Sandra Izbasa and Flavius Koczi at Swiss Cup and Arthur Gander Memorial
On November 2 the 30th edition of Swiss Cup will take place in Zurich, Switzerland. 12 teams from 11 countries will compete for the big prize of 20.000 USD. Romania will be represented by Sandra Izbasa and Flavius Koczi. The other 22 competitors are:
Mosiah Rodrigues & Juliana Santos (Brazil)
He Ning & Lu Bo (China)
Fabian Hambüchen & Oksana Chusovitina (Germany)
Yann Cucherat & Youna Dufournet (France)
Epke Zonderland & Suzanne Harmes (The Netherlands)
Paolo Ottavi & Lia Parolari (Italy)
Maxim Devyatovskiy & Ksenia Afanasyeva (Russia)
Niki Böschenstein & Ariella Kaeslin (Switzerland 1)
Claudio Capelli & Yasmin Zimmermann (Switzerland 2)
Eun Kyung Park & Ju Hoon Kim (South Korea)
Aliaksandr Tsarevich & Natassia Marachkouskaya (Belarus)
Flavius Koczi is the winner of last year, when he participated together with the world all-around vice champion, Steliana Nistor. Sandra Izbasa, gold floor medalist in Beijing, is also at the second participation in the Swiss Cup competition, after the 2005 edition, when she and Razvan Selariu ended up second.
Before the start in the Swiss Cup, the gymnasts will “warm-up” during The Memorial Arthur Gander, which will also take place in Switzerland (Chiasso), on October 29. Most of the gymnasts on the starting list are those from the Swiss Cup, plus Jordan Jotchev of Bulgaria.
For more information check the websites of the two competitions:
– Swiss Cup: http://www.swiss-cup.ch/
– Arthur Gander Memorial: http://www.memorialgander.ch
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