11th Asian Junior Championships finished in Chiba

From March 13 to 16 the 11th Asian Junior Championships 2010 of Artistic and Trampoline Gymnastics took place in Chiba, Japan.
Altogether 12 female and male gymnasts representing 16 nations took part at these events, which were also the official qualifications for the upcoming I. Olympic Youth Games, which will be held in August in Singapore.

In Artistic Gymnastics the Japanese hosts were the winner in team but also at the all-around events ...

11th JUNIOR Asian Championships 2010
- Chiba, Japan, March 13 - 16 - ________________________________________________

The competition first debuted in 1971 in Tokyo (JPN) and has been hosted by the Philippines, Korea, China, India, Qatar and Syria ever since.
The last Junior Asian Championships took place in 2007 in Damascus, where the Iranian boys and Kazakhstani girls prevailed in the Artistic Gymnastics Team competitions.
2010 in Chiba, Japanese gymnasts swept both the boys’ and girls’ Artistic Gymnastics Team competitions, while the country’s Shogo Nonomura and Yoshio Taniguchi took the MAG and WAG All-around titles respectively.
China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia and Uzbekistan went home with medals from the Apparatus Final, whereby China was most successful with 3 Gold medals in each the girls’ and boys’ events.
Erdenebold Ganbat’s Silver on Vault will go down in history as the first medal ever for Mongolia at this championship!

* R E S U L T S
* TEAMS, Male Juniors
1. JAPAN    - 255,450
2. KOREA   - 251,850
3. IRAN       - 233,500

4. KAZAKHSTAN    - 231,550
5. INDIA                   - 226,400
6. SINGAPORE    - 219,800
7. VIETNAM             - 209,900
8. SAUDI ARABIA   - 196,250

* ALL-AROUND, Male gymnasts
1. NONOMURA, Shogo (JPN) - 85,150
2. ZHOU, Shixiong         (CHN) - 84,900
3. BAE, Ga Ram              (KOR)  - 84,200

    >> Detailed Results
* Qualifiers for Olympic Youth Games 2010

* App. FINALS:
> Floor Exerc.   > Pommel h.    > Still Rings
> Vault                > Parallel b.      > High bar

* TEAMS, Female Gymnasts
1. JAPAN   - 168,350
2. CHINA    - 164,350
3. KOREA - 156,850

4. UZBEK ISTAN   - 144,400
5. KAZAKHSTAN   - 144,250
6. MONGOLIA        - 120,500
7. INDIA                   - 115,750
8. HONKONG        - 115,259

* ALL-AROUND, Female Gymnasts
1. TANIGUCHI, Yoshino (JPN) - 55,650
2. TAN, Sixin (CHN)                    - 55,000
3. CHEN, Shihua (CHN)             - 54,750

    >> Detailed Results
* Qualifiers for Olympic Youth Games 2010

* Appar. FINALS:
>> V a u l t                   >> Uneven bars
>> Balance Beam     >> Floor Exercises