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NCAA Regional Teams Selected
All regionals will be conducted Saturday, April 2, with start times of either 4 or 6 p.m. local time.
NCAA – 2016 NCAA women’s gymnastics championship regional selections
If you are close to one of these sites you really should make the trip. 🙂 Utah, Georgia and Alabama will be crazy loud.
The top two teams at each Regional are seeded highest. Expected to get through. But there are a number of potential upsets ** looming. Stanford, for example, tends to peak for the “playoffs“.
Ann Arbor Regional [University of Michigan]
Auburn
Michigan
Stanford **
Eastern Michigan
Penn State
New Hampshire
Athens Regional [University of Georgia]
LSU
Georgia
Oregon State **
Arizona
George Washington
Michigan State
Michigan State – Gymnastics Headed to NCAA Athens Regional
Iowa City Regional [University of Iowa]
Oklahoma
Nebraska
Arkansas **
Iowa
Kent State
Central Michigan
Minneapolis Regional [University of Minnesota]
Florida
Denver
Minnesota **
Missouri
Ohio State
BYU
Salt Lake City Regional [University of Utah]
Utah
UCLA
Washington **
Southern Utah **
Illinois
Utah State
Tuscaloosa Regional [University of Alabama]
Alabama
California
Boise State
Kentucky
West Virginia
Bowling Green
I’m really excited by this one because we’re guaranteed to have a nationals qualifier that we wouldn’t necessarily have expected heading into the season, with Cal, Boise State, and Kentucky (based on what we saw at SECs) in it for that second spot. All three of these teams could get into the high 196s, and Boise State spent much of the early part of the season outscoring Cal. …
To see the AA and Apparatus specialists invited click over to Gymternet.
Rosie MacLennan will defend in Rio
Reigning women’s Olympic trampoline champion Rosie MacLennan of Toronto booked her ticket to the 2016 Summer Games in Rio with her victory on Sunday at the Canada Cup in Kamloops, B.C.
MacLennan placed first in the women’s senior event with a two-day total score of 152.500 points, followed by three-time Olympic medal-winner Karen Cockburn of Toronto, (148.185 ) and Samantha Sendel of Aurora, Ont., (147.420). …
While MacLennan can now shift her focus to ramping up her routines for the Rio Games, nine-time Canadian men’s champion Jason Burnett’s hopes competing at his third straight Olympic Games got a big boost after winning the men’s Canada Cup title with a dominant performance.
Burnett, who competes next month at a last-chance Olympic qualification meet to win a spot for Canada in men’s trampoline, cruised to the gold medal with 161.020 points …
1910 Pommel Horse for sale
At west end salvage in Des Moines.
The oldest description of gymnastics on an artificial horse is over 600 years old. It was written by a Renatus Vegetius, who, in his four volume “Overview of the Roman Army”, describes soldiers using a wooden horse for practice. …
In the early 19th century, when Jahn, regarded as the father of gymnastics, was alive, there were three different kinds of horses on the Hasenheide in Berlin …
Tramp wall skillz
Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.
Thanks Erica.
Bobby Kriangkum photobomb
Jesolo Apparatus Finals
Sr Vault
1 MyKayla Skinner USA 6.3 + 8.900 = 15.200
2 Laurie Hernandez USA 5.8 + 9.050 = 14.850
3 Emily Schild USA 5.8 + 8.600 = 14.400
Sr Bars
1 Ashton Locklear USA 6.5 + 8.750 = 15.250
2 Gabby Douglas USA 6.1 + 8.800 = 14.900
3 Loan His FRA 6.1 + 8.150 = 14.250
Sr Beam
1 Laurie Hernandez USA 6.4 + 8.850 = 15.250
2 Ragan Smith USA 6.3 + 8.900 = 15.200
3 Aly Raisman USA 6.2 + 8.550 = 14.750
Carlotta Ferlito said she was very tired before the day due to so much recent competition. After a good routine, she had a terrible fall on Beam dismount. Happily, she was released from hospital and returned home with her parents.
