Category: floor (women)

Flavia SARAIVA wins Floor

Everyone is crazy for this Brazilian superstar. Wait ’til she competes it at the Olympics.

1 SARAIVA Flavia BRA 5.800 + 8.600 = 14.400
2 MILLER Larrissa AUS 5.800 + 8.200 – 0.3 = 13.700
3 GRIESSER Leah GER 5.400 + 8.166 = 13.566
full results

Leah Griesser was rewarded for her excellent choreography. Click PLAY or watch her routine from earlier this season on YouTube.

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NCAA Floor Champions 2016

1. Nina McGee (Denver) 9.9500
2. Myia Hambrick (Louisiana State) 9.9250
3. AJ Jackson (Oklahoma) 9.9125

Nina’s Floor was the routine of the day. Entertaining. Unique. … And definitely not tiring. Some of the least energy demanding choreography all time. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Brenna Dowell – Floor

#PacRim2016 Final – 14.825 (5.9, 8.925)

I’m trying to recall an international routine with better landings.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Emily Little – Floor

In a less-than-fun team competition for Australia, this was a BIG highlight. Top score from session 1.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Sae Miyakawa – Floor

Click PLAY or watch her seriously difficult 2016 Nationals routine on YouTube.

LONG gap between her salute and starting the routine.

(via papaliukin)

judging Artistry is impossible

That’s my opinion.

Therefore Artistry should not be part of ranking gymnasts in any Code of Points.

Science of Gymnastics Journal 2014:

Due to its nature and relatively poor definitions in the Code of points, judging of artistry may suffer from serious flaws in reliability and validity.

We have used the balance beam artistry evaluation forms given by 5 execution judges at World Championship in Tokyo 2011 to analyze reliability and validity. Data on 194 competitors was gathered.

Deductions were received by a highly variable number of competitors from separate judges in the same components of artistry. The variability of average total artistry deduction was relatively large …

We conclude that neither reliability nor validity of artistry judging was satisfactory in this analysis. …

THE JUDGING OF ARTISTRY COMPONENTS IN FEMALE GYMNASTICS: A CAUSE FOR CONCERN?

We can evaluate Execution and Difficulty in reliable ways. And come up with a score that would be consistent meet to meet, panel to panel.

Artistry could be rewarded by a separate (subjective) panel. Something like the Longines Elegance Award, but with a much better panel of evaluators.

Give this guy an award. 😊

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater - Photo by Andrew Eccles
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater – Photo by Andrew Eccles

Cottbus World Cup Finals day 2

Beam
1 Katarzyna Jurkowska Poland 14.033
2 Sophie Scheder Germany 13.900
3 Sanne Wevers Netherlands 13.666

Click PLAY or watch the Gold medal Beam routine on Facebook.

Floor
1 Lisa Top Netherlands 13.600
2 Katarzyna Jurkowska Poland 13.533
3 Sophie Scheder Germany 13.333
full WAG results

Click PLAY or watch Lisa’s FX on YouTube.

Read the gymmapstics report.

Vault
1. Verniaiev, Oleg UKR 15,233
2. Qu, Ruiyang CHN 14,899
3. Gischard, Benjamin SUI 14,833

Click PLAY or watch Gischard on YouTube. Handspring front 2 1/2 twist first vault.

P Bars
1. Nguyen, Marcel GER 15,666
2. Baumann, Christian SUI 15,500
3. Dauser, Lukas GER 15,366

H Bar
1. Verniaiev, Oleg UKR 14,966
2T Baumann, Christian SUI 14,766
2T Braegger, Pablo SUI 14,766

Full results MAG & WAG are linked from this page. Amanda Turner’s report on the last day of Finals is here.

Is International Gymnast magazine EVER going to update the functionality of their website? 🙂