06. März 2010  
Berlin  
Artistic Gymnastics

Series winner Japan wins the International Junior Team-Cup for the 5th time


And again the European juniors were frustrated with the success of the japanese young gymnasts qualities :
For the 5 time in a row,  JAPANS young league won in Berlin in the big sports hall at the Weißenseer Weg also the "15. International Junior Team Cup 2020" and showed off all its new talent:
With 247,350 points the Japanese quartett won ahead of SPAIN I (245,750) and SWITZERLAND (244,350). Like in the previous year the host assortment of  the SC Berlin managed the best German representatives on 7th position out of 26 teams in total from 17 nations and 3 continents.
A strong impression was made especially by the Spaniards, who had the singles winner of the Juniors Fabian Gonzales.
Here too the best gymnast from Berlin in the Juniors Philipp Herder (80,950) with a strong 6th place  ...


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XV. INTERNATIONAL JUNIOR TEAM CUP 2010
- Berlin, Sporthalle Weißenseer Weg, 6th March -
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Again an absolutely strong starter field came together, also if some of the European top nations did not attend, like Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and also the Brits.
The trainer experts estimated that the best nations would lay closely together, tight results were proof of this.
Brasils youngsters, from the country of a Daniel Hypolito, shone on the vault. The Canadians, and their "Maple Leaf" which reminded of past Olympics Winterdays, brought their strong singles gymnast Robert Watson , who just by a little, missed the podium.

Mannschaft Jordanien kam zum Lernen nach Berlin

The guest of honor from Switzerland, the 90-year old Hans Tschudi, who was once led Egypts national team 1952 to the Olympic Games to Helsinki, was happy that even Jordanien attended with a team, even if they were far behind on last place:
".. no matter which position one takes in the end, but it shows that gymnastics is also developed there where one invests in the youth"- said the Senior, whom the Berliners engaged in the prize giving ceremony.

Philipp Herder (Rang 6), gratuliert den beiden Siegern bei den Junioren, Fabian Gonzales (ESP und Jim Zona (FRA)

Berlins responsible trainer Steffen JAHN was happy with the achievements of the boys: " 7th place like in the last year and best German team, that is o. k.! Especially Philipp Herder did well as 6th in the juniors. He proved his good preparation and most importantly showed some very offensive gymnastics. If there hadn't been a stability mistake on the pommel horse, he would have even landed further ahead.."

Best German gymnast in the age group 15/16 of the youngsters was Daniel Weinert from Kiel, who like Philipp Herder showed a balanced all-around performance in the junios. In the Junior classes the physically most developed Spaniards with their best, Fabian GONZALES, compared to the delicate Asians and had the singles winner sharing points with the also very balanced Jim ZONA afrom Lyon, France..:
* JUNIORS - Age groups 17/18
1. GONZALEZ, Fabian  (ESP)  - 83,950
1. ZONA, Jim                 (FRA)  - 83,950
3. ABAD, Nestor       (ESP)  - 83,200
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5. HERDER, Philipp  (GER/SC Berlin)  - 80,950

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Daisuke Iguchi (JPN)

The Japanese showed their strength in the younger age groups, where they had the best and most balanced all-around athlete Daisuke in the young age group category...:

* YOUTH, Age Group 15/16
1. IGUCHI, Daisuke  (JPN)  - 81,500
2. YUSOF, Eddy         (SUI)  - 81,300
3. DOWERS, Tariq  (CAN)  - 80,500

4. WEINERT, Daniel  (GER; Kiel)  - 78,950

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The whole Japanese team prepared the bars - and the smallest, Kenta Chiba, (ri.) was the best in the end!

In each performance, the smallest, the 13-year old Kenta CHIBA, got a lot of applause. It was impressive to see, that he had to jump quite high to get his hands on the high bar and basically had control of the apparatus in a proped position.
In the prize giving he recieved, with beaming eyes, the winner medal from the 78 years older Swiss ex-trainer Hans TSCHUDI (91). And again the small guy had to stretch when he wanted to put his arms around his colleague Clerc Remy ...!

* SCHOOL GROUPS, Age Groups 14 - and below
1. CHIBA, Kenta  (JPN)  - 76,250
2. RÈMY, Clerc    (FRA)  - 75,750
3. SRBI`C, Tin     (CRO)  - 75,100
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11. KOTRINI, Stefan (GER; Chemnitz) - 69,800
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JAPANS chosen joungsters win for the 5th time in a row the International Junior Team Cup in Berlin, ahead of SPAINEN (le.) and ahead of SWITZERLAND I.

Niklas Niethack, Philipp Herder, Viet THao Hoang: the Berliner at the end on 7th place!

From German perspective, the conclusion of the responsible young gymnasts trainer Gunter Schönherr  , who used this competition as a first national Young European Championship-qualification, was "dense": "Really adequate are Philipp Herder (SC Berlin) and Ivan Rittschik (Chemnitz), all the other 10 parttaking athletes of the Geran league still have deficits, which they need to work at in the next 3 weeks before the second test in the training camp Kienbaum."
At the end of March then each league circle should be tightened, to those which will take part in the competition preparation for the youth-European Championships (JEM).
As well as this there are the traditional four country comparisons against the British hosts as well as agains France and Switzerland in Ipswich (GBR), followed by a last country comparison in the Czech Republic against the hosts and against Poland. Then the European title competitions start quite early in the year in Bermingham....
On this way, Berlin was a first but meaningful step.
(c) E. Herholz
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