Tweet Sandra Izbasa and Flavious Koczi have been named as the best Artistic Romanian gymnasts by the Romanian Gymnastics Federation. The Federation has put both Izbasa and Koczi at the top of the list for 2011.

Top 10 WAG gymnasts 2011:

Sandra Izbasa
Diana Chelaru
Amelia Racea
Catalina Ponor
Ana Porgras
Larissa Iordache
Raluca Haidu
Diana Bulimar
Daniela Andrei
Diana Trenca

Top 10 MAG gymnasts 2011:

Flavius Koczi
Marius Berbecar
Cristian Bataga
Marian Dragulescu
Vlad Cotuna
Ovidiu Buidoso
Andrei Ursache
Andrei Muntean
Daniel Radean
Andrei Groza

Do you agree with the Federations choice?  It hasn’t been Ana Porgras’ year, so she was never going to top the poll. Injuries aside, Izbasa, the 2008 Olympic …

Tweet The All Around Gymnastics News, The Couch Gymnast and Fan Gymnastics have all reported the unfortunate news this morning that Sandra Izbasa has been forced to withdraw from the World Gymnastics Championships due to injury.

The Couch Gymnast reports;
This is very sad news for Romania who, relying on Izbasa’s big scores and consistency, were very much in the running for a team medal.  She also had excellent potential for earning a vault and floor medal while she was at it.
Dana Andrei will replace Sandra as a team member, though potentially …

Tweet Another friendly competition will take place this weekend ahead of the World Championships in Tokyo. Romania and Portugal will travel to the UK to compete with the British women at the National Training Centre in Lilleshall. At the same time the MAG British Championships will be going on in Stoke on Trent.

As yet there is only information available on the Romanian Gymnastics Federations website. At Romania’s  most recent competition against Germany and Switzerland in Germany, they won the team competition. Ana Porgras came top followed by Amelia Racea, Diana Bulimar …

Tweet The Olympic Floor Champion has begun competing bars once again. She debuted her new bars at the ROM V SUI V GER friendly last weekend. She scored 13.200 which in my opinion isn’t bad for getting it together in such a short space of time.

What do you make of Sandra’s bars?
 

Tweet Romania and Ana Porgras came out top at this World Championships warm up friendly competition over Germany and Switzerland in Erzinger, Germany yesterday.

This was Germany’s last trial before the selection of their Worlds Team takes place. Sandra Izabasa competed on bars, something that we have not seen in a long time.

A bit of work on it and Izbasa could become an AA gymnast again. Ana Porgras had the highest score at the event, a 15.300 on beam. Catalina Ponor did not compete with the Romanian team but as an individual, …

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It was confirmed this week that Russia’s new senior gymnast Viktoria Komova will compete in her first competition since becoming injured late last year. In May, Komova had surgery on …

Tweet Catalina Ponor
I had seen the report on the International Gymnast Forum regarding Catalina Ponor’s medical procedure. The Gymnastics Examiner has continued with a write up from the Romanian sites report. Check it out here. Wishing Ponor a very quick and speedy recovery.
Australian Gymnastics
Peggy Liddick discusses the Australian girls and how fitness will be a key factor when deciding the Australian Worlds Squad.
Larissa Iordache
Gymnastics No Ceiling has begun to post a brilliant series of posts about Romania’s young star in  the making, Larissa Iordache. Part 1 is an introduction to …

Tweet Bitang talks to ProSport about the Romanian gymmnastics team, injuries, Worlds and Sandra Izbasa. In the short interview we learn that Diana Bulimar is out injured but aside from that the team are working well, Bitang doesn’t give much away but that the girls are aiming to up their difficulty. She also says that team are now gelling well together. Unfortunately Tamarjan and Patrascu have retired.

How do you describe these 6 months which passed since you came back to the team?
It was a delicate period, because we needed time …

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I’m loving this picture of the Romanian Girls named for the Worlds Team next month.
Sandra Izbasa, Ana Porgras, Diana Chelaru Raluca Haidu, Cerasela Patrascu, Gabriela Dragoi and Amelia Race
Via GymFever

Tweet As previously mentioned, the official site of the 2010 World Gymnastics Championships have been featuring regular posts about the gymnasts and teams who will compete in the Worlds later this year. Today they have published their third instalment focusing on gymnasts Sandra Izbaşa, Anastasia Koval, Yann Cucherat, Cheng Fei, Larrissa Miller, Shona Morgan and Aagje Vanwalleghem have been coping with injuries and how it may affect their chances of competing in the competition. As always, it’s a great read.
Click here to read the full article.
Chinese gymnast Cheng Fei:
According …