The United States team won the 2000 Pontiac International Team Championships this evening with a score of 151.737. Romania came in second with 151.249 and China finished third with 148.811.
The Romanian Team edged out the United States and China at the 2000 Pontiac International Team Championships, the first major gymnastics competition of the upcoming Olympic quadrennium.
The rivalry between the United States, Romania and China continues in Syracuse at the 2000 Pontiac International Team Championships, the first major gymnastics competition of the upcoming Olympic quadrennium.
A selection of the world’s finest gymnasts will highlight the Reese’s Gymnastics Cup, an entertainment based team competition, October 20 at 7:00 p.m. at the New Orleans Sports Arena.
Top gymnasts from the United States, Romania and China will contend for the team title at the 2000 Pontiac International Team Championships, November 9 and 10 at the War Memorial at Oncenter at 6:30 p.m.
Five time U.S. national all-around champion Blaine Wilson finished the all-around competition in sixth place, 0.088 point away from a bronze medal. He totaled 57.936 points and finished first on vault with a 9.80.
USA Gymnastics’ “Send-Off to Sydney”, a free exhibition in celebration of the 2000 U.S. Olympic Team for women’s gymnastics, is planned for September 2 at Southwest Texas University’s Strahan Coliseum in San Marcos at 3:00 p.m.
Five-time U.S. National Champion and 1996 Olympian Blaine Wilson, 26, (Columbus, Ohio) leads the U.S. Olympic Team Trials with a weighted score of 81.385 after the men’s preliminary competition today at the FleetCenter.
The petitions of Shannon Miller, Amanda Stroud and Jeanette Antolin have been approved following this morning’s verification testing at the FleetCenter. The trio is able to compete in the U.S. Olympic Team Trials, Aug. 17-20.
Four-time defending national champion Blaine Wilson (Columbus, Ohio) finished on top of the preliminary competition this evening at the John Hancock U.S. Gymnastics Championships, scoring 58.225 in the all-around and winning five event medals.
David Henderson from Team Texaco-Houston and Justin Spring from Capital Gymnastics were leaders today in the junior men’s competition at the 2000 John Hancock U.S. Gymnastics Championships.
Olympian and four-time defending national champion Blaine Wilson (Columbus, Ohio/Team Texaco USOTC) won the 2000 GymJam Men’s National Qualifier with a score of 57.550, this afternoon at the University of California Santa Barbara Robertson Gymnasium.
Many of America’s elite gymnasts, including two-time defending National Champion Kristen Maloney (Pen Argyl, Pa.) and Senior Pacific Alliance All-Around Gold Medalist Elise Ray (Columbia, Md.), will take the floor at the U.S. Classic, July 8 in the Mabee Center Arena in Tulsa, Okla.
Olympians and four-time National Champions Blaine Wilson (Columbus, Ohio) and John Roethlisberger (Falcon Heights, Minn.) will be among the featured participants at the GymJam Men’s National Qualifier, July 1 at the University of California Santa Barbara Robertson Gymnasium.
USA Gymnastics earned five more medals in the event finals of the Senior Pacific Alliance yesterday in New Zealand, bringing the total medal count to 17 medals, including five gold, nine silver and three bronze throughout the competition.
USA Gymnastics is bringing home at least sixteen medals from both the Senior Pacific Alliance Championships, April 20-25 in Christchurch, New Zealand and the Spieth Sogipa competition, April 22-23, in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
U.S. National Team Members Guard Young, Sean Townsend, Jeanette Antolin, Jennifer Parilla and Ryan Weston competed in the 2000 International Challenge at the Sydney Superdome, February 24-27.
National Team Member Chris Young underwent surgery Monday evening at St. Francis Hospital in Colorado Springs, Colo., to repair a right Achilles tendon, injured during a training session Friday at the U.S. Olympic Training Center.
Olympians John Roethlisberger and John Macready, along with 1999 U.S. World Team Member Elise Ray and American Tasha Schwikert will challenge top international talent from China, Romania, Bulgaria, Australia and Ukraine in the Aussie Haircare Gymnastics Invitational on January 29.
Americans Amy Chow, Morgan White, Stephen McCain and Jay Thornton join a talented field of international stars from Russia, Cuba, Ukraine and Belarus in the RCA Gymnastics Challenge, the first of three events in USA Gymnastics’ inaugural Visa American Cup Series.
