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Spain beats Portugal

BINATIONAL MEETING Portugal vs. Spain
The Spanish men's national team beat the hosts scoring 341,325 points compared to Portugal's 341,300 in a meeting of the two countries in the northern Portuguese town of Maia. The best single athletes were Rafael Martinez (ESP; 88,975) and Maneel Campos (POR; 88,600).
The meeting took place simultaneously with the
"II. INTERNATIONAL MAIA JUNIORS' TOURNAMENT 2007".
A Chinese team won this tournament, followed by a British and a Belgian team...

BINATIONAL MEETING PORTUGAL - SPANIEN
- Maia, Portugal, 6th April 2007 -

The Spanish guests took the lead on the floor as expected (57,275 : 57,125), continued to extend it on the following apparatuses and scored 63,950 : 61,175 on the vault, the best score in the binational meeting.
The hosts, Portugal, came into its own only on the parallel bars(56,725 : 57,425), however, on the high bar, they trailed the Spanish guests by a mere four tenths of a point (55,000 : 54,600)

TEAMS
1. SPANIEN: 347,325 2. PORTUGAL: 341,300

>> Detailed Results, Teams

Rafael Martinez (ESP)
- best allrounder once again

In the single ranking the Spanish allround talent and former allround European champion Rafael Martinez, (< Foto, links) triumphed once again; he was the only gymnast to have initial values of more than 16.000 on all apparatuses, won five apparatuses and was beaten only on the floor, by the Portuguese top gymnast  Manuel Campos (16.3 = 15,075), despite having the highest initial value, scoring16.4 = 14,550), .

All around:
1. Rafael Martinez (ESP)     88,975
2. Manuel Campos (POR)   88,600
3. Sergio Munoz (ESP)         84,750

>> DetailedResults, AA

"II. INTERNATIONAL MAIA JUNIORs' TOURNAMENT 2007"
- Maia, Portugal, 6th April 2007 -

The Portuguese organisers cleverly achieved a maximum of press and public interest by joining the international meeting of the elite teams with a international juniors' tournament.

The international juniors' of the 11 competing teams came from 10 countries. The athletic standard was set in particular by China, Great Britain, Switzerland and Belgian junior gymnasts.

TEAM RANKING:
1. Team CHINA - 248,300
2. Team Notts School of Gymnastics (GBR) - 245,650
3. Team BELGIUM - 226,350
>> Detailed Results, Teams

In the single ranking, British gymnast Reece Pearson from Nottingham Gymnastics Club won, presenting the most consistent performance and scoring 85,700 points, followed in this tournament by the strong 17 year old Swiss junior (85,150), who came second in his age group at the International Juniors' Team Cup 2007 in Berlin.
The third place went to Tan, Shijin (84,200) from China.

>> Detailed Results, all-round

>> Age group Results 12-15

Information/ Kooperation: Millenium Press,
António MarquesJosé Matos
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