Rimini - 1st WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

Rimini WM 2002 Video-Clip (download 14MB WMV-file)

FINAL-RESULTS "OPEN"

RANKINGNAMENATIONPOINTS
1.CONZETT GUTSCHI ANTONIASwitzerland135
2.Hempfling-Kaiser DanielaGermany116
3.Koch TanjaGermany106
4.Brunner BirgitSwitzerland98
5.Eberhardt-Goe HollyUSA97
6.Feusi HelgaSwitzerland93
7.Tschabrun SandraAustria82
8.Shaw LeilaJamaica69
9.Ilbaz MelikeTurkey31

THE FOUNDATION IS LAID

Unfortunately, the favorite, Katja Wagner from Russia (she lives in Germany these days), could not compete, since she had a moderately serious accident a few weeks before the World Championship. Nevertheless, Katja came to Rimini to help out as a technical assistant.

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Opening celebration

A great round of praise goes to all those who have contributed to the implementation of this successful world premiere of the first STRENFLEX Fitness Sport World Championship. These include not just the fantastic athletic participants but also the excellent judges and their fast work.

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The Strenflex judges:
Isabelle Baumann (CH)
Claudia Faes (CH)
Andrea Staneker (D)
Donna Danton (USA)
Elena Levy (RUS)


Furthermore, the deputy chief judge Claudia Faes Aventaggio from Switzerland, Donna Danton from the United States, Andrea Staneker from Germany, Elena Levy from Russia and Isabelle Baumann from Switzerland deserve a special commendation. Credit is due to the Technical Tribunal, consisting of the two men on the judges’ team, Dario Karamatic from Croatia and Boris Reinhardt from Germany, for the fact that the competition was conducted in a timeframe in agreement with regulations and that the evaluation proceeded quickly and correctly.

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After the winner honour
(in the back): Helga Feusi, Holly Eberhardt-Goe, Sandra Tschabrun, Leila Shaw
(in front): Birgit Brunner, Tanja Koch, Antonia Conzett Gutschi, Daniela Hempfling-Kaiser


Furthermore, the technical assistants who supported both competitors and judges deserve great praise for their strong initiative. These included Natasha Danton (United States), Sandra Leuener (Switzerland), Katja Wagner (Russia), Mario Laina (Italy) and Pierre Gattiker (Switzerland).

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The winners: Tanja Koch
Antonia Conzett Gutschi
Daniela Hempfling-Kaiser

This World Championship spectacle was well organized: from the athletes entering with their national flags, the national anthems and the beautiful winners’ medals, which were presented to the winners on a purple cushion, to the flower bouquets for the five finalists.

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The winners at the sea:
Tanja Koch
Antonia Conzett Gutschi
Daniela Hempfling-Kaiser

This was a World Championship that all participants won’t forget for quite some time. On March 29, 2003, the second STRENFLEX Fitness Sport World Championship will take place in Miami, Florida. It will be the second championship for women and the first one for men. This year, the competitors will be able to compete two more times, once during the European Championship on October 26, 2002, in Frankfurt, Germany, during the LIFETIME specialist trade fair and during the World Cup in Austria at the end of November.

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Strenflex athletes at the beach

I would also like to express my heartfelt thanks to the first STRENFLEX sponsors for their generous gifts: To AIREX, which gave its items to the five top-ranked athletes, POLAR-LMT Switzerland, which presented the three top-ranked competitors with a Polar pulse-watch, and to Technogym Switzerland & Italy, which provided the "heavyweights," i.e. the barbells and barbell disks. Unfortunately, the event was not organized in an optimal fashion by the organizer, and the STRENFLEX sports organization has drawn the obvious conclusions for future championships.


So, who is the first Strenflex Fitness Sport World Champion?

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Antonia Conzett-Gutschi. The 22-year-old student, who was born on March 26, 1980, attends the International School for Tourism (IST) in Zurich and has been doing fitness training for four years in the following gyms: Activ Fitnesscenter and sometimes also at the TC-Airgate, both in Zurich. She discovered the new STRENFLEX Fitness Sport through an article in FITNESS TRIBUNE (www.fitnesstribune.com).

She developed a spontaneous enthusiasm for the idea and concept of the new sport and was one of the first people to register for the first workshop during the FITMESS fair in Basel in the beginning of March. Ever since this workshop, she specifically practiced the required 14 STRENFLEX exercises several times a week.

She would have never thought that she would be the first STRENFLEX World Champion. Since interim results are announced each time at STRENFLEX championships and she was technically in the lead since the beginning of the competition, she made a huge effort: The championship title was within her reach. Also in view of the upcoming European Championship, an interview with Antonia will be published in the next issue of the magazine.