Category: Gymnastics

Jr Worlds finals – day 1

Vault
1. Kayla DiCello USA 14.166
2. Jennifer Gadirova GBR 14.133
3. Vladislava Urazova RUS 14.116

Click PLAY or watch Jennifer on Twitter.

Bars
1. Vladislava Urazaova RUS 14.433
2. Viktoria Listunova RUS 14.200
3. Wei Xiaoyuan CHN 13.800

People were generally unimpressed with Bars judging in this final.

Click PLAY or watch Viktoria on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/russiangymstan/status/1144978610471809026

Junior men are judged out of 8 skills, not 10 as done in Senior. Therefore scores are lower than Senior.

Floor
1. Ryu Sung-hyun KOR 14.166
2. Felix Dolci CAN 14.000
3. Nazar Chepurnyi UKR 13.866

1st FIG ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS Junior WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, Györ/HUN
27 – 30 June, 2019

Pommels
1. Takeru Kitazono JPN 13.966
2. Shinnosuke Oka JPN 13.766
3. Edvins Rodevics LAT 13.233

Rings
1. Felix Dolci CAN 13.600
2. Diogo Soares BRA 13.500
3. Yang Haonan CHN 13.475

Full results.

Unlike the Team / AA day, Olympic Channel did broadcast apparatus finals. Watch day 1 online.

Read the FIG summary post.

Or skip the serious report and click over to Spencer’s take:

I mostly just want to talk about Shinnosuke Oka, who is a cool 16 inches tall and the future king of earth.

Aerial Walkover + Arabian

Guan Wenli

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

Yurchenko 1/4-on, 1 3/4-off

Men would call this a Scherbo entry vault.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

GAGE is using the Tumbl Trak T-Trainer.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Canada’s 1st World Champion

The great Kyle Shewfelt won Floor in the Athens Olympics, but no Canadian had won a gold in an Artistic Gymnastics World Championships before Félix Dolci.

Jr. World Champion on Rings.

International handstand day?

I guess so.

#InternationalHandstandDay

David Belyavskiy wins European Games

1. David Belyavskiy RUS 85.465
2. Oleg Verniaiev UKR 84.632
3. Vladislav Poliashov RUS 84.464

https://twitter.com/russiangymstan/status/1144999299660615680

Click PLAY or watch his P Bars on YouTube.

https://twitter.com/UEGymnastics/status/1144241223026315264

European Games champion Angelina

1. Angelina Melnikova RUS 54.498
2. Lorette Charpy FRA 54.166
3. Diana Varinska UKR 52.766

Click PLAY or watch her Floor on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/UEGymnastics/status/1144972665809248256

https://twitter.com/russiangymstan/status/1145002851183353856

Russia wins 1st WAG Jr Worlds

  1. Russia – 111.654
  2. China  – 109.497
  3. USA  – 109.380
  4. Romania – 104.596
  5. Belgium – 104.464
  6. GBR – 104.114

      1. LISTUNOVA Viktoriia RUS 55.323 (fall on Beam)
      2. URAZOVA Vladislava RUS 55.298
      3. OU Yushan CHN 54.931 *
      4. di CELLO Kayla USA 54.765 *
      5. BARROS Sydney USA 53.974
      6. WEI Xiaoyuan CHN 53.066

* age eligible for Tokyo 2020

  1. Full results.

Stupidly, FIG did not LIVE stream this most important day. But many in the audience were posting routines from their phones.