IRV-President Paul SIELER resumes 2009 Wheel Gymnastcs Worlds

Paul Sieler, President IRV

"World Championships of the superlative was great!"

That is o ne of the core declarations of the president of the International Rhönrad federation (IRV), Paul SIELER, - to the general meeting of his federation in Baar last week. He gave an exclusive interview to European Gymnastic Service GYMmedia INTERNATIONAL just shortly after the 8th. World Championships in the Swiss town Baar...:

Paul SIELER (GER) during opening speech in Baar (SUI)

* GYMmedia-exclusive interview with
Paul SIELER, president of the "International Rhönrad Federation" (IRV)
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*GYMmedia: – What kind of World Championships were these competitions with the Swiss hand writing?
* Paul SIELER: - "Overall surely a WC of the superlatives. That includes the organisation, the performances, the number of audience, the whole infrastructure, the development of quality, the atmosphere and even the weather. The Swiss gave us a lot of heartiness and perfect organisation to the smallest detail. Everything was great!

*GYMmedia: – Were there tendency in certain disciplines that especially stroke the viewer in these World Championships?
* Paul SIELER: - "The performances of all countries reached a level that has never been this high before and the top got closer."

*GYMmedia: – Since the World title competitions the German dominance is hard to overcome do you see a different tendency...?
* Paul SIELER: - "I think that in the next years this dominance will hopefully be overcome, Israel, the Netherlands or Austria with their first WC medal and also the USA as a new IRV member are on a good way.!

*GYMmedia: – The IRV wants to support other Nations on their way. Where tdo you see the main focus?
* Paul SIELER: - "We will surely support training events and foreign advertising campaigns. Especially Central and Eastern Europe are in the target group."

*GYMmedia: – The next highlights are in Germany again. Is it difficult to set new international accents by choosing the hosts?
* Paul SIELER: - "We are with the World Championships - after Limburg 1999 - really just the second time in Germany. The other countries wait and plan the Team Cup and WC for the next years. I anticipate fuutre IRV - highlights in the Netherlands, the USA, in Isreal and maybe even soon in Japan.

*GYMmedia: – Now will all German Rhönradstars participate in the National Championships in Frankfurt. Do you expect a media run on the international successful discipline after the World Championship victories...?
* Paul SIELER: - "We are successul for years now at German and World Championships but the interest we wish for from the media is missing. There are various reasons for this. This is way we value the GYMmedia-Plattformen even more for its national and international publicity. Maybe the break through will come sooner than we think and hope.
* The interview was held by E. Herholz for GYMmedia

*Annotations:
On the days of the Rhönrad-World Championships (19. - 24. May 2009) GYMmedia registered an online visit of 43.760 users from overall 97 nations only on the Rhönrad pages. That led to an overall sum of 437.000 page impressions. We counted over proportinally high visit rates from Asian regions (Japan), South America (Brazil), Canada and the USA.
Tendency: Generally do the GYMmedia-Users inform themselves about every current even / information that are offered.
That shows that not only one discipline group stays amongst itself but that it creates a general interest. Everyone profits from the broad target group of the "aesthetic Gymnastics-Family".
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