Category: horizontal bar

Pegan to Kolman

Danila Leykin.

Flyaway to Flat Back

BEFORE we let kids flip, it’s essential that they understand well how to move the centre of gravity AWAY from the Bar at the point of release.

Some call it “pitching out” the centre of gravity.

Flyaway not Flyclose.

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Fred Richard tries the Gunther release

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Ian has another unique skill on H Bar — from the same release action.

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Mediterranean Games Apparatus Finals

Vault

🥇 Benedetta Gava, Italy, 13.675
🥈 Athanasia Mesiri, Greece, 13.500
🥉 Teja Belak, Slovenia, 13.400

Bars

🥇 Kaylia Némour, Algeria, 15.500
🥈 Sofia Tonelli, Italy, 14.100
🥉 Artemisia Iorfino, Italy, 13.800

Beam

🥇 Kaylia Némour, Algeria, 13.300
🥈 Alba Petisco, Spain, 13.200
🥉 Eleonora Calaciura, Italy, 12.900

Floor

🥇 Benedetta Gava, Italy, 13.300
🥈 Alba Petisco, Spain, 13.200
🥉 Emma Fioravanti, Italy, 12.800

Floor

🥇 Antonios Tantalidis, Greece, 13.700
🥈 Ivan Brunello, Italy, 13.600
🥉 Niccolò Vannucchi, Italy, 13.600

Pommels

🥇 Ignacio Yockers, Spain, 14.250
🥈 Omar Elshobki, Egypt, 13.950
🥉 Ferhat Arican, Türkiye, 13.750

Rings

🥇 Mehmet Ayberk Kosak, Türkiye, 14.250
🥈 Niccolò Vannucchi, Italy, 13.850
🥉 Omad Mohamed, Egypt, 13.850

Vault

🥇 Hamza Hossaini, Morocco, 14.025
🥈 Tommaso Brugnami, Italy, 13.900
🥉 Alperen Eve Avci, Türkiye, 13.850

P Bars

🥇 Altan Dogan, Türkiye, 14.000
🥈 Marios Georgios, Cyprus, 14.000
🥉 Matteo Levantesi, Italy, 13.900

H Bar

🥇 Marios Georgiou, Cyprus, 14.200
🥈 Swaïmy Bellil, France, 13.750
🥉 Neofytos Kyriakou, Cyprus, 13.100

Algeria’s Kaylia Nemour, Cyprus’s Marios Georgiou dominate all-around at Mediterranean Games

Mediterranean Games: Nemour, Georgiou, Emir mesmerise with golden performances




Illia Kovtun – 6 apparatus to win Europeans

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Bar Release Throw Pad

Essential equipment for high level Gymnastics.

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Great Britain are European Champions

GBR battled it out with WG2 gaining a big lead on Rings.

The fantastic gymnasts from Putin’s dictatorship fought back, ending up with a slight lead after their last H Bar routine.

It came down to Harry Hepworth on Floor. He delivered with a huge difficulty set.

  1. Great Britain 246.728
  2. WG2 246.158
  3. Switzerland 242.094
  4. Italy 240.494
  5. Germany 240.160
  6. France 238.362
  7. Belgium 235.528
  8. Hungary 232.830

That was an excellent, exciting TEAM FINAL.

Kudos to 1st year senior Sol Scott who competed like a veteran. GBR wouldn’t have won without him. Will Sol be on their Worlds 2026 team?

The WG2 guys are young and fantastic. But weak on Rings. They brought specialist Ilia Zaika this time. No doubt they’ll consider bringing another Ring man to Worlds as their other apparatus are super strong.

Coaches should study Switzerland. Year after year they bring smart, safe, consistent routines.

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Men’s European Gymnastics Championships Apparatus Finals day 2 RECAP

The Parallel Bar Final at European Championships 2026 might be the best I’ve ever seen live. Better — even — than the superb Pommel Horse Final.

Results.

Cherpurnyi, Kovtun and Fraser shine in Zagreb

European Gymnastics:

The athletes took to the vault, with Ukrainian Nazar Chepurnyi achieving the highest score (14.566) to claim the gold, after winning bronze at last year’s European Championship in Leipzig. Aleksei Usachev (14.399) took silver, while Sol Scott (14.199) secured the bronze medal.

After claiming the All-Around title, Illia Kovtun has added another European crown to his collection in Zagreb, becoming European champion on Parallel Bars with an impressive score of 14.700. Ferhat Arican claimed the silver medal, while Joe Fraser completed the podium with bronze.

For the last final of the day, Joe Fraser shone on the High Bar. With a score of 14.200, Fraser claimed the European title. The silver medal went to Marios Georgiou and Savelii Sieedin completed the podium in third place.

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Men’s European Gymnastics Championships JUNIOR AA Final RESULTS

The top 24 gymnasts (maximum 2 / nation) advanced to this All-around Final.

It was a quick meet as we had only 4 gymnasts / apparatus.

Full results.

Quickly it became apparent that 3 gymnasts would dominate. Two from World Gymnastics 2 and one from Ukraine.

All 3 will be very good seniors.

  1. Daniil Smirnov WG2 – 81.065
  2. Golovin Volodymyr UKR – 81.064
  3. Musaev Radmir WG2 – 79.331

ANOTHER podium decided by .001.

Overall, there were a lot of unexpected falls. These young guys, perhaps, need train for longer events with multiple days of competition.

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