Fabian HAMBUECHEN: German SPORTSMEN of THE YEAR 2007!

The German vice all-around and high bar world champion Fabian Hambüchen, - winning the bronze medal with his team at the 2007 World Championships in Stuttgart, was elected as the "German Sportsman of the Year 2007", and the German artistic Gymnastics men's team ranked on sixth place - even in front of the German soccer team (8th) - it's a little sensation in Germany of course, but it is also a proof of Germany's long gymnastics tradition in this kind of sports and its huge infrastructure with more than 5 million members in the world's biggest national gymnastics federation (DTB) with more than 20.000 clubs in nearly 20 regional federations.
This election is a big motivation in this country for the Olympic Year 2008!
>> ... read more at the German platform of GYMmedia