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2005 World Championships In Artistic Gymnastics
The 38th World Artistic Gymnastics Championships were held at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia from 21 to 27 November 2005. Only the individual all-around and event finals were contested at this meet. There was no team competition; nations were permitted to bring up to six Men's Artistic Gymnastics (MAG) and up to four Women's Artistic Gymnastics (WAG) athletes to compete. Results Men Qualification All-Around Final Floor Exercise Pommel Horse Rings Vault Parallel Bars Horizontal Bar Women Qualification All-Around Final Vault Uneven Bars Balance Beam Floor Exercise Medal count Overall Men Women External linksOfficial website {{2005 in artistic gymnastics World Artistic Gymnastics Championships W World Artistic Gymnastics Championships The Artistic Gymnastics World Championships are the world championships for artistic gymnastics governed by the International Gymnastics Federation, Fédération Internationale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rod Laver Arena
Rod Laver Arena is a multipurpose arena located within Melbourne Park, in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. The arena is the main venue for the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam tennis tournament of the calendar year. History Replacing the aging Kooyong Stadium, construction on the arena began in 1985. It was undertaken by Civil & Civic and was completed in 1987 at a cost of Australian dollar, AU$94 million. It opened on 11 January 1988 for the 1988 Australian Open. Originally known in 1988 as the National Tennis Centre at Flinders Park, the arena has officially changed its name twice. First in 1996, when it was known as the Centre Court, and again on 16 January 2000 to honour Rod Laver, a three-time winner of the Australian Open and one of the world's greatest tennis players. Features Rod Laver Arena has a seating capacity of 14,820, with a capacity of 15,400 for sports such as basketball, when extra seats are added around the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matteo Morandi
Matteo Morandi (born 8 October 1981) is an Italian artistic gymnast. He was born in Vimercate. Morandi is married and has a daughter. He is a specialist at the rings. Olympic Games He competed at the 2004 games taking 5th place at the Rings, the 2008 games taking 6th place at the Rings, and the 2012 games, in which he won the bronze medal in the Still Rings final. After the 2012 Summer Olympics he said that he will continue until the next Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro 2016 and hopes to win another medal. World Championships He won four bronze medals in the Rings at these games. The first in Debrecen 2002, Anaheim 2003, Melbourne 2005 and Rotterdam 2010. European Championships In these games he won one gold, one silver and two bronze medals at the Rings. In Lubiana 2004 he won a bronze medal, in Birmingham 2010 a gold medal, in Montpellier 2012 a silver medal and in 2013 Moscow a bronze medal. Named skill The "Morandi" is a Marinich-style handspring front flip i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oksana Chusovitina
Oksana Aleksandrovna Chusovitina (; born 19 June 1975) is an Uzbekistani gymnastics, artistic gymnast who previously represented the Soviet Union and Germany. Chusovitina's career as an elite gymnast has spanned more than three decades. She won the USSR Junior Nationals in 1988 and began competing at the international level in 1989 before many of her current rivals were even born. She is the only gymnast ever to List of female artistic gymnasts with the most appearances at Olympic Games, compete in eight Olympic Games, and is one of only two female gymnasts to compete at the Olympics under three different national teams: the Unified Team in 1992; Uzbekistan in 1996, 2000, 2004, 2016 and 2020; and Germany in 2008 and 2012. She is one of the List of athletes with the most appearances at Olympic Games, 18 Olympians and 6 female Olympians to participate in 8 different Olympics. Chusovitina's longevity and consistency as an elite gymnast is exceptionally unusual; the skillset and wea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheng Fei
Cheng Fei ( zh, c= , p=Chéng Fēi; born May 29, 1988) is a Chinese retired artistic gymnast. She is a three-time World Champion on the vault (2005–2007) and 2006 World Champion on floor exercise. She was a member of the gold medal-winning Chinese teams for the 2006 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Aarhus, Denmark and 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China. She was also a member of the silver medal-winning Chinese team for the 2007 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Stuttgart, Germany. Biography Cheng Fei was born in central China's Hubei Province to a father who was a shipping clerk and a mother who worked in a tire factory, not a very wealthy background. Indeed, said her mother, "Our family was poor so we hoped Cheng Fei could in some way change her life...we thought maybe being a professional athlete is good for her." And so her parents approached a gymnastics coach about training her by the time she was three and her father practiced calisthenics w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monette Russo
Monette Simone Russo (born 4 August 1988 in Lilydale, Victoria) is an Australian former artistic gymnast. She made history by becoming the first Australian gymnast ever to win an individual world championship medal at the 2005 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Melbourne, Australia, when she came third in the all-around competition and also was awarded the prestigious Longines Prize for Elegance. She also competed in three apparatus finals, finishing seventh on bars and fifth on beam and floor. Although more of an all-arounder than an events finalist, during her career she was one of the few women competing two vaults. She was also a part of the 2003 World Championships Team for Australia and won a bronze medal, another first for Australian gymnastics. Monette is an Olympian, having helped Australia to 8th place in the team event at the 2004 Olympics. An injury prevented her from competing in the all-around final. Injury also marred Monette's 2006 season. She competed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nastia Liukin
