07. Juli 2007  
Switzerland  
Artistic Gymnastics

Britain s successful trainer is moving to Switzerland

Zoltan JORDANOV
- in Switzerland from October 1st

New head trainer of women's artistic gymnastics in Switzerland
The Swiss Gymnastics Association STV will employ the Hungarian-British Zoltan Jordanov (55) as its new head trainer for women's artisitc gymnastics from October 1st 2007...


* Switzerland
New head trainer of women's artistic gymnastics
Zoltan Jordanov studied to be a sports teacher at Budapest University and qualified as a 'Trainer of Gymnastics as a Competitve Sport' and as an 'International Trainer of Competitive Sports'.

From 1987 to 1996 Zoltan JORDANOV worked as a trainer for the Hungarian Gymnastics Association and during this time prepared gymnasts for the World Championships in Rotterdam (1987 / 7th place/team), Stuttgart (1989 / 9th place/team) and Indianapolis (1991 / 8th place/team) as well as the Olympic Games in Seoul (1988 / 8th place/team),  Barcelona (1992 / 6th place/team) and Atlanta (1996 / 9th place/team) and accompanied them to competitions.
Since 1999 he has been working for British Gymnastics as head trainer of the women's national artistic gymnastics team. During this period he prepared the British team for the World Championships in Tianjin (1999 / 11th place/team), Ghent (2001 / 10th place/team) and Anaheim (2003 / 9th place/team) as well as the Olympic Games in Sydney (2000 / 10th place/team) and Athena (2004 / 11th place/team) .

Under his trainership gymnasts of the British national team managed to win Diplomas at European and World Championships, and Elizabeth Tweddle became the first British gymnast to win medals at continental and intercontinental championships. At the moment Zoltan Jordanov is in charge of training the junior team, developing regional centres and schooling trainers for competitive gymnastics at British Gymnastics. Zoltan Jordanov, who is improving his knowledge of German in preparation for his new job as of October 1st, has set himself the task of getting at least two gymnasts and at best the whole team qualified for the London Olympics in 2012.


His wife, Snejana Jordanov, will be employed as a trainer especially for the beam and for choreography. 
She studied sports at Sofia University and qualified as a trainer for competitive sports. From 1987 to 1996 gymnasts of the Hungarian Gymnastics Association trained by her took part in world championships and Olympic games. After her move to England she mostly worked as a trainer and choreography teacher in regional centres and local clubs.
Source: STV, Bernhard Rentsch, Medienchef