|
INDIVIDUAL MEN AND WOMEN’S EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS PREVIEW
DEBRECEN, HUNGARY - 2-5 JUNE 2005
The 26th European Championships will be held in Debrecen next month featuring Men and Women’s Individual Apparatus Finals where the new Individual Apparatus and All Around European Champions will be crowned! We look forward to an exciting Championships in a new post Olympic era where former European and World Champion Svetlana Khorkina has retired, and new names will emerge on the European stage.
The confirmed Women’s line up so far already includes 3 Olympic Champions with Catalina Ponor who won Gold in Athens on Floor and Beam, Emilie Lepennec Olympic Champion on A Bars and Moinca Rosu Olympic Champion on vault! More gymnasts are still to be added including the Great Britain, Netherlands, Russian and Ukranian Teams. Will Beth become the new European A Bars Champion following her historic Silver Medal last year against the reigning Olympic Champion Emilie Lepennec from France ? And look out for Junior European Champion Rhian Pugh from Great Britain with her innovative routine.
Who will win on Floor where the reigning Olympic Champion Catalina Ponor will take on her Team Mate Daniela Sofronie who won Silver in Athens? The reigning European All Around Champion Alina Kozich will also be there to defend her title! I can’t wait for this competition!
WOMEN
Catalina Ponor - Romania - Olympic Champion Women’s Floor and Beam, Athens 2004. European Champion Beam and Floor, Amsterdam 2004
Daniela Sofronie - Romania - Olympic Silver Medallist, Women’s Floor, Athens 2004, Silver Medal European Championships All Around Netherlands 2004
Emilie Lepennec - France - Olympic Champion - Women’s Asymetric Bars, Athens 2004
Alina Kozich - Ukraine - Reigning Women’s European All Around Champion, Amsterdam 2004, 8th in Floor Finals, Olympic Games, 2004.
Monica Rosu - Romania - Olympic Champion, Women’s Vault, Athens 2004, European Champion Women’s Vault Amsterdam 2004.
The men’s line up so far already includes 2 Olympic Double Medallists! Marian Dragulescu from Romania who won Silver on Floor and Bronze on Vault in Athens, and Jordan Jovtchev from Bulgaria Olympic Silver medallist on Rings and Bronze on Floor!
MEN
Marian Dragulescu - Romania - Olympic Silver Medallist Men’s Floor, Olympic Bronze Medallist Vault Athens 2004. European Champion Men’s All Around, Floor and Vault, Ljubljana 2004.
Jordan Jovtchev - Bulgaria - Olympic Silver Medallist Rings, Olympic Bronze Medallist Men’s Floor, Athens 2004.
Ioan Suciu - Romania - 4th Place Men’s Individual All -Around Olympic Games Athens 2004, European Champion Pommells Ljubljana 2004.
Rafael Martinez - Spain - 5th Place Men’s Individual All-Aound Olympic Games Athens 2004
Robert Gal - Hungary - Bronze Medallist Men’s Floor, World Cup Final, Birmingham 2004, 6th place Men’s Vault Athens 2004
The schedule is as follows: -
Wednesday 1st June 8pm Opening Ceremony
Thursday 2nd June 10-30am WAG Qualification Competition
Friday 3rd June 10-30am - MAG Qualification Competition
Saturday 4th June 13-00 WAG All Around Finals - Vault, Bars, Beam, Floor
14-35 WAG Awards Ceremony
Saturday 4th June 16-00 MAG All Around Finals - Floor, Pommel Horse, Rings, Vault, Parallel Bars, High Bar
18-05 - MAG Awards Ceremony
Sunday 5tb June - 11-00 MAG / WAG Finals
MAG - Floor, Pommel Horse, Rings.
WAG - Vault, Bars
13-30 - Award Ceremonies
15-30 MAG / WAG Finals -
MAG - Vault, Parellel Bars, High Bar
WAG - Beam, Floor.
18-00 - Award Ceremonies
Closing Ceremony
Ticket Prices
2 June WAG Qualification - 8 Euros
3 June MAG Qualification - 8 Euros
4 June 13-00 - 14-30 WAG All Around Finals - 12 Euros
4 June - 16-00 - 18-00 MAG All Around Finals - 12 Euros
5 June - 11-00 - 13-30 MAG / WAG Apparatus Finals -18 Euros
5 June - 15-30 - 18-00 MAG / WAF Apparatus Finals - 18 Euros
Pass - Valid for all competitions - 62 Euros
More news will appear here on Gymnastics Online and we will be covering the Championships in full with all the results and news on this Site!
DON’T MISS OUR FANTASTIC 6 PAGES OF PHOTOS FROM THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS 2004
SECOND EUROPEAN TRIALS FOR BRITISH TEAM
|
