16. April 2003  
Taunusstein/Germany  
Wheel Gymnastics

Wheel Gymnastics: Count down for the World Championships

Rolling for World Champs

Six weeks before the 5th World Championsships of Wheel Gymnastics in the Norvegian Olympic City of 1994, Lillehammer, the count down is running on for the actives and athletes, who will participate, there.
This week, 32 gymnasts from Germany, Switzerland, Norway and France meet in Taunusstein (Germany), for an internatinal training camp, to prepare for the 2003 high light....

Gymnasts from four countries, coaching in Taunusstein, Germany

Bientzle beim Sprungtraining

Under the leading of th most successful wheel gymnast and several times world champion Wolfgang Bientzle a crew of excellent coaches, like Katja Homeyer, Monika Väthbrückner, Cornelia Bräutigam (trampolining) and the former member of German's national team of artistic gymnastics, Mario Franke (gymnastics) is giving the final preparation for the competitors of the World Championships in Lillehammer, next month(NOR).

Training, training, training...

More than 20 actives took part in the international training camp, which the International Association of Wheel-Gymnastics (IRV) organized in cooperation with the responsibles and trainers of the german wheels’ group of TSV Taunusstein-Bleidenstadt.
The programme of the camp for competitors had his main contents in “new elements and exercises in spiral and vault”. Besides, the actives from Japan, Norway, the Netherlands and Switzerland got a lot of tips from the coachers from Taunusstein, leaded by the world-champions of 1999 Katja Homeyer and Wolfgang Bientzle.
In July, there will be another international wheel camp for the actives from all over the world. The camp will take place in Valencia/Spain. There, besides wheel training, the meeting of the international youth, doing wheels gymnastics, will come to the fore, including a programme with various leisure activities in sports and sightseeing.
Report & Photos: M.Väthbrückner