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26/12/06	Artevelde meeting on Boxing Day During the Artevelde meeting Anouck Vercauteren (Athletics Club Zele) improved the the national record pole vault cadets women twice. Anouk jumped over 3 metres 25 and 3 metres 31, both times during her first attempt. The former record of 3 metres 21 was set in 2000 by Linda Busschop (OLSE). Another five records were set in less common disciplines: 300 metres and one mile. These are the names of the athletes that set a record on their name: 300m pupils women: 41"34 Sanne Moonen (AVT) 300m pupils men: 36"22 Frederik Lemmens (AVT) 300m all cat. women: 39"61 Elke Bogemans (ACW) 1 mile juniors + all cat. women: 4:49"85 Lindsey De Grande (OB) 1 mile juniors men: 4:25"09 Lukas Van Assche (VAC)
24/12/06	2nd edition Belgian and Dutch students championships in the pipeline Saturday 3 March 2007, the 2nd Belgian and Dutch Championship indoor athletics for students is being held. This competition is open to university and higher education students from all over Belgium and The Netherlands. Because of the successful edition of last year and in order to attract more participants, the championship is better scheduled this year. The final “playful take-over”, and the after-party are rescheduled, so start oiling those calfs and be there! More info
23/12/06	60 metres hurdles, cadets men Quentin Ruffacq improves the Belgian record 60 metres hurdles in the category cadets men. Quentin set a time of 8”09 and in doing so, improved the record set by Dries Peeters (DAC) on February 12, 2006 in the Flanders Sports Arena with 21 hundreds. Sander Vermeulen (Racing Gent) came very close with 8”13.
20/12/06	Extra service for the athletic meetings at the Flanders Sports Arena! Thanks to Eddy De Vogelaere (Timetronics) and Etienne De Pelsmaeker (Toast IT) this winters’ athletics meetings will look even more professional. Bloso installed a new computer and the participants are offered a number of new features: best results and reaction-start-times on the scoreboard, double sided photo finish, wireless photo finish, disconnection of the sound in the warming-up area, … At the same time, extra scoreboards were installed for the throwing disciplines, so the Bloso led screen can be entirely used for the running disciplines. Like last year, the results can be consulted live at www.val.be. And there is even more: we are trying to install as soon as possible a kiosk where everybody can consult online through the intranet, starting lists, photo finish images, results, etc. Very soon, a webcam will be installed, so you can follow the activities in the Flanders Sports Arena at home.

