Author: Rick Mc

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Thanks Jeremy.

Full Twist posted a good summary page – European Games. There’s a link in the navigation column.

Wake up. Drive to Gym. Condition. Train Moors. Drive home. 🙂

Simone posted this amusing edit. 🙂

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Thanks Nico.

Oklahoma’s head coach K.J. Kindler announced this week that Dowell has decided to take a break from her NCAA career. She will defer for a year to return to elite gymnastics and chase her dreams for a place on the 2015 World Championship team.

“This decision was the toughest choice I have ever made,” Dowell said …

Beam Dreams

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Good luck Brenna. 🙂

We are delighted to announce that the FIG Age Group Development and Competition Programme is now ready for worldwide access via the FIG website. The development and distribution of this comprehensive programme has been partially funded by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) since its conception five years ago. In that time it has been introduced around the world in 58 training sessions hosted by 40 countries with 1400 coaches and a similar number of gymnasts from 88 member federations. …

The technical manuals for the FIG Age Group Development and Competition Programme for Men’s (MAG) and Women’s Artistic Gymnastics (WAG) are now available online in the French, Spanish and English languages. They can be found on the FIG website under Education. …

These manuals will be supplemented with about 400 videos of each component of the physical testing, technical testing and compulsory exercises all of which will be uploaded soon. …

This programme is intended to serve as an athlete centered “recipe” for federations that do not have the expertise or resources to develop their own programmes. They are intended to safely and systematically prepare gymnasts towards high performance below the junior level. …

Age Group Programme now available on FIG website

Click HERE if you’d like to check out the programme. Or to update your old manual.

I’m optimistic that some developing nations, some regions, some continents will offer Age Group international competitions in High Performance Levels 3 and 4 (HP3 & HP4).

baku2015.com has all competitors, all sports in a database linked from their ATHLETES page.

Here’s Komova’s page. She’s listed at 5′ 4″.

After two already, you probably thought Russian nationals were over, right?

As it turns out, this year’s Russian nationals were split into three competitions – the first for seniors in the Master of Sport and Candidate for Master of Sport divisions, a second for juniors in the same divisions, and a third, which happened 25-30 May, for the even younger crowd.

In Russia these are called Levels 1 and 2, for girls born 2003-2004 (Level 1) and those born 2005-2006 (Level 2).

Gymnasts in these divisions compete both compulsory routines and optional ones, with the all-around determined by the total; the event finals operate under new life rules. …

Level 1 AA:
Olga Astafyeva – 04 (37.025, 54.225) 91.25
Ksenia Klimenko – 03 (37.038, 54.125) 91.163
Anastasia Agafonova – 03 (36.6, 53.625) 90.225
Arina Strukova – 04 (35.458, 52.925) 88.363
Darya Belousova – 03 (35.938, 52.2) 88.138
Yelizaveta Sokolova – 04 (35.05, 51.95) 87

Level 2 AA:
Nelli Audi – 05 (38.475, 47.39) 85.865
Ksenia Cheban – 05 (37.125, 47.025) 84.15
Viktoria Listunova – 05 (36.6, 47.325) 83.925
Polina Vavilova – 06 (36.9, 45.4) 82.3
Sofya Korolyova – 05 (36.325, 45.7) 82.025
Maria Beletskaya – 05 (37.025, 44.725) 81.75

Lauren Cammenga – Couch Gymnast – full results and links to (older) videos of some of the competitors.

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Kacy Esther Catanzaro … is an American gymnast noted for being the first woman to qualify for the finals of the television sports challenge American Ninja Warrior. …

In the 2015 Houston Qualifying round Kacy failed to complete the course after falling on the cargo crossing and has to hope for a wildcard to Mount Midoriyama.

The good news?

Boyfriend Brent Steffensen got through.

And 5′ 1″ Jon Horton became the shortest man to ever scale the “Warped Wall”. He got through as well after failing to finish the course last year.

MEN’S FLOOR EXERCISE:
1. Reyland Capellan (PHI) 14.733
2. Hoe Wah Toon (SIN) 14.566
3. PHAM Phuoc Hung (VIE) 14.500

POMMEL:
1. Rartchawat Kaewpanya (THA) 14.666
2. Gabriel Gan Zi Jie (SIN) 14.533
3. LE Thanh Tung (VIE) 13.233

RINGS:
1. DANG Nam (VIE) 15.300
2. PHAM Phuoc Hung (VIE) 14.033
3. Weena Chokpaoumpai (THA) 13.166

WOMEN’S VAULT:
1. PHAN Thi Ha Thanh (VIE) (13.766, 14.200) 13.983
2. Tan Ing Yueh (MAS) (13.400, 13.533) 13.466
3. Farah Ann Abdul Hadi (MAS) (13.733, 12.900) 13.316

BARS:
1. Tan Ing Yueh (MAS) 12.766
2. Ava Lorein Verdeflor (PHI) 12.366
3. Farah Ann Abdul Hadi (MAS) 12.200

Mielieta posted full results and commentary.

Congratulations to Philipines on their medals. That nation is improving rapidly due to strong leadership.

Corrected results.

1 Skrupa, Quinn – Manitoba 55,700
2 Léonard, Valeska – Québec 53,900
3 Pedicelli, Amanda – Québec 52,700
4 Innes, Charlotte – Alberta 52,300
5 Langille, Jillian – Nova Scotia 50,300
6 Moxam, Hope – Ontario 50,050

full results

I thought Québec did a very good job hosting Nationals this year considering they only started a few months in advance. Gymnastics Canada was very late confirming a host.

Yes there were some problems – including results – but overall it was a very good Championships.

The competition moves to Edmonton, Alberta in 2016 after three years in the Ottawa area.