3rd Intern. Tournament GYMSPORT in Portugal

Girls teams: Double winner from Germany

On the 14th of April 2012, Sport Club do Porto organized its 3rd International Tournament “Gymsport” for female and male juniors ,which took place at the Gymnastics High Performance Centre, in the city of Sangalhos, Portugal.

On female side the Belgium Beullens Jelle won the junior competition with 49,750 points, followed by the German Finja Safken from Grossburgwedel on second place (48,300) and Virgine Ten Voorde (GER; MTV Borstel-Sangenstedt) came on third (48,150).
In the female youth category, Germany's Evelin Klode (MTVB) tied in the first place with Czech Veronika Cenková from TJSO (47,650) and Spanish Mireia Brugues from Salt Gymnastic Club was third (46,800).
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Victory ceremony in Sangalhos, male junior Teams: Hungary won the Trophy!

III. Intern. TOURNAMENT "GYMSPORT"
- Sangalhos (POR), April 14 -
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... the MTV Borstel-Sangenstedt from Germany won, followed by TS Grossburgwedel (GER) and the Spanish Club Xelska Palma de Mallorca (ESP) on third.

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shows the gracefully young winner of all-around,
Jelle Beullens, from Belgium.

Levente Vagner (HUN) - best in all-around

On male side of "GYMSPORT 2012" , Hungarian national junior team dominated the scene, winning on teams ahead of Portuguese national junior team, followed by the squad of Italy, represented by the gymnasts from Sanpietrino.

In juniors individual all-around competition three Hungarians captured the podium: Levente Vagner was the best, scoring 80,200 points.
Bank Selmeczi came on second place with 78,800 points, tied by Lazslo Makra.

In male youth category youth Hungary's Boton Kardos won (76,350), and Italy's Davide Sborchia (72,300) and Brian Piva, (both) from Sanpietrino, were second and third.

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Nearly 90 junior and youth gymnasts from 10 countries (Belgium, Brazil, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Spain, and of course, Portugal) participated in this year´s competition, which was sponsored by the North Gymnastics Association, the Portuguese Gymnastics Federation and the Portuguese Sports Institute.
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... Sport Club do Porto, which was founded in the year 1904 and has been developing Gymnastics since 1920, is one of the best WAG and MAG clubs in Portugal. Many of its gymnasts have participated in the portuguese national teams representing Portugal in various World and European Championships.

Zoi Lima (POR)
Olympic candidate 2012

<< The club’s best female gymnast Zoi Lima, two-time World Cup medalist, has recently been qualified for the 2012 London Olympic Games.

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During last year´s tournament, Australians predominated at the girls competition, winning the team gold medal, while Emma Nedov and Alexandra Eade won respectively the junior and youth competitions.
Great Britain dominated on boys, winning the team competition, the junior competition by Dominic Cunningham and the youth by Jay Thompson.

* - reported by Pedro Roque (POR)
* - edited by GYMmedia