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  Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Gervasio
Gervasio Sánchez: "no sería capaz de cubrir una guerra en España".
ATHENS, GREECE -- Gervasio Deferr of Spain competes on the floor exercise in the apparatus finals on Sunday, August 22, 2004.
Gervasio Deferr: número uno en Atenas: "este año voy a por tres oros": tiene tres citas en 2005: el Mundial en Estados Unidos, los Juegos del Mediterráneo en Almería y el Campeonato Europeo en Hungría.
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 IG Online: In Our Spotlight   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
First known for his bold tumbling on floor exercise, Spain's Gervasio Deferr followed his 1998 Junior European title on floor with the silver medal on that event at the next year's world championships.
After he failed to qualify for the floor exercise final at the 2000 Olympics, Deferr nevertheless scored an upset victory in the men's vault final with two consistent vaults.
The outgoing Deferr, who sports a tattoo of a devil on his torso and enjoys breakdancing, looks to challenge for gold medals on both vault and floor at this fall's World Championships in Ghent.
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 Gervasio Deferr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gervasio Deferr after he won the gold metal in Athens 2004
Gervasio Deferr Angel (born November 7, 1980 in Premià de Mar, Barcelona) is a gymnast from Spain, who started in gymnastics at the age of five, and has since become the number one athlete of his country in that sport.
A curious aspect of Deferr's personality is his stating that he considers sleeping a hobby.
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 IG Online: In Our Spotlight   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Deferr, a free spirit who sports a tattoo of a devil on his torso, said during podium training in Athens that he knew what he would need to repeat his title.
At age 23, Deferr was the second-youngest member of the Spanish men's gymnastics team in Athens.
After twice testing positive for marijuana in late 2002, Deferr was stripped of the silver medal he won on floor exercise at the World Championships held that year.
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 ESPN.com: OLY - Failed drug test costs gymnast Deferr silver medal
MOUTIER, Switzerland -- Spanish gymnast Gervasio Deferr was stripped of his silver medal from last year's world championships because he failed a drug test six weeks earlier.
Deferr did not lodge an appeal with the FIG panel, the organization said.
Deferr's result from World Cup events in Paris and Stuttgart, Germany, also had been declared void, FIG said.
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 ESPN.com: OLY - Gymnast Deferr could be stripped of Worlds medal
MOUTIER, Switzerland -- Spanish gymnast Gervasio Deferr could be stripped of his silver medal at the world championships after testing positive for cannabis.
If Deferr is disqualified from the November floor event, Jordan Jovtchev of Bulgaria would gain the silver medal and fourth-place Paul Hamm of the United States would receive the bronze.
Deferr this week was banned for three months by Spain's governing gymnastics body.
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 Spanish gymnasts achieve new Games high
Spanish gymnast Gervasio Deferr put a drugs ban behind him to retain his Games men's vault title and lead the Spanish team to their best Olympics performance on Monday.
Deferr performed two strong efforts in the final to complete his comeback, after he placed fourth in the men's floor exercise final on Sunday.
Deferr was not Spain's only medallist on Monday with Patricia Moreno earning a bronze medal on the women's floor exercise.
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 Gervasio Deferr - Resultados de la búsqueda - MSN Encarta
Gervasio Deferr (1980- ), gimnasta español, ganador de dos medallas olímpicas de oro en salto de potro (2000 y 2004).
Gervasio Antonio de Posadas (1757-1833), patriota argentino, director supremo de las Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata (1814-1815).
José Gervasio Artigas (1764-1850), militar y prócer nacional uruguayo.
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 The Hindu : Sport / Olympic Games : Deferr locks up vault
Gervasio Deferr retained his Olympic title after vaulting to victory at the Athens Games on here Monday.
Cheered on by a large contingent of Spanish fans, Deferr's 2-1/2 twisted somersaults was enough to land him the gold with an average of 9.737.
Deferr had served a three months drugs ban in 2003 after testing positive for cannabis.
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The International Gymnastics Federation said Monday that Deferr's three-month ban was also upheld by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Deferr was stripped of the medal after it was revealed he had tested positive for cannabis six weeks prior to the competition.
The Spanish national federation originally banned Deferr for three months beginning from January 2003 -- after the world championships -- but the sport's governing body ordered that the ban should be backdated to the date of the test.
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Deferr roza el bronce en la final de suelo del Mundial Entre los españoles, Gervasio Deferr se quedó muy cerca del bronce tras defender con sobriedad (15.650) su ejercicio.
