Worlds – Berki wins POMMEL

1.Kristian Berki (HUN) … 6.7 start
2.Louis Smith (GBR) … 6.9 start
3.Sellathurai (AUS) … … 6.5 start

1 BERKI Krisztian HUN 15.833
2 SMITH Louis GBR 15.733
3 SELLATHURAI P. AUS 15.566
4 TOMMASONE Cyril FRA 15.433
5 UDE Filip CRO 15.316
6 MERDINYAN H. ARM 15.166
7 TRUYENS D. BEL 14.133
8 BERTONCELJ Saso SLO 13.933

The best apparatus final, so far. The top 5 routines were all worthy of a World Championships title. I don’t know how you can differentiate such perfection.

If you put a gun to my head and forced me to judge, I’d have handed the gold medal to Louis Smith. He takes the least deduction on scissors, the only gymnast not to even brush the leather at any time. But Louis’ coach, Paul Hall, was totally impressed with Berki. No complaints. … I thought Berki had some tiny form breaks.

Krisztian Berki has the best single leg work, by far. He looks like the classic tall gymnast of the 1970s. … And I think he’s been competing about that long. FIG calls him the best pommel man of all time.

Berki

Personally, I was cheering for Sellathurai. He must have the fastest circles of all time.

STUTTGART, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 14:  Prashanth Sellathurai of Australia competes at the pommel horse at day one of the EnBW Gymnastics World Cup 2009 at the Porsche Arena on November 14, 2009 in Stuttgart, Germany.  (Photo by Alexander Hassenstein/Bongarts/Getty Images)

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Olympic Silver medalist Filip Ude (Croatia) had the flattest circles, no question. Awesome.

No gymnasts from China in Finals. They’re Ring specialists, now.

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