New gymnastics pictures from Bratislava	2006 Dec 15
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Slovak gymnasts in Aarhus	2006 Oct 08
Maria Homolova Natalia Pualickova Samuel Piasecky Slovak delegation before departure to Denmark (left to right): coach Jozef Konecny, Maria Homolova, Natalia Paulickova, coach Katarina Krekanova and Samuel Piasecky

Piasecky won bars in Maribor

2006 Oct 01

Slovak delegation in Maribor Slovak gymnast Samuel Piasocky won Parallel Bars Final at World Cup meet Salamunov Memorial in Maribor!!! 1. PIASECKY SAMUEL 15.20 2. KIERZKOWSKI ADAM 15.00 3. ZBICKIS DENISS 14.85 4. ŠTRAUS SEBASTJAN 14.45 5. VOROBYOV OLEKSANDR 14.40 6. SCHAERER CHRISTOPH 14.30 7. PALGEN SASCHA 14.20 8. PULJIC BLAŽ 14.10 Results of other slovak gymnasts from 2nd day of Fianls: Women Beam: 5. PAULICKOVA NATALIA 12.95 6. HOMOLOVA MARIA 12.75 Men Vault: 5. BENKO ALEXANDER 13.900 Men Horizontal Bar: 4. PIASECKY SAMUEL 14.45 »» Results Men     »» Results Women

Pictures from Int Championships of Slovakia 2006	2006 Sep 24
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Prokesova and Gajdo won OstseePokal 2006

2006 June 5

For www.Gymnastics-Slovakia.com from Katarina Prokesova:   "... enclosed you'll find results from Ostseepokal in Satrupe 3-4. juna 2006. In this trampoline competition participated around 400 athletes from 5 countries. I took part only in trampoline synchro together with Viola Gaida and we took the first place among 18 pairs including current Champions of Germany, which is a great success.   I didn't compete in singles since I still haven't fully recovered from injuries and on the other hand I was busy supervising our clubs 13 kids," Trampoline synchro: 1. Viola Gajda / Katarina Prokesova (TGJ Salzgitter, GER) 123.20 2. Lara Huninghake / Catherine Auerbach (TGJ Salzgitter, GER) 121.60 3. Lena Lienenkamper / Kristin Scholl (GER) 115.00

Pictures from European Championships	2006 May 28
Katarina Prokesova shares with us pictures from 20th European Championships in trampoline, mini-trampoline and tumbling in Metz, France Katarina Prokesova, George Nissen, Dietr Wozniak Metz 2006

Prokesova ready for European Championships

2006 May 20

The 20th European Championships in trampoline, mini-trampoline and tumbling will be held in Metz, France from May 22-28th. 27 national federations have entered 318 senior athletes (140 in trampoline) and 387 juniors (199).   Katarina Prokesova from Slovakia will try to add more medals to her collection: from World and European Championships: Champion of Europe double-mini trampoline 2000 Eindhoven Silver medal on DMT at European Championships 2002 St Petersburg (UEG accepted the protest submitted by the Gymnastics Federation of Slovakia concerning its gymnasts Katarina PROKESOVA (3rd of the Double Mini-Tramp competition and bronze medallist). The protest concerned the difficulty score given by one of the judges. As the protest has been accepted, the Slovakian gymnast Katarina Prokesova obtained the silver medal and the German athlete, Kathrin DEUNER (former silver medallist), the bronze medal.) Bronze medal from World Championships 2001 Odense Good luck in Metz, Katka!

