14. July 2023  
Porto San Giorgio, ITA  
Artistic Gymnastics

Joint World Cup training camp Italy - Germany

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Germany's head coach Valeri BELENKI prescribed a week of "warm south" for his 11 athletes of the German national artistic gymnastics team. Eleven weeks before the important pre-Olympic qualifying World Championships in Antwerp (BEL), it is not only "sun, beach and water" that are on the agenda in the small Adriatic resort of Porto San Giorgio: "... that too, but in moderation," said co-coach Hubert BRYLOK from SV Halle, who has three of his promising World Championship candidates with him, Lukas Dauser, Nils Dunkel and Nick Klessing. "Of course, Valeri is more interested in team building, a little "relax factor" and mental regeneration, but the general guideline is: fine-tuning and stabilising the programmes!"

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The host of the joint World Cup training camp is none other than ITALY, the current European team champions from Antalya 2023, with whom DTB head coach Valeri Belenki has the best relations. The Azurris, who have made a considerable leap forward lately, will of course also be there with their entire national team and will train in a sports school located on a hill just a few kilometres away from the idyllic Adriatic beach of Porto San Giorgio.

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At this year's European Championships in Antalya, Italy's gymnasts - apart from the Swiss - were the only ones to place two of their athletes among the TOP ten in the all-around: Yumin Abbadini (6th) and Minch Lorenzo Casali (9th) and thus prevented the home victory of the likewise rising new European gymnastics nation Turkey and left "only" the bronze medal for the favoured British, ergo: for the Germans placed on rank 5 an almost ideal "sparring partner"!
Because the next, 46th European Championships in 2024, will also take place in the Olympic field in Rimini, Italy!
From the coach's point of view, it is therefore favourable to train with such top athletes as the Vice European Champion on high bar, Carlo Macchini (photo, right >), or the two best Italians of last year's European Championships in Munich, Nicola Bartolini (10th) and Matteo Levantes (12th).

<< Not only for Lukas Dauser, for all German youngsters, these are the right partners to prepare with concentration and bite for the World Championships highlight of the year in Antwerp (- from September 30 on).

It is also good that the German top gymnasts generally maintain friendly contact with international partners, without any secrecy, because the other way round, national selection teams of top and junior gymnasts are also traditionally welcome and often seen guests at the domestic performance centre in Kienbaum, near Berlin.
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