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The FIG informed that the Spanish athlete Gervasio Deferr, Olympic champion on vault and Vice World champion on floor, was tested positive for cannabis.
At the Artistic Gymnastics Spanish Championships on October 12, 2002 in Vitoria, the athlete Gervasio Deferr was tested positive for cannabis.
One week later, on October 19, 2002 at the World Cup/International Tournament in Paris (victory on floor), a less concentrated form of the same substance was again found in the sample.
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 Backflip Gymnastics Magazine - The latest news from the worlds newest gymnastics magazine
The only gymnast to defend an Olympic apparatus title in Athens, Deferr is yet to win a World Championships medal on vault.
Deferr’s World Championship participation history epitomises the contrast between personal satisfaction and heart break.
Yet, despite finishing the 2002 World Championships in the silver medal position in the men’s vault final, Deferr was later disqualified for an earlier pre-Championships doping offence.
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 News Article - Inside Gymnastics Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
DEFERR FOILED: The Court of Arbitration of Sport (CAS), the world’s final sports legal authority, rejected Spanish star Gervasio Deferr’s final appeal to reverse the stripping of his floor silver medal at the 2002 World Championships.
Deferr tested positive for marijuana at the 2002 French International in October and again a month later in Debrecen, Hungary.
Deferr, who is the reigning Olympic vaulting champ, hasn’t been in a major meet since having his world medal taken away.
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 SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- Deferr's appeal of doping ban rejected
MOUTIER, Switzerland – Spanish gymnast Gervasio Deferr's appeal of a positive drug test that cost him a silver medal at the 2002 world championships has been rejected.
The world championships took place in Debrecen, Hungary, in November 2002 – six weeks after Deferr's positive test at the Spanish nationals.
The Spanish national federation originally banned Deferr for three months beginning from January 2003 – after the world championships – but the sport's governing body ordered that the ban should be backdated to the date of the test.
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 USA Gymnastics Online: News: Hamm Medal
Deferr's results achieved at two World Cup events and the World Championships will be nullified.
I feel it's the right decision, and I had confidence that the FIG would do what was necessary," an elated Hamm said via cell phone from his gym in West Allis, Wis. "I was very pleased with my floor performance at worlds.
Deferr won the silver medal on the floor exercise at the 2002 Worlds, followed by Jordan Jovtchev of Bulgaria in third, and Hamm in fourth.
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The Men’s Floor final was won by Gervasio Deferr from Spain.
The powerhouse from Barcelona said that he was really happy to prove he can perform outstandingly on Floor, after missing the opportunity to win a medal in that Event in Sydney through a mistake in the qualification round.
The reining Olympic Champion on Vault, Gervasio Deferr (Spain), came close with 9.625 to claim the Silver and Evgeni Sapronenko from Latvia, another event specialist, vaulted well for 9.606 and the Bronze medal.
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 People's Daily Online -- Deferr of Spain defends vault Olympic title (with results)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Deferr of Spain defends vault Olympic title (with results)
Gervasio Deferr, who won the gold medal on vault at the Sydney Olympics, defended his title in Athens in August 23 night at the Athens Olympics.
Deferr, 23, one of the favorites for the title, scored 9.687 points in his first attempt and 9.787 in his second, winning the gold with the average score of 9.737 points.
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 The Baltic medal tally slowly rises in Athens
Latvia won its first medal at the Athens Olympics when Evgeni Sapronenko took the silver medal in vault jumping on Aug. 23, on the 10th day of competition.
Spaniard Gervasio Deferr won the gold in the event to retain his title with a score of 9.737, while Sapronenko came second with a score of 9.706.
The Romanian Marian Dragulescu came third after landing awkwardly on his second vault, to the evident delight of Deferr.
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 TheBostonChannel.com - Olympics 2004 - Ponor Gets Two Gold Medals In Gymnastics
Mohini Bhardwaj of the U.S. finished in sixth place.
Spain's Gervasio Deferr won the gold medal in the men's vault competition with a score of 9.737.
Evgeni Sapronenko of Latvia won the silver medal with a score of 9.706, while Marian Dragulescu of Romania took the bronze with a total of 9.612.
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 Channelnewsasia.com
Dimitri Kaspiarovich of Belarus took silver (16.312) with Germany's Fabian Hambuechen, winner of the all-around bronze here this week, finishing third with 15.825.
Two-time Olympic vault champion Gervasio Deferr of Spain did not qualify for the finals.
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