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21/11/06	2nd Trainers' Day On December 16, 2006 The Flemish Trainers' School organises the 2nd Trainers' day is being held in the Flanders Sports Arena Ghent. All trainers from sports clubs (qualified and non-qualified) and all people interested are invited to participate. The programme looks very interesting. You can attend workshops in sports spefic as in general sports topics. New this year is the close collaboration with a number of sports federations. The trainers also get the opportunity to visit the information market, where they can gather information on all topics related to training. The participants to the former edition said to find it very interesting to be able to exchange experiences and ideas with colleague trainers. More info.
17/11/06	Brochure Sports leader training 2007 From today onwards, the brochure Sports leader training 2007 can be consulted at the Bloso-website. Preliminary subscriptions can be done electronically via VTS-digital. The printed version of the brochure will be ready at the beginning of December 2006 zijn.
14/11/06	KBC Indoor on February 4, 2007 The next edition of KBC Indoor, the biggest Winter Athletics Meeting in Belgium with an international aura, is taking place on Sunday February 4, 2007. The meeting moment of the Winter season, where top athletics and cosiness go together well. Several European and World athletes will be present, but our national top athletes like Kim Gevaert, Tia Hellebaut, Cedric Van Branteghem a.o. will get the opportunity to measure with the best athletes of the world.
03/11/06	Xavier Malisse AXA Belgian Master In the Flanders Sports Arena Ghent, Xavier Malisse won the first edition of the AXA Belgian Masters. He beat Kristof Vliegen in the finals with 6-2, 4-6 and 6-1. It is years ago since Belgium saw such top level tennis. The final double game with Tom Lenaerts, Bahrami Mansour (yes, the ball artist), Karl Vannieuwkerke and Dick Norman was much appreciated by the public, as was the combination between top tennis and the art exposition. The auction of signed tennis gear in favour of the Child Cancer Fund was a major success. There were bids on tennis racquets of Roger Federer, Justine Henin and Olivier Rochus, tennis shirts of Agassi, Ljubicic, Bagdatis and lots of other clothing and equipment of the 6 participants of the tournament. Not to be missed next year!
02/11/06	Fourth edition FieldTurf Tarkett Flanders Soccer Cup on it's way! After 3 successfull editions, the fourth edition of the Flanders Soccer Cup will take place in 2007 from Tuesday 2 till Sunday 7 January 2007. The programme looks slightly different from former editions: - Tuesday January 2 Provincial youth tournament 13:00 - Wednesday January 3 International youth tournament 10:00 Sponsor tournament 19:00 - Thursday January 4 Ladies youth tournament 10:00 1st class ladies tournament 18:00 - Saturday January 6 2nd / 3d / 4th class tournament 10:00 - Sunday January 7 Prof tournament 10:00 New this year is the 2nd / 3d / 4th class tournament. Twelve teams will compete to win 6.000 euro. Nice to know is that all teams will also take part in a professional teambuilding session. OH Leuven, KMSK Deinze, Eendracht Aalst, KLSK Londerzeel, Standaard Wetteren, Verbroedering Geel, KSK Wevelgem, Rupel Boom, KSK Maldegem and KSV Oudenaarde already agreed. The Sunday prof tournament looks very promising: AA Gent, Zulte-Waregem, KSV Roeselare, KSK Beveren and Cercle Brugge will do their utmost best to live up to the expectations. FC Dender, a 2nd class team with great potential, is facing a great challenge trying to beat the 1st class teams! More info

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13/10/06

Bodysol - Win for Life - Young Flemish Talent honoured Friday night, the super team of Bodysol –Win for Life – Young Flemish Talent, was honoured in the splendid Flemish Cycling Centre Eddy Merckx in Ghent. Our Flemish young talented cyclists can look back to an extra-ordinary season. Three provincial and seven Belgian titles, two European and one World Champion, being Dominique Cornu. Each cyclist was honoured separately and the sponsors were given a lovely souvenir. They were given a signed World Chamion sweater.

10/10/06

Building Trampoline Gymnastics Hall gets on well On September 4, at the Blaarmeersen in Ghent, the building a special trampoline hall took a start. As well as the artistic gymnastics, this Olympic discipline will also get its own specific infrastructure. The trampoline hall is built behind the Flanders Sports Arena and will be connected to the top gymnastics arena. This arena is a joint project of Bloso, the Province of East Flanders, the city of Ghent and the Gymnastics Federation. The new hall will contain 7 permanent trampolines and 2 permanent floors. Moreover there will be mirrored walls, a ballet room, lounges,... in order to give the gymnasts optimal training facilities. The realisation term is 150 days so the opening is foreseen in week 12 or 13 of 2007. To be continued ...

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05/09/06

Ticket sale for 1st AXA Belgian masters Tennis open As the official website of the first AXA Belgian Masters Tennis Tournament was put on the World Wide Web, the ticket sale also started. The top of the Belgian male tennis will compete for the trophy and title of Axa Belgian Master: Xavier Malisse, Olivier and Christophe Rochus, Kristof Vliegen, Dick Norman and Steve Darcis. The drawing lots takes place the first week of November. The programme looks as follows: Friday 10 November 2006: 1st quarter finals 6:15pm Player A – Player B 2nd quarter finals not sooner than 8:30pm Player C – Player D Saturday 11 November 2006: 1st quarter finals 6:15pm Winner 1st quarter finals Seed 1 2nd quarter finals not sooner than 8:30pm Winner 2nd quarter finals Seed 2 Sunday 12 November 2006: finals 1:00pm Winners semi-finals

