23. March 2024  
Berlin, GER  
Artistic Gymnastics

Austrian Juniors Success in Berlin!

All-around medallists in Berlin!

In almost three decades, the "International JUNIOR TEAM Cup" in the German capital has developed into one of the most competitive youth tournaments in the world! For its 27th edition in the Olympic year 2024, around 120 young talents between the ages of 12 and 18 have travelled to Berlin in around 30 teams and from 21 nations, the best of whom want to be among the world's best athletes at major elite events in a few years' time! This competition is therefore also an excellent opportunity for young German athletes to compare their performances with those of leading nations such as the USA, Italy, Canada, Brazil and others. This will also be a not insignificant test for those European talents who will experience their annual highlight in five weeks' time at the Junior European Championships in Rimini / ITA - the last JEM qualification for the hosts too. And on the day of the Team Cup decision, the juniors from Austria surprised everyone with a victory ahead of the co-favourites from Italy ...:

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* Friday,  March 22
♦ TEAM CUP  r e s u l t s ...:
AUSTRIA'S junior team with Junior World Championship finalist Alfred SCHWAIGER in the lead (78.800) won the Berlin Junior Team Cup with 235.150 points and relegated the junior team from ITALY (233.100) to second place, followed by team SWITZERLAND I in third place (232.650).

* Very first Austrian TEAM success at the IJT Cup in Berlin!
A week earlier, Austria's U18 gymnasts had already surprised everyone at the DTB Cup in Stuttgart by finishing fourth behind the USA, Italy and France, although the competition had not even gone optimally with a total score of 226.428 points. Now in Berlin they scored 235.150 team points, which would have meant second place a week earlier.

Surprisingly, the boys from the USA (233.100) in fourth place and the boys from Great Britain in fifth place did not medal this time in Berlin. The Berlin selection Berlin I came 6th out of a total of 26 competing teams.

♦ The junior all-around competition was won by 17-year-old Ngai PRESTON from California (USA) with 79.450 points and the best vault score ahead of Austria's Alfred "Alfi" SCHWAIGER, who performed the strongest floor exercise of the day and came second with 78.800 points.
Italy's Manuel BERETTERA from the 2023 JWM bronze medallist team came third with 78.150 points, ahead of the best Swiss gymnast Janic Fässler from TV Wädenswil/RLZ Zurich with 78.000 points.
The best German junior in 9th place was Luis Lenhart (76.100) from Berlin.
► TEAM RESULTS;  ► ALL-AROUND RESULTS

* Saturday,March 23:
On the last day of the competition, the apparatus finals took place in the three age groups 1 - 3 (AG 1 = juniors)
 ► AG 1 (juniors)   ► AG  2 (youth)   

<< The gymnast of the day was undoubtedly the little Ukrainian Volodymyr GOLOVIN, who won four finals in the youngest age group alone and also finished second on vault and parallel bars, narrowly missing out on a complete triumph.
He and his father, who trains him himself at the Olympic Gymnastics Centre in the Ukrainian capitel Kiev, immediately got back into the minibus and set off on the long journey home to their war-torn city!
  ► AG 3 (newcomer)

Altogether Italy and Ukraine each had 4 winners on the apparatus.
Gymnasts from the USA, Austria and Great Britain were successful twice each.
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