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| 17-Feb-2004:
50 Nations in Cottbus - an absolutely new Record!!
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Eric Lopez (CUB)
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Cuba
- Nation No. 50!
Today the Cuban
Gymnastics Federation announced, that the best Cuban athletes will
also start at the European world cups in Cottbus (March 5 - 7) and
also one week later in Lyon (FRA).
It will be the two finalists of World Champs 2003 in Anaheim, Eric
Lopez and Abel Drigg.
So the German organizers in Cottbus registered a new record of 50
participating nations (old record: 38).
Eric Lopez was the 5th of the world championships all-around final
in Anaheim 2003 and placed 7th in the parallel bars final.
Abel Drigg ranked on 4th place on pommel horse, together with the
Hungarian Robert Gal: The difference to bronze were 0,075 points
only!
Th Cuban men's team ranked on 15th place, one point after the
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In
the Cottbus' tournament history the Cuban athlets
were traditional guests:
At the first "Tournament of Masters" 1979 the first
finalsts were Miguel Arroyo, Israel Sanchez and Jorge Cuervo.
In the Eighties came to Cottbus such gymnasts like Mario Castro,
Francisco Ortega, Felix Rochè, Raul Menendez or Felix Aguilera. A
legend of the tournament history is Casimiro Suarez, winner
on highbar in 1989.
The last Cuban victory in Cottbus was the success of Charles
Leon Tamayo, winner on vault 2002....
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| 13-Feb-2004:
List of Participants (-
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The first
qualification day of the 28th TOURNAMENT OF MASTERS, on Friday,
March 5th, will be a gymnastics marathon!
107 athletes (men) will celebrete 287 exercises. The favourite
apparate is the pommel horse: 61 athletes will start there,
followed by floor (53) and bars (57).
The most femal athletes will start on balance beam (46), 44 on
floor, 43 on uneven bars and 41 only from all together 64
gymnasts wants to start on vault.
Brazil
- host of the World Cup in Rio de Janeiro this year,
will come with the powerfull Diane
dos Santos >>
the reigning floor world champion (Anaheim
2003).
(First time in history a
world champion comes from South America)
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Cottbus
World Cup with Record Participation!
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Featuring
46 participating countries, the "28th
International Tournament of Masters" in Cottbus –
with the status of a World Cup tournament in the Olympic year – is
heading towards a new record participation in its 31-year history
(to date - 38 nations). There will be a premiere in Cottbus
for the participants from Iran, Yemen, Cyprus, Saudi-Arabia and
also again from North Korea after a very long time .
Unfortunately,
the organisers have to do without the cover girl Svetlana
Chorkina as well as without Russia as a nation, as the Russian
Championships are being staged in Moscow at the same time. Otherwise,
the metropolis of Lusatia is going to be the playing field of the
world’s elite at the first weekend of March...
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Great TV commitment by RBB
Both days of the finals (6/7 March) are to be covered broadly by Rundfunk
Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB), for the first time following the
merger between SFB and ORB. This may comprise up to 85 minutes on
Sunday and is to be broadcast live to a large extent. |
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The technical equipment for
producing the international signal will be provided by
GYMmedia-TV – just like in the past two years –
and will be coordinated by Eckhard Herholz. |
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Once
more, a professional sports editor, Hans-Georg Dallmer, was
taken on board. The former ice-skater has experience especially in
the area of technically compositional sports, such as gymnastics,
RSG, ice-skating and knows the Lausitzarena already from last year.
The
TV images thus produced are then distributed worldwide by the
Swedish IECinsports company to more than 70 TV stations
worldwide, with an enormous demand expected in the Olympic year.
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An own Website for the first
time
The Cottbus team have contributed to the worldwide
excellent reputation of this event by organising up-to-date daily
reporting directly from the tournament in a media partnership with
GYMmedia already since 1998.
Step by step this contents is offered
and made accessible here to our users.
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