Olympic Hopes

Ana Padurariu ( Canada ) dominates Olympic Hopes

Gold on … everything.

Vault

1 Ana Padurariu Canada 14.350

2 Victoria Jurca Canada 14.175

3 Sara Peter Hungary 14.075

Bars

1 Ana Padurariu Canada 14.000

2 Jade Vella Wright Australia 13.450

3 Nora Feher Hungary 13.350

Beam

1 Ana Padurariu Canada 14.200

2 Jade Chrobok Canada 13.750

3 Taeja James Great Britain 13.350

Floor

1 Ana Padurariu Canada 14.100

2 Lucie Jirikova Czech Republic 13.550

3 Amelie Morgan Great Britain 13.450

2017 European Championship

Nadia Comaneci Vows To Be Fully Committed To Organizing The Up Coming European Championships

After launching 2017 European Championship website, Nadia Comaneci, Montreal Olympic champion, vowed to be fully committed to organizing the event in order for it to be at its highest standards.

"I was very enthusiastic and very happy when I received this news" said Comaneci.

"For all Romanians, this is the best opportunity to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the first WAG European Championship, which was held in Bucharest, in 1957."

"For me, 2017 will mark the 40th anniversary of winning my second European all around gold medal. I'll will do everything I can in order for the competition to be the best"

Romanian MAG champion, Marian Dragulescu expressed desire to compete at the European championships.

( Written by Alex Mladinescu )

OLYMPIC HOPES CUP 2016, Liberec, Czech

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION IN ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS

The competition in artistic gymnastic was established in the last decade as a contest of four contries of “Visegrad”. The level of competition was very high right from the beginning. A team of volunteers from Gymnastics Liberec organized this event in 2006 – still under name VISEGRAD 2006. The competition was opened to all countries in that year. In 2009 the event was renamed to Olympic Hopes’ Cup OHC LIBEREC and it became a regular and prestigious competition of young gymnasts from all over the world. It is a competition of teams of boys and girls and there is no other event like this in the whole Europe.
WAG: Junior: 13-15 (2001-2003)
MAG: Junior: 14-17 (1999-2002)

Nov 2 – Training
Nov 3 – MAG
Nov 4 – WAG
Nov 5 – MAG / WAG Finals

It’s a TEAM competition: 6 on the team, 5 compete, 4 scores count.

The best 8 individual gymnasts on each apparatus, both MAG and WAG, will compete at the finals on Saturday, November 5th 2016..

USA Competitions in Florida

Still looking for a competition in the sun?

SOUTH FLORIDA FRIGHT INVITE OCT 21 – OCT 23, 2016

Coral Springs, FL
SUN & SURF SPECTACULAR JAN 27 – JAN 29, 2017
Coral Springs, FL
PRESIDENTIAL CLASSIC FEB 17 – FEB 20, 2017
Disney World Orlando, FL
TIM RAND INVITATIONAL MAR 03 – MAR 05, 2017
Fort Lauderdale Beach, FL
FLORIDA CROWN CHAMPIONSHIP APR 29 – APR 30, 2017
Boca Raton, FL
For details check the USA Competitions website

Epke Zonderland is married.

Epke Jan Zonderland RON is a Dutch gymnast and 2012 Olympics gold medalist in the high bar. He also won the 2013 World Championship and the 2014 World Championship on the high bar. He is nicknamed "The Flying Dutchman