Anastasia "Nastia" Valeryevna Liukin (; ; born October 30, 1989) is an Americans, American former artistic gymnast. She is the Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics, 2008 Olympic Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's artistic individual all-around, all-around champion, a five-time Olympic medalist, the 2005 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, 2005 and 2007 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, 2007 World champion on the balance beam, and the 2005 World champion on the uneven bars. She is also a four-time all-around U.S. national champion, winning twice as a junior and twice as a senior. With nine World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, World Championships medals, seven of them individual, Liukin is tied with Shannon Miller for the third-highest tally of World Championship medals among U.S. gymnasts. Liukin also tied Miller's record (later equaled by Simone Biles) as the American gymnast having won the most medals in a single 1984 Summer Olympics boycott, n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chellsie Memmel
Chellsie Marie Memmel (born June 23, 1988) is an American artistic gymnast. She is the 2005 world all-around champion (the third American woman, after Kim Zmeskal and Shannon Miller, to win that title) and the 2003 world champion on the uneven bars. She was a member of the United States women's gymnastics team at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China. With a total of seven World Championship and Olympic medals, Memmel is tied with Shawn Johnson as the ninth most decorated American female gymnast, behind Simone Biles (41), Shannon Miller (16), Nastia Liukin (14), Alicia Sacramone (11), Aly Raisman (10), Jade Carey (10), Sunisa Lee (9), and Dominique Dawes (8). Her return to gymnastics in her 30s attracted attention to the idea that by avoiding over-training and mistreatment, gymnasts could continue to perform at a high level in adulthood. She was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2022. Career Early career Chellsie Marie Memmel was born in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valeri Goncharov
Valeriy Honcharov (also spelled Goncharov, , born 19 September 1977) is a gymnast from Ukraine. He won gold in the men's parallel bars apparatus at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens Athens ( ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica (region), Attica region and is the southe .... References External links * * * 1977 births Gymnasts from Kharkiv Living people Ukrainian male artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts for Ukraine Gymnasts at the 2000 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 2004 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Ukraine Olympic silver medalists for Ukraine Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships Olympic medalists in gymnastics Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Summer World University Games medalists in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aljaž Pegan
Aljaž Pegan (born 2 June 1974) is a Slovenian former artistic gymnast. He was primarily a horizontal bar specialist and won gold at the 2005 World Championships. He is also a three-time World silver medalist (2002, 2006, 2007) and the 2004 European champion on the horizontal bar. His international career spanned more than two decades, but her never participated in the Olympic Games. Gymnastics career Pegan began gymnastics when she was six years old, and he worked with coach Joze Mesl from the age of 13 until the end of his career. He made his first World Championships appearance in 1989. 1994–1999 Pegan advanced to his first World Championships final in 1994 and finished sixth with a score of 9.275. Then at the 1996 World Championships, he finished fourth, only 0.012 points behind the bronze medalist Vitaly Scherbo. In 1998, Pegan received a one-month ban after testing positive for ephedrine. He competed at the 1998 Paris World Cup and won the horizontal bar gold me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yann Cucherat
Yann Cucherat (born 2 October 1979) is a French gymnast. He won a bronze medal in parallel bars at the 2005 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. He competed at the 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012, were an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the .... References External links * 1979 births Living people French male artistic gymnasts Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships Olympic gymnasts for France Gymnasts at the 2000 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 2004 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 2008 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 2012 Summer Olympics European champions in gymnastics 21st-century French sportsmen 20th-century French sportsmen {{France-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Li Xiaopeng (gymnast)
Li Xiaopeng (; July 27, 1981) is a male Chinese gymnast, who specializes in parallel bars and vault. He currently holds 16 world titles, more than any other gymnast in China. On August 29, 2009, he was the torch bearer for the torch relay of the East Asian Games in Hong Kong. He retired from the sport in late 2009. Early years Li Xiaopeng was born Li Peng. He changed his name in 1997 so as to avoid sharing the same with the then Premier Li Peng. He began gymnastics training at Changsha Spare-time Sports School in Hunan Province at the age of 6 and was a member of the Hunan provincial team at 12. Li's diligence and skill soon set him apart from his peers, which could be proved by his several provincial titles. At the age of 15, he was selected into the national team. National team At 16, Li Xiaopeng became China's youngest world (team) gymnastics champion ever when he and his teammates won the men's team final at the 1997 Lausanne World Championships. At the same event, Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitja Petkovšek
Mitja Petkovšek (born 6 February 1977) is a Slovenian former artistic gymnast. He was a specialist on the parallel bars and won two World titles on that apparatus (2005, 2007). He is also a four-time European parallel bars champion (2000, 2006–2008). He won a total of 12 World and European medals. He competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics and 2008 Summer Olympics. Gymnastics career Petkovšek began gymnastics when he was six years old. 1997–2000 Petkovšek competed at his first World Championships in 1997 and finished 29th in the all-around final. He also qualified for the parallel bars final and finished fifth. He won his first European medal in 1998 when he finished second to Russia's Alexei Bondarenko on the parallel bars. He then won a parallel bars bronze medal at the 1998 Vancouver World Cup. Petkovšek won the parallel bars titles at both the 2000 Glasgow and Ljubljana World Cups. He also won the parallel bars title at the 2000 European Championships with a sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
