Category: Gymnastics

One of the most exciting all-around competitions ever.

Though it didn’t show, Nikita said he was very tired this many days into the competition. The loud and enthusiastic crowd helped.

On Russian dominance in Stuttgart, he said: – “A new era … Get used to it.”

Xiao Ruoteng was about 0.5 behind arriving at the last apparatus, so decided to try his harder H Bar to make it up. He fell.

Oleg Verniaiev rated his health at 5-6 / 10, but better than Worlds last year. Decided to go for broke. Did his highest difficulty routines, and it worked.

Scot Bregman – NIKITA NAGORNYY WINS WORLD ALL-AROUND TITLE IN STUTTGART

OLYMPIC CHANNEL – ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2019 | DAY 8 AS IT HAPPENED

https://twitter.com/olympicchannel/status/1182702722929307650?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1182702722929307650&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.olympicchannel.com%2Fen%2Fstories%2Fnews%2Fdetail%2Fnikita-nagornyy-wins-world-all-around-title-in-stuttgart%2F

related:

• theGymter.net – 2019 World Championships | Men’s All-Around Final Live Blog
• BBS – LIVE FROM WORLDS – MEN’S ALL-AROUND FINAL

Mélanie de Jesus dos Santos and Sam Mikulak.

Good call.

I might have voted for Cintia Rodriguez and Carlos Yulo, if I had a vote. It’s now decided by a committee.

What a battle.

Even better than the 88.665 Nikita scored to win Europeans!

Nagornyy (RUS) – 88.772
Dalaloyan (RUS) – 87.165 (near fall on Vault)
Verniaiev (UKR) – 86.973

Click PLAY or watch medalist highlights on YouTube.

4. Xiao (CHN) – 86.690 (fall on H Bar)
5. Sun (CHN) – 86.523
6. Kaya (JPN) – 85.899
7. Mikulak (USA) – 85.691 (fall on Pommels)
8. Fraser (GBR) – 85.098

This was an all-around championships for the ages.

https://twitter.com/russiangymstan/status/1182700284923056128

Who predicted Oleg for Bronze? Not me.

… for a few minutes after presentation.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

The H Bar medal signed by Fabian.

Most are predicting Nikita NAGORNYY to win.

https://twitter.com/Supergymmie/status/1182657604616675329

I’ll be commenting LIVE via Twitter @GymCoaching. And partnering this year with @kensleyanne Kensley Behel. We both will be guest MAG pundits on the GymCastic podcasts this week.

More LIVE coverage:

• Balance Beam Situation
• GymCastic
• gymnovosti
• theGymter.net 
• Olympic Channel
• FIG on Twitter
• International Gymnast Magazine Facebook

Uchimura has won 6 AA titles. Just sayin’, Simone.

The Olympic Channel posted an excellent summary putting Simone’s 5th into historical perspective.

SIMONE BILES CAPTURES FIFTH WORLD ALL-AROUND TITLE IN STUTTGART

1. Simone Biles USA 58.999
2. Tang Xijing CHN 56.899
3. Angelina Melnikova RUS 56.399

4. Ellie Black CAN 56.232 (withdrew from Beam final)
5. Nina Derwael BEL 56.033
6. Elisabeth Seitz GER 55.999
7. Flavia Saraiva BRA 55.732
8. Sunisa Lee USA 55.632
9. Li Shijia CHN 55.099
10. Sarah Voss GER 54.898
11. Aline Friess FRA 54.798
12. Alice Kinsella GBR 54.765

It was a much better competition than the team final. I speculate the Beam was widened for AA. 😀

Two other podium contenders had bad meets: Giorga Villa (ITA) 16th, and Melanie de Jesus dos Santos (FRA) 20th.

The NEW TO ME star of the Final was Aline Friess.

Full results.

• Biles wins historic fifth women’s all-around gold at 2019 World Championships
• Biles wins record fifth world All-around title
• All-around is a triumph for Biles, learning experience for Lee

Read a translated Chinese newspaper article about Tang XiJing winning the silver medal after qualifying in 21st.

Photos.