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01/06/06

Triathlon Ghent with some remarkable participants Apparently, the recreative triathlon is gaining in popularity, as the Mr. T's Partena Triathlon in Ghent is facing an early closure of the enrolments, according to the organiser Wim Van de Putte. "Last year we had only 73 enrolments on the 1st of June, now we have already 376 enrolments. For the Sprinters’ Triathlon we almost reached our maximum capacity of 400 participants. Once the limit is reached with the Sprinter Triathlon, we will have to put the candidate participants on a waiting list or ask them to participate in the Super Sprinter contest. In any case, it will be a fine participants list. In the women’s category, Francoise Wellekens and Mieke Suys, who participated in the Olympic Games twice, appear at the start. In total, over 50 women enrolled, what shows that triathlon is no longer an exclusively male sport. A remarkable team to take part in the Team Relay Triathlon, is the SP.a team, with Tom Balthazar as swimmer, Ernest Vanderhaegen as cycler, Rudy Coddens as runner and Daniel Termont as the severe coach. Let’s see whether other political fractions, in view of the local elections, also dare to take this sports challenge. More info

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24/05/06	Sailing: Olympic Games 2008 Peking Bruno De Wannemaeker, In his daily life sports manager of the Flanders Sports Arena of the Bloso-centre in Ghent, was selected by the ISAF and the IOC to act as principal race officer sailing at the Olympic Games 2008 in Peking. The sailing takes place in Qingdao, at 1 hour flying distance of Peking. Normally he will be active in the disciplines windsurfing and the 49 track. It is the first time in the Olympic sailing history that a Belgian is selected for this function. More info
13/05/06	Germans Christian Hess and Thomas Abel win the European Cup Cyclobal in Ghent In the Flemish Cycling Centre Eddy Merckx at the Blaarmeersen in Ghent, the Germans Christian Hess and Thomas Abel won the 40th edition of the European Cup Cyclobal. In the decisive game, they competed with the Czech Miroslav Berger and Jiri Hrdilicka who finally ended third. The second place was for the Austrian World Cup winners Simon König and Dietmar Schneider. Importans news is that during the warming up, our Belgian competitor Rik Deuvaert had to give up due to a thumb injury. He was replaced in the last resort by the 40-year old Patrick Geldof. He competed next to Christof Baudu and they ended 7th after a 5-2 victory against Covent-Martens. More info
04/05/06	Long Distance Triathlon in Ghent 2008 Sunday 9 August 2008 an Iron Man triatlon will be held in Flanders, the Strongman Europe. The organisors are the men behind the Mr.T.'s Partena Triathlon Ghent and the Ironmanagers, Wim Van de Putte and Stefaan Engels. They think the time is ripe to take the challenge. "We don't want to make this a noncommittal organisation", declares Wim Van de Putte. "A competition carrying the Iron man label is not our ambition, but the Quelle Challenge in Roth (Dui) proves that it is perfectly well possible to organise a successful Long Distance triatlon without that M-dot. We settle for no less than a professional organisation, attractive prizes and a challenging track. Every Iron Man distance competition tries to lie down its own accents to make a distinction with the competing triathlon competitions. Here in Flanders, we have our own specific trump cards we will fully and deliberately use. The 3,8km swimming will be held in the Gentse Watersportbaan (Ghent Water sports track). The cycling distance of 180km will lead through the "Vlaamse Ardennen" and the "Meetjesland". Especially the Vlaamse Ardennen represent a challenge, where the hills of the Ronde van Vlaanderen will have to be climbed. The marathon is run in three rounds of each 14km and leads the participants to the Coupure, the river Leie and the sports and recreation area The Blaarmeersen. We would like to locate the competition centre, the changing zone cycling-running and the finishing zone at the renewed Sint-Pietersplein with the Saint Peter's Abbey as headquarter. With 55.000 euro in prizes we hope to attract some top athletes, especially our own successful long distance triathlon athletes." More info
01/05/06	World hour record reclining bicycle improved at the cycling track of the Flemish Cycling Centre Eddy Merckx At the first of May, Labour Day, Eric Baeten improved the world hour record reclining bicycle. He drove a distance of 49 kilometers and 587 meters.

