Category: Gymnastics

Minsk, Belarus will host European Games

Artistic Gymnastics – June 26-29, 2019.

Minsk is the capital of Belarus which declared independence from the USSR in 1991.

The leader since 1994, Alexander Lukashenko, is considered something of a dictator. Hopefully hosting all of Europe will help the nation improve human rights.

Click PLAY or see Minsk on YouTube.

Related – Rio 2016 trampoline gold medallist Uladzislau Hancharou is from Belarus.

(via Lisa Deen)

FIG commits to 30% plus female leadership

… To tend towards gender equality, the FIG decided to introduce a minimum 30% quota of each gender in the 2020 electoral process for its own governing bodies. …

Jacqueline Briggs-Weatherill, president of the FIG Women in Gymnastics Commission:

“We can see so many women as athletes, coaches and judges in Gymnastics, so their number could naturally grow in leadership and executive positions. The world is changing fast. The opportunities will be there for millennial women, so we need to help them step up.”

First forum guides women on pathways to leadership

Jia Fangfang – Floor

BIG tumbling from the former World Power Tumbling Champ.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

Ou Yushan – Beam

I like the side salto combination.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

Gymnastics Club fundraiser for a new FLOOR

Pinetown Gymnastics in South Africa has a good idea. You can donate sections of the new Floor. Big spenders should go for one of the 10,000 Rand corners.

new UCLA Head Coach Chris Waller

No surprise. 

Chris is a great guy. Great coach. Super experienced.

Congratulations.

Miss Val:

“Chris was born to coach, and I can honestly say that so much of our program’s success since he’s been on this staff has been due to his contributions. He is a true student of the sport of gymnastics and has embraced the psychological side of coaching as much as he has the technical side. I am confident that Chris will sustain the culture and excellence of the program, and I am excited to see the next chapter of UCLA Gymnastics under his guidance.”

49 compete both MAG & WAG at NAIGC

Guest post by Nate Sharp:

 

The “Gymnastics Decathlon” (competing all the MAG events and all the WAG events in a single competition) was added as an event for the first time at NAIGC Nationals three years ago.

 

This year at NAIGC Nationals (1498 total competitors at the meet, age 17-61!) we had our biggest year yet, with 49 athletes from 25 different teams competing across the two Decathlon levels (Upper – MAG Modified NCAA and WAG Level 9, Lower – MAG Developmental and WAG Level 8).
30 of the gymnasts chose the MAG events as their “primary discipline” (meaning they could qualify to finals in those events).

 

The competition has been growing steadily over the last few years since its inception, and I think the addition of the lower level really helped get more people interested (30 of the 49 were in the lower level).
The winners in the Decathlon Lower Level were:
  1. Sydney Callahan – NAIGC Alumni – 235.000
  2. Kate Foster – UNC – 229.150 (videos)
  3. Meghan McClure – UVM – 228.375 (video)
And for the Decathlon Upper Level:
  1. Julia Sharpe – MIT – 252.925 (video)
  2. Mason Marek – NAIGC Alumni – 239.275
  3. Ryan Burgess – UCSD – 233.800 (video of WAG FX)
Some other videos:
Nate Sharpe (myself) – MIT (video)
Andre Holmes – NAIGC Alumni (videos)
(Scoring is 5*WAG AA + MAG AA, lots of thought went into the formula, but it’s trying to balance the two different scoring systems (WAG is JO, MAG is FIG open scoring) as well as the coed competition so that male and female athletes of similar level in their “native” events, training the decathlon for a similar time should score similarly.

 

With enough people, we’ll probably now start splitting the results by gender and the formula may change.)
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Click PLAY or watch Kate Foster on Instagram. She competed 10 apparatus over 9 hours. Vault twice! With a prosthetic leg.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BwQhN9tjnwg/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

Editor’s note: At Altadore Gym Club for many years we held an annual ‘Reversal Meet‘ where our guys competed up to 4 WAG apparatus, the girls any 4 of the MAG apparatus. As I recall, the girls won every year! 😀

USA Men’s JO National Championships

Some of the National Champions:

Junior Elite Level 8, 11 year-old champion: Danila Leykin, WOGA

Junior Elite Level 8, 12 year-old champion: Jaden Bottarini, Gymnastics Olympica USA (2018 11-year-old champion)

Junior Elite Level 9, 13 year-old champion: Vahe Petrosyan, Gymnastics Olympica USA (2018 12-year-old champion)

Junior Elite Level 9, 14 year-old champion: Caden Clinton, Cypress Academy of Gymnastics

Junior Elite Level 10, 15 year-old champion: Asher Hong, Cypress Academy of Gymnastics

Junior Elite Level 10, 16 year-old champion: Brandon Nguyen, Elevate Gymnastics Academy

Junior Elite Level 10, 17 year-old champion: Colt Walker, AcroTex Gymnastics

Junior Elite Level 10, 18 year-old champion: Laz Barnhill, Cypress Academy of Gymnastics

The 2019 U.S. Men’s Junior Olympic National Championships in Reno, Nevada was a success.

Stick it Media had the best coverage I’ve seen online.