Category: Gymnastics

The QUALIFYING competition is the most interesting, most entertaining day.

Here’s where the majority of Olympic qualifiers are named.

Personally I enjoy watching the small nations trying to compete against China. It’s like me challenging one of the Toronto Raptors to one-on-one. Entertaining.

We have strong medal contenders from TPE, Ireland, Philippines and Croatia this year, for example.

As is often the case, the Men’s competition was wild and unpredictable from start to finish.

• In the 8th and final session, both Netherlands and Switzerland knew what they needed. Both started with a strong first apparatus. Switzerland got it done. Netherlands did not.

1. Russia
2. China
3. Japan
4. Ukraine
5. GBR
6. Switzerland
7. USA
8. Chinese Taipei TPE Taiwan
9. Korea
10. Brazil
11. Spain
12. Germany

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

There were at least 20 teams who could have finished top 12 by hitting their best routines. Turkey has defeated teams on that list recently, for example. Australia is low on the list, but really impressed. Norway was one of my favourite squads. The depth of men’s Gymnastics worldwide is amazing.

• Great Britain were GREAT. Even without Nile Wilson who was out with injury.
• Ukraine is back as a contender for a team medal. I’m still pissed that they were ripped off at the London Olympics. Go for it, Oleg!
• Proposed NEW deduction? Wearing white socks with coloured pants. Normally a bad idea.
• Max Whitlock hit and stuck 3/3 routines. And is leading Pommels into the Final.
• James Bacueti from Australia added half a twist to the hardest Kasamatsu vaults competed by anyone else.
• There were several triple backs from H Bar and Rings. Fans love them. Don’t do that. It’s tough to land consistently. And they are undervalued in the Code.
• USA / Sam Makulak had a bad qualifying round. Surprising as they have been so consistent in the lead-up to Worlds. Sam was lucky to even qualify to the AA Final.
• Ri Se Gwang (PRK) is the Olympic Vault Champ. Didn’t qualify. Nor did Zou Jingyuan (CHN) on P Bars nor Epke on H Bar.
• Judging was better than WAG. Rings in particular seemed low, but consistent. The only complaints I heard were E-score on Floor — the clean twisters gained no advantage over helicopter legs competitors.

Vault USA & China
Bars  Russia & France
Beam Canada & Netherlands 
Floor GBR & Italy 

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:

• The All Around on Twitter
• MAGnastics
• Balance Beam Situation
• GymCastic
• gymnovosti
• theGymter.net 
• Olympic Channel
• Stuttgart 2019 YouTube channel 
• FIG on Twitter
• Inside Gymnastics 
• International Gymnast Magazine Facebook

Related:

• U.S. Women Chasing Seventh Straight Team Title
• SIMONE BILES SEEKS MEDAL RECORD IN TUESDAY’S TEAM FINAL

UNOFFICIAL – From International Gymnast Magazine on Facebook, which you should definitely follow if you want to know what’s happening at Worlds.

Floor
1. Artem Dolgopyat ISR 15.033
2. Lin Chaopan CHN 14.933
3. Nikita Nagornyy RUS 14.900
4. Xiao Ruoteng CHN 14.833
5. Artur Dalaloyan RUS 14.733
6. Kim Hansol KOR 14.666
7. Carlos Yulo PHI 14.633
8. Dominick Cunningham GBR 14.600
Alt- Nicolau Mir ESP 14.533

Pommels
1. Max Whitlock GBR 15.266
2. Rhys McClenaghan IRL 15.200
3. Lee Chih Kai TPE 14.966
4. Zou Jinyuan CHN 14.958
5. Daiki Hashimoto JPN 14.883
6. Shiao Yu-Jan TPE 14.683
7. Cyril Tommasone FRA 14.666
8. (tie) Kaya Kazuma JPN 14.633
8. (tie) David Belyavskiy RUS 14.633
Alt – Oleg Verniaiev UKR 14.600

Seligman fell twice. Walked off the podium without finishing his routine.

