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Top Gym 2016: Serber and Cimpian dominate in finals

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Célia Serber, this year's revelation, was once again solid this afternoon, as well as Romania's Olivia Cimpian. They won all four gold medals in Charleroi! Credit: Belgian Gymnastics On vault, Cimpian , bronze medalist in the all-around yesterday, won the final with a Yurchenko full twist and a Tsukahara layout. She placed 1st ahead of Célia Serber  and her teammate Ioana Crisan , who only competed on vault due to a back injury.  Credit: Belgian Gymnastics Vault standings 1. Olivia Cimpian (ROU) 13.983 2. Célia Serber (FRA) 13.766 3. Ioana Crisan (ROU) 13.633 France is now well known for its work on bars. And the next generation is following in the footsteps of the oldest.  Célia Serber  won the gold thanks to a difficult routine and a huge full twisting double layout dismount. Olivia Cimpian  and Czech  Vendula Merkova , placed 2nd and 3rd. Merkova showed great potential this weekend, after a 4th place finish in the all-around yesterday. Credi

Top Gym 2016: France's Célia Serber is the new AA champion!

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In a very tight finish, the young Célia Serber from France took the gold, ahead of Naomi Visser from the Netherlands and Olivia Cimpian from Romania. Fien Enghels and Cassia Priels placed 8th and 10th respectively. Credit: Belgian Gymnastics Célia Serber , born in 2003, might come as a surprise here. But after a fall on balance beam, she appeared to be the most solid gymnast out there. At only 13, she shows great promises for the future, including a full twisting double layout dismount on bars! With a total score of 51.883, she took the gold medal. In second place is Naomi Visser from the Netherlands. She was in the lead after three rotations and it was very close between her and the top 4 gymnasts. After a good competition, Visser scored 51.699 to take the silver, just less than 0.2 from the gold. Olivia Cimpian from Romania came in 3rd. In my eyes, she was the favourite to win along with her teammate Ioana Crisan (who had to whithdrew due to an injury after her va

2016 Top Gym: all you need to know!

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2016 is almost over. Before the GymGala in two weeks and a much deserved break, our gymnasts will compete one last time at the International Top Gym! Credit: Gymnos Charleroi Last year, the competition took place in a weird atmosphere, after the Paris attacks and the threat on our country. But there was no way the organisers would cancel the event. And this year, the list of participating countries is once again amazing! We don't have the complete list of gymnasts, but some names are known : Romania's  Ioana Crisan  and  Olivia Cimpian , both bronze medalist at this year European Juniors Championships, will be there, as well as the Netherlands' Sanna Veerman  and  Naomi Visser . France will be represented by Alisson Lapp and Célia Serber . For Belgium, Chloé Leblicq ,  Cassia Priels  or  Fien Enghels  are also expected to compete. But gymnasts from Spain, Sweden, Czech Republic or Canada will also try to in gold this weekend. Schedule * Saturday 26 Novem

History maker Gaelle Mys retires from elite gymnastics

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A few weeks after Julie Croket, another Belgian gymnast says goodbye to gymnastics : 3 time Olympian Gaelle Mys!  Credit: Liesbeth Coremans Gaelle has been a lock for the Belgian team since her Seniors debut, in 2007. But before that, she was already successful as a Junior. After a first participation at the 2004 Euros, she competed at the 2005 FOJE where she qualified for the all-around final as well as the floor and beam finals. In 2006, she won a bronze medal on floor at the European Championships in Volos. Credit: Gymfan.de She turned Senior in 2007 and competed at the European Championships and the World Championships. Her good results at Euros (16th AA) and Worlds (68th AA), and her performance in World Cups (one in 2007, three in 2008) will allow her to represent Belgium at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, where she placed 24th in the all-around final! Between 2009 and 2012, Gaelle qualified for no less than 6 finals at World Cups and Challenger Cups and wo

International successes for Team Belgium!

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These past few weeks have been busy so far for our gymnasts and it's not over yet! Our Juniors WAG team will compete in Marseille next weekend and then in Charleroi at the Top Gym. But both our MAG and WAG teams have been successful so far. Let's catch up! Credit: Federació Catalana de Gimnàstica 2016 Wase Gym Cup The 13th edition of the Wase Gym Cup took place on the last weekend of October and gathered some of Belgium's best gymnasts and athletes from the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. Senior's Jonas Baert has been pretty successful as he won 6 gold medals (AA, team, floor, vault, parallel bars and horizontal bar). In the all-around, he took the gold ahead of European Championships finalist Noah Kuavita and Yureck Van Eetveld . Credit: Liesbeth Coremans In the Youth category, Bram De Ridder won the all-around ahead of Glen Cuyle and Jordi Hagenaar from the Netherlands. De Ridder, Cuyle, Abel Stoop and Nicola Cuyle won the team gold.