03. Oktober 2006  
Kienbaum/Berlin, Germany  
Artistic Gymnastics

US Junior National in the legendary Kienbaum Camp

US juniors at the Kienbaum Camp in Germany

Seven of the all together 14 members of the male national juniors team of USA visited the legendary German training camp in Kienbaum, nearby Berlin.
At this place the former GDR teams prepared for their international successes, like the last Olympic team silver medal behind the golden Soviet team in Seoul 1988.
These grounds are a super and modern training camp now for a lot of sports disciplines on a very high standard and it is also the 'training head quarter' of German gymnastic teams....

The US Junior Team in Kienbaum 2006
v.l.n.r.:Head coach Sergei Pakanich; the gymnasts Ryan LIEBERMAN, Mel Anton SANTANDER, Danell JEYVA, Tim PITTMAN, Miguel PINEDA, Philip ONORATO, Tim GENTRY;
Coach Don Osborn u. Mike SERRA


After leaving by the juniors, now the Japanese elite team made a training stop for four days there in Kienbaum on its way to the Worlds in Aarhus, Denmark...


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