Welcome to Gymstarz! A small gymnastics website dedicated to the efforts of gymnasts throughout the world. As a part of that dedication we are happy and honored to host a number of official websites and tributes for athletes from all corners of the globe. Each website seeks to introduce the athletes to the enormous worldwide gymnastics audience through the fastest growing media resource - the world wide web. The athletes all contribute on a personal level to each site and as such provide an insight into their lives as a high level or elite gymnasts. Now we also have a special public area for all our visitors where they can learn more about gymnastics, read special features and view beautiful photographs, exclusive to this website only.

Gymstarz proubly presents a small event finals animation collection from the 2003 Finnish Championships, which was held in Helsinki, Finland on 11-12 July 2003. The competition featured the country's top senior gymnasts in women's and men's artistic gymnastics. While smaller than the full mpeg versions, these animated clips from the event finals may still take a few minutes to download depending on the speed of your connection but they are well worth the wait! Simply browse the collection on offer and click on the animation that you would like to view. - view the animations

Allana Slater's official website reopened today at a new location, with a new layout and lots of new content! Just in time for Worlds! Watch out for lots of new videos, multimedia and increased input from Allana in the coming months when she is able to regroup at home in Perth after this World Championship campaignThere is an enormous amount of new content for you to explore on the website. Almost every page has been updated with something new. Rather than listing every individual change, we suggest that you take a few minutes to explore the website and discover the new content for yourselves. Don't forget to leave Allana a message in her guestbook or mark your location on her brand new guestmap! - visit alla-slater.net

Gymstarz presents an exclusive photo gallery from the 1999 World Championships in cooperation with GYMPHOTO, which was held in Tianjin, China on 7th-16th October 1999. Conducted during non-Olympic years, the World Championships brang together the best women and men gymnasts from all over the world to compete for the precious World Championships titles. Most importantly, the event determined the teams and individual athletes who qualified for the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia. China easly won the men's team title while Romania captured the women's team title just 0.818 points over Russia. Nikolai Kryukovo of Russia and Maria Olaru of Romania won the individual all-around titles. - view the photo gallery

Gymstarz presents an exclusive photo gallery from the 2003 Finnish Cup Finals. The annual competition was held in Jyv?skyl?, Finland on 12th-13th April 2003, featuring the country's best senior female and male gymnasts, who hope to earn their way to the 2004 Olympic Games. The young newcomer Kiira Kokko of STVK shone in the women's competition by placing first in every event and Jani Tanskanen of Jyvo posted the highest score of the competition on high bar. Women's competiton was also at the same time the first team trials for the 2003 World Championships. Kiira Kokko placed first, Mira Laitila of STVK placed second and Annamari Maaranen of TV and Maria Skytt? of STVK tied the third place. - view the photo gallery

Trained at Aiken Gymnastics in South Carolina, Grace Taylor is another member of the fantastic generation of gymnasts currently emerging from the United States of American - all with aspirations for the Athens 2004 Olympic Games. Under the current code of points, where artistry seems to be suffering at the hands of the quest for higher start values, Grace's gymnastics is both charming and captivating. Miss the goood old days of the 80's? This gymnast will bring is all flooding back to you. We hope our montage will provide you with just a small glimpse at what this talented teen is capable of. The soundtrack for this clip is "Het Tegendeel". - download the montage

As a tribute to our unique decorated forum avatars the Gymstarz message forum is back! The layout and content will be changed a little bit in the future but until then... looking for a safe, fun and informative place to talk about your favorite sport? Interested in meeting fellow gymnastics fans from every corner of the globe? Then you have come to the right place. Packed with nifty features we hope that you will find the board to be a user friendly and fun way to keep in touch with other gymnastics fans and the sport in general! So register your unique username and password now and get posting! We are looking forward to meeting you all! - view message forum

Gymstarz traveled to Tampere, Finland for the 2003 Finnish Junior Championships this past weekend. We are happy to present an exclusive photo gallery from the event, which featured the future gymnastics stars from all over the country. Results from the event will help determine Finland's junior team members for the annual Northern European Championships and European Youth Olympic Days. The all-around competition was won by a former 2001-2002 TOPS team member, Aino Aura of Tampereen Voimistelijat with a 30.100. Another gymnast from the same club, Petra Salo placed second with a 29.450 while Noora Lappetel?inen of Kuusamon Urheilijat was third with a 29.200. - view the photo gallery

Gymstarz presents another exclusive photo gallery in cooperation with David Mordasini. This time from the 23rd annual 2001 Swiss Cup. The competition was held in Zurich, Switzerland on 18th Novemeber 2001 and featured some of the world's top female and male gymnasts, including the veteran gymnast Oksana Chusovitina of Uzbekistan and the Olympic floor and vault winner Elena Zamolodchikova of Russia. The competition was won by Romanian pair Marian Dragulescu and Silvia Stroescu, while Bulgaria's veteran pair Jordan Jovtchev and Evgenia Kuznetsova placed second and mixed pair Dimitri Karbanenko of France and Jana Komrskova of Czech Republic third. - view the photo gallery

Gymstarz presents an exclusive photo gallery from the 2001 M?morial Arthur Gander. The 18th annual competition was held in Morges, Switzerland on 14th Novemeber 2001 and featured some of the world's top female and male gymnasts, including the veteran gymnast Oksana Chusovitina of Uzbekistan and the Olympic floor and vault winner Elena Zamolodchikova of Russia. The men's all-around competition was won by Belarussia's Olympian Ivan Ivankov. Dimitri Karbanenko of France and Marian Dragulescu of Romania placed second and third respectively. Uzbekistan's Oksana Chusovitina and Russia's new rising star Natalia Ziganshina tied the women's all-around title. While young Romanian Silvia Stroescu placed third. - view the photo gallery

Gymstarz presents an exclusive photo gallery from the 2002 International RG Competition for Junior and Children. The annual competition was held in Helsinki, Finland on 30th Novemeber-1st December 2002 and it featured some of the top junior and children rhythmic gymnasts from Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Ukraine. The all-around competition in the junior division was won by host gym's own Maria Ringinen while Estonia's Jekaterina Konnova captured the same title in the children category. Neva Stars gym from Russia won the team competition, while SK Shinnik from Ukraine and Elannon Isku from Finland placed second and third respectively. - view the photo gallery

So we guess this answers all of your questions! Yes it is true.... after months and months offline Gymstarz website is BACK! In truth we never really went disappeared totally we just accidently deleted the Gymstarz mainpage and took far to long to work up a new one! We hope you enjoy our new site collective or sorts. We have added some new features and we hope to grow even more in the coming months. If you are new to Gymstarz find who, why and what we are by visiting the following link! Hope you have all been happy, healthy and full of gymnastics during our sabbatical. - gymstarz history summary