24. August 2003
Anaheim/USA
Artistic Gymnastics
Worlds finished, and Brazil celebrate their first World Title!

Host USA and China - winning 5 gold medals at the Pre-olympic World Championschips of artistic gymnastics - were the most successful nations after the last day in Anaheim, Cal./USA.
China won three gold medals at last: LI, Xiao-Peng (vault and bars) and FAN, Ye on beam.
Also the high bar title went to Asia, to the pommel horse winner yesterday, to Takehiro Kashima.
First time in history a world champion comes from South America: Brazilian...

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23. August 2003
Anaheim/USA
Artistic Gymnastics
Most Memorable Moment and Prize for Elegance ...

Anaheim, USA/Saint-Imier, SUI:--- Nadia Comaneci's perfect 10 at the 1976 American Cup at Madison Square Garden has been voted the most memorable moment in time by an on-line poll that pulled in more than 316,000 votes...

The Chinese Wei Yang and Carly Patterson (USA) are winners of the 'Longines Prize for Elegance'...
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22. August 2003
Anaheim/USA
Artistic Gymnastics
Queen Khorkina wins her third all-around Gold!

Svetlana Khorkina from Russia wins an unprecedented third world all-around title of the 28th Women's Worlds and her 10th title in her career, more than any other before!
Carly Patterson from USA wins the silver medal in her first world championships,
and the Chinese Zhang Nan get the bronze, the first ever world all-around medal for China.

The Ukrainian Irina Yaritska came on fourth place, followed by Elena Gomez (ESP) on fifth and the...

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21. August 2003
Anaheim/USA
Artistic Gymnastics
Paul Hamm wins first AA Gold for USA

Paul HAMM got the very first historical all-around gold medal for USA in artistic gymnastics worlds yesterday and the second medal in general after Kurt Thomas 1979 in Fort Worth.

Hamm scored 57,744, thats only a difference from 0.064 points to the second placed Chinese YANG, Wei, the Olympic silver medalist (Sydney 2000).

Bronze went to Hiroyuki TOMITA (JPN), because the best Japanese of preliminaries Tsukahara crashed on high bar.
Marian Dragulescu

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20. August 2003
Anaheim/USA
Artistic Gymnastics
U.S. Girls beat Favourite Romania

In a big fight the U.S. Women's team won the gold medal of the team final with a score of 112,573 points. Titleholder Romania got 110,833 and won silver, but to the first time of history Australia won a team medal: Bronze for the 'Aussies' with 110,335 points!
The Chinese team lost on floor and came on 4th place.
Spain - leading after first rotation (floor) crashed on beam (5) and Russia made mistakes on bars and...

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