04. Oktober 2003  
Burlington/Kanada  
Artistic Gymnastics

Canadian Juniors face Germany and USA in Burlington

German Junior Team

CAN-Fed --Members of the Canadian Junior and Novice team will be training and competing with Junior/Youth teams from USA and Germany this weekend in Burlington, hosted by the Burlington BGs Gymnastics Club. Competition begins 3:00 pm at the BGs club (680 Maple Ave) and is open to the public.
Canadian Junior champion, Nathan Gafuik, and former Junior Champion Adam Wong (both members of the Pan American Games Team) lead the six man team with Braden McNeil, Peter Andersen, Patrick McElroy and Matthew Albrecht. For many athletes on this team, this will be the first international experience and will be the beginning of a concerted effort to develop athletes in the Age Group/Junior categories.

German Coach Jens Milbradt with a part of his team (from right): Matthias Fahrig (SV Halle), Brian Gladow (SC Berlin), Steve Woitalla, Philipp Boy (both SC Cottbus)

Over the next year there will be up to four training camps that will target this level of gymnast as part of the 'La Réleve' funding from Sport Canada; funding directed to National Sport Organizations to target developmental/age group teams and coaching.
Germany
Marcus Stumpf, Matthais Fahrig, Philipp Boy, Brian Gladow, Marco Simon Steven Woitalla, Vladimir Klimenko (not competiting);
USA
Taqiy Abdullah, Cole Storer, Derek Helsby, Tyler Yamauchi, Bryan DelCastillo, Ralph Rosso.
The German team will remain in Canada for an additional week training with the Canadian team at the Muskoka Woods Sports Camp in Rousseau, ON.
-Source: CAN Gym Fed-
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