Category: floor (men)

Specific to Artistic gymnastics. More posts are included in the TUMBLING category.

Yuri Korolev interview

Rewriting Russian Gymnastics posted a year end remembrance of the 1981 and 1985 World Champion who died suddenly April 2023 at age-60.

Average life span in Russia is short compared against the rest of the developed world. 

Would you have won the AA at the 1984 Olympics?

I’m 90 percent sure that I would have won it. It’s impossible to say one hundred percent in sports, but there is no doubt that I could have fought for first place. …

Yuri Korolev interview

Yuri Korolyov (Russian: Юрий Николаевич Королёв; 25 August 1962 – 29 April 2023) was a Soviet artistic gymnast who competed during the 1980s, winning many World and European Medals. Part of a deep Soviet team that, throughout the 1980s, featured such names as Dmitry Bilozerchev, Valeri Liukin, Vladimir Artemov, Valentin Mogilny, …

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Evan Manivong – Floor

Top score in the modified rules 2023 CGA All-Stars meet.

Score: 9.700 (10.0 start value, 0.05 stick bonus)

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Jake Jarman 9/2 twist

I recall Kenzo doing this on a competition floor in training.

Jake – count the twists

PanAm Apparatus Finals – day 1

A great day for the Canadian men.

Brazil and USA on the women’s side.

Vault

🥇 Rebeca Andrade, Brazil, 14.983
🥈 Jordan Chiles, United States, 14.150
🥉 Natalia Escalera, Mexico, 13.333

Amazing.

Bars

🥇 Zoe Miller, United States, 14.666
🥈 Rebeca Andrade, Brazil, 14.333
🥉 Flavia Saraiva, Brazil, 13.733

Floor

🥇 Félix Dolci, Canada, 14.233
🥈 Arthur Mariano, Brazil, 13.933
🥉 Juan Larrahondo, Colombia, 13.366

Pommels

🥇 Zachary Clay, Canada, 14.400
🥈 Jayson Rampersad, Canada, 14.333
🥉 Nelson Guilbe, Puerto Rico, 14.133

Rings

🥇 Donnell Whittenburg, United States, 14.200
🥈 Daniel Villafañe, Argentina, 14.133
🥉 Félix Dolci, Canada, 13.800

Full results.

Worlds Apparatus Finals 1

See. It is possible for Simone to not win a Vault Final.

First medal for a gymnast representing the African continent. History.

The Olympic Floor champion is 2023 World Champion.

Rhys defends. Congratulations.

Max had a fall near the end of the routine.

Rings is always a battle.

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WGA Floor – top 3 routines

William Emard took the top cash prize.

The World Gymnastics Association asks gymnasts submit routines online.

This is their 2nd online competition.

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behold the Jarman

Chellsie Memmel likes Air Floors

Personally, my favourite are the shortest, thinnest, and cheapest as those transfer most directly to the performance in competition.

Here’s what Chellsie thinks …

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