07. August 2003  
Kienbaum/Deutschland  
Artistic Gymnastics

German Men s Team ready for Anaheim

Last test in Kienbaum

Two days before flying to Anaheim the German men's team of artistic gymnastics made its last test competition in the German training camp Kienbaum near Berlin.
Best of all-round was the German Vice Champion Christian Berczes and so the gymnast from SV Halle came as the number 6 into the WCh team.
Robert Juckel from Cottbus is the emergency men No. 1 and Dmitri Nonin (Berlin) is the the No.8...

German Men's Team from left): Dmitri Nonin (E2), Ronny Ziesmer, Stephan Zapf, Sven Kwiatkowski, Fabian Hambüchen, Thomas Andergassen, Christian Berczes; Robert Juckel (E1)

Hambuechen, Coach Hirsch

The Germans will fly on Friday to Anaheim. The target is to get a ticket for the Olympic Games 2004 in Athens, but at the last team competition of the World Championships in Ghent 2001 the German team ranked on 13th place...!

TRAINING CAMP KIENBAUM SUCCESSFUL FINISHED
The German national men's squad worked us usually at home in the training camp of Kienbaum, thirty kilometers out of Berlin.
The fifteen years old Fabian Hambuechen >>,
- three times and youngest German Champion of history and European Junior Champion (bars) - will be the youngest member of a national team of German gymnastics history. He scored the highest results at four apparatusses at the last test ...
>> Read more about it: GYMmedia Report: Last German Test

The German women's team finished it's preparations in a special camp at the same time in Salt Lake City ,