29. Oktober 2009  
Morges, Schweiz  
Artistic Gymnastics

Ariella Kaeslin cleverly secures the Gander-Memorial win...

Ariella Kaeslin (SUI):
gewinnt Swiss-Cup-Ouvertüre

The Swiss Nr.1 gymnast Ariella Kaeslin also made her mark at home after her world championship silver in London .
The 22 year old from Luzern won three days before the  SWISS CUP 2009 on Wednesday the 26th Artur Gander- Memorial 2009 in Morges.
At this invitation-competition, which somewhat counts as the Swiss-Cup overture, she won with 42,4 points infront of the Romanian Diana Chelaru (41,95) and the Russian Ksenia Semenowa (40,45). However the Olympics finalist refused the highest difficulty level on the vault table and in a clever way secured the all-around win ( 3 of 4 apparati of chooice, excluding floor). The favorite Semenowa previously fell out with a fall on the uneven bars.
In the Mens competition, the current floor and vault world champion Marian Dragulescu was the achiever.

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Marian Dragulescu: ... ist 'heiß' auf den 'Swiss Cup' am Samstag!

Marian Dragulescu won ahead of Jeffrey Wammes (Netherland) and Routinier Jordan Jowtschew from Bulgaria.

After Sergei Chorochordin (RUS) and the French Cyril Tommasone the two Swiss Nicolas Böschenstein and Claude-Alain Porchet  got 6th and 7th place just ahead of  Mikola Kuksenkov from the Ukraine, under the 13 starters. 

The German world championship vault finalist  Matthias Fahrig from Halle messed up his bar excersise (11.); due to a flue the handicapped Eugen Spiridonov from Saarland landed on place 13. 
The German world championship starter Elisabeth Seitz from Mannheim - who will make the 2nd German starter couple with Eugen Spiridonov on Saturday - managed (despite a few beam uncertainties) a good 7th place in the womens competition. 

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