PAGE 4 - WORLD ACROBATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS 2006 MEN’S PAIRS AND THE HIGHEST SCORE IN THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS FINALS!

1st - New World Champions are crowned as Mikola Cherbak and Sergei Popov from the Ukraine stormed to the World Title with an incredible performance to become the 2006 World Men’s Pairs Champions!

The Ukranian Pair are also the current European Champions, and won the Silver medals at the 2005 World Games. They also won the bronze medals in the 2004 World Championships, and their performance at this year’s World Championships was simply stunning. Mikola and Sergei got the highest score in Tempo with 28.686 and their Combined exercise received 28.907 amd a total of 86.344 closely followed by the Russian Pair. However their superb combined routine in the Finals received 29.257 which was the highest mark out of all the Finals, as they became new World Champions by a margin of almost 0.50.

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Mark and Chris produced a great routine in Finals to score 28.054 but were denied a Podium place by the smallest of margins as the Polish pair took bronze. Congratulations to both British Men’s Pairs who performed magnificently to claim the 4th and 5th positions at the World Championships!

Edward Upcott & Reece Durbridge also from Great Britain gave a fantastic performance to claim the 5th position in the World Championships. The Silver Medalist’s at the 2006 British Championships and Silver Medals at the 2005 Volkov Cup, in Russia demonstrated the great quality of the Spelthorne pair.

Edward and Reece opened with a fantastic Balance routine to win the the highest balance score in the Men’s Pairs as they received a huge 28.952 followed by 27.354 in Tempo and 28.370 in Combined for a total of 84.676 and qualify for the World Finals in 4th place. Their Final routine was awarded 27.957 to finish in a well deserved 5th place and complete a great Championships for the British Pairs. Well done you two!

Qualifying in 6th place with their best score of 28.070 in their Balance exercise, the Portuguese gymnast’s continued their fine performance and score 27.580 and claim the final 6th place in the 2006 World Championships.

Portugal’s second set of Men’s Pairs were unlucky to miss a place in Finals as Tiago Figueiredo and Joao Maia scored 83.154 just missing the World Finals by 0.196! Their best score was 27.770 in the Balance routine with a 27.754 in their Combined routine.

The 2006 Puurs World Cup winners and 5th place in the 2005 Junior European Championships, the Portuguese pair can now add the 2006 World Championships to their impressive CV.  

Jesus Jiminez & Alejandro Centeno from Spain finished in 10th place in Qualifications with the German pair of John Foerster and Phillipp Kepper in 9th place completing the excellent Men’s Pairs competition.

AMAZING NEW 4 PAGE PHOTO GALLERY FROM THE 20TH WORLD ACROBATIC GYMNASTICS  CHAMPIONSHIPS!

We are very proud to bring you a fantastic 4 page photo special from the World Sports Acrobatics Championships! This features amazing new photos from Isabel Silva and Eloisa Valdes who are fantastic sports photographers who filmed the IAGC and World Championships. Don’t miss these fabulous 4 pages of photos as they include some of the best photos from the Championships including all your favourite Sports Acrobats!

Isabel and Eloisa specialize in Ice Skating on Isabel’s Web Site where she has some incredible photo galleries and they are also increasing their Sports Acrobatics coverage. Isabel is a regular visitor to Gymnastics Online and has kindly allowed me to use some of their fantastic photos here. All photos in this feature are copyright of Isabel Silva and Eloisa Valdes and must not be reproduced or copied without permission.

Full results from the World Championships and links to every group of photos for the Women’s Pairs. Mixed Pairs, Women’s Groups and Men’s Pairs are shown below. The photos capture all the excitement and drama in Coimbra and includes 4 to 5 photos of nearly every Great Britain Team member at the World Acrobatics Championships plus all the medalist’s! Our fourth page features the Men’s Pairs Finals with new World Champions from the Ukraine and the highest score out of all the World Championships Finals! We are also proud to feature a fantastic 9 page photo special from the International Age Group Championships. Just click here to see these amazing photos too!

Please visit Isabel’s fantastic Site to see many more amazing photos from the International Age Group Championships and the World Acrobatics Championships! See her IAGC Photos here and World Acro Championships photos here!

20th ACROBATIC GYMNASTICS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

14th to 17th June 2006 in Coimbra, (POR)

Men’s Pairs Finals

17 June 2006

1 UKR CHERBAK Mikola / POPOV Sergei 29.257

2 RUS DUDCHENKO Alexei / PILIPCHUK K. 28.862

3 POL CZYZ Adrian / WALCZEWSKI Pavel 28.151

4 GBR JONES Christopher / FYSON Mark 28.054

5 GBR UPCOTT Edward / DURBIDGE Reece 27.957

6 POR DIAS Telmo / TEIXEIRA Hugo 27.580

20th ACROBATIC GYMNASTICS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

14th to 17th June 2006 in Coimbra, (POR)

Men’s Pairs Qualifications

15 June 2006

1 UKR CHERBAK Mikola / POPOV Sergei

Balance Exercise 28.751

Tempo Exercise 28.686

Combined Exercise 28.907 Total 86.344

2 RUS DUDCHENKO Alexei / PILIPCHUK K.

Balance Exercise 28.729

Tempo Exercise 28.613

Combined Exercise 28.662 Total 86.004

3 GBR JONES Christopher / FYSON Mark

Balance Exercise 28.761

Tempo Exercise 28.440

Combined Exercise 28.607 Total 85.808

4 GBR UPCOTT Edward / DURBIDGE Reece

Balance Exercise 28.952

Tempo Exercise 27.354

Combined Exercise 28.370 Total 84.676

5 POL CZYZ Adrian / WALCEWSKI Pavel

Balance Exercise 28.430

Tempo Exercise 28.170

Combined 28.001  Total 84.601

6 POR DIAS Telmo / TEIXEIRA Hugo

Balance Exercise 28.070

Tempo Exercise 27.600

Combined Exercise 27.680 Total 83.350

7 POR FIGUEIREDO Tiago / MAIA Joao

Balance Exercise 27.770

Tempo Exercise 27.630

Combined Exercise 27.754 Total 83.154

8 BUL DIMITROV Ivaylo / TZVETKOV Valeri

Balance Exercise 27.040

Tempo Exercise 27.790

Combined Exercise 27.704 Total 82.534

9 GER FOERSTER John / KEPPER Philipp

Balance Exercise 26.760

Tempo Exercise 26.660

Combined Exercise 26.100 Total 79.520

10 ESP JIMENEZ Jesus / CENTENO Alejandro

Balance Exercise 26.670

Tempo Exercise 26.900

Combined Exercise 25.680 Total 79.250