Chinese Games Finals Vault & Bars | Beam | Floor
Author: Rick Mc
Career gymnastics coach who loves the outdoors, and the internet.
Chinese Apparatus Finals
Bea Gheorghisor has a good wrap-up post on the Chinese National Games with links to previous Qualifications and All around and event final posts:
It was a showdown of double twisting Tsukahara’s and Rudi’s for the top three places of the vault final. In fact, of the 16 vaults presented, five were double Tsukaharas and five were Rudi’s while only two gymnasts chose to present double twisting Yurchenkos. Interesting.
Also note that, of the eight vault finalists, Wang Yan was the only gymnast who qualified for another event final – floor. There, she placed sixth with 13.600/5.5. …
V
1 Li Yiting 14.967 ( D 6.0 and 6.2)
2 Deng Yalan 14.650 ( D 6.0 and 6.2)
3 Yang Pei 14.500 ( D 6.0 and 6.2)
Bars
1 Shang Chunsong 15.367 (D 6.7)
2 Yao Jinnan 15.200 (D 6.5)
3 Huang Huidan 14.867 (D 6.6)
Beam
1 Tan Sixin 15.100 (D 6.4)
2 Sui Lu 14.834 (D 6.1)
3 Shang Chunsong 14.667 (D 6.1)
FX
1 Shang Chunsong 14.667 (D 6.1)
2 Sui Lu 13.834 (D 5.5)
3 Tan Sixin 13.734 (D 5.4)
Couch Gymnast – Chinese National Games: Event Finals
Here’s Tan Sixin’s Beam from Team Finals. (14.967)
Iordache, Izbasa – Floor
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FIG Floor scoring is pretty random. Still, 15.1 seems high to me.
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15.600?
gymnasts out of Worlds
Gym Blog Brazil compiled a partial list of possible Worlds contenders who will not be in Antwerp. Most of them injured, or recovering from injury.
Gabriella Douglas – CAN
Viktoria Komova – RUS
Evgeniya Shelgunova – RUS
Ksenia Afanasyeva – RUS
Diana Bulimar – ROM
Erika Fasana – ITA
Elizabetta Preziosa – ITA
Giorgia Camapana – ITA
Katelyn Ohasi – USA
Lexia Priessmann – USA
Madison Kocian – USA
Jonathan Horton – USA
Danell Leyva – USA
Chris Brooks – USA
Nadina Jarosch – GER
Lisa Hill – GER
Kim Bui – GER
Janine Berger – GER
Marcel Nguyen – GER
Ana Lago – MEX
Céline van Gerner – NED
Lisa Top – NED
Gabby Jupp – GBR
Adrian Gomes – BRA
Jade Barbosa – BRA
Julie Croket – BEL
Maria Livchikova – UKR
Is this more than usual?
I’m not sure. Artistic Gymnastics is a very dangerous sport. At any given moment something like 1/3 of elite Senior women are unable to train full out.
Of all World Championships, the year after the Olympics is least important. Top athletes missing Antwerp don’t feel they are letting down their “team”.
Olympic medalists Marcel Nguyen and Danell Leyva voluntarily withdrew their names from consideration.
I recall when Kyle Shewfelt requested to skip this Worlds. He wanted a “training year” in the quadrennial. That turned out to be a good move for him.
Not only injury.
…Another serious concern for a Russian National Team …
‘Our training centre ‘Ozero Krugloe’ has somehow received a very serious virus. The whole women’s team has suffered from it to a different degree. Even the most tough ones have fallen ill’ –
That’s an interesting interview. I wish Andrei spoke to the media more.
Tokyo 2020
I was hoping Istanbul would win the Olympics. Hosting the Games in an Islamic nation might have been very good for the world.
The city should keep bidding.
On the other hand, I’m confident that Tokyo will do a terrific job.
This will provide even more incentive to clean up Fukushima power plant radiation. Tokyo is only 238 kilometres from Fukushima.
Japan is COOL. 🙂
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(via supermura)
related – The Last Time Tokyo Hosted The Olympics
Giulia Steingruber 59.400
The All Around Gymnastics News:
Giulia Steingruber posts a massive 59.400 to win her third consecutive Swiss AA title. 2. Ilaria Käslin 55.650, 3. Sara Metzger 51.950. …
A source tells us that Giulia Steingruber looked “fantastic” and showed a new floor routine. …
Giulia Steingruber 59.400
Ilaria Kaslin 55.650
Sara Metzger 51.950
She won all 4 Swiss apparatus finals.
Giulia finished 14th at the Olympics with 56.148.
At 2013 Europeans she tied for 4th with 57.065.
A 59.400 at Worlds could get her on the AA podium.
In one interview Giulia said she hoped to qualify for the AA, Floor and Vault finals in Antwerp.
gymnastics photo tips
Coach and photographer Rebecca Sykes of Syked Photography.
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(via Gym Momentum)
remembering He Kexin
Gold medal at home Olympics. 🙂
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That’s still a crazy difficult routine, even by today’s standards.
Here He Kexin kisses the Bars goodbye this past weekend. She’s retiring.
(via Couch Gymnast)
Kenzo Shirai – twisting
CDN best ever T&T World Cup
Loulé World Cup in Portugal.
Olympic champion Rosie MacLennan returned to the World Cup circuit with a bang on Saturday, winning individual gold in her first solo trampoline competition since last summer, and adding another gold medal in the synchro event with partner and fellow Torontonian Samantha Sendel. …
MacLennan’s teammates on Canada’s powerhouse team racked up more medals in other events to cap a superb weekend.
“By far this is our best ever overall World Cup showing,” said Canadian high performance director Stephan Duchesne of Montreal. …
In women’s double mini, Lexi Geisbrecht of Calgary romped to a convincing victory while teammates Caitlin Brown and Beatrice Prcic, both of Airdrie, Alta., finished sixth and eighth respectively.
Geisbrecht also won gold in the women’s junior individual trampoline competition. …
Photo posted by Stephan Duchesne.
CONGRATS Jon Schwaiger for a personal best individual competition. 4th in Tumbling, 6th in DMT.
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