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17/04/06	Triathlon Ghent already half complete Only fourteen days after the start of the enrolments, already over 200 of the maximum 400 available places are taken for the fifth edition of the Mr.T.'s Partena Triathlon Ghent. It seems to be a trend all over Flanders that triathlon games are complete so soon. It is however extremely exceptional that the triathlon of Ghent is only held on 20 August and the promotion of the event hasn't even started yet. If you want to take part in the Sprinter triathlon (750m swimming + 20 km cycling + 5 km running) you'd better hurry. Subscribing for the SuperSprinter (250m swimming + 10 km cycling + 2,5 km running) and the Team Relay Triathlon (three sprinters who each have to do one discipline) is no problem yet. www.triathlongent.be or send a mail at info@triathlongent.be
14/04/06	World Champion Hiroyuki Tomita is coming to Ghent! For the first time in the history of the World Cup in Ghent, Japan is participating with a delegation of men. Eye-catcher is undoubtedly the sympathetic Hiroyuki Tomita who became all-round World Champion at the end of 2005 in Melbourne. Tomita is a typical all rounder who succeeded to make it to the finals at the vaulting horse and the bars. Things might get tough in Ghent as all the apparatus specialists will be present. The last Japanese all-round World Champion was Shigeru Kasamatsu who won in 1974 and gave its name to the Kasamatsu jump. More info
07/04/06	Megagym for schools In organising Megagym for Schools, the Gymnastics Federation of Flanders wants to get pupils of the first grade acquainted with the different disciplines of gymnastics. The event takes place in a unique frame (Top Gymnastics Arena, Flanders Sports Arena and the recreational sports hall) in Ghent on 4 and 5 May 2006. The cost is only € 1,00 per pupil. Participation is still possible in the afternoon.

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21/03/06	European Championship Fencing 2007 moves to the Flanders Sports Arena in Ghent The European Championship Fencing that takes place the first week of July in 2007 is not taking place in Madeira, Portugal, but in Ghent. This was decided by the European fencing Union after the withdrawal of Madeira. The struggle for the European title in the three disciplines of fencing, for women as well as for men, will be held in the Flanders Sports Arena. The organisation is mainly in hands of the Saint-Michael's guild from Ghent. This club organised a European zone tournament two years ago for the Olympic Games and is organising a world cup tournament in Ghent on 13 and 14 May 2006. The guild also has plans to organise the world championship in Ghent in 2013. www.glssport.be
19/03/06	Baar sets new Dutch junior record triple jump Yesterday, Brenda Baar improved the junior record triple jump in Ghent. Since 1994, the record was held by Annemarie Hendriks with 12.09. During the national student championships, Baar jumped 12.16. Maarten Bouwman performed best with the men with 14.52. Another fine performance was set by senior Rianna Galiart, who put down the third best world performance all times in pole vault with 4.10 meter. With this performance she would have ended 5th with the men.
03/03/06	World Cup Gymnastics: First names of participating countries released At this moment, over 30 countries subscribed for the 3d World Cup Gymnastics that will be held in Belgium. Some new participating countries are: Japan, France, Ireland and Thailand. The participating ladies come from: Algeria, Austria, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, Poland, Rumania, Russia, USA, Uzbekistan, Sweden, Croatia, Thailand, Belarus and of course Belgium. The men come from: Algeria, Austria, Bulgaria, China, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Kazakhstan, Luxemburg, Latvia, the Netherlands, Poland, Rumania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Slovakia, Tunisia, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Croatia, Belarus and of course Belgium. www.glssport.be/worldcupgymnastics/2006/nl
02/03/06	Europacup Cyclobal has own site Freddy De Backer, President of the East-Flemish MTB-BMX-Commission / Indoor Cycling informs that the website of the Euro Cup Cyclobal will be online May 13. www.cyclobalsnagent.be
01/03/06	Second record improvement for Tia Hellebaut At an athletic meeting in Estonia, Tia Hellebaut put down a new Belgian record in high jump. Hellebaut jumped over 1 meter 97, 1 centimetre better than her former performance last Sunday in Ghent. Hellebaut won the game in Estoni. www.glssport.be

