7. June 2003
Stolpe, Brandenburg/Germany
Artistic Gymnastics
GUINNESS WORLD RECORD: Handstand on a Castle

On Saturday five gymnasts from Berlin - among of them the high bar Olympic champion of Atlanta, Andreas Wecker and the former German all-around master Peter Nikiferow celebrated a noisy handstand on a special steel construction on the biggest aldest German castle from the 12th century.
The German company PANHOLZ from Sulzfeld, near Heilbronn built this construction, to carry a roof for saving the 6 meters thick wall.
Five handstands in a high about 30 meters to the...

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5. June 2003
Hoofdorp/Netherlands
Artistic Gymnastics
Dutch Men s Nationals 2003

In Hoofddorp took place the Dutch Ntional Championships of men's artistic Gymnastics.
Herre Zonderland won the all-around title with a score of 50,85 points and also the titles on four apparatusse.
The highest score noticed the junior Jeffrey Wammes: He scored 53,05, and is the new Dutch junior champion. On second place in the junior category came Epke Zonderland (52,10)....

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3. June 2003
Berlin/Germany
Artistic Gymnastics
Here we are again: GYMmedia with a new start!

After a couple of days during which the provider has been changed and a more effective content management system has been built up our European Online Service for all gymnastics disciplines is now ready for daily-topical reporting again. Please use from now on also the safety version of GYMmedia on www.gym-media.com.
We would like to apologize to our customers, members and partners of the world-wide GYMfamily for the temporary drop outs during the last days.
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3. June 2003
Sczcecin/Poland
Artistic Gymnastics
St. A. Kolakowskich Memorial

Olympic medallist Leszek Blanik has won the first men’s all-around at the “St.A.Kolakowskich Memorial“ which took place on May 30th/ June 1st.
On ranks 2 and 3 followed the two Russian competitors from St. Petersburg Anton Lobanov and Nikolai Goukov.
Their young club mate Alexandra Vanina (yr. 89) narrowly won the women’s all-around, which had already been held as international tournament in previous years.

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31. May 2003
Wigan/Great Britain
Artistic Gymnastics
Tough test against the World Team Champions

Today was held a 5-way International and World Championships Trials in Men’s Gymnastics between the world champin of 2001 Belarus, France (4th place in Ghent), Switzerland, Germany, and host Great Britain. The location was the Robin Park Sports Centre, Wigan.
>> Results and Report by Vera Atkinson...:

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