Meet Austrian Gymnasts for the Worlds

Fabian Leimlehner and Matthias Schwab from Austria.

We wish them all the best at the competition.

LEFTERIS KOSMIDIS - I put MYSELF TO FAVOURITES '

Lefteris Kosmidis  of Greece, is 22 years old, started gymnastics at age 5. His parents were former gymnasts and coaches.

Gold medalist at the World Championships in Rotterdam 2010.Three years after his triumph in Rotterdam, Lefteris Kosmidis is targeting a new distinction at the world championship Antwerp, 2013. The Floor Exercise specialist  is ready for the competition beginning September 30 - October 6, where it is again one of the favorites.

His routines  will involve risk and new skills. The difficulty value  starts at 6.80 with the potential to rise further. “ You need such a high value”   he exclaimed.

Good Luck to you.

Team Ireland - Artistic World Championships

Team Ireland will  be at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships  together with all the international gymnasts in the world.

The six- strong Irish squad have been training  hard preparing for this competition. .

 WAG competitors are Nicole Mawhinney, Emma Lunn and India McPeak .

 MAG competitors are  Anthony O’Donnell, Chris O’Connor and Andrew Smith.( Anthony had to replace Luke Carson due to injury )

The full schedule is available here.

Head Coach MAG Barry Winch; MAG Coach Simon Gale;

Head Coach WAG Sun Jei and WAG Coach Stanislav Sevostyanov.

Good Luck to the Irish Team.

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Nicole Mawhinney

Andrew Smith

September Birthday

Today is 28/09/2013
Happy Birthday to Sidorova Anastasia S.of Russia.

Who will be the All Around Champion at the World 2013 ?

First Day of the podium training Friday 27.9.13. and everybody is  excited to know if  Uchimura of Japan can maintain his position after having ingrained in the pages of the Guinness book of World Records for  having three consecutive world championship titles.

Gymnast to watch are Nikolai Kuksenkov, Oleg Verniaiev, Fabian Hambuechen ( 2013 Kazan, All Around, Silver )  David Belyavskiy (He won bronze in all-around at the 2012 Stuttgart World Cup. ), Sam Mikulak and Max Witlock of Great Britain, his first  World Championships after London.  

Meet Italy's WAG World Gymnastic Championships 2013

This year four women have been selected to go to Antwerp for Italy.  It is a mixed group of both experienced and inexperienced gymnasts.

Vanessa Ferrari -  will compete AA at Worlds.

Carlotta Ferlito -  will compete AA.

Francesca Deagostini - will represent Italy at Worlds on beam.

Alessia Leolini - will compete on bars ,beam and floor

Buona fortuna a tutte le ginnaste.

Good Luck to all the Gymnasts.

Chusovitina ( UZB ) is a role model and an inspiration.

Gymnastics phenomenon Oksana Chusovitina began gymnastics in 19982. At 13 she won the all-around at the USSR National Championhips Junior  Division. Her career moves  fast forward. She is the only of only two female gymnasts to compete at the Olympics under three different national teams that is USSR,Uzbekistan and Germany.

Chusovitina's career in elite gymnastics has spanned more than 20 years. Oksana has competed in 10 World Championships and holds the record for the most individual world championships medals on ONE event.

Chusovitina is also one of only a handful of women, along with Cuban Leyanet Gonzalez, Soviet legend Larisa Latynina, and Dutch Olympian Suzanne Harmes, to return to high-level gymnastics and international competition after becoming a mother

 She loves tumbling and vaulting except Uneven Bars. She is training on all four events but will only compete on Vault and Beam.

Her advise “ Never give up and always aim towards your own goals”

We wish her Good Luck in the competition.