Artistic Gymnastics Individual Championships
Milan, Italy
March 31 to April 5, 2009
No team competition.
The roster of 150 male gymnasts and 87 female gymnasts includes 2008 Olympic medalists Jordan Jovtchev (Bulgaria), Thomas Bouhail and Benoît Caranobe (France), Fabian Hambüchen (Germany), Louis Smith (Great Britain), Sandra Izbasa (Romania), Anton Golotsutskov (Russia) and Alexander Vorobyov (Ukraine).
Noticably absent, however, are the reigning all-around champions from the 2007 Europeans in Amsterdam. Italy’s own Vanessa Ferrari and Russia’s Maxim Devyatovsky will be unable to defend their titles after not making their country’s respective lineups.
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The 2009 European Championships kick off April 1 with the opening ceremonies. Qualification will be held April 2 (women) and April 3 (men). Finals will be April 4 (all-around) and April 5 (apparatus).
see the full (preliminary) list of competitors on International Gymnast
Earth’s eldest international gymnast Espen Jansen from Norway (born 1968) is scheduled to compete.
Many time former champion Svetlana Khorkina is coming to Milan.
The Couch Gymnast is going. I’m looking forward to those posts.
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