Author: Rick Mc

Career gymnastics coach who loves the outdoors, and the internet.

Farah Ann Abdul Hadi wins SEA Games

The fan favourite wins it.

Gold – Farah Ann Abdul Hadi (Malaysia)
Silver – Rifda Irfanaluthfi (Indonesia)
Bronze – Tan Ing Yueh (Malaysia)

Farah Ann is now age-25.

Trampoline Worlds Finals – day 3

It’s all over in Tokyo for the senior World Trampoline Championships.

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Simone diving on holiday

She swore she’d not be working out while on vacation.

😀

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Gymnastics book by Julie Jankowski

I haven’t ready this yet. Leave a comment if you have.

Julie is a coach from Buffalo, NY.

Unstoppable.: The Mentally Tough Gymnast

Carlos Yulo wins SEA Games at home

The 2019 World Floor champion Carlos Yulo won the men’s artistic all-around gold at Southeast Asian Games.

The big crowd in Manila went wild after he stuck his H Bar dismount to secure the win.

Though Carlos Edriel “Caloy” Yulo is currently training and going to school in Japan, he is born and raised in Philippines.

1. Carlos Yulo PHI 84.900
2. Dinh Thanh VIE 82.360
3. Le Tung VIE 81.700

Caloy qualified into all six apparatus finals, as well.

Women’s Trampoline World Champions

Hikaru Mori says she will not stop smiling until after Tokyo 2020 and who can blame her.

On the day she secured Japan a spot in women’s Trampoline at her home Olympic Games next year, the 20 year old won her second gold medal of the Championships and sent a packed house utterly wild. …

Her coach Akiko Maruyama subsequently admitted that Mori, who is now the 2018 Synchro, 2019 Team and 2019 Individual World champion, is outdoing even her projections.

“We have a five-year plan, from when she was 16 to the Tokyo Olympics, but the goal here was for a medal, not two golds,” Maruyama laughed. …

1. Mori Hikaru JPN
2. Doihata Chisato JPN
3. Maclennan Rosie CAN
Full results.

Men’s Trampoline World Champions

China’s Gao Lei proved once again he is the master of the international stage as he became the first man in history to win four Individual Trampoline World titles in succession with the 2019 Championships coming to an end …

1. Gao Lei CHN
2. Litvinovich, Ivan BLR
3. Dong Dong CHN
Full results.

Nations qualified to Trampoline Olympics 2020

Officially confirmed list of countries who have earned a quota place from the 2019 World Championships for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games:

The eight highest placed male and the eight hightest placed female athletes based on the results of the Individual Trampoline finals of the 2019 World Championships each qualified one quota place for their National Olympic Committee (NOC), with a maximum of one athlete per NOC.

Women
1 JPN
2 CAN
3 CHN
4 FRA
5 GBR
6 RUS

Men
1 CHN
2 BLR
3 RUS
4 JPN
5 FRA

Unused places will be allocated according to the Individual Olympic qualification ranking list of the 2019-2020 Trampoline World Cup Series.

This six-stage series will present another opportunity for the highest-ranked participants to earn a place for their country, while the continental championships in May 2020 will decide more places, one for each continent not yet represented.