	Thanks to Kamil Skwarczynski from Poland we have pictures from Gymnastics World Cup 2006 in Ghent More pictures
Men Floor: 1 BOGONOSYUK Evgeni UKR 15.325, 2 GOLOTSUTKOV Anton RUS 15.275, 3 UDE Filip CRO 15.200 Pommel Horse: 1 XIAO Qin CHN 15.975, 2 BERKI Krisztian HUN 15.625, 3 FERDJANI Sid Ali ALG 14.300 Rings: 1 ANGIOLETTI Matteo ITA 15.625, 2 GEORGALLAS Irodotos CYP 15.250, 3 SAID ELDARINY Walid EGY 15.225 Vault: 1 GOLOTSUTKOV Anton RUS 16.212, 2 CAPOTE Pablo VEN 16.087, 3 BOTELLA Isaac ESP 15.987 P. Bars: 1 HUANG Xu CHN 15.975, 2 PETKOVSEK Mitja SLO 15.900, 3 TOMITA Hiroyuki JPN 15.225, 4 KHOROKHORDIN Sergei RUS 14.950, 5 FUJITA Kazusa JPN 14.875, 6 RYAZANOV Yury RUS 14.800, 6 SPRING Justin USA 14.800, 8 PIASECKY Samuel SVK 14.700 H. Bar: 1 PEGAN Aljaz SLO 15.500, 2 BOGONOSYUK Evgeni UKR 14.925, 3 TSAREVICH Aliaksandr BLR 14.800 Women Vault: 1 CHUSOVITINA Oxana UZB 14.862, 2 SACRAMONE Alicia USA 14.650, 3 SKOWRONSKA Joanna POL 14.375 U. Bars: 1 LI Ya CHN 15.725, 2 KLYUKINA Svetlana RUS 14.800, 3 GENER Tania ESP 14.775 Beam: 1 DE SIMONE Lenika ESP 15.325, 2 PRIESS Ashley USA 14.825, 3 MAURO Hillary USA 14.725 Floor: 1 DE SIMONE Lenika ESP 14.525, 2 MORENA Patricia ESP 14.375, 3 PRIESS Ashley USA 14.300 » Results Men   » Results Women

Piasecky took 8th place on P. Bars Final
Parallel Bars Finals 1 PETKOVSEK Mitja SLO 16.025 2 CUCHERAT Yann FRA 15.675 3 IVANKOV Ivan BLR 15.550 4 KARBANENKO Dimitri FRA 15.400 5 KASPAROVICH Dimitri BLR 15.375 6 KHOROKHORDIN Sergei RUS 15.325 7 HAMBUECHEN Fabian GER 15.250 8 PIASECKY Samuel SVK 14.300	Parallel Bars Qualification 1 PETKOVSEK Mitja SLO 15.925 2 IVANKOV Ivan BLR 15.800 3 CUCHERAT Yann FRA 15.600 4 DEVIATOVSKI Maxim RUS 15.475 5 KASPAROVICH Dimitri BLR 15.475 6 PIASECKY Samuel SVK 15.300 7 KARBANENKO Dimitri FRA 15.225 8 SAVITSKI Dimitri BLR 15.200
Alexander Benko, Jozef Konecny and Samuel Piasecky after arrival from Volos » Results Finals

After winning World Cup series meet La Serena Chile in september 2004 took slovak gymnast Samuel Piasecky (coach Martin Zvalo) 6th place among 93 gymnasts in Parallel Bars qualification at 27th Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Volose, Greece and secured his spot in Sunday's apparatus finals.   Piasecky also placed 25th among 86 gymnasts on High Bar with 14.725 and 35th on floor with 14.125.   The other gymnast from Slovakia Alexander Benko took 74th place in Floor Exercise qualification (13.125) and 73rd place in pommel horse qualification (12.325). » Results qualification

11th International Junior Team Cup

2006 March 04

Teams FX PH SR VT PB HB Total 1 Japan JPN 42,150 41,400 40,550 47,750 42,350 41,200 255,400 2 KTV Chemnitz GER 40,300 40,800 40,350 45,850 40,550 37,400 245,250 3 Schwitzerland SUI 40,600 41,150 39,250 43,200 40,000 40,400 244,600 19 Slovakia SVK 35.500 31.450 34.350 42.900 34.150 29.250 207.600 Born 1988-89 FX PH SR VT PB HB Total 1 Munoz Sergio ESP 14,350 13,350 14,150 16,250 13,600 13,300 85,000 2 Koizumi Kazuaki JPN 14,100 13,300 13,200 15,800 13,900 13,400 83,700 3 Gladow Brain GER 13,500 12,950 14,400 15,200 14,200 12,900 83,150 20 Magda Peter SVK 11,750 10,900 11,550 13,950 12,100 10,500 70,750 21 Hilovski Ivan SVK 12,250 11,250 11,650 14,500 11,150 9,550 70,350 29 Lech Jakub SVK 11,500 0,000 11,150 14,450 10,900 9,200 57,200 45 Vojtek Vlado SVK 0,000 9,300 0,000 0,000 0,000 0,000 9,300 Results

