Year: 2011

All around – international MAG:

1. 87.40 Liu Rongbing (China)
2. 86.45 Tyler Mizoguchi (USA)
3. 86.10 Casey Sandy (CAN)

USAG Score Sheet Jr Sr & International – All Around full results (PDF)

Oh Canada, what a result for the hosts:

Team:

1. Canada Red
2. Canada White
3. USA
4. China (one man short of a full team due to injury)

USAG Score Sheet Jr Sr & International Full Team results (PDF)

Jenn Isbister:

Canada “Red” and Canada “White” surprised at the inaugural Kyle Shewfelt Gymnastics Festival (KSGF), …

Competition tonight used the 4-3-3 format (four members to a team, three athletes up per apparatus, all three scores counting).

Canada “Red” claimed the top team score, and consisted of Olympic veterans Nathan Gafuik and Brandon O’Neill, recent men’s Elite Canada runner-up and 2007 Worlds team member and former NCAA Champion Casey Sandy, and relative newcomer Jason Scott.

One of Canada’s top all-arounders, Gafuik competed only 5 events tonight, skipping floor. Fellow Beijing Olympian O’Neill provided a spectacular return to competition tonight, scoring over 15 on the three events he competed. He also posted the top score of the night on his specialty, floor exercise (16.250).

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Jennifer Borton has been posting photos

The U.S. Air Force Academy and Arizona State University successfully defended their Varsity and Collegiate Club Division titles …

2011 USA Gymnastics Men’s Collegiate Championships
Springfield (Mass.) College
March 25, 2011

Varsity
Team
1. U.S. Air Force Academy, 345.700
2. College of William and Mary, 344.600
3. Springfield College, 335.100 ??
4. U.S. Military Academy, 344.500
5. U.S. Naval Academy, 332.600

All-around
1. Ty Evans, Springfield College, 85.700
2. Coltun Wulf, U.S. Air Force Academy, 85.600
3. Andrew Faulk, U.S. Naval Academy, 84.900

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Collegiate Club Team
1. Arizona State University, 329.800
2. University of Washington, 305.300
3. College of Brockport, 294.600

All-around
1. Lee Wilkerson, Arizona State University, 82.700
2. Brett Lazarus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 82.000
3. Charles Baysinger, Arizona State University, 80.500

via email from Leslie King, USAG

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Are you (like me) still trying to understand what this competition is all about?

At the men’s USA Gymnastics Collegiate Championships, the team and all-around competition are divided into two categories, varsity and collegiate. The varsity competition is for Division II and III schools with gymnastics as a varsity sport and the military academies, and the collegiate team category is for two-year or four-year degree-granting schools with gymnastics as a club sport. The individual event finals combine the two divisions into one.

Here’s more background on this important event – Springfield College plays host to 2011 USA Gymnastics Men’s Collegiate Championships
03/24/2011

Klara Kesmarky Miller announced the new website.

May 21-26th, 2012

Regina will welcome over 1100 gymnasts, coaches and officials to the 2012 Canadian Gymnastics Championships where four disciplines will hold their championships together. We are looking forward to hosting Canada for this celebration of gymnastics! …

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Saskatchewan does a terrific job of hosting major meets.

PEI is hosting this year, 2011.

Full Twist:

The WAG help desk document has been updated for March 2011. The new clarifications and updates of this document have been added in green boxes. …

This is an improvement. But why keep the word “close”?

The 0.1 should be for landing on the line with one foot.

There’s more on the Full Twist post including links to the landings of Nabieva, Mustafina and Sacramone at Worlds 2010 – Attention all Judges!

A nice edit.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via Exclamation Points)

Starts today in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec.

Good luck to everyone competing tramp, double-mini and tumbling.

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Thanks Brett MacAulay.

Update:

Legend Julie Warnock has retired, age-27.

She trained 9000 hours in a career that includes two current World Records. Happily, Julie will continue in the sport as a judge.

Dr. Gerald George, author of the current international best-seller Championship Gymnastics: Biomechanical Techniques for Shaping Winners will be speaking at the following meetings in 2011:

June 11-12, USA Gymnastics (USAG) Region 3 Congress, Vail, Colorado

August 12-14, US Association of Independent Gymnastics Clubs (USAIGC) Educational Convention, Las Vegas, Nevada

August 18-20, USA Gymnastics National Congress, St. Paul, Minnesota

September 30-October 1, Gymnastics Ontario Federation Congress, Ontario, Canada

If you can’t make one of those, check out his YouTube Channel:

BALANDIN Aleksandr (RUS) – ‘Butterfly to Invert Cross’

15.433 (D: 6.7 / E: 8.733)
Rank : 4th

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Watch Scott Rosenthal training the ‘Balandin 2’.

Thanks Geoffrey Taucer.

Watch it on YouTube.

Dan Purvis, Ashish Kumar, Epke Zonderland, Philipp Boy, Danell Leyva, Oleg Stepko … ??

The funniest response was from Aunt Joyce:

…I believe a more appropriate question would be who is the most overrated gymnast in the world. In terms of underrated, so little attention is paid to men’s gymnastics that it is impossible to discern.

I picked this guy:

Leave your comments or correct answer on the original Gymnastics Examiner post – The most underrated male gymnast in the world?

Update: Dan did not qualify for Europeans. I assume he’s not quite yet ready, physically. Olympics are the priority.