Category: Gymnastics

European Champion 2017?

With big names like Russia’s Aliya Mustafina taking time off to start a family and Switzerland’s Giulia Steingruber recovering from a foot injury, the door is open for a new European champion to rise to the occasion.

Plenty of contenders are willing and more than capable of filling the void, like Russia’s Angelina Melnikova and Seda Tutkhalyan, The Netherlands’ Eythora Thorsdottir, Great Britain’s sisters Ellie & Becky Downie and teammate Amy Tinkler, France’s Marine Boyer, Belgium’s Nina Derwael, Italy’s Elisa Meneghini. Romania aims to have a good showing on home soil at the Europeans in Cluj, counting on veterans Catalina Ponor and Larisa Iordache to live up to these expectations. …

UEG

Or will it be one of the talented Juniors turning Senior?

Thorsdottir
Thorsdottir

I’m hoping to attend.

Helen Hu – Floor

Some interesting choreography. High leaps. Wait for the Olga Korbut like finale.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

She’s from IK Gymnastics in Illinois.

Read an interview – Get To Know: Helen Hu

Sabrina Vega – Floor

Everyone is thrilled that Sabrina is healthy, happy and an NCCA Freshman at age-21.

Click PLAY or watch her Floor on YouTube.

(via Irish Daniel)

Men’s NCAA Gymnastics update

Logan Bradley posted highlights of team’s opening competitions.

#NCAAMGym Week 1
Oklahoma, Stanford, Penn State, Illinois and William & Mary take home victories

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spelling of Shaposhnikova

Both Shaposhnikova and Schaposchnikova are still to be found in the FIG WAG Code. Has nobody every edited the names in that document?

I often default to the translation used in Wikipedia where folks argue to some consensus.

Natalia Vitalyevna Shaposhnikova (Russian: Наталья Витальевна Шапошникова), (born June 24, 1961), married name Natalia Sout, was a Soviet gymnast, two-time Olympic Champion, Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR. She was born in Rostov on Don, …

On her club website the spelling is Natalia Shaposhnikova, as well. She coaches at Gymnastika in New Jersey.

Shaposhnikova
Shaposhnikova

related – Elena Shushunova and Elena Schuschunova are both still used in the 2020 Code, as well. 😦

Are there others?