Category: Gymnastics

Rhys McClenaghan – Pommels

By the time we got to the Pommel final many (most?) were already calling the kid from Ireland favourite over the Olympic Champion. Max had been having problems. Rhys looking insanely confident.

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Rhys won Europeans easily. Now the talk is of who could beat him at Worlds. Rhys was 14th last year.

This is the young man forced to leave his club just weeks ago. What kind of marketing would Rathgael Gymnastics Club in Bangor have now if they had supported him and his coach?

Jr Men’s European apparatus winners

Floor
1. LEWIS Jamie GBR 13.833
2. MOZZATO Nicolo ITA 13.666
3. NAIDIN Sergei RUS 13.500

FEDERICI Ares ITA and FREY Andrin SUI also scored 13.500, but lost Bronze in the tie break based on highest execution score.

via UEG

Pommel
1. DE ROSA Edoardo ITA 14.066
2. LEWIS Jamie GBR 13.733
3. KHACHIKYAN Gagik ARM 13.600

Though Jamie has 0.6 higher D score, I agree with the judges this time.

GREAT Pommel final. No falls.

Jamie will soon be contending for spots on senior GBR teams. He’s awesome.

via UEG

Rings
1. KLIMENTEV Grigorii RUS 14.300
2. KALIUZHIN Viktor RUS 13.866
3. LEWIS Jamie GBR 13.700

Frey had to withdraw. No time to bring in the alternate even though it was Mozzato who had just competed Floor.

SmartRings software was used at this meet to evaluate TIME OF HOLD. I’m still trying to figure out exactly how it works.

Vault
1. DRANITSKI Sviataslau BLR 14.333
2. JARMAN Jake GBR 14.300
3. FEDERICI Ares ITA 14.300

P Bars
1. KOVTUN Illia UKR 14.000
2. RIDA Karim GER 13.533
3. TAMSEL Dominic SUI 13.533

H Bar
1. MOZZATO Nicolo ITA 13.633
2. BALAZS Krisztian HUN 13.300
3. WOERZ Daniel GER 13.066

Mozzato says he’ll be competing Senior at Worlds Doha.

David Belyavskiy blames the brand of chalk provided at Europeans for a slippery H Bar. (Many did bring their own chalk.)

He also felt the H Bar was too rigid.

Apparatus finals are often a letdown for me as many times it’s difficult to repeat the performance that got you there. But this one was terrific. Congratulations to all the gymnasts and their coaches for putting on such a great show.

Five nations divide junior European titles

European Men’s TEAM final wrap-up

Going into the last rotation, Russia had a 1-point lead over Great Britain. Unfortunately, the British hopes for gold vanished as both Cunningham and Hall fell. Russia controlled their final routines well, securing the team title with a margin of almost four points. …

The most consistent team today, France cruised to the bronze medal, avoiding major mistakes. …

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U.S. Championships preview

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Russia are Men’s European Champions

1. Russia 257.260
2. GBR 253.362
3. France 246.928
4. Germany 243.629
5. Switzerland 243.462
6. Spain 239.461
7. Turkey 239.361
8. Italy 222.327

full results

As expected, it was a thriller. Though 5 apparatus I still liked GBR to win. Russia was 1.0+ ahead, … but it was H Bar. That’s typically a good apparatus for Great Britain, Russia’s worst.

But Dom fell twice. Joe hit. And — shockingly — HALL James fell.

That was it. All Russia needed were their easy routines. They hit 3/3.

The arena was full. Full of fans cheering loud and proud for the home side.

I was hoping Turkey might hold it together to take an historic Bronze. But falls on their final 2 apparatus ended that dream. France did the job. Great meet today.

Within seconds of the start of the competition the first Italian gymnast took a zero on Vault. He slipped. Their team chances were over. It’s 3-up, 3-count. That’s something that could happen to China, Japan, USA … to anyone.