Category: floor (men)

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

World Champs Dalaloyan, Xiao Rutoeng, Petrounias

Floor
1. Artur Dalaloyan (RUS) 14.9
2. Kenzo Shirai (JPN) 14.866
3. Carlos Yulo (PHI) 14.6

You could argue that Yul Moldauer (USA) 14.566 should have been Bronze.

Yulo is the biggest happy surprise of Worlds 2018. Congratulations Philippines. 🙂

Pommels
1. Xiao Rutoeng (CHN) 15.166 ***
2. Max Whitlock (GBR) 15.166 ***
3. lee Chih Kai (TPE) 14.966

Second ever Worlds medal for TPE.

Max hit 3/3 in Doha. He lost the tie break due to having lower E-score.

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Rings
1. Eleftherios Petrounias (GRE) 15.36
2. Arthur Zanetti (BRA) 15.100
3. Marco Lodadio (ITA) 14.900 

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Petrounias was doubtful to compete Worlds. He has shoulder surgery scheduled in 3 days.

Zanetti was fantastic. You might argue he was even better than Petrounias. There’s not much to separate the very best Ring men.

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Men’s qualifications – results day 1

Half the competitors have finished in 5 sessions. Though judges were very quick, it was a long day.

Click on links to see full results … so far.

Team – top 12 advance to the team final. Top 24 can bring a full team to Worlds 2019.
RUS – Russian Federation 258.402
NED – Netherlands 245.663
SUI – Switzerland 245.186
UKR – Ukraine 243.651
ESP – Spain 241.261
FRA – France 241.203

AA – top 24 advance to the final.
NAGORNYY Nikita 87.098
DALALOYAN Artur 84.572
BELYAVSKIY David 83.332
ABAD Nestor 81.507
YULO Carlos Edriel 81.230
BRAEGGER Pablo 80.764
VERNIAIEV Oleg 80.522
HEGI Oliver 80.248

Floor – top 8 qualify to the Apparatus finals
DALALOYAN Artur RUS 14.833
NAGORNYY Nikita RUS 14.800
YULO Carlos Edriel PHI 14.766
DOLGOPYAT Artem ISR 14.400

Pommel
KURBANOV Nariman KAZ 14.466
TOMMASONE Cyril FRA 14.241
NAGORNYY Nikita RUS 14.000
BELYAVSKIY David RUS 14.000

Rings
RADIVILOV Igor UKR 14.733
SIMONOV Nikita AZE 14.633
NAGORNYY Nikita RUS 14.633
GOOSSENS Dennis BEL 14.533

Click PLAY or watch Igor on YouTube.

Vault
RI Se Gwang PRK 14.966
DALALOYAN Artur RUS 14.766
NAGORNYY Nikita RUS 14.683
YULO Carlos Edriel PHI 14.499

https://twitter.com/intlgymnast/status/1055481231800967169

P Bars
VERNIAIEV Oleg UKR 15.458
DALALOYAN Artur RUS 15.041
BELYAVSKIY David RUS 15.033
NAGORNYY Nikita RUS 14.966
PAKHNIUK Petro UKR 14.800

H Bar
ZONDERLAND Epke NED 14.400
SRBIC Tin CRO 14.300
DALALOYAN Artur RUS 14.166
DEURLOO Bart NED 14.033

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Simone’s SET on Moors

Incredible. She could probably do triple twisting double layout.

Click PLAY or watch the first pass on YouTube.

Look how much later Simone initiates the twist than others. It’s almost lay-in, double full out. She gets that technique from her Biles.

https://twitter.com/sierradnv/status/1054780376378302464

Dom Cunningham’s vault

The Biles. 😀

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Dom nearly quit Gymnastics last year, frustrated at not qualifying for the BIG meets. Now he’s a favourite for Floor and Vault finals.

(via Lee Wools)

TaiShan equipment at Worlds

Most of the athletes have never used TaiShan apparatus before. It’s a test of who can adjust quickly.

For the most part the apparatus and the TaiShan crew looks to be good. A pommel broke today when European Champ Rhys McClenaghan was training. That’s odd.

Some of the guys told me the vault is hard. Landing mats hard.

Most of the discussion has been about Floor.  Kenzo seemed to have trouble during podium training. Max and Dom seemed to be OK with it. Both Russians made triple back look easy.

Sam Oldham notes that the  Senoh floor in Japan is soft. It has a bigger margin for error on take-off. Timing has to be more precise on the TaiShan. 

I’m more worried for WAG — starting tomorrow — than MAG.

Brandon Briones leads MAG FX prelims

9.200 E-score!

1 BRIONES Brandon USA 4.700 9.200 13.900
2 NAIDIN Sergei RUS 5.000 8.800 13.800
3 TOBIN Adam GBR 4.900 8.733 13.633
4 GIANNINI Lay ITA 4.500 9.066 13.566
5 CHEPURNYI Nazar UKR 5.000 8.666 -0.1 13.566
6 BALAZS Krisztian HUN 5.000 8.533 13.533
7 KITAZONO Takeru JPN 4.900 8.600 13.500
8 SCHWED Daniel GER 4.600 8.883 13.483

Full ranking.

Yulo 14.75 Floor

The superstar from Philippines shows the Japanese how to do Japanese Floor. In Japan.

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