Rings
1. Ibrahim Colak TUR 14.858
2. Arthur Zanetti BRA 14.700
3. Samir Ait Said FRA 14.700
4. Eleftherios Petrounias GRE 14.700
5. Marco Lodadio ITA 14.666
6. Denis Abliazin RUS 14.600
7. Nick Klessing GER 14.566
8. Artur Tovmasyan ARM 14.566
Alt – Igor Radivilov UKR 14.533

Vault
1. Yang Hakseon KOR 14.933
2. Artur Dalaloyan RUS 14.716
3. Shek Wai Hung HKG 14.666
4. Igor Radivilov UKR 14.666
5. Le Thanh Tung VIE 14.633
6. Marian Dragulescu ROU 14.624
7. Nikita Nagornyy RUS 14.616
8. Dominick Cunningham GBR 14.566
Alt – Kim Hansol KOR 14.483

Yang Hakseon is back with the Handspring layout front with triple twist. Awesome.

And who’s this guy Marian Dragulescu? I’ve heard the name somewhere.

P Bars
1. Lukas Dauser GER 15.033
2. Petro Pakhniuk UKR 15.033
3. Joe Fraser GBR 15.000
4. Xiao Ruoteng CHN 14.966
5. Arican Ferhat TUR 14.933
6. (tie) Sun Wei CHN 14.800
6. (tie) Ahmet Onder TUR 14.800
8. Kaya kAZUMA JPN 14.800
Alt – Nikita Nagornyy RUS 14.800

Missing the final were Oleg and the greatest P Bar man in the history of the Universe — Zou Jingyuan, who fell on Tippelt. We’ll see them in the Team Final, however.

H Bar
1. Tang Chia-Hung TPE 14.933
2. Sam Mikulak USA 14.866
3. Tin Srbic CRO 14.833
4. Arthur Mariano BRA 14.600
5. Artur Dalaloyan RUS 14.433
6. Lin Chaopan CHN 14.433
7. Bull Tyson AUS 14.366
8. Daiki Hashimoto JPN 14.366
Alt – Oliver Hegi SUI 14.366

Click PLAY or watch Tin on Twitter.

Q = qualified

1. Nagornyy RUS 87.333 – Q
2. Dalaloyan RUS 86.531 – Q
3. Xiao CHN 85.831 – Q

"I want to try to get everything done in the final and be more consistent, and not fall off the Pommel Horse again" – China's Xiao Ruoteng 🇨🇳 has simple goals for the Team and All-around finals at #Stuttgart2019 pic.twitter.com/Wnez49QFAp

— FIG (@gymnastics) October 7, 2019

4. Kaya JPN 85.731 -Q
5. Sun CHN 84.899 – Q
6. Pakhniuk UKR 84.598 – Q
7. Lee TPE 84.481 – Q
8. Verniaiev UKR 84.299 – Q
9. Braegger SUI 83.505 – Q
10. Stretovich RUS 83.438
11. Moldauer USA 82.898 – Q
12. Hegi SUI 82.831 – Q
13. Toba GER 82.781 – Q
14. Tang TPE 82.763 – Q
15. Deng CHN 82.698
16. Fraser GBR 82.565 – Q
17. Kim KOR 82.431 – Q
18. Yulo PHI 82.164 – Q
19. Abad ESP 81.932 – Q
20. Hall GBR 81.930 – Q
21. Larduet CUB 81.898 – Q
22. Souza BRA 81.897 – Q
23. Yudenkov UKR 81.831
24. Lee KOR 81.830 – Q
25. Edalli ITA 81.698 – Q
26. Karimi KAZ 81.599 – Q
27. Mikulak USA 81.598 – Q

Sam Mikulak could potentially win this thing, if he’d hit 6/6. He had a terrible day in qualification. Getting in the last spot and coming back BIG would be a story nobody could believe. 😊