The Fifth Annual USA Wheel Gymnastics National Open Championship occurred on March 12th, 2011, during the Bi-Annual Chicago Big Wheel Weekend.
The event was very successful and strong abilities were exercised by all competitors. Nations represented were USA, Japan, Canada, Argentina.
Being held as US Open Championship, it served as well as trials for the upcoming Wheel Gymanstic World Championship in Arnsberg, Germany this summer ...
They don't only have good gymwheel gymnasts, the Taunussteiners, they also have Oswald Zimmermann - a gymwheel constructor of the highest class, who always has surprises up his sleeve:
The latest result of his renomated and above all creative idea-pool is now standing on the roof of his gymwheel workshop in Bleidenstadt, the biggest suburb of the city Taunusstein in Hesse (Germany).
<< A stylised globe, in which the gymwheel artist including his gymwheel shows himself, sometimes hidden,...
It is a good tradition, that the International Wheel Gymnastics Federation (IRV) is inviting to an achievement seminar with international participation in the week after the WORLD TEAM CUP.
After the world elite met in the Palatine Wolfstein, one chose Taunusstein this year.
Not without reason, because it is there where the wheel gymnastics club of the TSV Bleidenstadt holds the yearly so-called "Easter seminar".
Why should one not do something in combination then, especially since the...
The German Wheel gymnastics team dominated the scene at the WORLD-TEAM CUP in the Sauerlandian Finnentrop (GER) - not too surprisingly:
Christoph Clausen (TSB Flensburg) with vault, Julia Pohling (SV Neuhof) in spiral gymnastics, Robert Maaser (KSC Strausberg) in straight gymnastics, Svenja Trepte (TSG Bergedorf) in spiral discipline, again Pohling with a straight choreography and Maaser at the end in the vault discipline each won their rounds and therewith collected the most points in series...
The hosting traditional German club "ESV FINNENTROP" is not only making use of it's 50th anniversary as a reason for celebration but also actively hosting the "WORLD TEAM CUP 2010" in wheel gymnastics.
On Sunday the 28th of March the four best teams of the past World Championships 2009 in the Swiss Baar met in Finnentrop:
Germany, Japan, Switzerland aswell as the Netherlands, are sending their current best gymnasts to the start to fight for the title of the 2010 World...