21. September 2003  
Cottbus/Germany  
Artistic Gymnastics

XVIII. International GWG-Cup for Juniors

Winner of the Juniors Category (age groups 15 - 18) of the XVIII. International GWG-Cup in Cottbus / Germany is the local heroe Philipp Boy, member of the German national Juniors Team, with a score of 52,950. On second place came Roman Gisi from the Swiss centre of NKL Liestal. Third was the German Matthias Fahrig from SV Halle.
93 Gymnasts from 14 European countries and from the USA are participate in Cottbus.
First winner of the first day in youth categoriy (age group 10-14) was the 13-years old Max Wittenberg-Voges from TK Hannover (49,850). On second place came Hlad-Bogdan Opris from the Romanian Clubul Sportiv Timisoara and on third the Hungarian Domonkos Paszthory from Ferencvaros Torna Klub.

Victory Ceremony, Youth age groups 10 - 14

Hlad-Bogdan Opris (ROM)

<< The son of the former world champion and Olympic silver medallist, the director of the 'Tournament of Masters', Sylvio Kroll, the ten years old Lukas Kroll made his very first international competition in his hometown and he was the best among the ten-years old boys.

First time the German national juniors team competed, under the leadership of coach Jens Milbradt, to prepaere for the coming friendly juniors meet in Burlington, Canada on October, the 4th.

>> On Sunday will be held the apparatus finals