Year: 2016

Cottbus World Cup Finals day 1

Vault
1. Chusovitina, Oksana UZB 14,700
2. Wu, Jing CHN 14,350
3. Kysselef, Tjasa SLO 13,966

Click PLAY or watch Oksana’s vaults on YouTube.

Bars
1. Scheder, Sophie GER 14,900
2. Zhu, Xiaofang CHN 14,733
3. Janik, Gabriela POL 13,266

Floor
1. Hypolito, Diego BRA 15,466
2. Klavora, Rok SLO 14,866
3. Verniaiev, Oleg UKR 14,833

Click PLAY or watch Diego’s FX on YouTube.

Pommels
1. Smith, Louis GBR 15,100
2. Verniaiev, Oleg UKR 15,000
3T Bertoncelj, Saso SLO 14,700
3T Corral, Daniel MEX 14,700

Rings
1. Radivilov, Igor UKR 15,500
2. Medina Flores, Henrique BRA 15,366
3. Goossens, Dennis BEL 5,033

official results are linked from this page

Read the gymmapstics report on the day.

Simone Biles – Cheng

In a media phone interview Simone said she’d compete Cheng for the first time at Pac Rims.

If successful, that would make her the Olympic Gold favourite for Rio.

Click PLAY or watch one on YouTube.

Japanese Nationals qualification

Preliminary completion.

1 Mai Murakami 57.200
2 Aiko Sugihara 56.500
3 Asuka Teramoto 56.050
full results

Lauren posted commentary.

Recall that Mai was the surprise star of the Japanese team at Worlds 2015.

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1. Ryohei Kato 90.150
2. Yusuke Tanaka 89.800
3. Shogo Nonomura 89.100
link to results

Kato

At the press conference, Kato said his goal was to win gold at the Rio Olympics. He also said he could use an overseas vacation.

Kenzo Shirai scored 16.200 on floor and 15.300 on vault.

Yusuke Tanaka scored 16.000 on pbars and 15.550 on high bar.

Kohei Kameyama scored 15.700 on pommels.

Kohei did not compete but gets automatically entered into Sunday’s AA Final.

Aussies training for Pac Rim

A few training clips.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

related – Rio Olympics, 2016: No more room for error for Australia’s gymnasts

Cottbus World Cup day 2

Preliminary results.

Beam
1 Wevers, Sanne NED 6,0 8,750 14,750
2 Scheder, Sophie GER 5,5 8,650 14,150
3 Jurkowska-Kowalska, Katarzyna POL 5,8 8,200 14,000

Floor
1 Top, Lisa NED 5,6 8,250 13,850
2 Jurkowska-Kowalska, Katarzyna POL 5,4 8,250 13,650
3 Alicke, Antonia GER 5,4 8,050 13,450

Vault
1 Verniaiev, Oleg UKR 15,250
2 Qu, Ruiyang CHN 15,000
3 Gischard, Benjamin SUI 14,775

P Bars
1 Nguyen, Marcel GER 6,6 8,950 15,550
2 Dauser, Lukas GER 6,7 8,850 15,550
3T Verniaiev, Oleg UKR 7,0 8,250 15,250
3T Zhu, Xiaodong CHN 7,0 8,250 15,250

H Bar
1 Braegger, Pablo SUI 7,0 8,150 15,150
2 Baumann, Christian SUI 6,4 8,450 14,850
3 Toba, Andreas GER 6,8 8,000 14,800

Full results linked from the bottom of this page.

gymmapstics is there. Read her day 2 commentary.