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Tweet Australia’s Emily Little, Netherlands Marlies Rijken and Russia’s Yulia Belokobylskaya have all been added to the roster to compete in the All Around competition at this weekends DTB Pokal Stuttgart World Cup.  See the full and current line up here.
In other news, Elisabeth Seitz has been forced to withdraw due to a foot injury, she will be replaced by Kim Bui.

Tweet It has been confirmed by the DTB Pokal Stuttgart World Cup Competition Director, Valery Belinki that the 2010 All Around World Champion Aliya Mustafina will compete at this weekends event. The Russian star will make her comeback just seven months after surgery to repair an ACL tear which she sustained at the 2011 European Championships.

Mustafina saw her Doctor on Tuesday in Germany and was granted permission to compete:
“The doctor has given the green light for a start. It is under the newly imposed Team competition balance beam and uneven …

Tweet The FIG have updated the current MAG World rankings, here are the top 10 All Around Category A MAG Gymnasts:

Rk
NOC
Gymnast
USA
GBR
GER
JPN
Best 1
Best 2
Best 3
TOTAL

1
UKR
KUKSENKOV M.
45
35
0
0
45
35
0
80

2
USA 
HORTON J.
50
20
0
0
50
20
0
70

2
GER
BOY P.
25
45
0
0
45
25
0
70

4
GBR
PURVIS D.
15
50
0
0
50
15
0
65

5
FRA
TOMMASONE C.
30
25
0
0
30
25
0
55

6
USA
DALTON J.
40
0
0
0
40
0
0
40

6
ESP
MARTINEZ R.
0
40
0
0
40
0
0
40

8
JPN
UEMATSU K.
35
0
0
0
35
0
0
35

8
GBR
HUNTER S.
20
15
0
0
20
15
0
35

10
ISR
SHATILOV A.
0
30
0
0
30
0
0
30

 
 
260
260
0
0

Tweet The Northern Europeans are set to kick off in Uppsala, Sweden this weekend. The event will see both MAG and WAG gymnasts competing from Ireland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Faroe Islands, Denmark, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. The competition will be held from Friday 11th – Sunday 13th November at Fyrishov, Idrottsgatan 2, Uppsala.

Schedule:
Friday 11 november

11.00-19.30 – Open training in competition hall on request
20.30-21.00 – Technical meetings WAG and MAG
21.00-21.30 – Judges meeting and judges draw

Saturday 12 november

9.30 – WAG and MAG judges meeting
9.00-9.30 – General warm up subdivision 1
9.30-10.50 – …

Tweet Panasonic is the “official television supplier” of the London 2012 Games. Here they have used a gymnast in their television advert in the UK and Ireland for the “Smart Viera” television.

Do you know who this gymnast is? Leave a comment below if you know.

Tweet Yet another Swiss gymnast has announced their retirement from the sport of gymnastics. Daniel Groves, a national team member since 2005, is forced to retire due to a knee injury  he sustained at the World Championships.
So far this year Switzerland has announced the retirement of both Ariella Kaeslin and Linda Stampfli.

Tweet The competition concluded today with the second day of event finals. Once again the Chinese dominated:
MAG Vault:
1. Igor Radivilov, UKR, 16.075/15.875/15.913
2. Matthias Fahrig, GER, 15.875/15.775/15.713
3. Marek Lyszczarz, POL, 15.85/15.15/15.5
4. Nathan Gafuik, CAN, 15.75/14.85/15.3
5. Jad Mazahreh, JOR, 15.375/14.875/15.163
6. Helge Liebrich, GER, 14.975/15.325/15.15
7. Petrus Laulumaa, FIN, 15.025/15.025/15.025
8. Jindrich Pansky, CZE, 14.975/14.525/14.75

Beam: 
1. Tan Sixin, CHN, 14.95
2. Wu Liufang, CHN, 14.6
3. Valeriia Maksyuta, ISR, 13.225
4. Fiona Novak, SLO, 12.975
5. Marta Pihan-Kulesza, POL, 12.8
6. Maria Homolova, SVK, 12.8
7. Sasa Golob, SLO, 12.775
8. Brittany Rogers, CAN, 12.0