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26/02/06	TTia Hellebaut sets new Belgian record at KBC indoor At the KBC Indoor meeting on sunday february 26, the public witnessed some nice performances. Especially the Belgian record high jump of Tia Hellebaut and the magnificent time of Kim Gevaert at the 60m were spectacular. Tia Hellebaut jumped over the 1m96 with ease and in doing so, she improved the Belgian record of Natalja Jonckheere (ESC) of 1995 with 1cm. In the supporting act Frederik Lemmens (AVT) succeeded in breaking a Belgian record fot the fourth time. After the 200m, 400m and long jump he now broke a record in the 60m. He ended 2nd after Simon Goffaux (CABW) in 7"17 and herewith improves the Belgian record of 2000, with 5 hundreds of a second.
19/02/06	2 Belgian records at the Belgian Championship Indoor At the Belgian Championship Indoor in Ghent, Tia Hellebaut put the cherry on the pie. The 27-year old Bloso athlete qualified with 1m92 fot the WC Indoor high jump and 5 minutes later rivalled the national record long jump that is set at 6m36 by Sandrine Hennart. One of the Jacques Borlée sons, Kevin, hardly 17 years old, brought the national record with the juniors of Kjell Provost from 47"70 to 47"54. In the finals, he came running right behind Cédric Van Branteghem (46"93) and rushed past him in the final metres. Not only seemed his 46"87 to be an new Belgian Junior record, but the all times 4th best time. The succession of Cédric seems to be assured!
18/02/06	USA participate at the Partena Cup of Flanders Somewhat later than the other countries, the USA enrolled for the Partena Cup of Flanders (28-30 April). The Americans come to Ghent with no less than 50 gymnasts and their coaches. Meanwhile, the number of participants at the World Cup competition has risen to over 900. That is far more than the 650 gymnasts that were originally expected. That makes the Partena Cup of Flanders the second biggest World tournament in tumbling / trampoline, after the World championships / IAGC.
17/02/06	Flemish Cycling Centre Eddy Merckx open At the Blaarmeersen in Ghent, the Flemish Cycling Centre Eddy Merckx was officially opened. The track of 250 meters has been covered and will from now on serve as a training centre for cycists. In the lower centre court, a number of polyvalent sports fields were built. Bloso is in charge of the exploitation.
16/02/06	Indoor meetings Ghent and Liévin cooperate Plans exist to merge the international indoor meetings of Ghent and Liévin. Just as in Ghent, a yearly indoor meeting takes place in Liévin, situated in the North of France. However not in 2007. The French indoor stadium is being broken down and entirely reconstructed and modernised. The works will last one year. Therefore Liévin sought to cooperate with Bercy (Paris) and also with Luxembourg, but eventually the cooperation deal was settled with Ghent. "It is intended to join both budgets and to organise every year an indoor meeting in alternately Liévin and Ghent. Al together this will cost 800.000 euro whereas the cost for Ghent is now only 200.000 euro”, says Christophe Impens. "But the years there is no international meeting in Ghent, we are looking for an alternative meeting between different regions. Flanders could for example compete with Catalonia, Beieren,... At a smaller scale but therefore not less attractive. But this will only be in 2008 at the soonest” says Wilfried Meert.
12/02/06	4 Belgian cadets records at het Belgian Championship Youth Sunday February 12, 4 Belgian records were broken at the Belgian Championship Youth in Ghent. Frederik Lemmens (AVT) improved two records in the category cadets: in the long jump he brought the record of Jens Van Remoortele (VOLH) to 6m67 (+12cm) and later that afternoon he improved the record of Antoine Gillet (BBS) at the 400m with nearly 2 full seconds, bringing the new record time at 50"39. The first record was set by Dries Peeters (DAC) at the 60 metres hurdles in the category cadets. He improved his own record with 3/100 and brought it to 8"30. The fourth record was set by Kristel Bertels (LIER) at the 200metres with the Cadets Women. She brought the 4 year old record of Elien Mabbe (FLAC) with 5/100 to 25"22.
11/02/06	Dutch juniors record at the 200 metres broken At the Artevelde meeting of Saturday February 11, Ferrel Jerrel sharpened the Dutch record at the 200 metres to 21’48. The former record (21'56) was run by Sver Uros in The Hague at 21 February 1998.
10/02/06	Website Flanders horse event All information on Flanders’ first indoor horse event that takes place in the Flanders Sports Arena from 18 to 22 October 2006 can be found on www.csi-gent.com and www.flanders-horse-event.com
07/02/06	Megagym for Schools In organising Megagym for Schools, the Gymnastics Federation of Flanders wants to get pupils of the first grade acquainted with the different disciplines of gymnastics. The event takes place in a unique frame (Top Gymnastics Arena, Flanders Sports Arena and the recreational sports hall) in Ghent on 4 and 5 May 2006. The cost is only € 1,00 per pupil. Participation is still possible in the afternoon. More info
06/02/06	2 Belgian records at the Belgian Championship Heptathlon The Belgian Championship Heptathlon can be called successful. Dries Peeters (DAC) and Kevin Van Waes (ACW) put down a new Belgian record. Kevin Van Waes broke the heptathlon record in the category Pupils Men. He improved the 6 year old record of Steven Wensel (OLSE) with 134 pts to 5,410 pts. At the same Championship, he lost his Belgian Cadets record (of 2004) to Dries Peeters. The latter improved the record with 111 pts, what brings the new record at 3,869 pts
05/02/06	Results large athletic games from now on life on internet In collaboration with Toast-it and Timetronics, the necessary hardware and software was installed so that from now on the results of major athletic meetings can be followed life on the internet. www.clients.toastit.be/uitslagen
04/02/06	Athletics Festival For the sixth time already, the SVS (Flemish Foundation for School Sport) organises in co-operation with the Flemish Athletics League the Athletics Festival in the Flanders Sports Arena in Ghent at Friday 24 March 2006. The festival aims at pupils of the fourth, fifth and sixth grade of primary education, to get to let them know the different disciplines of athletics. www.schoolsport.be
02/02/06	Walking "Sports discipline in the Spotlight" In Ghent, Bloso declared Walking to be the Sports Discipline in the Spotlight for 2006. Before that, since 2000 aerobics and fitness, gymnastics, tennis, korfball, basketball, triathlon and duathlon have been selected. The action will officially start at 26 February, when the “National Walking Day” takes place in Zoersel, Hoegaarden, Deinze, Roeselare and Wellen.

