U.S. Girls beat Favourite Romania

Chellsie Memmel (USA)
- AA best again!!

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 110,335 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... One day before the women's Team Final of the 37th Worlds in Anaheim the U.S.team member Courtney Kupets injured her leftAchilles tendon during afternoon training...

Golden Girls of Anaheim!

Report on U.S gymnastics website
USA Stuns The World With First-Ever World Team Gold Medal
- August 20, 2003 -
by Brian Eaton, USA Gymnastics
- Team USA touted its depth for nearly a year heading into the 2003 World Gymnastics Championships, Aug. 16-24 in Anaheim, Calif. After losing three world medalists to injury and illness this week, the United States found itself only half as deep as originally expected.
Despite the setbacks, Team USA's five remaining members performed flawlessly on the beam and floor to seal the nation's first-ever World Championships team gold medal on Wednesday at the Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim.
Team USA's Chellsie Memmel, Carly Patterson, Hollie Vise, Tasha Schwikert and Terin Humphrey scored a 112.573 to top defending world champion Romania at 110.833.

Tasha Schwickert (USA)

'I don't think it's really sunk in yet that we are the first team ever to win Worlds,' team veteran and 2000 Olympian Tasha Schwikert said. 'We've been through so many different things this week and we are just in shock that we made it through another injury and that we are all still standing. It was awesome.'
Team USA qualified for the final in third place after bobbles on beam and floor, and appeared in danger of dropping a few more places after losing world vault bronze medalist Annia Hatch to a torn ACL, world beam champion Ashley Postell to the flu, and, on Tuesday, losing world uneven bars champ Courtney Kupets to a torn Achilles.
Memmel, the only U.S. athlete to perform on all four events, led the competition with the top all-around mark, including a meet-high 9.637 on the uneven bars and the competition's second-best score on beam of 9.575.
During team prelims on Sunday, Memmel qualified in fourth for the uneven bars event final, and in sixth place for the balance beam final. Teammate Courtney Kupets qualified in second place for the uneven bars final but is unable to compete due to an Achilles tendon injury.
The U.S. women finished with the bronze medal at the 2001 World Championships in Ghent, Belgium. The United States had never before won a team gold medal at the World Championships.

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Kupets injured!

Bad News fom U.S.Team before...
>> 19-Aug: --ANAHEIM – U.S. gymnastic pronounced, that Courtney Kupets injured her left Achilles tendon during afternoon training on Tuesday at the World Gymnastics Championships in Anaheim, Calif.
Kupets, the 2003 U.S. All-Around champion and 2002 uneven bars World Champion, has been taken to a local hospital for evaluation.
“Courtney is obviously distraught by this injury,” said National Team Coordinator Martha Karolyi. “She was a major contributor to the success of our team. We are sad that she will not be able to compete on Wednesday night, or in the event finals this weekend.”
No decision has been made as to the impact on the U.S. line-up or roster for the World Championships.