6. July 2003
Guildford/Great Britain
Artistic Gymnastics
Beth’s impressive hat trick!

BAGA-info: -- Beth Tweddle (Liverpool) achieved a very impressive hat trick at the 2003 British Championships for Women, cheered by the enthusiastic crowd at the jam-packed Spectrum, Guildford.
She put together an overall score of 35.550 points to win the All-around title, followed by Rebecca Mason (Sandbach), 34.650, Silver medal, and Vanessa Hobbs (Dynamo, Portsmouth), 34.250, Bronze. ..

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4. July 2003
Berlin/Germany
Artistic Gymnastics
SC Berlin: Retirement from German s Premier League

Germany's most successful gymnastics club, the SC Berlin pronounced its retirement of the 1st BUNDESLIGA, the highest league of men's artistic gymnastics in Germany.
Team chief Siegfried Wuestemann spoke from problems in the personnel structure: There are not enough adult gymnasts, to start into the competition season this autumn.

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1. July 2003
Toulon / France
Artistic Gymnastics
Romania and Florica Leonida on top in Toulon

The reigning Junior European balance beam champion Florica Leonida led her Romanian team to victory over France and Netherlands at a tri-meet held last weekend in Toulon, France. The Romanian gymnasts finished first through fifth in the all-around standings.
On sixth place came the first French gymnast Marine Debauve (34,750).
Best Dutch gymnast was Gabriella Wammes on 13th place, but the Dutch team started without their stars Verona van de Leur (injured) and the Dutch champion Suzanne Harmes...

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30. June 2003
Ostrava-Poruba/Czech Republik
Artistic Gymnastics
Czech National Championships

Collapsed high bar – junior European champion Martin Konečný survived! And 4 gold medals for Jana Komrsková.
The 2003 Czech National Championships was closed almost symbolically with the world-wide known tune of Antonín Drořák's New World Symphony accompanying the floor exercises of Kateřina Marešová. ...

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25. June 2003
Heilbronn/Böckingen
Artistic Gymnastics
GYMnastic Helps Alisher!

The exceptional athlet Oksana Chusovitina started last weekend at the German Nationals out of competition (36,450), but she got a lot of sympathy of the spectators and the host TG Boeckingen. All together 1,000 Euro they contributed to help her son Alisher, who has been in treatment for leukemia since last fall in Cologne.
A big sum to help Alisher came just now from the Team Uzbekistan Fundraiser Club' from the USA, transmitted on the special GYMmedia...

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