French International Finalists

Here’s an international competition where 80% of the medals will not be taken home by one nation.

Blythe LIVE blogged the World Cup meet in France:

… qualifiers on all events for tomorrow’s event finals:

Women’s vault qualifiers:

* 1. Tatiana Nabieva
* 2. Aliya Mustafina
* 3. Diana Chelaru
* 4. Jennifer Khwela

Women’s bars qualifiers:

* 1. Aliya Mustafina
* 2. Huang Qiushuang
* 3. Elisabeth Seitz
* 4. Tatiana Nabieva

Women’s beam qualifiers:

* 1. Aliya Mustafina
* 2. Ana Porgras
* 3. Anna Dementyeva
* 4. Lauren Mitchell

Women’s floor qualifiers:

* 1. Sandra Izbasa
* 2. Diana Chelaru
* 3. Vanessa Ferrari
* 4. Anna Dementyeva

Men’s floor finals qualifiers:

* 1. Tomas Gonzalez
* 2. Gael da Silva
* 3. Thomas Bouhail
* 4. Flavius Koczi

Men’s pommel horse qualifiers:

* 1. Prashanth Sellathurai
* 2. Louis Smith
* 3. Saso Bertonclej
* 4. Cyril Tommasone

Men’s rings qualifiers:

* 1. Chen Yibing
* 2. Koji Yamamuro
* 3. Konstantin Pluzhnikov
* 4. Alexander Balandin

Men’s vault qualifiers:

* 1. Dmitri Kaspiarovich
* 2. Tomas Gonzalez
* 3. Theo Seager
* 4. Luis Rivera

Men’s parallel bars qualifiers:

* 1. Feng Zhe
* 2. Mitja Petkovsek
* 3. Epke Zonderland
* 4. Roman Kulesza

Men’s high bar qualifiers:

* 1. Danell Leyva
* 2. Epke Zonderland
* 3. Marijo Moznik
* 4. Jeffrey Wammes.

Some highlights:

Sandra Izbasa, FX: Double turn with leg up. Castanets before Tango music starts. Full in tucked with a step back. Triple full to single stag jump, very nice. Tourjete full, very good. Long pause in the corner before her 1.5 to Rudi to little beat jump in the air as she rebounds out. Switch ring, switch half. Again, a fairly long pause, but terrific easy looking 2.5 to front tuck full to end the routine! Wonderful job!

Aliya Mustafina, UB: Staldfer full to toe Khorkina II, inbar blind to pike Jaeger, inbar full to Tkatchevb to Park to stalder half to toe shoot to high, toe full to 1.5 twisting tuck with great landing, tiny hop. Basically a carbon copy of what she did at the American Cup. Lovely work. Lovely. 15.833.

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See more of the Bar routines on Couch Gymnast.

Huang Quishuang, UB: Hecht mount, blind to front stalder to Ono, to Rykbalko, pirouette to pike Jaeger. Pak…toe hecht to high. Rybalko to half turn to giants to stuck double layout. Excellent routine for Huang! 15.466.

Theo Seager, VT: WOW! Dragulescu with the best landing yet, just a small hop! …

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