The German Gymnastics Federation DTB informed, that the Olympic champion of 1936, the member of the golden German women's team, Mrs. Julie Schmitt-Knabel died on Tuesday, December, the 10th at the age of 89 years.
Romania's Oana Petrovschi, the silver medalist on uneven bars at the recent Worlds in Debrecen won the all-around of the 2002 Chunichi Cup held Saturday in Nagoya, Japan and was also the best on uneven bars.
Japan's National champion Hiroyuki Tomita was the best in men's category and also the winner on still rings. The 1999 and 2000 Chunichi cup champion Naoya Tsukahara came on second (aa) but won on hig bar.
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The international pair Monica ROSU from Romania and Philippe RIZZO from Australia was the winner of the INTERNATIONAL SWISS CUP, which was held in Zurich, Switzerland.
On second place came the Bulgarian pair with the world champion on rings Jordan Jovtchev and Evgenia Kusnetzova. Third was the Romanians Leonida Florida and European all-around Champion Dan Potra. The favourites from China Sun, Xiaojiao (- with a mistake on bars...) and Huang, Xu scored on fourth place.
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A lot of top stars of international artistic gymnastics will come to the traditional 'SWISS CUP', which will held coming Sunday in Zurch, Switzerland.
The number 1 of GYMmedia World Ranking list Ivan Ivankov will participating, also Vice-world champion on rings Jordan Jovtchev and Olympic team champion HUANG, Xu with his partner SUN, Xiaojiao, the world cup winner on beam in Stuttgart last Sunday.
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Floarea Leonida (ROM) and Jordan Jovtchev (BUL) won the all-around competitions of 19th Arthur Gander Memorial in Chiasso (SUI).
2nd places got Oksana Chusovitina (UZB) and Huang XU (CHN), 3rd were Monica Rosu (ROM) and Igor Cassina (ITA).
Many of the participants of Gander Memorial will take part in the Swiss Cup this weekend in Zurich.
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