Florida 196.725
Minnesota 196.175
Missouri 195.850
Denver 195.700
Ohio State 194.775
BYU 194.075
full results
Category: Gymnastics
LSU and Georgia advance
Coach D-D Breaux’s team easily claimed the title when it surpassed the 197 mark for the sixth consecutive meet and the seventh time in the past eight competitions.
Georgia earned the other spot at nationals with a 196.850 and will join LSU in Semifinal I at 1 p.m. April 15 in the Fort Worth (Texas) Convention Center. …
When Rheagan Courville finished her College career, I thought LSU’s best chance to win a team championship was over. I was wrong. 🙂
Watch a LSU highlights VIDEO.
Jing Wu – the same Vault twice
Jing Wu finished in 2nd place in Cottbus.
Her first was supposed to be a Kasamatsu. (Left hand contacting first, left twist.)
But NO JUDGE should call this a Tsukahara approach. It’s a Handspring with staggered hand position.
Click PLAY or watch both vaults on YouTube.
This is the same cheat the Chinese men were doing in the past. 😦
Kuksenkov tests positive for Meldonium
Amanda Turner:
New national champion Nikolai Kuksenkov has withdrawn from the Russian men’s championships in Penza after it was revealed he tested positive for the banned substance meldonium. …
According to Russian coach and spokeswoman Valentina Rodionenko, Kuksenkov’s test was conducted two weeks ago but the results were only just discovered. …
I can say that on the Russian national team in gymnastics we stopped using the drug even in August 2015! Then the representatives of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency consulted with our doctors, and then withdrew all the supplies of Mildronate from our first-aid kits. …
Cottbus World Cup Finals day 1
Vault
1. Chusovitina, Oksana UZB 14,700
2. Wu, Jing CHN 14,350
3. Kysselef, Tjasa SLO 13,966
Click PLAY or watch Oksana’s vaults on YouTube.
Bars
1. Scheder, Sophie GER 14,900
2. Zhu, Xiaofang CHN 14,733
3. Janik, Gabriela POL 13,266
Floor
1. Hypolito, Diego BRA 15,466
2. Klavora, Rok SLO 14,866
3. Verniaiev, Oleg UKR 14,833
Click PLAY or watch Diego’s FX on YouTube.
Pommels
1. Smith, Louis GBR 15,100
2. Verniaiev, Oleg UKR 15,000
3T Bertoncelj, Saso SLO 14,700
3T Corral, Daniel MEX 14,700
Rings
1. Radivilov, Igor UKR 15,500
2. Medina Flores, Henrique BRA 15,366
3. Goossens, Dennis BEL 5,033
official results are linked from this page
Read the gymmapstics report on the day.
Sanne Wevers – Beam
Highest score in Cottbus qualifications. (13.85)
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(via Gymnast #391)
Lisa Top – Floor
Highest score in Cottbus qualifications. (13.85)
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(via papaliukin)
Simone Biles – Cheng
In a media phone interview Simone said she’d compete Cheng for the first time at Pac Rims.
If successful, that would make her the Olympic Gold favourite for Rio.
Click PLAY or watch one on YouTube.
Japanese Nationals qualification
Preliminary completion.
1 Mai Murakami 57.200
2 Aiko Sugihara 56.500
3 Asuka Teramoto 56.050
full results
Lauren posted commentary.
Recall that Mai was the surprise star of the Japanese team at Worlds 2015.
1. Ryohei Kato 90.150
2. Yusuke Tanaka 89.800
3. Shogo Nonomura 89.100
link to results
At the press conference, Kato said his goal was to win gold at the Rio Olympics. He also said he could use an overseas vacation.
Kenzo Shirai scored 16.200 on floor and 15.300 on vault.
Yusuke Tanaka scored 16.000 on pbars and 15.550 on high bar.
Kohei Kameyama scored 15.700 on pommels.
Kohei did not compete but gets automatically entered into Sunday’s AA Final.
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