Auburn and Stanford advance

This was a thriller.

Third-seeded Stanford posted a 196.525 team score, finishing tied for first with Auburn in a tough Ann Arbor regional. With the score, Stanford will head to NCAA Championships for the ninth time in the past 10 years. The Cardinal put together a bars rotation that scored a 49.500, a feat hard to achieve with a four-judge scoring panel. …

Pac-12

1, Stanford 196.525
2, Auburn 196.525

3, Michigan 196.475
4, Eastern Michigan 196.250

full results

https://twitter.com/coachjeffgraba/status/716445439390834688

Michigan put on an incredible last apparatus run – a team record 49.675 on Bars – to fall just short.

But Eastern Michigan University was even more impressive in their first Regional Championships ever. There was every chance they could have qualified to Championships. 🙂 Congratulations to coach Jay Santos.

Oklahoma and Nebraska advance

full results

Nebraska has now qualified for nationals 18 times during coach Dan Kendig’s 23 seasons at NU.

Alabama and Cal advance

Thrilled for Cal. 🙂 Disappointed for Boise. 😦

full results

The energy in the arena was electric,” UA head coach Dana Duckworth said.

Florida and Minnesota advance

Florida 196.725
Minnesota 196.175

Missouri 195.850
Denver 195.700
Ohio State 194.775
BYU 194.075
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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. …

Advocate

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.

full results

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.)

Handspring

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New national champion Nikolai Kuksenkov has withdrawn from the Russian men’s championships in Penza after it was revealed he tested positive for the banned substance meldonium.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. …

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Nikolai Kuksenkov

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.