Author: Rick Mc

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Tyesha Mattis from East London Gymnastics has been crowned the 2013 Women’s Junior all-around British Champion with South Durham’s Amy Tinkler following in second and Notts Ellie Downie in third. …

2013 British Junior women’s all-around

full results (PDF)

Click PLAY or watch Tyesha’s DTY on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch Amy’s Floor on YouTube.

British Championships – How to follow

more videos on the BG YouTube channel

March 23-24th in Italy.

USA, Japan, Italy and Switzerland. Team, All-around and Event Finals.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Full Twist – All You Need to Know: City of Jesolo Trophy 2013

From there Team USA travels to a tri-meet in Chemnitz, Germany on the 30th of March. USA v GER v ROM

Brazil, of course.

Best part. He keeps on tumbling.

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It’s not all about bragging rights at the various Conference Championships. Those scores still count towards regional qualification.

Southern Utah University will host the final Western Athletic Conference Gymnastics Championship on Saturday night at 6:00 p.m. in the Centrum Arena. The WAC will no longer be sponsoring gymnastics after this season because of conference realignment.

Click PLAY or watch the SUU psych-up video on YouTube.

Southern Utah will enter the weekend coming off its best team total of the year in a 196.200 victory over Iowa, San Jose State and Ball State last Friday.

The Thunderbirds are currently ranked No. 34 in the nation and will look to score another 196-plus this weekend to secure a spot into the NCAA Regional meets on April 6. The T-Birds need to finish the year with a top-36 ranking to claim a regional berth. …

read more …

If these girls are able to stay in the top 36, they’ll be packing for one of the 2013 Regionals April 6th:

Oklahoma (Lloyd Noble Center)
Oregon State (Gill Coliseum)
Florida (O’Connell Center)
Ohio State (St. John Arena)
West Virginia (WVU Coliseum)
Alabama (Coleman Coliseum)

🙂

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(via Paul Ruggeri on Facebook)

Brandy Johnson’s daughter.

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In her 15th appearance in the competition, six-time Olympian Oksana Chusovitina topped the women’s vault as qualification began Thursday at the 37th Tournament of Masters in Cottbus, Germany.

The FIG World Challenge Tournament features two days of qualification, followed by two days of finals.

Chusovitina, who turns 38 this June, averaged 14.850 for her handspring layout front full and Tsukahara 1 1/2. She is once again representing Uzbekistan, but still lives and trains in Cologne with coach Shanna Polyavkova. …

The organizers chose not to use the new FIG vault scoring formula, which more heavily emphasizes execution deduction. Ironically, this cost German gymnast Pauline Schäfer a spot in the finals.

read more on IG – Qualification Begins at 37th Tournament of Masters

Vault
Oksana Chusovitina (UZB) 14.850
Noel van Klaveren (NED)14.425
Maegan Chant (CAN) 14.375

Bars
Anastasia Grishina (RUS) 14.900
Sophie Scheder (GER) 14.300
Ida Gustafsson (SWE) 14.200

Floor
Jake Dalton (USA) 15.300
Eleftherios Kosmidis (GRE) 15.225
Matthias Fahrig (GER) 15.075

Pommel Horse
Filip Ude (CRO) 15.100
Robert Seligman (CRO) 14.950
Saso Bertoncelj (SLO) 14.850

Rings
Eleftherios Petrounias (GRE) 16.150
Yuri Van Gelder (NED) 15.675
Liu Yang (CHN) 15.625

see all the top finishers on Full Twist

Brigid McCarthy is there. Couch Gymnast – Cottbus WAG Qualifications Report and Results: UB and VT

official website (GER and ENG)

related – TCG Ten Questions: Maegan Chant

… The top three juniors were Hundley, Key, and Laurie Hernandez of Old Bridge, N.J./MG Elite.

The top three seniors were 2012 Olympic team gold-medalist Kyla Ross of Aliso Viejo, Calif./Gym-Max, AT&T American Cup runner-up Simone Biles of Spring, Texas/Bannon’s Gymnastix, followed by Lexie Priessman of Cincinnati, Ohio/Cincinnati Gymnastics, the reigning U.S. junior champion, who making her debut onto the senior elite ranks this season.

U.S. Women’s National Team Coordinator Martha Karolyi announced the selected team for the European exchange trip: Ross, Biles, Priessman, Hundley, Key, Peyton Ernst of Coppell, Texas/Texas Dreams, Maggie Nichols of Little Canada, Minn./Twin City Twisters, and Brenna Dowell of Odessa, Mo./GAGE Gymnastics. …

read more on USA Gymnast

Things are going GREAT in Gainsville.

… This workout was filmed right after the Gators scored the nation’s highest team total of 198.425 during their last home meet. …

Click PLAY or watch training in their new gym on Gymnastike.

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

Watch more video of Workout Wednesday, Season 5 on gymnastike.org

Rhonda sounds almost spooked that there are no major injuries or issues to work around.

I’d love to predict the Gators to win Championships as I’ve done so often the past 3 years.

But it’s a very tough call this year. The winning team will need a near perfect meet.