April 30, 2001
International Romanian Championships 2001
Congratulations to Andreea Raducan and Marian Dragulescu for winning the all-around gold. Results for this tounament:
Women's Event Finals
Vault
1. Andreea Raducan ROM 9.237
2. Verona van de Leur NED 9.131
3. Denisse Lopez MEX 9.126
4. Katy Lennon GBR 8.906
5. Silvia Stroescu ROM 8.862
6. Joanna Skowronska POL 8.799
7. Sara Moro ESP 8.743
8. Clélia Coutzac FRA 8.018

Uneven Bars
1. Verona van de Leur NED 9.413
2. Monica Sabou ROM 9.250
3. Li Xuehong CHN 9.025
4. Carmen Ionescu ROM 9.000
5. Marion Mourier FRA 8.663
6. Gabriella Wammes NED 8.475
7. Sara Moro ESP 8.450
8. Katy Lennon GBR 7.675

Balance Beam
1. Andreea Raducan ROM 9.500
2. Silvia Stroescu ROM 9.225
3. Li Xuehong CHN 9.050
4. Marion Mourier FRA 8.625
5. Sara Moro ESP 8.413
6. Monique Nuijten NED 7.750
7. Katy Lennon GBR 7.087
8. Joanna Skowronska POL 6.175

Floor Exercise
1. Andreea Raducan ROM 9.550
2. Sara Moro ESP 9.313
3. Verona van de Leur NED 9.275
4. Silvia Stroescu ROM 9.163
5. Gabriella Wammes NED 8.950
6. Elena Gomez ESP 8.913
7. Joelle Oullette CAN 8.750
8. Cristina Cavalli ITA 5.200

Men's Event Finals
Floor Exercise
1. Dan Potra ROM 9.475
2. Clay Strother USA 9.300
3. Marian Dragulescu ROM 9.075
4. Ross Brewer GBR 8.775
5. Arpad Takacs HUN 8.550
6. Krisztian Jordanov HUN 8.400
7. Irodotos Giorgallas CYP 7.975
8. Loke Yik Siang MAS 7.900

Pommel Horse
1. Marius Urzica ROM 9.863
2. Clay Strother USA 9.575
3. Dan Potra ROM 9.475
4. Pavel Goffman ISR 9.375
5. Loke Yik Siang MAS 9.200
6. Luis Felipe Vargas PUR 9.100
7. Ross Brewer GBR 8.375
8. Onn Kwang Tung MAS 8.050

Rings
1. Dan Potra ROM 9.587
2. Marian Dragulescu ROM 9.525
3. Diego Lizardi PUR 9.500
4. Irodotos Giorgallas CYP 8.875
5. Pavel Goffman ISR 8.825
6. Marcin Lominski 8.788
7. Dominic Dappen SUI 8.600
8. Andreas Kousios CYP 8.475

Vault
1. Marian Dragulescu ROM 9.600
2. Diego Lizardi PUR 9.125
3. Dominic Dappen SUI 9.087
4. Krisztian Jordanov HUN 9.062
5. Rares Orzata ROM 9.012
6. Irodotos Giorgallas CYP 8.775
7. Loke Yik Siang MAS 8.675
8. Yohan Benhamou FRA 8.656

Parallel Bars
1. Pavel Goffman ISR 8.850
2. Clay Strother USA 8.825
3. Luis Felipe Vargas PUR 8.800
4. Marian Dragulescu ROM 8.625
5. Dominic Dappen SUI 8.525
6. Arpad Takacs HUN 8.350
7. Ng Shu Wai MAS 8.200
8. Dan Potra ROM 8.125

High Bar
1. Christoph Schaerer SUI 9.550
2. Rares Orzata ROM 9.325
3. Krisztian Jordanov HUN 8.950
4. Ng Shu Wai MAS 8.925
5. Luis Felipe Vargas PUR 8.900
6. Yohan Benhamou FRA 8.850
7. Peter Gigier SUI 8.425
7. Marian Dragulescu ROM 8.425

Women's All-Around
1. Andreea Raducan ROM 36.863
2. Silvia Stroescu ROM 35.995
3. Sara Moro ESP 35.944
* Carmen Ionescu ROM 35.913
* Oana Ban ROM 35.851
* Andreea Ulmeanu ROM 35.519
* Ioana Petrovschi ROM 35.478
4. Li Xuehong CHN 35.044
* Loredana Boboc ROM 34.788
5. Katy Lennon GBR 34.476
6. Verona van de Leur NED 34.338
7. Cristina Cavalli ITA 34.144
* Monique Nuijten NED 34.088
8. Marion Mourier FRA 33.707
9. Gabrielle Wammes NED 33.607
10. Elena Gomez ESP 33.388
11. Joanna Skowronska POL 33.106
12. Denisse Lopez MEX 32.813
13. Alexandra Balz SUI 32.757
14. Clélia Coutzac FRA 32.744
15. Joelle Ouellette CAN 32.408
* Competed exhibition only

