Marvin Kimble of Milwaukee, Wis./Swiss Turners and Jacob Dastrup of Lindon, Utah/USOTC lead the men’s Junior Elite 15-16 and 17-18 age divisions, respectively, after the first of two days of competition …
Poised, Polished and Performed – McKayla Maroney’s Floor Exercise set drew some of the loudest applause of the day from the crowd in Hartford, and it was well deserved.
With great variety in her tumbling passes (double layout, 2 1/2 to front full; Arabian double) and creative choreography, Maroney’s set was well-composed and well-suited to her strengths. Even more impressive than the skills and choreography, however, was the way she performed the set. …
Men’s Gymnastics in 2013 is astoundingly difficult. To qualify to a Final at Worlds in Belgium will require a super high start score and great execution.
Yelena Isinbayeva … is a two-time Olympic gold medalist (2004 and 2008), a three-time World Champion (2005, 2007 and 2013) and the current world record holder in the event. As a result of her accomplishments, she is widely regarded as the greatest female pole-vaulter of all time. …
Born to a Tabasaran father and a Russian mother in Volgograd, Isinbayeva trained as a gymnast from the age of 5 to 15. She ultimately left the sport because as she grew she was considered too tall to be competitive in gymnastics, ultimately attaining a height of 1.74 metres (5 ft 8.5 in). …
IAAF World Championships Moscow 2013 Russia AUG 2013
“I’m not talking about retirement. As of now I’m just going to take a break! I’ll miss 2014. Hopefully, I will be busy with pregnancy. I really want to have a baby! And then I’ll try to come back. If all goes well, I will still compete for gold in Rio 2016,” Isinbayeva told ‘Ves’ Sport’ periodical.
… “What I wanted to say was that people should respect the laws of other countries particularly when they are guests,” Isinbayeva added. “But let me make it clear: I respect the views of my fellow athletes and let me state in the strongest terms that I am opposed to any discrimination against gay people on the grounds of their sexuality …
Simone Biles 60.500
Kyla Ross 59.750
Brenna Dowell 58.450
Peyton Ernst 57.450
Maggie Nichols 56.950
Abigail Milliet 56.850
Ariana Guerra 56.550
Madison Desch 56.400
Vault 1. McKayla Maroney, Long Beach, Calif., 15.500
2. Simone Biles, Spring, Texas, 15.400
3. Mykayla Skinner, Gilbert, Ariz., 14.850
Simone Biles of Spring, Texas/Bannon’s Gymnastix, leads the senior women’s all-around standings after the first of two days of competition at the P&G Gymnastics Championships at the XL Center in Hartford, Conn. …
Biles came out of the gates strong on the uneven bars, moving nimbly through an intricate piked Tkatchev to Pak salto combination to score 14.750. On the balance beam, Biles was solid again and stuck her full-twisting double back. She earned a 14.900. In rotation three, Biles got the crowd going on the floor where her tumbling nearly hung in the rafters. She executed a tucked double double, a double layout and tucked full-in for a 15.050. In the final rotation, Biles performed an Amanar vault to score 15.800. Biles posted the highest scores of the night on balance beam and floor exercise. …
2012 Olympic team champion McKayla Maroney of Long Beach, Calif./All Olympia, earned a 14.850 for her floor routine that included a double layout, two-and-a-half twist to punch front full, and a double Arabian. On vault, where she is the reigning World champion, she performed an Amanar, which received a 15.700. Maroney performed a Yurchenko half-on to layout front full second vault and scored 15.300, giving her the highest two-vault average of the competition, 15.500.
Gold: Sam Mikulak
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