4CountriesCompetition Czech Republic-Denmark-Rheinland-Great Britain,
Turnov (Czech Republic), 2nd June 2001
The sport
hall of TJ Turnov (Czech Republic) held the international trampoline
competition on Saturday, 2nd June 2001. Mix 6-members teams from the Czech Republic,
Denmark, Rheinland (Germany) and Great
Britain participated.
After
5 years 4CountriesCompetition is again in the Czech Republic- last time
Kostelec nad Černými Lesy (Czech Republic) entertained trampolinists from 4
countries in 1996.
4CountriesCompetition in Turnov was the top events of the Blue Pyramid Club Children Day. Blue Pyramid Club prepared, being co-operated with trampoline clubs in the Czech Republic, Children Days in 6 towns for all children, who wanted to try their skills and co-ordination on trampoline under trampoline trainers supervision.
Blue
Pyramid Club Children Days took place in Brno, Dvůr Králové nad Labem,
Litoměřice, Olomouc, Rožnov pod Radhoštěm and Turnov from 1st to 3rd
June 2001.
At
4CountrieCompetiton all team members practised (in 3 rounds) 3 routines of
10-skills each– compulsory routine (1st round-judges value execution only), voluntary and final routine (2nd
and 3rd rounds-judges value execution and difficulty too). The team
result consist of 4 best marks of the team members in every round.
The
favourite was the Great Britain team,
which belong to the world trampoline top teams. Great Britain were represented
in the Olympic Games 2000 both in the women and in the men individual
competition. The Great Britain team consisted of 6 young well-balanced competitors, both women and men.
The Denmark team
(only men) was also a strong rival. Recently, there was a quite power growth in
the Denmark team.
The
hart of the Czech Republic team
created Petr Dufek (TJ Petřiny Praha),
Lenka Honzáková (SK GT Litoměřice) and Petra Vachníková (TJ Rožnov pod
Radhoštěm). Lately, Petr Dejl (TJ Petřiny Praha) registered a power growth too.
These 4 Czech best competitors were completed by competitors, who reached the
best results in the first Czech Cup competition: Petr Dostál (Sokol Olomoouc)
and Jitka Holíčková (Sokol Žižkov I.)
The Rheinland team (some competitors belong to the Germany representation team) was reduced by the injury of its best competitor.
In
the first round (compulsory routine - judges value execution of the skills only) practised teams from Great
Britain (108,8 points), Czech Republic (108,5 pts) and Denmark (108,3 pts)
well-balanced performance, teams were 5 pts
ahead of Rheinland team (103,7 pts).
The
best compulsory routine had Peter Jensen from Denmark (28,2 pts), the second
best one had Gary Smith form Great Britain and Petr Dufek from the Czech
Republic (both 27,6 pts).
The
best woman compulsory routine had Petra Vachníková and Lenka Honzáková (27,2
pts and 27,1 pts), the best Czech woman competitors, after them Katehrine
Driscoll from Great Briatin (26,6 pts).
In the
second round (voluntary routine - judges value execution of the skills and their difficulty too) proved the
Great Britain team, that was the real favourite of the 4CountriesCompetition.
Thank to the very balanced performances of men team members the Great Britain
team fastened its leading position (261,0 pts) after qualifying round
(=compulsory+voluntary routines).
There was the narrow match between the Czech Republic team and the Denmark one. The Denmark team consisted of 6 men. Men generally practise routines with higher difficulty and so they obtain usually higher marks. In spite of this fact the Czech team increased its mark advantage ahead of the Denmark team by 0,7 pts to the mark of 254,2 pts for qualifying round. The Denmark team got 253,3 pts.
The
best voluntary routines had again Peter Jensen (40,2 pts) and Gary Smith (39,5
pts), Petr Dufek was the 5th (38,5 pts). Among women Lenka
Honzáková (35,7 pts) and Petra
Vachníková (35,4 pts) were before Katherine Driscoll and Julie Calefice
(Rheinland), who obtained 35,3 pts.
In
the final, Gary Smith performed the routine with the
highest difficulty of the competition (15,6 pts) and his competition
performance was the most important contribution to the victory of the Great
Britain team (413,9 pts). This team came through the competition without
greater fault. (the Great Britain team : men: Gary Smith, Andrew Coulter, Gary
Short, women: Katherine Driscoll, Polly Osmond, Aurora Necco)
Men
from the Czech team did not have a good run. Petr Dufek did not finish his
final routine and judges valued the faults in the Petr Dejl’s final routine by
the higher deductions. In spite of the fact, that our women obtained for their
final routines higher marks than in the qualifying round, the Czech team did
not maintain the second place and finally the team got the bronze medal (402,3
pts).
The
second place reached the Denmark team, especially thank to Peter Jensen and
Mads Sejeroe. They were obviously better competitors than the rest of the 6
team men members.
As
for individuals (each individual obtained the mark for compulsory, voluntary
and final routines), the best was Peter Jensen (109,1 pts), the Danish number
one. He is the Danish hope for the World Championships (23th-26th
July 2001 in Odense, Denmark) and for the Olympic Games 2004. The second and
the third position reached Gary Smith (107,5 pts) and Andrew Coulter (106,0
pts), both from Great Britain.
Petr
Dufek had a chance to be around the 5th place, but he did not finish
his final routine and so, the best from the Czech team were Lenka Honzáková on
the 6th place (99,4 pts) and
Petra Vachníková on the 7th place (98,4 pts). Lenka was the best
women competitor of the competition.