Category: Gymnastics

PETROUNIAS Qualification Rings

Like last year, we weren’t sure the Olympic Champ was going to compete. Injuries.

Happily, he did. Not his strongest routine, but he will get through to the Final.

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https://twitter.com/i/status/1180886219900751873

Giulia Steingruber legs

Giulia Steingruber is back from injury. And her legs are as strong as ever.

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https://twitter.com/i/status/1180522402620563456

 

DALALOYAN – Handspring double front pike

Best Vault at Worlds Qualifications, so far.

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https://twitter.com/Pamchenkova/status/1180876983351291904

SHOCKER – Chinese Taipei goes 250.093

Scores should be higher this year as teams peak for Olympic qualification, but I’m penciling in TPE for Olympic team qualification. No number crunching pundits predicted that. They were 17th last year.

Senior coach Sadao Hamada, who coached Stanford for decades, says he only has 15 guys at the National Training Centre, an excellent facility. Therefore they need do everything right to have this kind of success.

250 was their goal.

Coach Patrick Kiens on Netherlands, Egypt

Netherlands worked together like there was no tomorrow it paid off. Eythora, Sanne, Lieke, Vera, Tischa and Naomi were fighters in the arena and they killed it.

Also 2 other gymnasts Daymon and I work with qualified for an individual spot for the games……Mandy Maghoub (EGY) and Elisa Haemmerle (AUT). There was only one chance to make it to the top 20 All-arounders and that was hit 4 out of 4 and Mandy and Elisa did. …

Lee Chih-kai Qualification Pommels

Lee Chih-kai hit big in the first apparatus of the first session. Good chance to qualify to the Final.

Also Adam’s clean P Bars … because I don’t know how to post the second video separately. 😀

14.966 (6.2, 8.766)

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Individual AA qualifiers to Olympics

1 SARAIVA Flavia BRA
2 STEINGRUBER Giulia SUI
3 GODWIN Georgia AUS
4 VARINSKA Diana UKR
5 LEE Yunseo KOR
6 KOVACS Zsofia HUN
7 DOMINICI Martina ARG
8 MORENO Alexa MEX
9 FRANCIS Danusia JAM
10 KIM Su Jong PRK
11 HOLASOVA Aneta CZE
12 VIDIAUX Marcia CUB
13 HOLBURA Maria ROU
14 HAEMMERLE Elisa AUT
15 ALISTRATAVA Anastasiya BLR
16 ABDUL HADI Farah Ann MAS
17 MOHAMED Mandy EGY
18 SAVRANBASI Nazli TUR
19 MOKOSOVA Barbora SVK
20 MARTINS Filipa

 

On 12 and 13 October, the three highest placed eligible gymnasts (not already qualified in another way) in each apparatus final in Stuttgart will also book their Olympic tickets.

The specialists have another opportunity to qualify with the current Apparatus World Cup series that ends in March 2020. The four women’s and six men’s winners on each apparatus – a ranking decided by taking the best three results of each participant in the series – will be Tokyo-bound (on the condition that these gymnasts have not actively participated in the qualification of their respective teams).

There will be the possibility of gaining extra individual places for the competing countries via the 2020 All-around World Cup series – these will be available to the top three countries in this four-stage series running in March and April of that year.

The final qualifying opportunity will come at the continental championships in spring 2020 when there will be two individual places at stake for each of Africa, America, Europe and Asia and one place for Oceania.