21. Oktober 2005  
Stuttgart / Germany  
Artistic Gymnastics

23rd DTB-Cup with new Record of Participants !TODAY: Qualification rounds....

Fabian Hambuechen
- as DTB Cup 'Cover Boy'

'Wimbledon of Gymnastics'
At the 23rd Anniversary of the traditional DTB-Cup the German hosts expect 48 female and 92 male gymnasts representing 41 Nations - a new record in the history of this event! Among them are a lot of Olympic, World and continental champions. The 'Cr?me de la Cr?me' of the international gymnastics scene will be in Stuttgart, the City of the 2007 World Championships
It was the former Belorussian world star Ivan Ivankov who once during the 90ies compared the DTB Cup with the tennis tournament of Wimbledon.
Of course it will also be a very good possibilty to see a lot of the favourites for the upcoming World Championships (Melbourne, November 2005) and for the German hosts to celebrate the performances of their young star Fabian Hambuechen...

SPIETH Gymnastic presents: 'SPECIAL SERVICE'
Men's WC 05/06 Medallists, ALL << // >> Women's WC 05/06 Medallists, ALL

Daiane dos Santos (BRA)
- Floor World Champion 2003 in Anaheim

23rd DTB-Cup 2005, A- Worldcup
- Stuttgart, Oct. 21st - 23rd 2005
in the venue Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle -

A great entry field will be present – the most impressive facts are certainly presented by Romania:
With 3-time Olympic Champion Catalina Ponor, 2-time Olympic and European Champion Monica Rosu as well as pommel horse legend Marius Urzica and World- and European Champion Marian Dragulescu this team can present a variety of titles which can’t be excelled.

High- quality women’s field
A lot of cheers by the aucience in Stutgart can be expected when the Romanian stars will meet e.g. floor World Champion Daiane dos Santos from Brazil or also Suzanne Harmes from the Netherlands.
>> ... please see also Olympic Games 2004
>> ... and 22nd DTB-Cup 2004 (- 1st Worldcup of the series 2005/06)

Yuri van Gelder (NED) - specialist on rings -

Who will be Stuttgart’s
'Lord of the rings...'?

On rings a spectacular duel can be expected:
With Yuri van Gelder and Dimosthenis Tampakos two absolute specialists will meet: The number one on the World ranking list from the Netherlands and the current World and Olympic Champion from Greece!
Are the true all-arounders becoming more and more rare....?

A remarkable “all-arounder” comes from Japan: Team Olympic Champion 2004 Daisuke Nakano. However, also in one or the other apparatus final he can be expected in the top ranks. In order to reach a top position he certainly will have to deal with Olympic Champion Valeri Goncharev (UKR) on parallel bars and on high-bar with European Champion Manuel Carballo from Spain…

High- bar European Champion Fabian Hambüchen
at the ECh's 2005 in Debrecen


...High-bar: A true highlight

A drama couldn’t be written better:
The high-bar final at the end of the 3 competition days in Germany with the newly-crowned European Champion from Debrecen 2005, Fabian Hambuechen! However, the decision in this final will only have been made after the last dismount will have been carried out. A thrilling final can anyway be expected when a highly motivated “Fabi” will compete against e.g. Australia’s Philippe Rizzo or former World- and European Champion Vlavios Maras (GRE).
...latest news regarding the entry field:
>> Italy confirmed the participation of Vice-European Champion 2004 on pommel horse Alberto Busnari as well as Matteo Angioletti;
>>... Belgium had to withdraw their complete team due to the flu.
SCHEDULE of the DTB-Cup 2005
Friday, Oct. 21st::
- women’s qualification: 12.15 – 3.15 pm, - men’s qualification: 4.45 – 8.30 pm
(- in between: autograph sessions and further activities)

Saturday, Oct. 22nd: 12.00 noon: opening of the venue
FINAL 1: men: rings, parallel bars, vault; - women: uneven bars, floor.

Sunday Oct. 23rd: 12.00 noon: opening of the venue
FINAL 2: men: pommel horse, floor, high-bar; - women: beam, vault.

- Always before the competition on the finals’ days start: autograph sessions and further activities
- End of the competitions on Saturday and Sunday around 5.00 pm

Gymnastics - highly demanded by the TV-stations!

DTB-Cup in the German TV:
The local TV station SWR will broacast on Saturday between 5.00 – 6.00 pm included in their program “Sport am Samstag”.

Also the stations ARD (Sunday afternoon around 3.25 pm) and ZDF (Sunday afternoon starting around 5.05 pm) will report about the DTB-Cup within their sports broadcasts.

GYMNASTICS -
an internationally demanded TV- product:

The DTB- Cup will be broadcasted by the following TV-stations from all over the World:


Sport Plus, France; Supersport, South Africa; ESPN Star, Hong Kong; NTV, Russia; Sport TV, Portugal; Supersport, Greece; TVE, Spain; Sport TV, Romania; Rai, Italy; Poverkhnost, Ukraine; and SPORT-Expressen, Sweden. A Brazilian TV station even will send an own team to Stuttgart to prepare special reports and stories about the Brazilian gymnasts.
>> Altogether more than 96 million TV-households will be reached!
GYMmedia, according to information by STB/DTB
GYMmedia SPECIAL SERVICE:
The World Cups of the series 2005/06 up to now:
>> (9) Salamunov Memorial, Maribor/SLO, (Oct. 28 - 30) (- non-booked GYMmedia Service)
>> (8) Grand Prix, Glasgow, (Oct. 25 - 26) (- non-booked GYMmedia Service)

>> (7) 23. DTB-Pokal, Stuttgart (Oct 2005) Event Service booked)
>> (6) French International, Paris-Bercy, (May 2005)
>> (5) Ghent World Cup, Ghent (Apr. 2005)
>> (4) II. Siegfried Fischer Trophy, Sao Paolo (Apr. 2005)
>> (3) 29th Tournament of Masters, Cottbus (Mar. 2005)
>> (2) American Cup, Nassau (Feb. 2005)
>> (1) 22nd DTB-Cup, Stuttgart (Nov. 2004)

>> ... more GYMmedia Specials:
>> WC Circuit 2005/06: All male MEDAL WINNERSr

>> WC Circuit 2005/06: All femal MEDAL WINNERS
>> Stuttgart booked the GYMmedia Event-Service, so GYMmedia will report from the DTB-Cup during the 3 competition days.