British delegation starts impressive Kienbaum trainings camp

Right now on Sunday night the British delegation of handicapped sportsmen has landed at the Berlin Tempelhof airport.
These will attend an International trainings camp for Disability Gymnastics from the 9th until the 14th of November 2009 in the Bundesleistungszentrum Kienbaum.
The sportsmen are cases with various handicaps, who particularly perform in the Olympic disciplines of apparati and trampoline gymnastics as well as rhythmic gymnastics competitions. The Brits have been at the top of this league since two decades, have developed an impressive educational and competition system and are aiming to internationalize their ideas.
Ronny ZIESMER, Germany's former member of national team, wants to support them in this...

* Ronny Ziesmer succeeded to organize, that his Sponsor,
the Daimler Management for Cars for Handicaped People
gave its support
Himself will work as a Patron to internationalize the British ideas.

Notable British Initiative!

After international training camps in South Africa, in the last year in Gran Canaria on the border of the BLUME-Festival and a visit of the international German gymnastics event in Frankfurt/Main, the continuation now begins of this much respected initiative of the British gymnastics alliance - with this trainings camp for the handicapped in Kienbaum.

It is great to see, that the priorities of the British Gymnastics alliance are not only the focus on high class sports of the preparation for the Olympics in 2010...

Prof. Dr. Schaffartzik, Ronny Ziesmer
at the very first press conference
after Ronn's accident, August 2004
at the UKB Clinic in Berlin

On Monday, 9. November, the camp will be opened.
Reception and meet and greet of the guests at the request of the DTB will be held by the President of the Berlin Gymnastics Federation Frank Ebel, who supported the Brits already at the information visit in spring 2009 .
A great technical interest is also shown by Europes most modern accident hospital, the "UKB" Berlin, whose Director Doctor , Professor Dr. med. Walter Schaffartzik personally will greet the guests in the gymnastics hall in Kienbaum on Monday.
He was already at the side of Ronny Ziesmers , when the Cottbuser 2004 - shortly before the Olympic games, had to be operated in the UKB.

British and international guests in pleasant antipation of the trip to Germany

The highly qualified medical doctor is particularily interested in how one can make use of the many possibilities of the complex gymnastics disciplines for an improvement of social integration of young people with the most different of handicaps and he is looking for direct contact to the British pioneers of these concepts. The first information on this will then be presented for instance already on the f dem 6. Sportsymposium high class sports on the 23. November in Berlin ....
Curiously the variations of the oldest and most multifacetted of all Olympics disciplines, of gymnastics, are yet without parallel in the Paralympics or other special Olympics programmes.
Ronny and his partner want to help the Brits, to change this and to make way for championship orientated gymnastics also for people with handicaps.

Without hesitation the German President of DTB, Rainer Brechtgen, and the sport director Wolfgang Willam gave their full support for this camp and the complete utilization of all equipments of the top center Kienbaum, all the same conditions, like for the German national teams of artistic gymnastics to other times.

** GYMmedia INTERNATIONAL is looking after this British project and will be reporting from this special camp.
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- The Editors