Strong German Team at Madeira Tournament!

Today Germany's juniors were the best artistic gymnastics team of the 11th MADEIRA TOURNAMENT 2006 in Funchal, on the island Madeira (POR).
All the Germans are candidates for the coming European junior Championships (Brian Gladow, Helge Liebrich, Max Finzel, Steve Woitalla). They ranked first, followed by the Portuguese host and the Spanish team.
Also in all-around the German's achieved a double success: Brian Gladow (Berlin; < photo, left), followed by Helge Liebrich (Wetzgau). On third place came the young Dutch Anthony van Assche.
At the Sunday's finals Gladow, Liebrich but also the Portuguese Pedro Almeida were the winner...

All-around winner: (from left):
(2) - Helge Liebrich - (1) - Brian Gladow ( both GER) - (3)- Anthony van Assche (NED)

Javier Gomez - best Spaniard, ranked 5th

Artistic Gymnastics Competitions
- from Funchal: Esther Teijeira:

Today, the all-around of men's artistic gymnastics competition took place in the Madeira Island. As expected, soon it was clear that some countries would be the ones ruling the competition, as is the case of Germany, Belgium, Spain and the host Portugal.
Germany made this afternoon an interesting performance, above all with rings, showing a clean work and good technical basis. They deserved the high rank they got and were rewarded for their efforts with the adequate placement.

Spain came to Madeira with a very young team, which really promises a nice future and develop possibilities. Their weak point was the pommel horse, where all gymnasts failed, but all in all the competition was interesting and a fulfilled work. The rotation in parallel bars was simply a highlight of the evening for them.

Portugal gives always its best in its host competition, showing the best of the best of their MAG, even when they now miss the presence of the local star Felipe Besugo, who eventually did it to Athens 2004.

Belgium impressed in the morning with a very clean and powerful competition, showing that they had some words to say in the final results.

R E S U L T S:
>> Team Results // >> Individual AA Results

F I N A L S
Floor Exercises Score: (A=Diff. + B=Exec. = Total)

1. Brian Gladow GER 5,400 + 9,125 = 14,525
2. Javier Gomez ESP 5,400 + 8,875 = 14,275
3. Steve Woitalla GER 5,200 + 8,925 = 14,125
4. Anthony Van Assche NED 4,900 + 9,075 = 13,975
5. Carlos Jesus POR 4,500 + 9,225 = 13,725
6. Tobias Wolf TV. W. - GER 4,700 + 8,725 = 13,425
7. Bernardo Graça POR 5,100 + 8,625 (-0,6) = 13,125
8. Fabien Leimlehner AUT 4,200 + 8,325 = 12,525

Pommelhorse
1. Pedro Almeida POR 5,400 + 9,300 = 14,700
2. Tiago Camacho CDN- POR 5,200 + 9,050 = 14,250
3. Helge Liebrich TV. W. - GER 5,100 + 9,050 = 14,150
4. Fabian Leimlehner AUT 5,000 + 8,975 = 13,975
5. Luís Araújo GCP - POR 4,700 + 9,225 = 13,925
6. Carlos Jesus POR 5,000 + 8,725 = 13,725
7. Brian Gladow GER 4,800 + 8,700 = 13,500
8. Anthony Van Assche NED 5,100 8,325 = 13,425

Still Rings
1. Christian Guillén ESP 6,100 + 9,175 = 15,275
2. Brian Gladow GER 5,500 + 9,125 = 14,625
3. Steve Woitalla GER 5,400 + 8,975 = 14,375
4. Edmundo Silva CDN - POR 5,400 + 8,950 = 14,350
5. Javier Gomez ESP 5,700 + 8,600 = 14,300
6. Anthony Van Assche NED 5,100 + 9,175 = 14,275
7. Pedro Almeida POR 4,900 + 9,225 = 14,125
8. Helge Liebrich TV. W. - GER 5,000 + 9,000 = 14,000

VAULT
1 Helge Liebrich (GER) 15,650
2 Javier Gomez (ESP) 15,288
2 Christian Bazan (ESP) 15288
4. Max Finzel (GER) 15,188
5. Jeremy Bourgois (BEL) 15,163
6. Gilles Gentges (BEL) 15,1 00
7. Henrik Rasmussen (DEN) 15,025
8. Philipp Schneider (GER) 14,875

Parallel Bars
1. Brian Gladow GER 5,8 + 9,10 = 14,900
2. Steve Woitalla GER 5,3 + 9,300 = 14,600
3. Christian Guillen ESP 5,2 + 9,300 = 14,500
4. Luka Wuestner V. T. - AUT 5,1 + 9,325 = 14,425
5. Bernardo Graça POR 5,5 + 8,875 = 14,375
6. Helge Liebrich TV. W. - GER 5,300 + 8,95 = 14,250
7. Pedro Almeida POR 4,7 + 9,075 = 13,775
8. Edmundo Silva CDN - POR 4,7 + 8,100 = 12,800

High Bar
1. Brian Gladow GER 5,8+ 9,100 = 14,900
2. Steve Woitalla GER 5,3 + 9,300 = 14,600
3. Christian Guillen ESP 5,2 + 9,300 = 14,500
4. Luka Wuestner V. T. - AUT 5,1 + 9,325 = 14,425
5. Bernardo Graça POR 5,5 + 8,875 = 14,375
6. Helge Liebrich TV. W. - GER 5,3 + 8,950 = 14,250
7. Pedro Almeida POR 4,7 + 9,075 = 13,775
8. Edmundo Silva CDN - POR 4,7 + 8,100 = 12,800

GYMmedia correspondent Esther Teijeira reports directly after the end of the decisions.
Upon request the Portuguese host she presents an
>> Event Photo Gallery.

>> ... have also a look at the Rhythmic Gymnastics Event in Funchal.

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