Silver for the DTB team: Chemnitz gymnasts shine in Leipzig!

Silver for the DTB team: Chemnitz gymnasts shine in Leipzig!

Leipzig, Deutschland - On Monday at 6:15 p.m., the home European European Falls started in the Leipzig exhibition hall 1. Almost 3000 spectators were present, many with Czech and Italian flags. The expectations of the German team were high after the gymnasts took sixth place last year. This year, however, they achieved a remarkable improvement and secured the silver medal behind defending champion Italy, who won the gold medal in a competition with 25 participating nations. The LVZ reports that the DTB team was still behind France, but was due could significantly improve.

In this powerful team, Karina Schönmaier in particular stands out, who acts as a team captain at the age of 19 and showed the best performance at the jump. Karina, who broke off her Abitur to fully devote herself to gymnastics, has adapted her program to the jump. She has adapted her training times to her new base in Saxony, where she got used to more intensive practice units. She works closely with her trainers Anatol Ashurkov and Tatjana Bachmayer, which obviously helps her to confidence. Buten un inner According to Schönmaier, Schönmaier has great hopes for a single medal at the em.

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The other members of the German development include Helen Kevric, who is considered German all -around champions and lists the team, as well as Janoah Müller, Lea Quaas and Silja Stöhr. The replacement gymnasts are Marlene Gotthardt and Lisa Wötzel. Helen Kevric, also only 17 years old, achieved impressive placements at the Olympic Games in Paris: the 6th place on the uneven bars and the 8th place in the all -around. Your trainer Gerben Wiersma has given the ambitious goal of landing in the mixed team finals in the top five and achieving a place in the all -around and in the device finals. Buten un inner also reports that Wiersma must do without experienced gymnasts who have canceled their participation.

The gymnastics movement has a long tradition in Germany and has been an Olympic discipline since the first Olympic Games in 1896. The German Turner Association (DTB), which is the second largest sports association in Germany with 4.6 million members, offers a total of 22 sports, including performance, competition and mass sports as well as leisure and health sports. gymnastics100 reports that the DTB was founded in 1950 and plays an important role in German sports culture.

With the high number of spectators and positive achievements by the gymnasts in Leipzig, the great interest and commitment to this traditional sport is very evident. The coming days promise exciting competitions in which the German team can demonstrate its skills.