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Longines’
Svetlana Khorkina wins all-around gold!
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Carly
Patterson and Wei Yang win the Longines
Prize for Elegance
Swiss Watch
Company Longines is Official Timekeeper
and Data Handling Operator of the 37th
World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.
World
Artistic Gymnastics Championships,
Anaheim CA (USA), August 22, 2003 – It
was her only gold medal she has never
won before, and today Svetlana Khorkina
could finally make true what she had
always dreamed of: the gold medal in a
world championship’s all-around
competition: “When my coach told me
that I had won, I could not believe it.
I honestly did not think that I could do
it, but I did it”!
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Nadia Comaneci’s
Perfect 10 Voted
Most Memorable Moment Of The
"Longines Perfect 10 Moments
In Time" Campaign
Swiss Watch
Company Longines is Official Timekeeper
and Data Handling Operator of the 37th
World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.
Anaheim
(U.S.A) and Saint-Imier (Switzerland),
August 21, 2003 - Nadia Comaneci's
perfect 10 at the 1976 American Cup at
Madison Square Garden has been voted the
most memorable moment in time by an
on-line poll that pulled in more than
316,000 votes. Comaneci's Perfect 10
moment narrowly edged out 1984 Olympic
Champion Mary Lou Retton's five-medal
performance by 2,699 votes, or less than
one percent. At the 37th World Artistic
Gymnastics Championships, the Longines
watch company of Switzerland ran its
“Longines Perfect 10 Moments In
Time” campaign in collaboration with
USA Gymnastics. Since February 2003,
Internet surfers logging onto
www.longines.com and
www.usa-gymnastics.org could, out of a
selection of 30 memorable moments in the
history of USA Gymnastics.
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Bob
Colarossi, President, USA
Gymnastics (far left) and
Michael Benavente, Brand
President Longines (far right)
with "Longines Perfect 10
Moments in Time" nominees
Tim Daggett, Kerri Strug, Nadia
Comaneci, Mary Lou Retton, Bart
Comaneci, Jaycie Phelps, Kurt
Thomas, and Shannon Miller
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Front
row (l-r): Mary Lou Retton,
Shannon Miller, Carly Patterson,
Svetlana Khorkina, Bruno Grandi,
Kerri Strug, Wei Yang, Kim
Zmeskal. Back row (l-r): Bob
Colarossi, Michael Benavente,
Charles Villoz, Bela Karolyi,
Peter Vidmar, Amanda Borden
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Wei
Yang and Carly Patterson,
winners of the "Longines
Prize for Elegance"
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Svetlana
Khorkina, 2003 World All-Around
Champion and Longines
Ambassadress of Elegance
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For
further information, please contact:
Longines Public Relations, St-Imier,
Switzerland
Ilse Maassen, Phone +41 32 942 52 41, Fax
+41 32 942 52 39,
E-mail ilse.maassen@longines.com |
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