Alexandra Solovyeva most successful - GYMfamily EVENT -

19th GYMNASTIK INTERNATIONAL 2008
- Fellbach-Schmiden (Germany), March 8 - 9

PRAISE OF SLOWNESS 
All around champion Aleksandra Solovyeva from Russia achieved what has become rare due to the current rules: She had chosen slow music almost everywhere, mostly classical, very terpsichorean sounds - and accompanied by these she performed expressively, elegant as a ballerina. It seemed as if she had all the time of the world to place all the compulsory and optional elements in the curt frame of 90 seconds.  We can expect anything of this gymnast - not only concerning the apparatus final on Sunday, but also in the future. 

Karolina Raskina (GER) who has been very successful as a junior gymnast in the last years, accomplished her first international competition in the master's class. Therefore her results were hard to assess, but expected with eagerness. Karolina did a fair and neat debut and she came on place 4. 
A little unlucky was Aleksandra Zapekina of the federal sports base in Bremen. She is known for her spirited choreographies, but today she dropped her apparatuses several times and became eighth of the 12 participants. Originally, 13 gymnasts were registered, Gabriela Hoferova from the Czech Republic had to call off at short notice. 

* R E S U L T S :
>> ELITE, All-around
1. Aleksandra SOLOVYEVA (RUS) - 65,506
2. Johanna GABOR (GER) - 65,457
3. Koral KREMER (ISR) - 62,856

4. Karolina Raskina (GER) - 61,639
5. Yalcintan Görken (TUR) - 57,173
6. Nataliya Zhivec (LAT) - 55,740

>> detailed Results

* Results: ELITE, FINALS
>> R O P E
1. Alexandra SOLOVYEVA (RUS) - 16,633
2. Karolina Raskina (GER) - 15,575
3. Yalcintan GÖRKEN (TUR) - 14,933

>> HOOP
1. Alexandra SOLOVYEVA (RUS) - 17,399
2. Johanna GABOR (GER) - 16,733
3. Yalcintan GÖRKEN (TUR) - 15,883

>> CLUBS
1. Alexandra SOLOVYEVA (RUS) - 16,999
2. Johanna GABOR (GER) - 15,883
3. Koral KREMER (ISR) - 15,683

>> RIBBON
1. Johanna GABOR (GER) - 16,233
2. Alexandra SOLOVYEVA (RUS) - 15,533
3. Koral KREMER (ISR) - 15,516

>> detailed Final Results

Out of the other German junior gymnasts, Lena Rübke from the Federal sports base in Bremen was remarkable above all; she did a very neat all-around competition. The sympathetic young girl from Bremen performed full of spirits and remarkably came on fifth in the large field of 25 junior. 

In the year of the Juniors' European Championships in Turin the all-around competition of the "19th Gymnastics International" was compulsory for all the junior squad gymnasts and was therefore watched by prominent people:  above all DTB head of team Birgit Guhr, who will be in charge of the nominations, Isabell Niethammer, who managed the tournament in Schmiden and will be an international judge during the Juniors' EUROS, but also the head of the Technical Committee Rhythmic Gymnastics Ursel Born and the member of the TC Rhythmic Gymnastics in the International Gymnastics Federation (F.I.G.) Maria Szyszkowska watched the competition with eagerness.