Sr Floor
1 Aly Raisman USA 6.3 + 8.750 = 15.050
2 Ragan Smith USA 6.2 + 8.450 = 14.650
3 Gabby Douglas USA 6.1 + 8.400 = 14.500
Jr Vault
1 Jordan Chiles USA 15.575
2 Martina Maggio ITA 14.050
3 Jade Chrobok CAN 13.875
Jr Bars
1 Gabby Perea USA 6.0 + 8.650 = 14.650
2T Emma Malabuyo USA 5.5 + 8.850 = 14.350
2T Jordan Chiles USA 5.7 + 8.650 = 14.350
Jr Beam
1 Emma Malabuyo USA 6.2 + 8.400 = 14.600
2 Martina Maggio ITA 5.7 + 7.900 = 13.600
3 Helene Schäfer GER 5.3 + 8.200 = 13.500
Jr Floor
1 Trinity Thomas USA 5.8 + 8.350 = 14.150
2 Emma Malabuyo USA 5.5 + 8.100 = 13.600
3 Martina Maggio ITA 5.1 + 8.400 = 13.500
Read the Couch Gymnast report. And Lauren’s LIVE blog.
related – USA sweeps individual event titles at 2016 Jesolo Trophy
Canadian Men’s team named
Tony Smith of Calgary named his seven-man team, including one reserve, for the Olympic qualifier.
Joining Ikeda, Morgan, Payne and Zakutney on the Rio-bound team are Anderson Loran of Saskatoon, Rene Cournoyer of Repentigy, Que., and Hugh Smith of Halifax.
“This is a very different team going to Rio than I was expecting,” said Smith. “It’s been a real ordeal with all the injuries we’ve had, but these guys have stepped up and have improved as a team in many ways.”
“We tend to look on the bright side, but still it’s going to be a difficult challenge to get that Olympic berth.”
Among others, injuries have knocked out five-time world championship veteran Kevin Lytwyn of Stoney Creek, Ont., and most recently Mathieu Csukassy of Montreal who tore a patella tendon on Friday in the team competition.
Zakutney, the 2015 Elite Canada junior all-around champion, was slated to compete at the Pacific Rim Championships in April, but now finds himself gearing up for the Olympic qualifier in what will be the biggest competition of his career.
“I’m very excited,” said Zakutney. “I wasn’t focusing on the Olympic qualification event at all since I had already been picked for the Pacific Rim event, but now I feel more motivated than ever. I just want to get back to the training gym and work even harder.”
The Olympic qualification meet for artistic gymnastics will take place April 16-18.?
Rene had a fluke fall from Rings when a grip broke – keeping him out of UCIC – but is expected to be ready for Rio.
UCIC BIG SHOW Apparatus Finals
The International Friendly in Calgary, Canada.
Floor
1. Eddie Penev USA 6.70 – 15.475
2. Paul Ruggeri USA 6.70 – 15.375
3. Jile Mu CHN 6.60 – 15.100
Pommels
1. Marvin Kimble USA 6.70 – 14.075
2. Huanzhang Jin CHN 5.60 – 13.350
3. Jackson Payne CAN 6.70 – 13.125
Rings
1. CJ Maestas USA 6.70 – 15.475
2. Scott Morgan CAN 6.50 – 14.975
3. Marvin Kimble USA 6.30 – 14.900
Click PLAY or watch Scott Morgan on YouTube.
Vault
1. Eddie Penev USA 5.80 – 15.125 (one vault)
2. Peng Wang CHN 6.00 – 15.050
3T Jile Mu CHN 5.20 – 14.500
3T Kiwan Watts USA 5.20 – 14.500
P Bars
1. Marvin Kimble USA 6.00 – 15.175
2. Ken Ikeda CAN 6.00 – 15.075
3. Paul Ruggeri USA – 6.30 14.975
Click PLAY or Marvin’s gold medal set on YouTube. His routine includes the very difficult Richards.
H Bar
1. Marvin Kimble USA 6.60 – 14.575
2. Paul Ruggeri USA 6.30 – 14.100
3. Sam Zakutney CAN 5.70 – 13.850
full results
A bit of a disaster. Only 2/6 finalists stayed on H Bar.
Bretschneider wins in Stuttgart
1. Andreas Bretschneider 87.132
2. Danell Leyva 86.631
3. Nikolai Kuksenkov 86.432
Germany’s Andreas Bretschneider won the men’s all-around title at the DTB World Cup on Sunday, giving the host nation a double win after Sophie Scheder’s triumph on Saturday.
Bretschneider topped American Danell Leyva and Russia’s Nikolai Kuksenkov in a fall-filled competition that saw the lead change hands many times. The packed crowd at the Porsche Arena was firmly behind Bretschneider and Olympic star Marcel Nguyen.
Both AA winners take home 16,000 Swiss francs (14,600 euros).
Kensley Behel was there. Read her LIVE blog.
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