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Full Twist has been compiling videos of the finalists.
Click PLAY or watch Steingruber’s Vaults on YouTube. Yurchenko 1/1 for second vault.
Click PLAY or watch Becky Downie’s CRAZY Bars on YouTube.
Click PLAY or watch Maria Kharenkova’s Beam on YouTube.
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Break the tie 🙂 between Vanessa Ferrari and Larisa Iordache. FX was the best apparatus.
Click PLAY or watch the Ferrari on YouTube.
Click PLAY or watch Larisa’s Floor on YouTube.
VAULT
Guilia Steingruber (SWI) 14.666
Anna Pavlova (AZE) 14.583
Iordache (ROU) 14.533
BARS
Becky Downie (GBR) 15.500
Aliya Mustafina (RUS) 15.266
Spiridonova (RUS) 14.966
BEAM
Maria Kharenkova (RUS) 14.933
Iordache (ROU) 14.800
Aliya Mustafina (RUS) 14.733
FLOOR
Vanessa Ferrari (ITA) 14.800
Larisa Iordache (ROU) 14.800
Giulia Steingruber (SWI) 14.500
Amanda Turner posted full results on IG:
Romania’s Larisa Iordache was the most successful gymnast with the bronze on vault, the silver on balance beam and a share of the gold on floor exercise. …
Competition resumes in Sofia with the 2014 Men’s European Championships, which begins Wednesday.
Jr European Championships 2014
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
5.8 + 9.133 = 14.933
5.2 + 9.133 = 14.333
Average 14.633 – 1st
Jr VAULT FINAL
1. Ellie Downie GBR
2. Laura Jurca ROU
3. Amy Tinkler GBR
Jr BARS FINAL
1. Daria Skrypnik RUS 6.3 8.533 14.833
2. Angelina Melnikova RUS 6.1 8.666 14.766
3. Maike Enderle GER 6.1 8.400 14.500
Jr BEAM FINAL
1. Angelina Melnikova RUS 6.1 8.475 14.575
2. Andreea Iridon ROU 5.8 8.633 14.433
3. Tabea Alt GER 5.7 8.500 14.200
Jr FLOOR EXERCISE
1. Catherine Lyons GBR 5.2 8.833 14.033
2. Amy Tinkler GBR 5.4 8.566 13.966
2. Andreea Iridon ROU 5.3 8.666 13.966
Click PLAY or watch Catherine’s FX on YouTube.
IG – Amanda Turner has full results:
Melnikova, the all-around champion, is too young to compete at this summer’s Youth Olympic Games, lamented Russian coach Valentina Rodionenko. Female gymnasts must be born in 1999 to attend the Youth Olympics in Nanjing, while Melnikova was born in 2000.
I saw a rumour on the new GymScoop forum that piibunina (who was at Chinese Championships) said that Wang Yan will represent at Youth Olympic Games. Leave a comment if you can confirm that.
Click PLAY or watch her FX on YouTube.
That makes sense. They need better Tumbling and Vault. This mitey mite is built more like Shawn Johnson than Nastia Liukin. More and more of the upcoming elite stars are built like Shawn.
I previously linked to Yong Hwa Cha’s 2009 Hop 1/1 to Def.
Anne-Sophie reminded that the combination was made famous by the Olympic Bars Champion Athens 2004.
Emilie Le Pennec (France)
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. 9.687
Deng said he hopes to rise to the level of world and Olympic champion Kohei Uchimura, who won an unprecedented seventh consecutive Japanese national title on Sunday.
“I feel calm and really relaxed,” Deng said. “Actually, my Difficulty points are higher than Uchimura, around 40.4. It’s good enough that I could finish all the routines I have prepared, but I have to go after the quality. Once I have good enough quality to finish the routine, then I have the confidence to compete with him.” …
Amanda Turner has full results WAG & MAG via that link.
Click PLAY or watch his winning P Bars on YouTube.
D7.1 + E8.800 = 15.900
Over-scored, I’d say.
… Have you ever noticed you cannot find Amanda’s posts from the International Gymnastics magazine home page?
They are planning to update their site. Long overdue.
Congratulations Qatar.
… Rahma Mohammed Al Dulaimi, … has qualified to represent the country at this year’s Summer Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing.
She earned her place after finishing sixth in the all round at the Junior Asian Gymnastics Championship in Tashkent …
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