24. August 2003  
Anaheim/USA  
Artistic Gymnastics

Worlds finished, and Brazil celebrate their first World Title!

Daiane dos Santos - Brazil!

Host USA and China - winning 5 gold medals at the Pre-olympic World Championschips of artistic gymnastics - were the most successful nations after the last day in Anaheim, Cal./USA.
China won three gold medals at last: LI, Xiao-Peng (vault and bars) and FAN, Ye on beam.
Also the high bar title went to Asia, to the pommel horse winner yesterday, to Takehiro Kashima.
First time in history a world champion comes from South America: Brazilian Daiane dos Santos is the new floor world champion.
Top nation Romania got no title, Belarus and Ukraine not any medal and only Tambakos (GRE) and Jovchev (BUL), the champions on rings, vindicated the honour of European gymnastics...
<< The oldest participant of these world championships, the 28 years old Oksana Chusovitina won the title on vault yesterday, her first title on this apparatus in a long career of more than 12 years!
(ALL INFORMATION you can can get about the button '(AG) WCh Anaheim 03', left).

'QUEEN KHORKINA' and her followers: Zhang, Nan (CHN) and Carly Patterson (USA)
(C) Photos by Tom Theobald

Oxana Chusovitina (UZB)-Gold with 28 years!

- WCh INFORMATIONEN ALL; ANAHEIM 2003 -
<- This coverage is a special service of the 'Official Olympic Supplier ATHENS 2004, JANSSEN&FRITSEN (NED)

>> 23,/24.Aug:--The APPARATUS FINALS
After winning gold medals in women's teams and men's all-round by Paul Hamm yesterday the host team of USA added three more titles at the first day of the event finals, and China did the same at the last day ...>>

>> Results & Reports, FINALS, DAY 2

>> Results & Reports, FINALS, DAY 1

>> J&F-WM-Service ANAHEIM 2003

Svetlana Khorkina - most successfull in history!

22-Aug:-- WOMEN's ALL-AROUND DECISION

Svetlana Khorkina from Russia wins an unprecedented third world all-around title of the 28th Women's Worlds and her 10th title in her career, participating at her 9th world championships on - more than any other before!
Carly Patterson from USA - still leading after two rotations - and representing the new generation, wins the silver in her first world championships,
and the Chinese Zhang Nan get the bronze, the first ever world all-around medal for China.

On fourth place came the Ukrainian Irina Yarotska (37,311), the leading gymnast afer qualification, Elena Gomez from Spain, scored on fifth and the best Romanian Oana Ban on sixth place... >> Results & Daily Report: Women's All-around

Wei and Patterson - most elegance!

21-Aug:-- Anaheim, USA/Saint-Imier, SUI:--- Nadia Comaneci's perfect 10 at the 1976 American Cup at Madison Square Garden has been voted the most memorable moment in time ...

The Chinese Wei Yang and Carly Patterson (USA) are winners of the 'Longines Prize for Elegance'...
>> a href=http://www.gymmedia,com/Anahaeim03/Longines/prize03.htm>... read more >> ...full story

Paul Hamm -
- first AA World Champion of USA

22-Aug:-- MEN's ALL-AROUND DECISION

After the 6th rotation of the men's all around decision of the 37 World Championships in Anaheim USA, and after the victory of U.S. women's team now comes the next success of hosts:
With the highest score on high bar (9,775) in his last rotation and alltogether 57.774 points Paul HAMM (USA) wins the all-around gold medal yesterday!
HAMM is the first American male world champion and the first American world all-around medalist since Kurt Thomas in 1979....

Best European gymnast was Marian Dragulescu (ROM), ranked 6th, who scored the highest result of competition on vault (9,850)...

>> >> Detailed Results

Golden U.S.-Girls!

