Category: bars

Gabriel Eichhorn breaks the H Bar

The best gymnasts in the world put a LOT of force into the apparatus.

Breaking springboards, for example.

Guys told me that the connection between cable and top of the post failed, in this case. I saw TaiShan guys going around and checking them.

Backward Roll to Handstand

How to Gymnastics has a terrific article & videos on how gymnasts can perfect Backward Extension to Handstand skills:

How To Back Extension Roll to Handstand

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Best Tkachev from Giants at Worlds – Kate McDonald

So much turnover (counter rotation). She could easily do Layout.

In the Gym, Kate says she can do Tkachev series. She takes it a little easy 😀 in competition in order to connect the Pak.

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Best Execution Scores 2025 Worlds

I have very little faith in E-scores in 2025. Judges seem to mostly RANK the best gymnasts from a starting point around 8.1.

They can’t specifically justify their deductions in any objective way.

STILL ➙ these top scores are good performances.

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Worlds ’25 Apparatus Finals – day 1

World Gymnastics Championships 2025 Jakarta. 

Gymnasts warm-up in the arena for Event Finals. This competition is LONG, of course, with only 1 routine at a time, so many go back to the training Gym to stay warmed-up.

Links to full results.

Floor

Superb Final. Huge difficulty. Really well done.

Vault

Terrible Final.

I expected Deng to medal. Warm-ups were strong. But she ran over the horse and got a zero on her first vault. Judges wouldn’t let her do a second.

Schönmaier tried upgrading to Cheng  — but lost 2.0 for using only 1 hand.

16-year-old Lia-Monica Fontaine is the breakout star on Vault. Tons of potential here. And very good in the AA, as well. She’s destined to be on the Canadian team for years to come.

Pommels

Toughest final, in my opinion. Of the top routines, any could have been World Champion. Scores are that close.

Bars

After the awful Vault Final, Bars was one of the best ever. Fantastic performances.

In fact, the routine everyone will remember from Jakarta will be G.O.A.T. Kalyia Nemour hitting this set.

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Skye hit her best Bars in some time. Ever?

Zoja Szekely did a good routine, but couldn’t land her dismount. I understand she was too injured from Vault the previous day. I admire her courage. But with 20 / 20 hindsight, she should have withdrawn and let the Reserve gymnast go.

Rings

Amazing Final. Superhuman strength.

Dismount landing critical.

This sets up Donnell for the coming quadrennial. USA can always use a top Ring man who can compete other apparatus, if needed. Along with Asher Hong, it would not be a weak event.

Zhang Boheng and Adem Asil are incredibly good at Rings for AA gymnasts.

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Melnikova, Wong, ZHANG Qingying

World Gymnastics Championships 2025 Jakarta All-around Final.

🥇 Angelina Melnikova, AIN, 55.066
🥈 Leanne Wong, United States, 54.966
🥉 Zhang Qingying, China, 54.633

4. Kaylia Nemour ALG 54.564
5. Asia D’Amato ITA 53.532
6. Rina Kishi JPN 53.232
7. Aiko Sugihara JPN 53.132
8. Abigail Martin GBR 52.998
9, Naomi Visser NED 52.299
10, Ruby Evans GBR 52.066

Full results.

Zhang said she was satisfied with her performance. “I would give myself 95 out of 100 today,” she said.

“My goal was to do my routines as I trained them. I didn’t expect to make the podium, so this result really motivates me for future competitions.”

Source: Xinhua

An amazing Bronze medal, considering she only competes a Kasamatu vault with average execution.

Well … quite a poor All-around Final, I must say. How many gymnasts had zero falls?

How many fell on Wolf turn?

Disappointing after the excellent Men’s Final the previous night.

Leanne Wong had an excellent meet. Many were doubting her Cheng Vault (including me) — and she proved the haters wrong. It was fairly good, putting her back in medal contention.

Gold was decided on the very last routine — Angelina on Floor. Fans will be criticizing the judges on that score for years to come. Did they get the Out of Bounds deduction wrong? Were the turns evaluated correctly?

Controversial.

Judging at Worlds was better than ever, I felt. But E-scores are too close together. A routine far superior in every way will only get, perhaps, 0.2 higher than the average routine.

How long do we have to wait before FIG compares our human judging D-panels with Fujitsu Gymnastics Judging Support System video analysis?

FIG – In 2021 repeat, Melnikova edges Wong to take World All-Around title

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Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. Jessica’s feelings. Spencer actually looking at performance. 😀

Kaliya short handstands

Greatest Bars all time. Not over-scored.

BUT most of her straight body Cast Handstands should be deducted.

I’d recommend she use Straddle Cast instead, for one or more. Less chance of deduction.

Via the very controversial GymTruthTeller.

Women’s FINALISTS – World Gymnastics Championships 2025 Jakarta

Here are the fantastic gymnasts who qualified to the Finals. Congratulations.

