04. November 2007  
Zurich / Switzerland  
Artistic Gymnastics

SWISS CUP 2007: Romanian couple succeeds in the hall stadium in Zurich


6.200 zealous spectators
in the hall stadium!!

In front of a fantastic background in the hall stadium in Zurich, an exciting turn competition took place in this year's "SWISS CUP".  After clearly leading the semi-final, the Romanian couple Steliana NISTOR and Flavius KOCZI won clearly, leaving the experienced German couple Oksana TSCHUSSOWITINA / Eugen SPIRIDONOV behind. The Russian duo Swetlana KLJUKINA / Sergei CHOROCHORDIN ranked third, in front of the Brasilian siblings Diego HYPOLITO, World Champion in floor and his sister Daniele. The couple from the host country 
Ariella KAESLIN / Niki BÖSCHENSTEIN had curtly missed the final of the best four....

Steliana Nistor

"INTERNATIONAL SWISS CUP 2007"
- Zurich, Hall stadium, 4th November -

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The Romanian couple Steliana Nistor/Flavius Koczi clearly won the couples' competition.
Thus, winner of the Swiss Cup was a Romanian couple for the fifth time during the last seven years.
Vice-World Champion Steliana Nistor, who stood in for the injured Sandra Izbasa, is second in all aroundof the WORLDS in Stuttgart 2007.
She started with vault (14.000), continued the second round on uneven bars (15.000) and achieved her best score of the day in the semi-final on beam - 15.700.
She ensured the Romaninan victory with her improval in the final (15.400).
Her sportive partner Flavius Koczi was European Champion on pommel horse in 2006 and performed first on his special apparatus, got 15.100 points with a basic score of 15.9.  The Romanian is  also known as brilliant gymnast on horse vault, althoug standing in the shadow of the Olympic Champion and multi World Champion Marian Dragulescu till today. In the final, Koczi achieved a score of 16.200 in vault.

This worldclass couple left the German duo Tschussowitina/Spiridonow on the second rank in the last apparatus round, with a distance of 1.75 points.

Kaeslin, Böschenstein: ... third last year, this time, 0.15 pointsl were missing for the podium!

... from the Swiss point of view:

In front of 6.200 spectators, Ariella Kaeslin und Niki Böschenstein missed the final with a lack of 15 hundredth points. But only a bit was missing and the two could have influenced the final competition, like last year (ranking third), and could have achieved a place on the podium. The winner's place was endowed with 23.000 francs.

Good start (rings: 15.1000), with highest score in vault (16.259), Böschenstein's miscarried dispatch from the parallel bars cost them the participation in the final of the best four.

The second Swiss couple Lucia Tacchelli / Claudio Capelli dropped out during the pre-turn already, after two apparatuses. Nevertheless, the public was as big as never before in the last 30 years and was zealous about this attractive Swiss gymnastics event. The spectators contributed to an atmosphere like during an icehockey match...!


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