Men's All-around
1. Marian Dragulescu ROM 55.625
2. Dan Potra ROM 54.150
* Rares Orzata ROM 53.950
* Robert Ene ROM 53.300
3. Clay Strother USA 52.600
* Constain Covaci ROM 52.550
4. Dominic Dappen SUI 52.225
5. Pavel Goffman ISR 51.950
6. Siang Loke Yik MAS 51.750
7. Luis Felipe Vargas PUR 51.650
8. Ross Brewer GBR 51.200
9. Krisztian Jordanov HUN 51.050
10. Arpad Takacs HUN 50.850
11. Christoph Schaerer SUI 50.550
11. You Yanan CHN 50.550
13. Celis Briceno VEN 50.000
14. Onn Kwang Tung MAS 49.750
15. Sergei Stoyanov BUL 48.800
* Competed exhibition only

April 29, 2001
Lobaznyuk Looking Better =)))
GymWorld to Leonid Arkayev, President of the Russian Gymnastics Federation and National Coach. He said, that Ekaterina has to undergo a surgery next days. "I talked to the doctor, who is  a real specialist on his sector", he went on, "and now everything doesn't seem to be so serious for me anymore." He expects her to be back in three weeks. Other sources still expect a much longer time for her return to gymnastics.

Ekatarina's mother tried to explain to OEG what the team doctor told her, after he visited Ekatarina in hospital. Since my knowledge of medical Russian is insufficient, I was under the opinion she told me the knee was twisted/bruised badly (perelom), with most concern given to the attachment of the ligament to the bone, where some damage might be done. Still, Ekararina's mother cried when the doctor told her this news, and she was given permission to leave the judging team to attend to her daughter. OEG will be a few more days in Moscow, and will try to visit Ekatarina in hospital, conveying your best wished and concern to her when possible.

Today had the apparatus finals in World Stars and Russian Nationals, with some gymnasts needing to compete in both. Given what happened to Lobaznyuk, Arkaev told Zamolodchikova (who was qualified into three finals in the morning and afternoon each) to leave it to vaulting in Russian Nationals, despite protests from Elena that she found no problem in competing vault and floor twice a day.

(Adapted from: Gymworld & OEG)

For report on Russian National Championships & Moscow Stars of the World, go to Competition Reports!!!

April 26, 2001
Summary of Sveta's New Routines
Bars: Pak salto, Stalder to full pirouette, Khorkina II
Beam: cartwheel to 2 1/2 twisting gainer dismount; RO-full-twisting back layout; ff-back
          tuck-rulfova

April 17, 2001
Haven't had anything interesting in a while. Well, just wanna inform all that the Russian Champs are at the end of this month so the gymnasts are probably hard at training.

*EXCLUSIVE*
Also, good news for all Brazilian fans. Khorkina and Nemov are going to Brazil in May for some tournament. Will let you know when I've got more information.

April 1, 2001 (Late at night)
Cottbus Day 3 - Beam & Floor Finals
Stayed up late just to get the results for the Cottbus and here it is!! =)

In beam, Bai Chun Yue won in the winners final over Lobaznyuk. I'm not sure how did Khorkina fare but I'll let you guys know when I get the results in. (Gymmedia is not working on my computer for some reason but you can get the full results there)

As for floor, Lobaznyuk won in the winners final over Van De Leur with a 9.200 to Verona's 9.100. So guess Katya is the best performer here, together with Zamolodchikova. They each had a first and second place finish.

I'll add more news, and pictures and videos tomorrow and the day after. So look out for them. I'll also be listing Khorkina's new routines. For Khorkins's first competition under the new code of points, it's great to see a first place finish from her. Looking forward to seeing more wins under her belt in the coming months.

April 1, 2001
Cottbus Day 2 - Vault & Uneven Bars Final
Unbelievable!!! In the bars winners final, Khorkina and Zamolodchikova faced off and guessed what, Khorkina won with a score of 7.775 against the 7.200 of Elena. Tell me if you can believe that. Unfortunately, Svetlana fell from the bars on her Stalder-Tkatchev move and just when you thought Elena was going to have a straight run, she came off too. Elena has a new  mount in her routine which was really cool to watch, and she fell off on her transition from the lower bar to the upper bar. Svetlana seemed to be laughing about it and both girls took it well, joking with each other. Despite coming off first, Svetlana won she fell on her Stalder-Tkatchev (Ricna) move. If only they hit their routines - as in the previous round - they would get decent scores above nine. Well, to qualify for the winners final, Svetlana got 9.475 while Elena had a 9.350.

As for the vault final, vault specialist Zamolodchikova pulled off a victory against Oksana Chusovitina with a 9.575. Denise Lopez who came in second in the qualification, was taken to a hospital after landing badly (on her head and back) on her vault.