Author: Rick Mc

Career gymnastics coach who loves the outdoors, and the internet.

7 new MAG elements submitted

Each gymnast must successfully perform their new element during the World Championships
with no large deduction in order to receive the assessed value and potential name recognition. …

See the list here.

Where’s Epsen Jansen?

He’s only competed 14 World Championships. That’s not enough. 🙂

Oh, here he is.

Apparatus Finalists at World Championships

Floor
Biles USA 15.966
Miyakawa JPN 14.900
Nichols USA 14.700
Afanaseva RUS 14.633
Fragapane GBR 14.600
Steingruber SUI 14.533
Fasana ITA 14.466
Downie (E) GBR 14.400

Vault
Biles USA 15.633
Paseka RUS 15.583
Hong PRK 15.533
Steingruber SUI 15.366
Wang CHN 15.099
Downie (E) GBR 14.949
Karmakar IND 14.900
Moreno MEX 14.899

Bars
Spiridonova RUS 15.466
Komova RUS 15.300
Kocian USA 15.233
Scheder GER 15.033
Fan CHN 14.966
Douglas USA 14.750
Harrold GBR 14.666
Shang CHN 14.666

Beam
Biles USA 14.966
Wevers (S) NED 14.766
Black CAN 14.600
Komova RUS 14.533
Tutkhalian RUS 14.533
Wang CHN 14.500
Schafer GER 14.300
Thorsdottir NED 14.233

No Romanian finalists for the first time in … ever. 😦

(via Full Twist)

AA Finalists at World Championships

#Glasgow2015 UPDATE – official list from FIG

1. Biles USA 61.598
2. Steingruber SUI 57.640
3. Douglas USA 57.516
4. Black CAN 57.299
— Raisman USA 56.798
5. L. Wevers NED 56.733
6. Tutkhalyan RUS 56.599
7. Tinkler GBR 56.466
8. Harrold GBR 56.398
9. Murakami JPN 56.366
10. Oliveira BRA 56.365
11 Shang CHN 56.332
12. Schäfer GER 55.799
13. Saraiva BRA 55.798
14. Makra HUN 55.732
15. Iordache ROM 55.698
16. Ferlito ITA 55.665

17. Ferrari ITA 55.665 … withdrawing due to injury. 1st reserve should get called in.

18. Wang CHN 55.566
— Downie GBR 55.565
19. Teramoto JPN 55.532
20. Verschueren BEL 55.449
21. Jurca ROM 55.332
22. Hermans BEL 55.332
— Ugrin ITA 55.299
23. Seitz GER 55.298
24. Onyshko CAN 55.216
— Thorsdottir NED 55.140
R1 Brevet FRA 55.132
R2 Spiridonova RUS 54.998

That list is unofficial. It comes from International Gymnast magazine doing a terrific job LIVE blogging on Facebook.

top 16 teams – road to Rio

The #Glasgow2015 Worlds preliminaries were the best I can recall. Congratulations to all competitors.

And congratulations to Dutch Head coach Gerben Wiersma. Fantastic job with this team.

The Test Event is at the Olympic venue in Brazil April 16-19, 2016. (I’ll be there.)

Italy’s Vanessa Ferrari Out of Worlds

Just saw the news on wogymnast via Ginnasticando.

Ferrari

No worries. The BIG goal for Team Italy was Rio. They had a fantastic Olympic qualifications. Vanessa did help her team when it counted most. The 2006 World Champion can now take time to recover.

Her coach Enrico Casella has done a terrific job with Vanessa and the team since being named National Coach of this cycle.

Dragalescu tweets Simone Biles

🙂

Netherland qualifies to RIO

Their 1st Olympic qualification as a full team since 1976. Congratulations. 🙂

Definitely the most artistic team, many fans who’ve not had a chance to see the Dutch girls are now calling them their favourite team.

There are two more rotations left at Worlds #Glasgow2015, but statistically it’s near certain that Canada 7th and Netherlands 8th grab the final two spots. Brazil 9th will now need to qualify at the Olympic test meet in March 2016.

The Canadians are here cheering … stylish Canadian duds.