Intense activity of the President Georges Guelzec

Since officially taking office on January 23rd 2010, the new president of the European Union of Gymnastics, Georges Guelzec, has multiplied his meetings, visits, negotiations and contacts.

Company pool: Georges Guelzec has contacted the representatives of many companies in view of the creation of a partnership programme to reduce the costs of the organisers of UEG events. A further aspect of this project is to facilitate the reinsertion of gymnasts at the end of their career. Several companies (Swiss-Timing, Gymnova, Cirque du Soleil) have already joined this new programme.

Official UEG partners: the President has met in Lausanne with the representatives of Janssen&Fritsen and Spieth, apparatus suppliers and official UEG partners. The solidarity programme valid until 2013, allowing providing gymnastic material to certain federations, has been discussed.

Medical commission: a further meeting was held in Lausanne, the first meeting of the new UEG medical commission. The discussion allowed setting up the programme of interventions of the different official UEG doctors during the different UEG championships and events in 2010. The presidency of this commission will be assumed by the Swiss doctor Gérald Gremion.

Organisers ECh 2010: the President travelled to Bremen, Sofia/Varna and Birmingham in order to assist at meetings of the respective organising committees of the European Championships to be held this spring. He could observe the satisfying progress of the preparations. The general organisation, the result service provided by Swiss Timing and the different TV aspects belonged to the main discussion points. In Sofia he was received by the Sports Minister.

FIG executive committee: end of February, the President Guelzec stayed in Lausanne where he attended a meeting of the FIG executive committee, of which he is member since his election as president of the European continental Union. With satisfaction he took note of the generous subsidy which the UEG will receive by the FIG for its technical projects 2010.

CDES: March 8th, Georges Guelzec had a meeting with the CDES (centre for law and economics of sport). The CDES is an evaluation and training tool employed for the sports movement and its environment and has been commissioned by the European parliament to study how Europe can help the mass sport. GG took the opportunity to present UEG events such as the Golden Age or Eurogym.

PB/UEG: March 12th and 13th, a meeting of the UEG president’s board was held in Lausanne. The revised budget has been adopted. The proceedings of the preparations in view of the four European Championships of this spring were discussed. The organisation of the Secretariat and different points regarding the communication have been treated.

ECh WAG 2012 in Brussels: end of March, it is Brussels and the Royal Belgian Gymnastics Federation who received Georges Guelzec in view of the organisation of the women’s artistic gymnastics championships 2012 which will take place in the exposition park in Brussels. This visit has also enabled an exchange with the directors of the BEL NF regarding the UEG projects. After that, a press conference was held at the town hall, where the Belgian teams for the forthcoming ECh 2010 in Birmingham were presented. The discussions with the representatives of the City Council as well as the broad organisational experience of the Belgian federation, promise already success for the important ECh 2012, which will take place a few weeks before the Olympic Games in London.

Lausanne, April 12th, 2010 / D. Duchoud - UEG

Advance notice – European Championships 2010

In spring 2010, the European Union of Gymnastics UEG will organise European Championships (ECh) in its four Olympic disciplines. For men’s and women’s artistic gymnastics, trampoline and rhythmic gymnastics it will be an important step towards the Olympic Games 2012 and before the World Championships this autumn. These Championships will also serve as qualification for the Youth Olympic Games taking place from August 14th to 26th, 2010 in Singapore.

26th European Rhythmic Gymnastics  Championships in Bremen / GER
Date and venue: 15 - 18 April 2010 in Bremen, Bremen Arena

Participation: 33 national federations, 22 senior groups, 99 junior individuals, the 20 best senior individuals of the ECh 2009.

SENIORS (min. 16 years old)
Individuals (20 best gymnasts from the last ECh): competition II and competition III (apparatus finals). Senior groups: competition I with two different exercises (5 hoops + 3 ribbons/2 ropes), competition III (finals for each exercise).

JUNIORS (13 to 15 years old)
Competition I : General multiple competition, team competition with 2 - 4 gymnasts, 4 voluntary exercises
Competition III: Final competition (rope, hoop, ball, clubs)
Qualifying competition for the Youth Olympic Games (gymnasts born in 1995)

Organizer’s website: www.em-rsg-2010.de
Media accreditation: on the internet site: www.ueg-gymnastics.com



22nd ECh Trampoline, Tumbling and Double Mini-Tramp 2010 in Varna (BUL)
Date and venue: 20 - 24 April 2010 at the Palace of culture and Sports, Varna

Participation: 185 senior gymnasts in trampoline, 38 in DMT and 14 in tumbling representing 20 national federations (NF) will take part in the 22nd ECh TRA in Varna BUL from 20th – 24th April 2010. Additional 242 juniors in trampoline, 33 in DMT and 52 in tumbling, coming from 10 NF.

Qualifications and finals in trampoline, trampoline synchro, tumbling and double-mini trampoline,
seniors and juniors + qualification for the Youth Olympic Games (56 inscriptions).

Organizer’s website: www.trampoline-bulgaria.com
Media accreditation: on the internet site: www.ueg-gymnastics.com


29th European men’s artistic gymnastics team Championships, juniors and seniors in Birmingham (GBR) – Date and venue: 21.04. - 25.04.2010 in Birmingham, National Indoor Arena (city centre)

Participation: 151 senior gymnasts from 37 national federations NF and 149 juniors from 34 NF
will participate in the 29th ECh in men’s artistic gymnastics in Birmingham from April 21 - 25 2010.
The competitions will take place in the National Indoor Arena (NIA), located in the city centre.
The programme for juniors (14 to 18 years old) includes: competition CI decisive for the team result, the qualification for C II (individual all-round competition) and for CIII (apparatus finals). For the seniors, (min. 16 years old): competition C I qualification for the team finals C IV and for the apparatus finales C III. For seniors there will be no individual all-round competition (as in all even years). However, this competition is re-introduced in junior’s category.
Qualification for the YOG: juniors born in 1993 and 1994 can qualify for the YOG 2010, except the gymnasts who have already participated in senior’s competitions.

Media accreditation: www.ueg-gymnastics.com
Organizer’s website: www.europeangymnastics2010.org


28th European women’s artistic gymnastics team Championships, juniors and
seniors in Birmingham (GBR) – Date and venue: April 28th – May 2nd, 2010 at the National Indoor Arena Birmingham (city centre)

Participation: 147 senior gymnasts from 33 national federations NF and 131 juniors from 32 NF

Programme: the programme for Juniors (14 and 15 years old) includes: competition CI decisive for the team result, the qualification for C II (individual all-round competition) and for CIII (apparatus finals) as well as the qualification for the Youth Olympic Games (YOG). Only juniors born in 1995 can present themselves at the qualifications for the YOG 2010, except for those who have already participated in senior competitions (FIG, UEG, World Cup etc.)

For Seniors, (min. 16 years old): competition C I qualifying for the team finals C IV and for the apparatus finals C III. For seniors there will be no individual all-round competition (as in all even years). However, this competition is re-introduced in junior’s category

Media accreditation: www.ueg-gymnastics.com
Organizer’s website: www.europeangymnastics2010.org



Other manifestations in 2010:

10 -15 July 2010:	6th EUROGYM youth festival in Odense DEN
3 - 8 October 2010:	2nd Golden Age Gymnastics Festival in Portimao POR
20 - 24 October 2010:	8th European TeamGym Championships in Malmö SWE
8 - 24 October 2010:	nd European ACRO team Championships (test event) & 6th European ACRO age group games 2010 in Rzeszow (POL)

General and detailed information:
www.ueg-gymnastics.com