Category: Gymnastics

Yale coach Barbara Tonry

Tonry has led Yale’s women’s gymnastics team since its inception in 1973, capturing 16 Ivy League championships after fighting for the team’s varsity status and clashing with the athletic department in the 1970s. …

With no competitions for the Bulldogs this year, Tonry reflected on her beginnings with Yale gymnastics and the nearly half-century since. …

“I think what makes Barb so successful is her confidence and her belief in everything about her program,” current Yale gymnastics captain Charlotte Cooperman ’21 said.

“She was an extremely successful athlete and brings the same mentality into her role as a coach. She believes in her gymnasts and gets her gymnasts to understand their own abilities as a team.” …

Barbara Tonry reflects on 48 years at helm
Don and Barbara Tonry

Husband Don Tonry died in 2013.

USA names National Teams

… 26 gymnasts have been named to the National Team through the 2021 U.S. Gymnastics Championships in June. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, this marks the first time the team has been named since the conclusion of the 2019 U.S. Championships.

Senior

  • Ciena Alipio, San Jose, Calif./Midwest Gymnastics Center*
  • Simone Biles, Spring, Texas/World Champions Centre*
  • Jade Carey, Phoenix, Ariz./Arizona Sunrays*
  • Jordan Chiles, Vancouver, Wash./World Champions Centre
  • Kayla DiCello, Boyds, Md./Hill’s Gymnastics*
  • Amari Drayton, Spring, Texas/World Champions Centre*
  • Kara Eaker, Grain Valley, Mo./GAGE*
  • Aleah Finnegan, Lee’s Summit, Mo./GAGE*
  • Olivia Greaves, Staten Island, N.Y./World Champions Centre*
  • Morgan Hurd, Middletown, Del./First State Gymnastics*
  • Shilese Jones, Westerville, Ohio/Future Gymnastics Academy
  • Emily Lee, Los Gatos, Calif./West Valley Gymnastics School
  • Sunisa Lee, St Paul, Minn./Midwest Gymnastics Center*
  • Lilly Lippeatt, Mason, Ohio/Cincinnati Gymnastics
  • Grace McCallum, Isanti, Minn./Twin City Twisters*
  • Riley McCusker, Brielle, N.J./Arizona Sunrays*
  • MyKayla Skinner, Gilbert, Ariz./Desert Lights Gymnastics*
  • Leanne Wong, Overland Park, Kan./GAGE*


Junior

  • Charlotte Booth, Clermont, Fla./Brandy Johnson’s Global Gymnastics
  • Madray Johnson, Dallas, Texas/WOGA Gymnastics
  • Katelyn Jong, Allen, Texas/Metroplex Gymnastics*
  • Levi Jung-Ruivivar, Maple Grove, Minn./Twin City Twisters*
  • Kaliya Lincoln, Frisco, Texas/WOGA Gymnastics*
  • Nola Matthews, Gilroy, Calif./Airborne Gymnastics Training Center
  • Ella Kate Parker, West Monroe, La./Cincinnati Gymnastics
  • Joscelyn Roberson, Texarkana, Texas/North East Texas Elite Gymnastics

*Individuals named to the team by the Athlete Selection Committee

Here are the results of the competition.

great FORM on Beam

Spencer was complaining the other day how NCAA gymnasts are rarely deducted for conspicuous form breaks on Beam.

Perhaps College judges need study Urara Ashikawa (芦川うらら, Ashikawa Urara) for comparison. 😀

She’s won Beam at several World Cups.

Click PLAY or watch it on Instagram.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CMQ3NmQhILZ/

Viktoria Listunova leads in Russia

In the qualification round:

  1. Viktoria Listunova
  2. Vladislava Urazova
  3. Yana Vorona
  4. Angelina Melnikova
  5. Lilia Akhaimova
  6. Elena Gerasimova
  7. Maria Minaeva
  8. Angelina Simakova

I didn’t post scores as Russian numbers are about as accurate as Valentina’s media comments. 😀

Click PLAY or watch her lovely FX on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/intlgymnast/status/1370049304694566917

Chellsie – 1st Double Fronts in 8 years

Like riding a bike.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

Dalaloyan leads Russian Championships

Artur Dalaloyan, the 2018 World AA champion and the 2019 World AA silver medalist, predictably took the lead in the competition today with 85.331 …

Dalaloyan was only slightly over 0.1 ahead of the rising star of the Russian team Aleksandr Kartsev (85.198). Nineteen-year-old Kartsev made his senior debut in 2019 and went to a couple of World Cups but wasn’t yet able to break onto major teams.  …

David Belyavskiy finished third with 83.198. 

gymnovosti

Ivan Stretovich didn’t compete due to injury. Nagornyy withdrew due to fever.

Click PLAY or watch Kartsev’s Pommels on YouTube.

Lexy Ramler – Bars

On GymCastic this week, Jessica and Spencer said they felt every other gymnast had to be compared against Lexy Ramler for form — before they could be awarded a 10.

Whyte Review Interim Report

Today’s admission that 390 submissions have been made to the Whyte Review confirms the scale of the problem in gymnastics and comes as a surprise to nobody involved in the sport in Britain. …

Submissions to the review cover over 90 clubs and 100 coaches …

Gymnasts For Change

Read the interim report as posted by Anne Whyte.

She hopes to publish the final report by end of August 2021. After the Olympics.