Category: floor (women)

PanAm Apparatus Finals – day 2

Beam

Every once-in-a-rarely you see a good Beam Final. This was one.

🥇 Rebeca Andrade, Brazil, 14.166
🥈 Flavia Saraiva, Brazil, 14.033
🥉 Ava Stewart, Canada, 13.900

Ava had the highest start score. She’s going to be amazing for Minnesota.

CBC Olympics on X: ""Fantastic stuff from Ava Stewart!" The Canadian delivered an impressive performance on beam @gymcan1 Continue watching the Pan Am Games LIVE with host @anastasure, @RunJumpStefReid and reporter @robpizzo

Floor

🥇 Kaliya Lincoln, United States, 14.233
🥈 Flavia Saraiva, Brazil, 13.733
🥈 Kayla DiCello, United States, 13.733

So high. This is how to sprint into a tumbling pass.

Vault

🥇 Audrys Nin Reyes, Dominican Republic, 14.466
🥈 Arthur Mariano, Brazil, 14.466
🥉 Félix Dolci, Canada, 14.383

P Bars

🥇 Curran Phillips, United States, 15.400
🥈 Colt Walker, United States, 14.366
🥉 Isaac Nuñez, Mexico, 13.833

Incredible.

H Bar

🥇 Arthur Mariano, Brazil, 14.333 … (2019 World Champ)
🥈 Bernardo Miranda, Brazil, 14.133
🥉 René Cournoyer, Canada, 14.066

Brazil had a fantastic PanAms, as did Canada.

And what a way to finish!

Full results.

related:

Simone v Jonah Glickman

Who danced it better?

I give the edge to Simone in tumbling. 😀

Worlds Apparatus Finals 2

Spencer points out that Brazil WAG had 4 Worlds medals in history so far — and 6 total in Antwerp 2023.

Two men with Liukin release in the top 3.

Read Spencer’s LIVE blog.

Hillary Heron’s Biles 1 on Floor

The excellent gymnast from Panama talks about how she started training the Biles.

Inspiring.

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Hillary Heron from Panama

The first flight of women’s Gymnastics qualifications was wonderful. Italy. Netherlands.

But the biggest excitement was generated by a gymnast I didn’t know.

Her Rudi Vault was even better. Stuck.

Zuo Tong wins Asian Games

17-year-old Zuo holds off Japan’s Okamura Mana by 0.667 points to make it four-from-four for the hosts in the artistic gymnastics competition in Hangzhou. …

Olympics.com

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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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tumbling connections

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Elena Mukhina 1979 Floor

Elena Mukhina was the 1978 World Championships AA champion. An amazing talent for her time.

Did Elena compete the first 1 1/2 twist step-out?

Recall the tragedy when she broke her neck two weeks before the opening of the 1980 Summer Olympics, leaving her permanently quadriplegic. That was on a now-banned rollout skill on Floor. Her coach Mikhail Klimenko was blamed by Elena.

She died likely of complications from quadriplegia on 22 December 2006 (aged 46). Klimenko died of cancer age-65.

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Leanne Wong – Floor

One of her best ever.