The colossus might of China in gymnastics was on show again in Macau yesterday as they finished one-two in both men's and women's all-round finals of the EAST ASIAN GAMES 2005.
Zhang Nan and Fan Ye swept the women's event with 37.974 and 34.949 points,
while Feng Jing, the 2001 all-around world champion and Lu Bo dominated the men's show with 57.611 and 56.886 points...
ZHANG, Nan; FAN, Ye and FENG, Jing; LU, Bo....
At the first final day of the Glasgow's Grand Prix the Chinese got three gold medals: After the floor decision, won by Brazil’s Diego HYPOLITO, China dominated the other two men’s events with XIAO, Quin, the convincing winner on Pommel Horse with a 9.900 - the highest score of the competition so far, and HUANG, Xu took gold on the Rings.
In the Women’s finals, Elena ZAMOLODSHIKOVA (RUS) showed why she is ranked number one in the World cup...
The Italian team of GAL LISSONE was the best at the 29 anniversary of the oldest and most tradional artistic gymnastics tournament in Germany, the LEVERKUSEN CUP 2004.
On second place with a difference of nearly 4 points came the team 'Waverly Gymnastics Club' (Melbourne/AUS), followed by the South Africans Gymnastics Federaion 1
Also in all-around competition the Italian girls lead: Winner was
Ilaria COLOMBO (34,60) followed by her teammate Alessandra BALLADORI (33,40). On third came...
>> Hattrick for 'Rodovre og Omegns GF' (DEN) !!
With excellent shows, highclass performances and the expected wins of Scandinavians the finals of the 5th European Championships in TeamGym in the stadion of Dornbirn (Austria) ended today. Denmark has won with team 'Rodovre og Omegns GF' and 25,250 points the mixed competition for the third time in sequence (European Champion!). They also won with 'HSG Slagelse' (27,300) in the male competition. The female 'Team Asker' (25,950) from Norway...
Romania’s Adrian STOICA has been elected as president of the men’s artistic gymnastics technical committee of the FIG at the elections in Antalya (TUR). With Kazakhstan native Nelli KIM who ran for Belarus for the first time an Olympic Champion has been elected as president of the technical committee in women’s artistic gymnastics. Both of them were elected with a large majority in the 1st round (Kim: 56 out of 91 valid votes; Stoica: 62 out of 97 valid votes)…