called "Individual ECh", began this morning in the Great Hall of the Olympic Sports Complex in Moscow with the qualifying rounds.
After completion of the preliminary fights, there was the expected dominance of Romanian gymnasts larisa Iordache and Diana Bulimar and the Russian hosts, with Anastasia Grishina, Aliya Mustafina and Ksenia Afanasieva.
Best on vault was the Swiss Giulia Steingruber and a strong impression...

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17. April 2013
Moscow, Russia
Artistic Gymnastics
Men s Qualification: Whitlock in front of Verniaiev and Belyavskiy

The first day of the 35th Men's Artistic Gymnastics European Championships finished after three subdivisions with 159 athletes, representing 37 different nations. At the end Max Whitlock from Great Britain was the best of all-around with a score of 89,365 points. After the third subdivision Oleg Verniayev (UKR) came on second (88,265) and he pushed Russia's David Belyavskiy (88,623) on third place, followed by Oleg Stepko (UKR) on fourth (88,224).
After retirement of the German titleholder Philipp Boy and...

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12. April 2013
Moscow, Russia
Artistic Gymnastics
PREVIEW: The first Europeans in the New Olympic Cyclus

For already the fifth time, the historic 35th Gymnastics European Championships for men and the 34th for Women 2013 in Moscow on 17 - 21 April at the Olympic complex in the Russian capital as so-called "Individual Championships", like this, most recently in Berlin 2011, with all-around and apparatus finals.

To about 160 male gymnasts from 37 European nations are on the entry list, of which only 43% (65 athletes) want to participate in the all-around!...

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