Parallel bars:
1. Wang Guanyin, CHN, 15.525
2. Mitja Petkovsek, SLO, …

Tweet Geoff Rellis is another Irish gymnast who has made the move to the UK for better training facilities, others include top male gymnasts Luke Carson, Chris O’Connor and Kieran Behan. In August 2010, three time All Ireland Champion Rellis was training at Tolworth Gymnastics Club in the lead up to the 2010 World Championships in Rotterdam when a huge halt was put on his rising career.   While training on vault, something went drastically wrong with his technique during his handspring double front, when he hear a crack on landing and was suffering shooting pains down …

Tweet It was a proud moment for Giulia Steingruber and Claudio Capelli when they came top of the bunch on home turf at the Swiss Cup today. Many had expected the German team of Elisabeth Seitz and Fabian Hambuchen to take gold but following a fall from Seitz on bars, they had to settle for second place. Ana Porgras also suffered a fall on bars which seemed to be unfortunate for the gymnasts as Anna Dementyeva also took a fall.
 
GymNiceTic has already begun uploading videos from the competition on YouTube.Check …

Tweet Something old from the 80′s, Gymnastics Fun with Bela Karolyi.

Can you notice any future stars in the making??

Tweet The first day of the Event Finals took place on Saturday at the Osijek Challenger Cup.Results are below. The Chinese continued to do well securing a gold on Pommel Horse, silver on Rings and gold and silver on Uneven Bars. Ireland earned it’s second ever FIG medal when Kieran Behan, who qualified first, placed second on floor. Videos of some routines have been linked below.

Men’s floor:
1. Tomislav Markovic, CRO, 14.925
2. Kieran Behan, IRL, 14.85
3. Kas van Weelden, NED, 14.35
4. Sascha Palgen, LUX, 14.325
5. Rok Klavora, SLO, 14.25
6. Jad Mazahreh, …

Tweet The results are starting to emerge from today’s Qualifications at the Osijek Challenger Cup in Croatia.  The results are available on PDF format here.
In the MAG Competition, Gymnastics Ireland continued their exciting week with yet another great result from Kieran Behan who qualified first on Floor.
Floor

Kieran Behan 15.100
Tomislav Markovic 14.950
Rok Klavora 14.750

Vault

Matthias Fahrig
Igor Radivilov
Marek Lyszczarz

Rings

Luo Xuan 15.450
Junlin Liao 15.350
Oleksandr Vorobyov 14.800

Parallel Bars

Guanyin Wang 15.700
 Roman Kulesza 15.250
 Mitja Petkovšek 15.250

Pommel Horse

Hongtao Zhang 16.150
Max whitlock 15.200
Donna Donny Truyens 15.150

High Bar

Marijo Moznik 15.050
Nathan Gafuik 14.950
Xuezhang Chen 14.700

WAG
Uneven Bars

Liu Fang Wu (14.850)
Tan Sixin (14.350)
Marta Pihan-Kulesza (13.800)

Floor

Tan Sixin 14.000
Marta Pihan-Kulesza …

Tweet The Stuttgart World Cup 2011 will be held next weekend, November 12th – 13th. The  line up is pretty great although note that Daniel Groves has chosen to retire, I also wonder is “Lisa Stampfli” meant to be Linda Stampfli who has also retired. Links are provided below to watch the live streams from a far!
Women’s team competitors:
Austria:

Lisa Ecker
Katherine Fa
Elisa Hammerle
Jasmin Mader

Australia:

Nikki Cheung
Emily Little
Lauren Mitchell
Larrissa Miller

Germany I:

Kim Bui
Oksana Chusovitina
Lisa-Katharina Hill
Pia Tolle

Germany II:

Anja Rheinbay
Adina Hausch

Netherlands:

Yvette Moshage
Marlies Rijken
Lieke Wevers
Ayla Wilbrink

Switzerland:

Nadia Baerisywl
Nadia Mulhouse
Linda Staempfli

Russia:

Aliya Mustafina
Alyona Polyan
Maria Paseka

Uzbekistan:

Dilnoza Abdusalimova
Daria Elizarova
Iroda Sobirova

Men’s team competitors:
France:

Axel …

Tweet It’s all about Gymnastics Ireland this week. On the back of the new identity launch, Kieran Behan is set to compete in the Osijek Grand Prix today.  Kieran will be aiming for Ireland’s second ever FIG medal when he takes to the arena. You might remember that in September, the 22 year old secured Ireland’s first ever FIG medal at the Salamunov Memorial Cup in Slovenia.

Best of luck to Kieran, everyone is rooting for you!
Find out more about Kieran’s bid for a medal here.
Find out more about the Osijek …