The kids at Altadore Gym Club 50 years ago all had Gymnastics heroes. We learned about them from IG magazine and American TV broadcasts.
Mine was Nakayama.
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Month: October 2018
Uchimura – H Bar
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His mom, wife and daughters are here this time.
Oleg Verniaiev qualifies for the AA final
His coach felt he needed to return for Doha, ready or not, in order to prep for Tokyo.
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Nina Derwal 55.564
Though Belgium was in the very first flight at Worlds, Nina crushed it.
She’s the favourite on Bars. And will easily qualify to the final with 15.066.
Women’s World Championships have begun
Two long days of qualification to come. My favourite days as you can see just how the sport is progressing all around the world.
World Preview: Women’s Qualification Day 1
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related – MORE THAN MEDALS: SIMONE BILES, ALIYA MUSTAFINA AND TEAM USA EYE RECORDS
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Men’s qualification highlights
FIG put together a highlights package of what happened day 2 qualifications.
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… or you could catch-up on by listening to GymCastic MAG day 2 – THE POMMEL-POCALYPSE
Median scores for all apparatus went up from Worlds 2017 to Worlds 2018. That’s expected over the quadrennial. … BUT median score on Pommels dropped 1.167. That’s no statistical fluke. There’s something wrong with that horse.
related – Russia, Xiao top men’s qualification at Doha Worlds
Simone has a kidney stone
Still expects to compete.
Worlds Men’s AA finalists are set
Top 24 qualify to the AA final 2018.
1 157 XIAO Ruoteng CHN D 87.332 Q
2 334 NAGORNYY Nikita RUS D 87.098 Q
3 378 MIKULAK Samuel USA D 86.598 Q
4 331 DALALOYAN Artur RUS D 84.572 Q
5 156 SUN Wei CHN D 84.007 Q
6 269 SHIRAI Kenzo JPN D 83.864 Q
7 155 LIN Chaopan CHN D 83.464
8 330 BELYAVSKIY David RUS D 83.332
9 208 HALL James GBR D 83.198 Q
10 268 KAYA Kazuma JPN D 82.915 Q
11 144 SOUZA Caio BRA D 82.331 Q
12 187 ABAD Nestor ESP D 81.507 Q
13 205 BEVAN Brinn GBR D 81.291 Q
14 313 YULO Carlos Edriel PHI D 81.230 Q
15 369 ONDER Ahmet TUR D 80.999 Q
16 344 BRAEGGER Pablo SUI D 80.764 Q
17 216 DAUSER Lukas GER D 80.539 Q
18 376 VERNIAIEV Oleg UKR D 80.522 Q
19 380 MOLDAUER Yul USA D 80.365 Q
20 346 HEGI Oliver SUI D 80.248 Q
21 329 MUNTEAN Andrei Vasile ROU D 80.224 Q
22 284 PARK Minsoo KOR D 79.965 Q
23 148 COURNOYER Rene CAN D 79.698 Q
24 220 NGUYEN Marcel GER D 79.697 Q
25 366 ARICAN Ferhat TUR D 79.465 Q
26 173 GEORGIOU Marios CYP D 79.332 Q
27 107 DAVTYAN Artur ARM 79.331 R1
28 256 EDALLI Ludovico ITA 79.099 R2
29 202 FRASCA Loris FRA 78.899 R3
30 136 LIKHOVITSKIY Andrey BLR 78.866 R4
Worlds Men’s apparatus finalists are set
Unofficial.
All the 2017 World Champions have an opportunity to defend.
Floor
1. Dalaloyan RUS 14.833
2. Shirai JPN 14.833
3. Nagornyy RUS 14.800
4. Yulo PHI 14.766
5. Önder TUR 14.533
6. Moldauer USA 14.433
7. Dolgopyat ISR 14.400
8. Kaya JPN 14.333
— Mikulak USA 14.333
Reserves: Hall, Gischard, Frasca
Pommel
1. Whitlock GBR 14.966
2. Xiao CHN 14.633
3. Kurbanov KAZ 14.466
4. Tommasone FRA 14.241
5. Mikulak USA 14.133
6. Nagornyy RUS 14.000
7. Belyavskiy RUS 14.000
8. Lee TPE 13.700
Reserves: Hegi, Park, Barretto
The BIG story on Pommels is that a high percentage of competitors fell. Including many of the favourites. Some could not get used to the Pommel Horse.
Rings
1. Petrounias GRE 15.266
2. Zanetti BRA 15.033
3. Tovmasyan ARM 14.866
4. Radivilov UKR 14.733
5. V. Davtyan ARM 14.666
6. Lodadio ITA 14.666
7. Simonov AZE 14.633
— Nagornyy RUS 14.633
Reserves: Goossens, Colak, Souza
Vault
1. Ri PRK 14.966
2. Dalaloyan RUS 14.766
3. A. Davtyan ARM 14.750
4. Nagornyy RUS 14.683
5. Cunningham GBR 14.616
6. Souza BRA 14.583
7. Shirai JPN 14.566
8. Shek HKG 14.533
Reserves: Yulo, Verniaiev, Tanigawa
P Bars
1. Zou CHN 15.800
2. Verniaiev UKR 15.458
3. Lin CHN 15.266
4. Calvo COL 15.100
5. Dalaloyan RUS 15.041
6. Belyavskiy RUS 15.033
— Mikulak USA 15.033
8. Dauser GER 14.933
Reserves: Arican, Tanaka, Tanigawa, Pakhniuk
H Bar
1. Uchimura JPN 14.600
2. Mikulak USA 14.566
3. Xiao CHN 14.433
4. Zonderland NED 14.400
5. Srbic CRO 14.300
6. Deng CHN 14.300
7. Tang TPE 14.200
8. Dalaloyan RUS 14.166
Reserves: Larduet, Tanaka, Bull
Worlds Men’s team finalists are set
Unofficial.
Top 24 teams qualify to Worlds 2019.
Top 8 to the 2018 team finals. Top 3 from the team final earn a team spot for the Olympics. It’s 3-up, 3-count so there could be some surprises. Especially on Pommels.
Russia
China
Japan
United States
Great Britain
Brazil
Netherlands
Switzerland
Ukraine
Germany
Spain
France
South Korea
Italy
Turkey
Kazakhstan
Chinese Taipei
Canada
Belgium
Hungary
Romania
Norway
Finland
Belarus
Australia reserve
Bolshy points out that one nation from Austaliasia and one from Africa will be added for global representation. Therefore possibly 26 men’s teams.
This is the first Worlds team final for Netherlands.
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