PREVIEW: 13th International JUNIOR-TEAM CUP 2008- GYMfamily Event

... a new participating record
and a very strong Japanese team!

Gymnastics elite of the future - live!
On March 1st the 13th International Junior-Team-Cup 2008 will take place in Berlin. Previously one month before the Berlin's hosts register a new participating record: 28 teams, representing 19 nations and 4 continents!
This team competition is a high-class event for junior gymnasts. Entries from top gymnastics nations like last year's winner Japan, USA, Australia, Belarus and further 24 (!) countries have been confirmed!
Australians and Canadians arrived as first and started their training together with the German host. And titleholder Japan looks like the big favorite after the today's training. The US boys from Iowa arrived today and on Friday will held a complete training day for all at the competition hall ...

>> Competition Report 2008

This unique team competition is organised for pupil- and junior- teams aged between 12 and 18 years.
For all participants the event is a great opportunity to prepare for championships and major international events.

In the year of the Junior European Championships of course also Germany's top gymnasts for the Junior European Championships as well as further club teams from the cities Cottbus, Halle and the hosts SC Berlin will take part and they all look forward...

>> Nominative Entries
(- update: 2008, Feb 27)

... to match with the other candidates for the Junior European Championships as well as with the strong teams from other continents.

Gymnastics elite of the future - live!
This is a great opportunity for all visitors to see the gymnastics elite of the future live:
More and more training groups as well as coaches of younger gymnasts use this special competition for a trip to Berlin:
Where else would you be able to the see future World- or Olympic Champions from Japan and other countries at such a young age?

The participating teams compete in two groups on March 1st 2008:
The first group starts at 10:00 a.m., the second group starts at 3:00 p.m.

* ... further questions can be answered by: SC Berlin, Siegfried Wüstemann:
The Canadian boys started their training together with the German host at the world famous former "Dynamo Club" in Berlin, the contemporarily "Sports Club BERLIN":

Titleholder JAPAN, arrived yesterday evening in Berlin (photo), and after the first training rotations with full program (complete exercices !!) this year's team looks very strong and like the big favorite again...!!

The Canadian gymnasts Anderson Loran, Max Vacca, Robert Watson, Jaylan Birl, Markos Baikan, the head of delegation, the judge and the coach Ferenc Szabo; behind left: German chief coach Siegfried Wuestemann

* GYMmedia-review:

>> 12. Intern. Junior-Team Cup 2007
>> 11. International Junior Team Cup 2006;
>> 10. International Junior Team Cup 2005

... the event formerly was called "OBI"-Cup:

... e.g. in the year 2000 the later high bar World Champion who until now is one of the strongest competitors of Fabian Hambüchen, Vlasios Maras from Greece, belonged to the junior team of his country at the 5th OBI-Cup.

> 9. OBI-Cup 2004 > 8. OBI-CUP 2003 > 7. OBI-CUP 2002
> 6. OBI-CUP 2001 > 5. OBI-CUP 2000