First medal from Winter Olympics in Slovak history

2006 Feb 17

Yes, I know the difference between gymnastics and snowboarding. And yes, I remember the name of my website. But I have to let my visitors know, that little tiny country in the heart of Europe - Slovakia with 5.5 millions people won first medal from Winter Olympic Games since became independent country in 1993. Thanks to Radoslav Zidek (pictured left in USA Today special Torino Olympics section) who took silver medal in snowboardcross competition. By the way don't tell me that good snowboarder doesn't need gymnastics training. Congratulations Radoslav Zidek!

2006 European Championships without Sekerova

2006 Feb 13

European Championships 2006 in Volos - Drawing of lots. The UEG Men’s and Women’s Technical Committees have carried out the drawing of lots of the starting orders during a press conference on Saturday, February 11th. SENIOR WOMEN VT UB BB FX Subdivision 1 SVK CZE IRL BEL CYP MIX 2 SCG LTU AUT DEN Subdivision 2 GER MIX 1 MDA LUX SUI BLR MIX 3 TUR SLO BUL DEN CRO Subdivision 3 HUN ISR POL FIN NOR SWE LAT ISL Subdivision 4 ROM UKR RUS ESP GBR ITA FRA GRE JUNIOR WOMEN VT UB BB FX Subdivision 1 ISL SUI MIX 2: DEN, LUX MIX 1: JSR SVK ARM CZE Subdivision 2 AUT POL TUR BEL SLO CRO FIN GER Subdivision 3 LAT SWE LTU HUN ESP NOR POR BUL Subdivision 4 RUS ROM ITA GBR FRA NED UKR GRE   Two times Olympian and 6th best on balance beam (20th in All Around Finals) from last European Championships Zuzana Sekerova annonced February 10 on her official website www.sekerova.com: “ I wasn't able to accept an offer from Slovak Gymnastics Federation (SGF)to compete at the European Championships because I wasn't able to satisfy some of the requirements they had. I also do not know much about the new rules in gymnastics for this year so I would not be ready skill wise. I am still hoping though that we are going to come to an agreement with SGF and I will be able to make a showing at the Worlds this year.” SENIOR MEN FX PH SR VT PB HB Subdivision 1 POL MIX 1 BEL JRL MIX 7 TUR CYP GBR CRO FIN BUL DEN NOR POR Subdivision 2 CZE NED AUT SWE MIX 6 LTU MIX 5 SVK ISR SLO MIX 4 SCD MDA MIX 3 ARM LUX MIX 2 AZE GEO ISL Subdivision 3 BLR ROK FRA RUS UKR GER ESP ITA SUI HUN LAT GRE JUNIOR MEN FX PH SR VT PB HB Subdivision 1 CZE ESP POL MIX 3 ISL MIX 1 ISR IRL Subdivision 2 BUL SLO DEN SWE NOR LTU SVK FIN BEL POR NED AUT Subdivision 3 GER RUS FRA UKR ROM SUI HUN ITA CRO BLR GRE GBR

What's going on, Katka Prokesova?

2006 Feb 02

On February 1st celebrated slovak 2004 olympian in trampoline Katarina Prokesova thirtieth birthday. Along with the best wishes we asked her “What's the news Katka?” Following is her reply:   ... Yesterday February 1st I turned thirty! Thanks for the congratulations. What's new?... During Holidays I went to an almost 3 weeks long tour - Feuerwerk der Turkunst. It's gymnastics and art show which travels from town to town mostly in Niedersachsenu, but we went also to Berlin. This show visited 90 thousands people (The best show in Europe). We had an act on double mini tramp and we were dressed as dead people accompanied with music Thriller from M. Jacksona. It was great because we had a live music and singing... Unfortunately just before the end of the tour I broke my leg and last 4 days of the tour I was just a spectator. I 'll have cast on leg another 3 weeks and after that I'll slowly start with my training again.   My first meet will be in the end of March if there are no complications.   But for 20th European Championships I'll be top fit and I am looking forward to it.     So that's my update, Ciao Katarina