20-Aug:-- TEAM FINAL, Women

In a big fight the U.S. Women's team won the gold medal of the team final with a score of 112,573 points.
Titleholder Romania got 110,833 and won silver, but to the first time of history Australia won a team medal: Bronze for the 'Aussies' with 1110,835 points!
The Chinese team lost on floor and came on 4th place.
Spain - leading after first rotation (floor) crashed on beam (5) and Russia made mistakes on bars and beam: 6th place only, followed by Ukraine and Brazil


INFORMATION
International Gymnast pronounced:
Deduction Costs China Bronze Medal!
Team loses 0.2 points over back handspring, tuck jumps
A .2 deduction incurred by the Chinese team at Wedneday night's team final cost China the bronze medal. Fan, Ye performed a back handspring on the podium and jumps while waiting to begin her beam routine.
Under this new format, the gymnasts are not allowed to warm up on the podium prior to competition. The rules state that a gymnast may only stretch, but may not flip, while waiting for the green light to begin the routine.
The deduction was enough to leave China in fourth place, .076 behind Australia. (source: IG, Amanda Turner)

>> Daily Report: Women's Team Final

Gold for Chinese Men

19-Aug:-- Men's decision TEAM FINAL
A very thrilling fight China once again won the gold medal! The U.S. successfully defends its silver medal from the 2001 Worlds. Japan won bronze....
Final Results:
GOLD: 1. China 171.996
Silver: 2. USA 171.121
Bronze: 3. Japan 170.708
4. Russia 168.771
5. Romania 167.909
6. Korea 166.283
7. France 165.546
8. Ukraine 165.108

Coverage of the host: >> ..Men's final standings

<< Men's Report...>>


17/18-Aug:-- WOMEN's TEAM QUALIFICATION
Chinese Women Qualify First for Final
>> After the last subdivisions the team of CHINA was the best with a sensational score of 148,671 points in front of the still reigning world champion ROMANIA (148,120) and the squad of ghost USA (147,697).
In the eighth and last subdivision the Ukraine made strong rotations and came on fourth place (146,994) and beat the Russians on fifth place (145,572), together with the Spain team.
The 'Aussies' scored 144,758 (7), than comes the team of the former Ukrainian star coach Oleg Ostapenko, BRAZIL (143,946 / 8.), followed by the lucky British Girls (143,046), than France (142,835), Canada (142,560) and Germany (142,158) - fighting for the 12th place -lost the Olympic ticket to the little North Korean girls by a difference of 0,04 points (!).
Also the unlucky Dutch team16./ 141.196) is not qualified for Athens 2004, because some injuries (van de Leur, Endel).

>>WOMEN's RESULTS:
>> Detailed Results, Teams.. long downloads, sorry!
>> Detailed Results, Ind. AA.. long downloads, sorry!
... >> please, try the special >>Quick Results, Teams, topical Standings

>> WOMEN's TEAM QUALIFICATION: >> REPORT: Women's Team Qualification

>> 17-Aug: -- MEN's TEAM QUALIFICATION >> REPORT. Men's Team Qualification

>> Current Information, All:J&F-Website Anaheim 2003

F.I.G. INFORMATION
Anaheim (USA), August 18, 2003:-- The Men’s Technical Committee, Chaired by Adrian Stoica (ROM), has submitted for the Executive Committee approval, according to the FIG Technical Regulations (Reg. 4.2, section 2), the following teams and gymnasts qualified the Games of the 28th Olympiad, in Athens 2004, in conformity with the 2003 World Championships.

>> PROVISIONAL OLYMPIC ENTRY LIST, Men / Women
P R E S S - I N T E R N A T I O N A L

>> 24-Aug.: Nomedals, but Satisfaction
>> 23-Aug: US TODAY: Thee more Golds for U.S.
>> 21-Aug: US TORAY: Men's all-around: Hamm makes hostory
>>21-Aug: US TODAY: Women's Team Final: Ailing Americans score stunning gold
>> 19-Aug: US TODAY: 'China holds slim lead at Gymnastics Worlds'
>> 19-Aug: US TODAY: Second Cuban gymnast defects after team competition
>> 17-Aug: US TODAY U.S. men top prelims; women persevere
>> 16-Aug: US TODAY: Hatch, Postell will miss worlds with injury and illness
>> 14-Aug: XINHUA: Chinese head coach confident of upcoming gymnastics worlds


>> 15-Aug: -- OPENING CEREMONY

>> Worlds are opened now.../IMPESSIONS

>> 13./14.Aug: -- >> PODIUM TRAINING MEN and WOMEN

13-Aug: -- WORLD CHAMPS PREVIEW and all information before...>
>> WCh PREVIEW and reports before...

www.janssen-fritsen.com

To the second time after Ghent 2001, the Dutch Pegases Company 'JANSSEN&FRITSEN' take over the title sponsorship of a world championships and presents:

>> ALL INFORMATION: 'ANAHEIM 2003'
J&F in co-operation and publishes by GYMmedia.


... read more on www.gymmedia.com