Vault

1. Angelina Melnikova AIN 14.499
2. Deng Yalan CHN 14.250
3. Lia Monica Fontaine CAN 14.099
4. Karina Schönmaier GER 14.049
5. Anna Kalmykova AIN 13.916
6. Lisa Vaelen BEL 13.816
7. Charlize Mörz AUT 13.666
8. Joscelyn Roberson USA 13.599

No Simone. No Rebeca. I would say Vault is the weakest of the apparatus Finals in 2025.

Bars

  1. Kaylia Nemour ALG 15.533
  2. Yang Fanyuwei CHN 14.566
  3. Angelina Melnikova AIN 14.500
  4. Kate McDonald AUS 14.200
  5. Leila Vasilieva AIN 14.200
  6. Zoja Szekely HUN 14.200
  7. Skye Blakely USA 14.166
  8. Naomi Visser NED 14.000

It’s an honour just to compete against Kaylia, the greatest to ever put on grips.

Being second to Kaylia is like being second to Simone on Floor.

Beam

  1. Zhang Qingying CHN 14.366
  2. Flavia Saraiva BRA 13.833
  3. Sabrina Voinea ROU 13.833
  4. Ellie Black CAN 13.466
  5. Sugihara Aiko JPN 13.433
  6. Dulcy Caylor USA 13.333
  7. Amanda Yap SGP 13.300
  8. Kaylia Nemour ALG 13.233

Making the Final is the hard part. On the day, you go aggressively for your very best routine. HIT and good things can happen.

Floor

  1. Sabrina Maneca-Voinea ROU 13.666
  2. Kishi Rina JPN 13.566
  3. Ruby Evans GBR 13.566
  4. Sugihara Aiko JPN 13.366
  5. Denisa Golgota ROU 13.333
  6. Abigail Martin GBR 13.300
  7. Giulia Perotti ITA 13.266
  8. Dulcy Caylor USA 13.266

All-around

  1. Angelina Melnikova AIN 54.566
  2. Sugihara Aiko JPN 54.099
  3. Kaylia Nemour ALG 53.865
  4. Zhang Qingying CHN 53.699
  5. Dulcy Caylor USA 52.765
  6. Karina Schönmaier GER 52.131
  7. Lyudmila Roshchina AIN 52.065
  8. Kishi Rina JPN 51.965
  9. Leanne Wong USA 51.865
  10. Alba Petisco ESP 51.665
  11. Ruby Evans GBR 51.599
  12. Abigail Martin GBR 51.532
  13. Asia D’Amato ITA 51.498
  14. Naomi Visser NED 51.066
  15. Lena Bickel SUI 50.899
  16. Kaia Tanskanen FIN 50.866
  17. Silja Stöhr GER 50.731
  18. Laia Font ESP 50.665
  19. Breanna Scott AUS 50.665
  20. Zoja Szekely HUN 50.632
  21. Greta Mayer HUN 50.632
  22. Natalia Escalera MEX 50.532
  23. Sona Artamonova CZE 50.531
  24. Lucija Hribar SLO 50.498

Balance Beam Situation – 2025 WORLDS LIVE BLOG — WOMEN’S QUALIFICATION DAY 2

Gymnastics Now – LIVE blog

TheGymter.net LIVE blog

World Gymnastics Championships ’25 Jakarta – Women’s day 1

Three of 10 subdivisions are complete.

Here’s are the leaders, so far.

Vault

Bars … or we could name them Kaylia Bars

Beam

Look at you Amanda. Reppin’ Singapore.

Floor

All around

  • HIGHLIGHT for sure was Kaylia’s Bars. Unbelievable good again. The best who ever lived AND super consistent.
  • Kaylia fell on Yurchenko Double Twist and had a weird fall on Beam.
  • Stil — I could see Kaylia being World AA Champion 2025. It’s possible.
  • Japan is awesome, as usual. But had falls today.
  • Nakamura’s DEF on Bars is incredible. That skill should be valued higher.
  • Ellie Black leads Beam. This is her 9th Worlds? Or maybe 19th. 😀
  • I’m a new Kaia Tanskanen fan. Charlize Moerz is similarly amazing. Kicks out of Double Pike dismount.
  • Tiny Hwang Seohyun shoulda, coulda won Beam here. But she fell on Back 1/1.
  • South Korea is the most under appreciated team.
  • Karina Schönmaier is a new leader for German Gymnastics. And she’s very good.
  • Lia Monica Fontaine didn’t have a great day, aside from Vault. But Canada expects she’ll be the new #2 AA for the team behind Ellie.

Gymnastics Now has a page combining MAG & WAG highlights together.

Balance Beam Situation has a LIVE blog.

READ the FIG summing up ➙ Sugihara, Nemour 1-2 overall after first day of women’s qualification at World Championships in Jakarta