Slovak artistic gymnastics calendar 2006

2006 Jan 05

Mar 4 ? CZE-SVK women & juniors Mar 18-19 Lyon (FRA) 15th French International Mar 23-27 Kyjev (UKR) Stella Zakharova Cup Mar 24-26 Cottbus (GER) 30th Turnier der Meister Apr 1 ? CRO-SVK women & juniors Apr 15 Ljubljana (SLO) SLO-SVK-AUT women & juniors Apr 27-30 Volos (GRE) European Championships Women's Artistic Gymnastics May 04-07 Volos (GRE) European Championships Men's Artistic Gymnastics May 13-14 Ghent (BEL) Men's Artistic Gymnastics World Cup May 22-27 Moscow (RUS) World Stars 2006 May 22-28 Metz (FRA) 20th European Championships Tampolines and Tumbling Jun 10-11 Trnava Gym Festival Trnava women & juniors Oct 14-22 Aarhus (DEN) 39th World Artistic Gymnastics Championships Oct 27-29 Stuttgart (GER) 24th DTB Pokal Nov ? ? 13th Artistic Gymnastics World Cup Final Nov 1 Chiasso (SUI) 23rd Memorial Arthur Gander Nov 5 Zurich (SUI) 28th Swiss Cup 2006 Nov 17-19 Glasgow (GBR) Glasgow Grand Prix

Slovak men's team on the way to Volos

2006 April 30

Information and photo for Gymnastics-Slovakia.com from Martin Zvalo:   This morning (Sunday April 30th) I drove coach Jozef Konecny (left - silver medalist on vault at European Championships 1979 in Essen) and Slovak men Samuel Piasecky and Alex Benko to the airport in Schwechat, Vienna. They had to leave earlier, because of men's podium training is next Tuesday. The rest of Slovak delegation (juniors and judges) will leave on Monday from Budapest. Junior's podium training is on Wednesday.   I am not going to say our goals and predict results. I think they are very well prepared (just look at the results at the latest meets in Bratislava and Brno. In the trainings they were doing whole routines in the mornings and in the afternoons and they looked good. Their routines are very difficult so any little mistake ... That;s gymnastics. I think our gymnasts deserve to succeed because of all the hard work they have done. So cross your fingers and hope that everyone who is involve in artistic gymnastics in Slovakia will be happy after European Championships. From Bratislava Martin

