Swiss gymnastics arrived allready in Los Angeles, though they are not talking about the Swiss national team, leaving on august 8th for the world championship. The gymnasts they refer to are the best ones from the Swiss club BTV Lucerne, lead by Bruno Nietlispach, choach of the Olympic champion Li Donghua.
Anaheim will be the start of a tour trough California, during which they will meet the best Californien teams, the top fight gym and the Stanford gyms...
The final verification of the women's artistic gymnastics team of the Australian Gymnastics Federation took place this weekend in Canberra, Australia.
Team coach Peggy Liddick has brought in three FIG neutral judges to judge the Australian World Championships Team!
Winner was Allana Slater with a final score of 36,558, followed by Belinda Archer (36,541) and Monette Russo (36,466)...
... the Australien team scored 147,907 points....
Thrilling triple Meet
It was really a an exciting competition in Dresden (Germany) between the men's teams of host Germany, Switzerland and Spain!
To the first time after a very long period a Swiss national team won a meet in (!) Germany, with a score of 222,625 points.
Host Germany came on second place with 221,475 and the Spanish squad was third (221,050).
Raphael Martinez with a score of 55,800 points, followed by...
France-Spain-Germany-Bulgaria
This was the topical ranking of these national women gymnastics teams in Dresden, Germany, yesterday.
France won with a top score of 146,425 points, than came Spain (144,525).
Best in all-round was the reigning floor world champion Elena Gomez with 37,575 points....
Three weeks before the World Champs in Anaheim (USA) the last friendly meets will held this coming weekend: So the German women's team will meet tomorrow in Dresden/Germany the sqads of Spain, France and Bulgaria, and on Saturday the German me's team is fighting against the guests from Spain and Switzerland.
GYMmedia is publishing a special statistics with a lot of topical meet results of 2003 in preparation of the important world champs this year...