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2024 Artistic Gymnastics Apparatus World Cup: Cairo

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The coming days (February 15-18) Cairo welcomes gymnasts from 71 nations in their quest for a ticket for the Paris Olympic Games. For team Belgium Nina Derwael, Maellyse Brassart and Erika Pinxten are set to compete in this first  leg of the Artistic Gymnastics Apparatus World Cup 2024.  At the end of the FIG 2024 Apparatus World Cup series in Artistic Gymnastics, 20 Olympic tickets will be rewarded to the top two eligible gymnasts on each apparatus. The highest ranking gymnasts on each event score points. The winner earns 30 points, the runner-up 25 and the third place gets 20 points.The 16th placed gymnasts receives 1 point. The eligible gymnasts for Paris 2024 will be listed on an Olympic Qualificaiton world cup Ranking list. At the end of the World Cup series, the two highest ranked gymnasts on each apparatus will earn a nominative quoata place for Paris 2024. For this ranking, the 3 best results are taken into account. Only 1 gymnast per apparatus per federation can earn such a sp

2023 World Championships: 21st place for Luka in the All-aroundfinal

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  Thursday october 5th, the all-aroundfinal for men was scheduled at the World championships in Antwerp. Luka Van de Keybus entered the final as third reserve. He grabbed the opportunity to compete at home and finished 21st.  Luka started his final on still rings. He scored 12.900 for his well controled routine. He dismounted with a nearly stuck double piked front dismount. On vault he showed a nice yourchenko with 2 and a half twist and was rewarded with 14.500.  Luka was first up in the third rotation on Parallel bars. He showed a good routine including a diamidov, diamidov with half turn, a makuts and a healy and dismounted with a double front summersault with a step on the reception. He scored 14.200. After a strong start, Luka was in the 7th place half way the competition. On high bar Luka showed intricate turns. He was pleased with his double layout with full turn dismount. The judges rewarded him with 13.500. On floor Luka started with a double piked summersault, showed a nice

2023 World Championships: 17th place for Belgian team

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On these first two days of octobre the women took the floor in Antwerp for their qualifications at the World Championships. The Belgian team, plagued by injuries, finished XXX and was never in contention for a team spot at the Paris Olympics. Nevertheless the girls gave it their all and can be proud of themselves.  Youngster Erika Pinxten  anchored the team on balance beam. She mounted with a free lay-out stepout and showed a nice side aerial to layout stepout. Her score of 12.700 was the highest for the team on beam. Fien Enghels showed a tripple wolf turn but had to count 2 falls on her free walkover and acrobatic series. Her score of 10.533 was dropped. Margaux Dandois had a nasty fall on her flick to layout step out but recovered well. She dismounted with a double piked summersault and scored 12.066. Jutta Verkest  had a long wait before the start of her routine and fell on her side aerial. She scored 11.766. This was not the dream start the team had hoped for. The girls recovered

2023 World Championships: 2 tickets for the Olympics for Belgian men.

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Saturday september 30th, the World Championships started in Antwerp with the qualifications for men. The Belgian team was aiming for a spot in the top 12 and an Olympic team qualification. They finished 15th, missing the team tickets for Paris with only 0.368 points. The 15th place comes with a ticket for an all-around gymnast at the Paris olympics. Luka Van den Keybus also secured his ticket for Paris.  The Belgian team started very strong on parallel bars with 4 scores above 14.00.  Maxime Gentges  opened the competition for Team Belgium with a score of 14.066. Luka Vanden Keybus added 14.366 and Noah Kuavita  14.333. Nicola Cuyle closed the rotation with 14.166. This was a dream start of the competition and the Belgian fans went crazy.  On high bar Luka topped the team's ranking with a 13.233. Maxime  fell on one of his release elements and scored 12.033. Noah  probably did the best routine of his life but got a bit too rushed and made an error at the end of his routine. He dism

2023 EYOF: 9th and 14th place for the junior teams.

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Yesterday the European Youth Olympic Festival started in Maribor, Slovenia with the boy's qualifications. Today the girls completed their qualifications. They did well and qualified for 2 finals. On tuesday the Belgian boys competed. Kyano Schepers , Victor Tournicourt and Fynn Van Kampen  scored 151.85 as a team and finished 14th. Great Britain won the gold medal with 159.25. Italy finished second and Armenia won the bronze medal. Kyano  qualified for the individual final on parallel bars with a score of 13.15. He also received the highest all-around score of the Belgian team. He finished 18th with a total of 76.050. Victor Tournicourt scored 74.200 and took the 30th place. Fynn Van Kampen totalised 72.400 and finished 46th.  Today Chloe Baert ,  Hanne Degryse and Marie De Smedt took the floor. They started their competition on vault. They finished 9th as a team with a total score of 96.00. Italy won the gold medal with a score of 104.85. Germany won the silver medal and Great Bri

European Championships 2023: 8th place for Fien Enghels on balance beam.

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Today the European championships in Antalya come to an end witht the final day of apparatus finals. Fien Enghels finished 8th in her first European balance beam final.  Fien  was the sixt gymnast to compete in this balance beam final. She had a bit to much momentum on her candlestick mount and later slipped of on her free carthwheel layout step-out combination. It wasn't the perfect routine she would have dreamed to compete in this final. But she enjoyed the experience and is motivated to work on rising her D-score.  2016 Olympic balance beam champion Sanne Wevers from the Netherlands won the gold medal. Italian  Manila Esposito impressed with her layout step-out mount immediately linked to a flick and layout-step-out. She was rocksolid on the beam. She had the same execution score as Sanne Wevers but 0.1 less in difficulty and won the silver medal. Zsofia Kovacs from Hungary won the bronze medal over British Ondine Achampong after an enquiry.  Beam final results: 1. Sanne WEVERS

European championships 2023: two medals for Team Belgium!

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The first day of apparatus finals at the European championships in Antalya was historical for Team Belgium. Maxime Gentges is the first Belgian male athlete to win a medal at European championships. Lisa Vaelen won the bronze medal on vault.  Lisa Vaelen opened the vault final. She performed her Rudi vault but stepped out of bounds on the reception. She scored 14.033, less than she had dreamed. She scored 13.133 for her tsukahara with full twist. Her average score of 13.583 was just a tiny bit lower than her qualification score. It was a nervrewrecking wait to see if her score was good enough for a medal.  Favourite for the gold Coline Devillard from France did not dissapoint. She scored 13.800. Asia D'Amato from Italy jumped over Lisa with an average score of 13.600. Romanian youngster Sabrina Voinea-Maneca second vault was devaluated and couldn't threaten Lisa for the bronze medal.  Maxime Gentges was the history maker of the day. He dreamed of competing in a pommel horse fin