GYMfamily Event29th DTB-Cup 2011: A-World Cup with innovations

On the following weekend the third event of the new World Cup series 2011 will be held in the venue "Porsche-Arena" in Stuttgart. The series will then end on the last November weekend (26th/27th) in Tokyo.

After the American Cup in March in Jacksonville and the Grand Prix in Glasgow (April) now again eight of the best all-arounders in the World will compete at the 29th DTB-Cup 2011. The main World Cup competitions will take place on Saturday for the women and on Sunday for the men.

In the men's field the main competitors for Vice-World Champion Philipp BOY (GER) will be the 4th-ranked of the 2011 World Championships Daniel PURVIS (GBR) and the 7th-ranked Mykola KUKSENKOV (UKR). Also Germany's second competitor Marcel NGUYEN (GER) has the chance to reach a top position.

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Philipp BOY, the current Vice-World champion in the all-around is the top favourite in the Porsche-Arena. With a victory, he could get a lot closer to the current leading gymnast of the ranking list, Mykola Kuksenkow (UKR) - however, it's a tough competition and the daily form will be decisive ...!

TOP-8-competitors - Men in Stuttgart
(In brackets: the all-around ranking of the last two World Championships: Rotterdam 2010 / Tokyo 2011)
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Philipp BOY (GER) (2. / 2. )

Daniel PURVIS (GBR) (5. / 4. )

Mykola KUKSENKOV (UKR) (4. / 7. )

Marcel NGUYEN (GER) ( - / 8.)

Emin GARIBOV (RUS) (- / 15. )

Rafael MARTINEZ (ESP) ( - / 10. )

Samuel HUNTER (GBR) (9. / - )

Shogo NONOMURA           (JPN) ( - / - )

In an interesting field of competitors , in which however the two strongest Japanese competitors, World Champion Kohei UCHIMURA and the bronze-medallist Koji YAMAMURO, as well as John OROCZCO and Jonathan HORTON from the USA and also the top stars from China ar missing and Russia does not bring their top competitors, the bronze-medallist of the 2011 European Championships in Berlin, Daniel PURVIS (GBR), probably will be the biggest competitor of Germany's Philipp BOY...?!

* World Cup ranking list after Jacksonville & Glasgow:
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1. KUKSENKOV, Mykola (UKR) = 80 points
2. BOY, Philipp                   (GER) = 70
2. HORTON, Jonathan      (USA) = 70
4. PURVIS, Daniel            (GBR) = 65
5. TOMMASONE, C.          (FRA) = 55
6. MARTINEZ, Rafael       (ESP) = 40
6. DALTON, J.                    (USA) = 40
8. HUNTER, Samuel        (GBR) = 35
8. UEMATSU, K.                (JPN) = 35
10. SHATILOV, Al.             (ISR) = 30

HUANG, Qiushuang (CHN)

The World Cup-entry field of the Women
is a lot more "widely spread" than it was planned with the new mode of the World Cup Series. The plan was to have the top 8 all-arounders of the previous World Championships in the entry field. However, none of the top-ranked gymnasts of the last World Championships in Tokyo will compete in Stuttgart and from the top-10 of the World Championships Rotterdam 2010 only the 6th-ranked Lauren MITCHELL and the 4th-ranked HUNG, Qiushuang (CHN; photo on the left) will be present.

With the 5th place at the 2011 World Championships the gymnast from China also is the top-ranked gymnast in Stuttgart this year.

Behind her follow Lauren MITCHELL as 8th - and then already the two German gymnasts Nadine JAROSCH (10th) but not Vize-European Champion Elisabeth SEITZ (11th), because she failed after an injury, so the German Vice champion Kim BUI will start at this event for the German hosts!

Kim BUI (GER), the German Vice-All-around champion and European bronze medallist on bars will start in this world cup event, because Elisabeth Seitz injured herself only a few days before.

