05. November 2003  
Zielona Gora/Poland  
Sports Acrobatics

PREVIEW: 21 European Championships of Sports Acrobatics

EM in Zielona Gora

The 21st European Championship for seniors and the 5th European Championship for juniors in acrobatic gymnastics will be held in Zielona Gora / POL from November 6th to 9th 2003. It will be the first time that both Championships will be organised together. 11 (seniors) respectively 15 (juniors) nations will participate.

Nearly 200 gymnasts representing 17 countries will participate in these 21st European Championships in acrobatic gymnastics. The competitions will include the categories Women's Pairs, Men's Pairs, Mixed Pairs, Women's Trio and Men's Four....

50 Years of Polisch Sports Acrobatics Federation: Super conditions!
Photo: (c) W.Hassepass

Debut for Germany's juniors Nancy Schmidt and Dana Ringel

Acrobatic gymnastics (formally called sports acrobatics) was officially integrated in the UEG programme by the 1999 UEG Congress. In order to harmonise the UEG events, the Technical Committee acrobatic gymnastics has accepted to organise senior and junior competitions as one event, as it is already done in nearly all other UEG disciplines.
source: UEG

>> List of Participants, SENIORS
>> List of Participants, Juniors

The competions will start at Thursday, November the 6th, with preliminaries:
From Thursday on GYMmedia will start the daily coverage fom this event in Zielona Gora, Poland.

Today in training:
Women's Pair: Russian titleholder Lopatkina, Mokhova

Programme of the events:

Thursday, 6 November
11h00 - 14h45 Juniors, qualifications, rounds 1 and 2 (tempo +balance)
17h00 Opening ceremony
17h30 - 20h25 Seniors, qualifications, rounds 1 and 2 (tempo +balance)

Friday, 7 November
12h00 - 15h45 Juniors, qualifications, rounds 3 and 4 (tempo + balance)
18h00 - 20h55 Seniors, qualifications, rounds 3 and 4 (tempo + balance)

Saturday, 8 November
12h00 - 15h45 Juniors, team finals, rounds 5 and 6 (combined)
18h00 - 20h55 Seniors, team finals, rounds 5 and 6 (combined)
21h15 Award ceremonies, seniors and juniors

Sunday, 9 November
11h00 - 13h30 Juniors, finals, rounds 7 and 8 (combined)
15h30 - 17h45 Seniors, finals, rounds 7 and 8 (combined)
18h00 Award ceremonies, seniors and juniors
18h30 Closing ceremony

>> Detailed ECh Schedule

Bogislaw Sulkowski:
President of Polish Federation

R E V I E W :
The last European Championships of sports acrobatics were the 20th Euro Champs 2001 in Faro, Portugal.
>> The last international highlight were the 18th World Championships 2002 in the German 'City of Sports'Riesa, Saxonia.

... and now European Champs take place in Poland again, in the hands of good and approved organizers!

50 Years:
Polish Acrobatics Federation

After the 19th Europen Championships 1999 the Polish center of sports acrobatics Zielona Gora is host again from 1997 on, the third time in the last seven years.


>> On the Archive of GYMmedia you will find more ACRO Highlights of the last years.

... read more on the German website of the GYMmedia Portal.