Author: Rick Mc

After beginning the meet with two falls on beam, the #1 ranked Florida Gators did the unthinkable in rallying back to win the program’s first ever NCAA National Title!

Click PLAY or watch the post meet interview on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/MjY3NzA2ODE0?related=1

Watch more video of 2013 NCAA Women’s Championships on gymnastike.org

The biggest difference from years past is Sloan. The routine hitting machine. Almost 4 guaranteed 9.9s.

They should have had her later up in the line-up. 🙂

Michigan 443.200
Oklahoma 440.100
Stanford 436.150

They simply ran into a buzzsaw this weekend. Oklahoma (440.10), that is. Their gutsy performance at the 2013 NCAA Championships fell short, as Michigan put together two straight days of consistently outstanding gymnastics. Nearly matching their Friday night score of 443.85, the Wolverines (443.20) overwhelmed the field of six at the meet hosted by Penn State …

Stick It Media

USAG via email:

… 2012 Olympian Sam Mikulak of Corona del Mar, Calif./Michigan, took the second NCAA all-around title of his career, posting a 91.150, while his Michigan teammate Adrian de los Angeles of Long Beach, Calif., finished second, 88.350. Stanford’s Eddie Penev of Penfield, N.Y., claimed the bronze medal with an 87.350 total. Mikulak, de los Angeles and Penev are all currently members of the U.S. Senior National Team. …

Congratulations!

Florida 197.575
Oklahoma 197.375
Alabama 197.350
UCLA 197.100
LSU 197.050
Georgia 196.675

The Gators had to come back from a counting fall on Beam. Impressive.

Bridget Sloan had a 39.75 AA. Perhaps slightly over-scored. But she is one routine hitting machine.

Close as the scores were, somehow the competition wasn’t as thrilling as prelims.

Judging seemed to be more erratic than Friday. Though this time Oklahoma got some credit for their wonderful Beam.

Florida had the top performer in all four events. Freshman Bridget Sloan had the top performance on both the vault and balance beam with 9.95s, junior Alaina Johnson scored a 9.95 on the bars, and sophomore Kytra Hunter had a 9.975 on floor—the highest score of the day. …

Florida wins first NCAA women’s gymnastics title

Adlerteg took Swedens first medal at Gymnastics for 50 years on April 20, 2013 … bars at the 2013 Europe Championships.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (silver)

Congratulations.

Did she come from nowhere to challenge Aliya? 🙂

Nope. Jonna Adlerteg won the bronze medal in bars at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore. …

(via The All Around Gymnastics News on Facebook)

Rings
1. Samir Aït Saïd 15.466
1. Igor Radivilov 15.466
3. Danny Pinheiro­-Rodrigues 15.433
3. Matteo Morandi 15.433

5. Eleftherios Petrounias 15.400
5. Denis Ablyazin 15.400

After this crazy finals result, many are calling for tie-breaking. … Just the opposite of what they called for at the London Olympics. 🙂

Floor
1. Max Whitlock 15.333
1. Alexander Shatilov 15.333
3. Andrea Cingolani 14.900

Pommel
1. Daniel Keatings 15.600
2. Krisztian Berki 15.533
3. Max Whitlock 15.500

… Keatings, a 2008 Olympian, earned a stunning victory on pommel horse over Hungary’s Krisztian Berki, the reigning world, Olympic and European champion on the event. Keatings, who was left off Britain’s team to the 2012 Olympics …

IG – British Men Win Twice in European Finals

Amanda Turner has full WAG & MAG results via that link.

Vault
1. STEINGRUBER Giulia SUI 14.750
2. van KLAVEREN Noel NED 14.466
2. IORDACHE Larisa Andreea ROU 14.466
… full results (PDF)

Bars
1. MUSTAFINA Aliya RUS 15.300
2. ADLERTEG Jonna SWE 14.633
3. PASEKA Maria RUS 14.400
… full results (PDF)

RRG – Mustafina, Paseka take medals on bars

Mustafina: “I cannot imagine life without gymnastics”

Nice to see SWEDEN on the Bars podium. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

1. Bridget Sloan 39.600
2. Rheagan Courville 39.575
3. Marissa King 39.525
3. Katie Zurales 39.525
3. Joanna Sampson 39.525
3. Emily Wong 39.525

On June 29, 2012, as Bridget Sloan tearfully explained that an elbow injury had ended her elite gymnastics career just minutes before she was set to compete in the U.S. Olympic Team Trials, there was one thing keeping her going.

“I’ll make it,” the 2008 Olympian and 2009 world all-around champion said, fighting through emotions. “I’ll head down to Florida, and I’ll have a great time, and I will win NCAAs … I’m really excited about it.”

Nearly 10 months later, everything has pretty much gone according to plan. …

Team USA

Nice to see the hosts in the Super 6. But I’m feeling terrible for Michigan. They had an amazing season.

Alabama 197.350
Oklahoma 197.200
UCLA 197.200

Michigan 196.850
Utah 196.200
Arkansas 196.15

Super 6 Team Finals: Florida, Georgia, LSU, UCLA, Oklahoma and Alabama.

1. PSU 436.900
2. Stanford 435.850
3. Iowa 426.550 … after appeal
4. Cal 426.450
5. OSU 421.950
6. Temple 407.800

Initially Iowa and Cal were tied for 3rd.

The top 3 advance to Super 6 Saturday.

How about Iowa?

Head coach JD Reive is taking GymHawk program to new heights