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21/01/06	2 records at the Flemish Youth Championships Twelve national all time top ten performances were put down during the Flemish Youth Championships. Frederik Lemmens/AVT improved his own best time, run only one week earlier at the provincial championships, two times at the 200 metres. The Genk sprinter opened with 22"79 in the morning and won the final in the late afternoon with 22"68. Dries Peeters/DAC ran the 60 metres hurdles in 8"33, 5/100 better than Jonas Van Nijlen in 2002. The cadet from Dworp hopes to do even better at the BC on 12 February with the Welsh competitors.
18/01/06	On-line athletics results available during athletic events Starting from 21-22 January, the big athletic events that take place in the Flanders Sports Arena can be followed on the internet via Toast-it. clients.toastit.be
14/01/06	Belgian records at the provincial championships Saturday 14 January the first national indoor record of the season was set during the provincial championships indoor for West-Flanders, East-Flanders and Limburg. Frederik Lemmens (AVT) brought the time at the 200m in the category cadets run by Wim Van Belle/ACP from 23"24 to 22"82.
13/01/06	Enrolment for the Belgian and Dutch Championships indoor athletics for students open Starting from today, you can enrol online for the students championships. Students (and old-students who left school no more than one year ago) from universities and high schools compete in different disciplines. After the competition, the participants are offered a dinner, followed by a party.
10/01/06	Website of KBC Indoor is life The website of the biggest indoor athletic event is online. Timing, tickets, starting lists, all possible info is now available online. www.sport.be

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