GYMfamily Event: * PREVIEW: 17th International Junior-Team-Cup 2012

Also the 17th edition of the world-wide known "INTERNATIONAL JUNIOR-TEAM-CUP 012", which takes place on April 14th in Berlin will be a high-class event for juniors in men's artistic gymnastics:

Whoever wants to be successful in future, needs to start in Berlin: For more than a decade many junior national teams come to Berlin to prepare for future major international events.

This year for many national federations the competition in Berlin belongs to the selection process for their teams for the upcoming Junior European Championships in Montpellier in 6 weeks ...

B a e n f e r - Partner of Gymnastics

...for more than a decade Daniel Weinert and Niklas Nithack (li.) are competitors in their age group
(c) Foto: > 2006, Fellbach-Schmiden

The German gymnastics federation will be present in Berlin with one team and two individual gymnasts. Only a few days before they had their first trials for the Junior European Championships.
Germany's head coach for the junior national team Gunter Schönherr counts on experienced gymnasts like Daniel Weinert (Kiel), Mike Kindermann (Stuttgart) oder Tim Leibinger (Chemnitz).
The Berlin team hopes to be successful with Niklas Nithack, who also aims for a spot in the team for the Junior European Championships in Montpellier.

The standing of April 11th 2012 was a participation of 27 teams and 5 individual gymnasts!!
The biggest chances for the medals might have last-years winners from Great Britain as well as the 2011 silver resp. bronze medalists Switzerland and Brazil.

The longest journey had to be undertaken by the team from Vietnam who will participate in Berlin for the first time. Instead of Japan they will represent Asia at the International Junior-Team-Cup this year. Artistic gymnastics in Vietnam is steadily progressing: At the last World Championships in Tokio for example Phan Hi Hah Than won a medal for the first time...

>> participants >> starting order
(still subject to change!)

* Schedule :
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* Saturday, April 14th 2012
- 10:00 - 13:30: Competition, group 1 (8:45 official warm-up)

- 15:00 - 18:00: COMPETITION, group 2 (13:45 official warm-up)
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* GYMmedia review:

* Supported by "HOWOGE", last year a GYMmedia-Film over the
16th International Junior-Team-Cup was produced: :

* GYMtube

* Supported by the company. Steridest Gebäudeservice
for the first time at the 15th International Junior-Team-Cup 2010
a Summary-Video was produced:

* Gymtube