Dmitri Nonin and
René Piephardt 
(SC Berlin)

René Piephardt

Both gymnasts were very succesful at the 2002 European Championships in artistic gymnastics in Patras. Dmitri got 5th place with German team, René won the bronze medals with team and all around at the junior championships. 

Andreas Wecker,
'Gymnast of the year '99'
is extremely popular in Berlin (3 x Sportsman of the Year!) with a collection of medals and a sporting career, which is difficult to match: Sydney 2000 is his fourth Olympic games!

Jeanine Fissler (21)

(Rhythmic Gymnastics)
She is team captain of the national group team who came 5th at the 1999 World Championships in Osaka (Japan), thus qualifying for the Olympic Games 2000.
The 19-year-old Jeanine is a member of the Berlin TSC sports club, which has produced many excellent gymnasts up until today and which also prides the European Champions of the EUROTEAM.

Berlin is fun
especially for young people, as in this case the gymnasts of the German national team. Berlin is lively, trendy, cool and in permanent motion and change, offering something for everybody, it is anonymous and comfortable and always good for a surprise.

You can also take a different view:
"The Berliners are unfriendly and inconsiderate, gruff and self-opinionated, Berlin is off-putting, loud, dirty and grey, building sites, congested roads wherever you venture – still I pity all those people who cannot live here!"   (Anneliese Bödecker)

We of the GYMmedia agency are at home and work here, too, this is where we correspond with the "Gymnastics World" via the Internet. What is more, we are actually at the "cradle of gymnastics", as the Berlin Hasenheide park is regarded as the first gym grounds of the world, inaugurated by the father of gymnastics Friedrich Ludwig Jahn in 1811.

Berlin has been the capital of the reunited Germany since 1990 and the seat of government since 1999.

The city has some 3.9 million inhabitants and is on its way to becoming a metropolis, in which the arts and (multi)culture, the sciences and the media are represented in a broad variety.

What is characteristic for Berlin is that there are building sites all over the place.

What is peculiar about Berlin is that you are on historic ground with every step you take.

One of the highlights in Berlin is the Love Parade, in July every year more than 1 million (!) young people from all over the world come here to join in the fun.

the second largest sports club of the capital. The more than 64,000 members going in for leisure-time, health or competitive sports in 275 clubs have got a broad offer to choose from. More than 40 different sports, disciplines and health sports offers are available, with more than 400 events taking place every year.

The BTB Berlin Gymnastic Association is recognised as an organiser of large sporting events: for instance, the German gymnastic festivals (with more than 100,000 active participants each!) were held in Berlin in 1967 and 1987, as well as the gymnaestradas of 1975 and 1995.

1997 World Championships  -  Max-Schmeling-Halle  -  DTB GALA 1999

The participant and guests still have fond memories of the 21^st World Championships of Rhythmic Gymnastics, hosted by the city in 1997 and in December 1999, 2000 and 2001 more than each 8,000 spectators visited the final event of the DTB-Gala of the German Gymnastics Federation.

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 A Gymnast at the Columbus Hotel

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