2014 in review – Fall-Winter

October: Led by national champion Deng Shudi and a plethora of specialists, the Chinese men win the World team title by 0.1 over Japan …

Japan wuz robbed. 😦

American women successfully defend their 2011 World team title, besting host China and Russia. Although the fourth U.S. women’s World title, is the first time the country has won back-to-back World team titles. …

Uchimura (JPN) … wins his fifth straight World All-around title, ahead of Max Whitlock (GBR) and Yusuke Tanaka

October: Simone Biles (USA) wins her second straight World title over Larisa Iordache (ROU) and Kyla Ross …

Fourth All-around at the 2014 Worlds, Oleg Verniaiev (UKR) wins the Arthur Gander Memorial men’s title, the first of a storm of victories he’ll capture as he closes out 2014. …

Verniaiev and Larisa Iordache are King and Queen of the Stuttgart World Cup, the first of three FIG All-around World Cup series events for 2014-2015. On fire, they repeat their victories a week later at the Glasgow World Cup …

Jossimar Calvo (COL) and Marta Pihan-Kulesza (POL) win the sombreros at the fourth annual Abierto Mexicano de Gimnasia in Acapulco.

The gymnastics year in review: Fall-Winter 2014

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