1^st competition of Czech Cup 2002 and Children Cup 2002.

The opening competition of Czech Cup 2002 and Children Cup 2002 took place in Sokol Liboc, Prague, Saturday 27-APR-2002.

After the several months pause 72 competitors came to Prague including the best Czech representatives such as Petra Vachníková from TJ Rožnov pod Radhoštěm and Petr Dufek from the organising team TJ Petřiny Praha.

Petra Vachníková participated on the Olympic Games 2000 and she is fivefold Czech Cup Champion too. Petr Dufek is fivefold Czech Cup Champion and quadruple Czech Republic Champion. Both were the favourites of the competition.

In the category of ladies individuals Petra Vachníková masterfully went through the competition and with a small hesitation in the voluntary routine won the category. She was in the head after the compulsory routine (26,7 pts) and she fastened the leading position in the voluntary round (35,1/10,5 pts). In the final round, from zero, she performed the much better routine (36,4/11,4 pts).

There was a fight of the 2^nd position where 3 competitors participated: Jitka Holíčková from Sokol Žižkov I, Kristýna Závodníková from Sokol Brno-Komárov (the best Czech junior lady last year) and Libuše Pilzová from SK GT Litoměřice (double Czech junior Champion).

In the compulsory routine round there were only minimal differences among ladies: Kristýna Závodníková - 26,1/B, Libuše Pilzová – 26,0/A and Jitka Holíčková – 25,9/A.

In the voluntary routine round Libuše Pilzová was the best of the triad: she obtained 34,6/10,7 pts in contrary of 32,6 pts of the both main rivals. Libuše was on the running 2^nd position behind Petra Vachníková after the Qualifying round.

After the final round the situation changed. Jitka Holíčková performed a very good final routine (34,6/9,6 pts) and finally won the 2^nd place behind Kristýna Závodníková (34,5/10,2 pts) and Libuše Pilzová (34,4 /10,2 pts).

Petra Vachníková dominated among ladies and similarly Petr Dufek was a king among men. He obtained by 6 pts more in the Qualifying round than his rivals. Only Petr Dejl was a tight rival in the final round (37,3/13,1 pts), but Petr Dufek, thanks to the better execution of the final routine, stamped himself as the best Czech competitor now (38,3/13,3 pts).

Experienced Petr Dostál from Sokol Olomouc finish on the 3^rd place (34,2/9,4 pts).

Petra Vachníková had a new synchrony partner: Libuše Pilzová. It was their first start in the category of synchronised ladies pairs. They had more simple routines, but with rather good synchronisation and a very good execution. They won finally the category (43,9/7,4 pts).

However, the pair Zuzana Musialková/Kristýna Závodníková complicated them the way to the victory. The Czech junior Champion pair was in the head after the Qualifying round and only in the final round the pair Vachníková/Pilzová was batter then the second one (43,1/7,8 pts).

On the 3^rd place there was the pair Simona Kadlecová/Jana Vaculínová from TJ Rožnov pod Radhoštěm (41,4 / 5,6 pts) after the final round despite of the injury. They won the Czech Cup 2001, however, they competed in Children Cup 2002 too.

In the category of men synchronised pairs Petr Dejl/Petr Dufek, the double victor of the Czech Cup 2000 and 2001 (TJ Petřiny Praha) will hardly find more serious rivals. The course of the competition vindicates this. Despite the weaker final routine they won with a great difference before the pair Jan Adamec/Pavel Štefela from TJ Rožnov pod Radhoštěm on the 2^nd place (36,0 / 1,6 bodu) and Ondřej Bek/Karel Rückel from Sokol Dvůr Králové nad Labem on the 3^rd place (34,6/1,1 pts).

In the Children Cup there traditionally girls from TJ Rožnov pod Rahoštěm dominated. They were on the first four positions. In the Qualifying round Simona Kadlecová (54,0/6,3 pts) and Jana Vaculínová (53,7/7,0 pts) were better then the rest of the field. In the final round Jana Vaculínová was the best (32,4/9,7 pts) before Simona Kadlecová (30,0/6,3 pts) and Gabriela Palacká (29,3/5,1 pts). On the 4^th place there was Nikola Mičolová (29,2/4,8 pts).

Daniel Komarev from Tj Petřiny Praha was the best in the category of boys individuals (30,8/8,5 pts in the final). Milan Zálužanský from Sokol Žižkov I was the 2^nd (28,8/5,0 pts) and Pavel Štefela from TJ Rožnov pod Radhoštěm was the 3^rd (27,3/3,2 pts)