36. BLUME-Memorial 2012: Chusovitina with an amazing fourth Place!

The invitation competition for the 36th BLUME Memorial 2012 inmemory of the 1959 fatalities 4-times Spanish European Gymnastics champions Joaquin Blume - after whom also the BLUME Gran Canaria-Fesival is named, which begins next week - won on Saturday the Ukrainian Oleg VERNIAEV with 90.000 points. Second was the ECh bronze medallist of Berlin (2011), Britain's Daniel PURVIS (85.299) before the current best Spaniard and Olympic Ninth, Fabian GONZALEZ (85.299).
<< The women's competition of  this big European tradition won the now 17-year-old Anna DEMENTYEVA from the Russian World Champions gold team of Rotterdam (2010) with 56.600 points, followed Giulia STEINGRUBER (SWITZERLAND; 54.650) and Spaniard Maria Paula VARGAS (53.700).

At one tenth point behind Germany's   exceptional athlete, the 37-year-old Oksana Chusovitina, missed the podium on fourth narrowly, but received 20 years after your first Olympic victory here in Barcelona a special honor ...

This year's competition was dedicated to the memory of the Olympic gymnastics competition in 1992, exactly twenty years ago in Barcelona. Why were there including the 6-time Olympic champion at the time, who is now living in the U.S. Belorussian Vitaly Scherbo and the still active "First Lady of international gymnastics," Oksana Chusovitina who then won already team gold and since then continuously to further 6 Olympic Games took part, was honored with trophies reminder of the Olympic city Bercelona particularly.