Last test before European Championships

2006 April 22

Information and picture for Gymnastics-Slovakia.com from Martin Zvalo:   Last Saturday took slovak men and juniors in Bratislava last test before upcoming European Championships in Volos, Greece. Nine slovak gymnasts were joined by 3 gymnasts from Croatia spending final training before Europeans in Bratislava.   The best routine of the meet was Samuel Piasecky's parallel bars with a score of 15.5. In his horizontal bar routine Piasecky performed for the first time "Kovac-salto" and received score 15.3. M E N FX PH SR VT PB HB Total 1 Lazorík Jakub 1987 Polytrade Prešov, SVK A B Σ 4.10 8.50 12.60 3.50 6.50 10.00 4.40 8.10 12.50 5.80 9.00 14.80 4.30 7.40 11.70 3.20 8.50 11.70 25.30 48.00 73.30 2 Piasecký Samuel 1985 Slávia UK BA, SVK A B Σ 5.60 7.90 13.50 6.10 9.40 15.50 5.90 9.40 15.30 17.60 26.70 44.30 3 Ude Filip 1986 CRO A B Σ 5.20 8.00 13.20 6.60 9.60 16.20 5.30 8.90 14.2 17.1 26.50 43.60 4 Benko Alexander 1984 Slávia UK BA, SVK A B Σ 5.10 7.90 13.00 6.00 8.40 14.40 11.10 16.30 27.40 5 Neczli Andrej 1979 Slávia UK BA, SVK A B Σ 4.90 8.40 13.30 4.90 8.40 13.30 J U N I O R S FX PH SR VT PB HB Total 1 Hílovský Ivan 1988 Gymnastik Košice, SVK A B Σ 3.70 8.00 11.70 3.30 8.00 11.30 3.90 8.50 12.40 6.20 9.40 15.60 4.00 8.20 12.20 4.30 8.20 12.50 25.40 50.30 75.70 2 Drahovský Filip 1990 Slávia UK BA, SVK A B Σ 4.10 8.60 12.70 3.20 8.20 11.40 2.00 9.30 11.30 5.40 9.20 14.60 4.20 8.70 12.90 1.90 9.30 11.20 20.80 53.30 74.10 3 Magda Peter 1988 Polytrade Prešov, SVK A B Σ 4.00 7.60 11.60 2.70 7.90 10.60 3.70 8.80 12.50 6.20 7.60 13.80 3.60 8.00 11.60 3.10 8.20 11.30 23.30 48.10 71.40 4 Šnírer Denis 1990 Slávia UK BA, SVK A B Σ 4.00 8.80 12.80 3.20 7.50 10.70 2.50 8.60 11.10 5.80 9.30 15.10 3.30 7.30 10.60 2.20 8.00 10.20 21.00 49.50 70.50 5 Lichtman Matej 1990 Slávia UK BA, SVK A B Σ 3.40 8.40 11.80 2.80 6.50 9.30 1.80 8.80 10.60 5.40 9.10 14.50 3.00 9.00 12.00 1.50 8.50 10.00 17.90 50.30 68.20 6 Dudek Nikola 1991 CRO A B Σ 4.50 7.90 12.40 5.50 9.20 14.70 3.90 8.90 12.80 5.50 8.90 14.40 4.40 8.70 13.10 23.80 43.60 67.40 7 Novak Matija 1990 CRO A B Σ 4.70 8.60 13.30 3.20 7.90 11.10 4.00 8.10 12.10 6.20 8.70 14.90 18.10 33.30 51.40

Slovak gymnasts for European Championships

2006 April 20

European Gymnastics Federation UEG published Nominative Registration for upcoming Artistic Gymnastics European Championships according to which Slovakia will be represented by these gymnasts 26th European Championships Women Artistic Gymnastics 2006 April 27.-30 VOLOS, Greece Senior: HOMOLOVA Maria 26.09.1987 Junior: KOVACOVA Ivana 24.02.1992 27th European Championships Men Artistic Gymnastics 2006 May 04.-07 VOLOS, Greece Seniori: PIASECKY Samuel 31.10.1984, BENKO Alexander 13.02.1984 Juniori: HILOVSKY Ivan 14.02.1988, MAGDA Peter 23.01.1988

Slovak junior team last in Brno (CZE)

2006 april 15

Slovak juniors went to neighboring Czech republic for the test before upcoming European Championships in Volos (GRE). With more 15 points behind the winners - Poland they finished last. Teams 1. Poland (POL)    240,800 2. Austria (AUT)    236,300 3. Czech Republic (CZE)    231,750 4. Hungary (HUN)    231,300 5. Croatia (CRO)    230,700 6. Slovakia (SVK)    225,000 Juniors from SVK FX PH SR VT PB HB Total Hilovsky Ivan 13.200 11.800 12.250 15.000 12.350 12.600 77.200 Magda Peter 13.000 11.000 11.900 15.000 11.650 11.550 74.100 Snirer Denis 12.900 11.600 11.100 14.600 11.45 10.850 72.500 Drahovsky Filip 13.200 9.200 10.850 14.200 12.100 10.350 69.900 Lech Jakub - - 11.350 14.200 11.050 9.800 46.400 SLOVAKIA 39.400 34.400 35.500 44.600 36.100 35.000 225.000 * Kriska Samuel 12.800 11.200 11.600 14.300 12.300 12.350 74.550 * Samuel Kriska did not compete as a member of Slovak Team

Slovak junior team for Volos	2006 april 10
For Gymnastics-Slovakia.com from Jozef Ducak: Slovak Gymnastics Federation on April 7th approved nomination for 2006 European Championships in Volos: 1. Hilovsky Ivan (Gymnastik Kosice - left) 2. Magda Peter (SSG Poly-Trade Presov - middle) Coach: Jozef Ducak (Gymnastik Kosice - right)

