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2017 Sainté Gym Cup: two silver medals for Team Belgium

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Last weekend, Saint-Étienne hosted the very first edition of the Sainté Gym Cup, an international competition gathering teams from 9 countries, including France, Spain, Romania, Italy and Belgium. Our gymnasts brought 2 silver medals back home! Credit: Laurie Photographies The team qualifications and the all-around finals took place on Saturday. The Belgian team was composed of Senior Julie Meyers and Juniors Julie Vandamme , Fien Enghels and Margaux Daveloose . As a team, they placed 2nd in qualifications and qualified for the team final, that took place on Sunday. Individually, Fien Enghels was the best Belgians among the Juniors, as she placed 5th, with a total score of 47.150. Julie Vandamme and Margaux Daveloose weren't far behind, as they ranked 7th and 8th. In the Senior category, Julie Meyers scored a total of 49.800 to take the silver medal! Credit: Laurie Photographies Juniors all-around ranking 1. Alessia Canali (ITA) 48.950 2. Aline Friess

Doha World Cup: 5th place for Dennis Goossens in the rings final !

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This week, Dennis Goossens and Maxime Gentges both competed at the Doha World Cup as a preparation for the upcoming European Championships. Dennis qualified for the rings final and placed 5th. Credit: Thierry Deleuze After finals at the 2016 European Championships and the Olympic Games, Dennis Goossens once again qualified for a top final, this time at a World Cup. He qualified in 6th place, with a score of 14.633. This Friday, in a particularly tough final, including Ukraine's Igor Radivilov, Dennis managed to place 5th, with a score of 14.500 (6.1D score).  Credit: Mathias Hikketik Still rings final standings 1. Artur Tovmasyan (ARM) 15.133 2. Igor Radivilov (UKR) 15.066 3. Zou Jingyuan (CHN) 15.033 4. Vahagn Davtyan (ARM) 14.966 5. Dennis Goossens (BEL) 14.500 6. Marcel Nguyen (GER) 14.433 7. Genichiro Kohzu (JPN) 14.433 8. Ibrahim Colak (TUR) 13.800 Also competing in Doha was Maxime Gentges . The Belgian gymnast competed on 4 events in

DTB-Pokal Team Challenge Cup: 8th place for the boys

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This weekend, Stuttgart hosts both the FIG Individual World Cup and the Team Challenge Cup. Our men's team was there to represent our country, finishing in a great 8th place out of 16 teams! Credit: Mathias Hikketik The Belgian team, composed of  Luka Van den Keybus ,  Jonathan Vrolix ,  Maxime Gentges ,  Daan Kenis  and  Jimmy Verbaeys , started its competition on rings, where  Jimmy Verbaeys  earned the top score with 13.750, followed by  Maxime Gentges  (13.650) and  Daan Kenis  (13.350). On vault,  Kenis  and  Jonathan Vrolix  got big scores for their vault, a 14.500, the highest scores of the competition on this apparatus.  Credit: Mathias Hikketik On parallel bars,  Jimmy 's best apparatus, the young Belgian earned a 14.350.  Daan  follows with a 13.800.  Maxime  got 13.000, while  Luka  scored 12.950. This competition was also the occasion to compete new elements.  Maxime Gentges  tried a new dismount off the horizontal bar : a triple back somersault

Top 12 France : multiple success for our gymnasts

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This weekend, Jimmy Verbaeys, Nina Derwael, Senna Deriks and Julie Meyers were back in action at the French Top 12, France's championships. This competition was also the opportunity for us to see how our gymnasts would score under the new code of points. Let's have a look at how they did! Credit: ffgym.fr On Saturday, Jimmy Verbaeys helped the team from Sotteville win the bronze medal in the match against La Madeleine for the 3rd place. In a very tense final, made of duels on each apparatus, Jimmy Verbaeys looked super steady, hitting 6 routines out of 6. This competition was the ideal way for Jimmy to prepare for the upcoming European Championships. But before that, he will travel to Germany for the Team Challenge Cup in Stuttgart. Rankings: 1. Antibes 2. Clamart 3. Sotteville (with Jimmy Verbaeys) 4. La Madeleine Crédit: ffgym.fr On Sunday, Nina Derwael competed alongside the team of Dunkerque, while Julie Meyers and Senna Deriks competed wit