* TOP-8-competitors - Women in Stuttgart
(In brackets: the all-around ranking of the last two World Championships: Rotterdam 2010 / Tokyo 2011)

HUANG Qiushuang (CHN) ( 4. / 5. )

Yulia INSHINA (RUS) ( - / - )

Lauren MITCHELL (AUS) ( 6. / 8. )

Nadine JAROSCH (GER) ( - / 10.)

Kim BUI (GER) (-- / --) (Seitz injured!)

Giulia STEINGRUBER (SUI) ( - / 16.)

Marlis RIJKERS (NED) ( -- / --)

* World Cup ranking list women
after Jacksonville & Glasgow before Stuttgart
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1. LOPEZ, J. (VEN) = 65 points
2. WIEBER, J. (USA) = 50
2. RACEA, E. (ROU) 50
4. MUSTAFINA, A. (RUS) = 45
4. WHELAN, H. (GBR) = 45
6. RAISMAN, A. (USA) = 40
8. HUANG, Q. (CHN) = 35
8. SEITZ, E. (GER) = 35
10. KÄSLIN, A. (SUI) = 30
11. STEINGRUBER, G. (SUI) = 25
11. MITCHEL, L. (AUS) = 25
13. MILLOUSI, V. (GRE) = 10
14. PINCHES, J. (GBR) = 15

'Mr. DTB-POKAL'
Valeri BELENKI, the Olympic Champion, pommel horse World Champion 1997 (Lausanne) and today's DTB-Cup-director has shaped this World Cup tournament: Between 1988 and 1996 he reached 9 victories in Stuttgart.

Movement in the World of gymnastics
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At all times the organisers in Stuttgart had innovative ideas: At first the DTB-Cup in 1983 took place in the "classic style" with a men's competition. One year later a women's event was added.
Since 1993 as Grand Prix event only the best gymnasts per apparatus were decided and a few years later the new idea of the "winners final" was created. - A direct duel between the two best gymnasts per event within only a few minutes.
At the turn of the millenium the top events were put together as "Great Four". In addition to the DTB-Cup these were the events France Telecom as well as the Grand Prix's in Cottbus and Glasgow.
Since 2002 a larger World Cup series was established which created a big amount of champions on individual apparatus.
With the idea to strengthen the all-around as the core piece of modern gymnastics in 2008 the series of the "Champions Trophy" was added.
From this one the FIG has developed a new World Cup series of 4 events, the A- World Cup for the best all-arounders among the top gymnasts of the World.

(Additional tournaments are now presented as B-World Cups in the "Challenge-Cup-series", like e.g. the traditional tournament in Cottbus.)

Again "innovative program" in Stuttgart
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In addition to the World Cup events this year also a team competition will be presented in Stuttgart. In addition to two German ones, teams from France, Russia and Ukraine have confirmed their participation.

The German women's team will compete with the World Championships participants Anja Rheinbay, Oksana Chusovitina, Lisa Katharina Hill and Pia Tolle.

Team I in the men's field will also compete with gymnasts from the World Championships team with Sebastian Krimmer, Eugen Spiridonov and Andreas Toba.
Team II consists of Andreas Bretschneider, Matthias Fahrig and Helge Liebrich.

The team final of the men will take place on Saturday (Nov. 12th ) at 3.00 p.m. -and before it from 12:30 p.m. on the World Cup of the women will be presented.

On Sunday the women's team final (4:00 p.m.) will be seen after the men's World Cup (12:30 p.m.)

* Schedule: 29th D T B - CUP 2011
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* Friday, Nov. 11th:
- 10.30 a.m. - Team-competition, women (qualification)
-   3.00 p.m. - Team-competition, men (qualification)

* Saturday, Nov. 12th:
- 12.30 p.m. - Women's World Cup
-   3.00 p.m. - Men's team final

* Sunday, Nov. 13th:
- 12.30 p.m. - Men's World Cup
-   4.00 p.m. -   Women's team final

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