Qualification at the 30th Tournament of Masters	2006 March 24
Qualification at the 30th Tournament of Masters in Cottbus began. The only gymnast from Slovakia Samuel Piasecky with coach Jozef Konecny who replaced sick coach Martin Zvalo took part in Floor qualification so far. He placed 17th with a score 13.70 (A-Score 5.20) » Results from Qualification

Slovak Men's and juniors team meet

2006 March 17

For gymnastics-slovakia.com from Martin Zvalo:   Members of senior and junior men's team of Slovakia had first test for upcoming European Championships on Friday in Bratislava. After code of points changed we tried to select new difficult element (D, E, F) which will increase start value close to 6.0 if we want to be successful in international meets. Slovak juniors added some new elements, now they are polishing it in routines. Samuel Kriska's floor and high bars look good, I can say the same about Filip Drahovsky's floor and parallel bars and Denis Snirer's rings and vault. I have a great expectation from only 14-years old Slavomir Michnak. He works on many great moves especially on pommel horse and parallel bars.   Seniors competed only on their strong events. Because of 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing Samuel Piasecky trains all-around, but at World Cup series and at European Championships he will compete only on floor, parallel bars and high bar. He has a new floor routine but leg injury didn't allow him to perform it with full strength. He performed a nice parallel bars routine. Before European Championships he is adding new "F" element and new dismount. He is working on two new "D" and "E" elements on high bar and I hope he will add them in routine for European Championships. Alexander Benko added to his first tumbling pass double layout and he is working on front handspring - front layout with 900° turn. He has a great routine on pommel horse with start value 16.0 but yesterday he felt in the end of routine. Andrej Neczli started new job and new University and had not enough time to prepare for this meet. But we'll see him in next meet in April.   Samuel Piasecky leaves next Friday to Cottbus for 30th Turnier der Meister Slovak men's and juniors meet 2006 Mar 17 FX PH SR VT PB HB Total 1 Šnírer Denis    1990 Slavia UK A B Ded Score 3.50 8.50 12.00 2.90 7.00 9.90 2.00 9.00 11.00 5.80 9.30 15.10 3.10 8.60 11.70 2.00 8.40 10.40 19.30 50.80 70.10 2 Drahovský Filip    1990 Slavia UK A B Ded Score 4.10 7.80 11.90 3.20 7.20 10.40 2.20 8.70 10.90 5.40 9.00 14.40 4.10 8.30 12.40 1.20 8.80 10.00 20.20 49.80 70.00 3 Kriška Samuel    1988 Slavia UK A B Ded Score 3.90 8.30 12.20 2.70 5.90 8.60 2.20 8.60 10.80 5.40 8.90 14.30 4.10 7.40 11.50 3.40 8.50 11.90 21.70 47.60 69.30 4 Lichtman Matej    1990 Slavia UK A B Ded Score 3.40 8.50 11.90 2.70 7.00 9.70 1.70 8.50 10.20 5.40 9.30 14.70 3.00 8.30 11.30 1.70 7.90 9.60 17.90 49.50 67.40 5 Daniel Peter    1990 Slavia UK A B Ded Score 3.30 8.00 11.00 2.70 7.00 9.70 1.70 8.50 10.20 5.40 8.00 13.40 3.00 8.60 11.60 1.70 8.20 9.90 17.80 48.30 65.80 6 Michnák Slavomír    1992 Slavia UK A B Ded Score 3.50 8.50 10.00 2.60 7.05 9.65 2.10 7.60 9.70 5.40 8.60 14.00 3.60 8.30 11.90 2.50 7.90 10.40 19.70 47.95 65.65 7 Piasecký Samuel    1984 Slavia UK A B Ded Score 5.00 8.35 13.35 5.80 8.60 14.50 5.60 7.60 13.20 16.40 24.55 41.05 8 Benko Alex    1984 Slavia UK A B Ded Score 4.40 8.00 12.40 6.00 8.00 14.00 10.40 16.00 26.40

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