22. February 2003  
Oklahoma-City/USA  
Artistic Gymnastics

Hall of Fame will reward five new Top Individuals

Karin JANZ (GDR):
Olympic Champion 1972 (Munich)

The International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in Oklahoma-City (USA) will reward five new individuals of gymnastics this year.
They are Dimitri Bilozerchev (RUS), Kurt Thomas (USA), Karin Buettner-Janz (GER/GDR), Franco Menichelli (ITA) and, posthumously, former FIG Secretary General, Max Bangerter (SUI).

The Olympic Champion on pommelhorse, rings and with the Soviet team (SeouL, 1988), the eight-time world champion Dmitri Bilozertchev was the artistiv gymnastics super star of the eighties in the last century.