Ponor retires at the Mexican Open

One of the all time greats.

Age 30, Cătălina Ponor, is a triple Olympian. (2004, 2012, 2016)

During her career, she won 23 Olympic, World and European medals. More than a half of them (12) were gold.

Turnier der Meister – day 2 finals

GREAT Beam!

Beam
1. WANG, Cenyu CHN 14,166 (8,766 E-score)
2. SCHAEFER, Pauline GER 14,000 ( 8,800 E-score for the World Champ)
3. KHARENKOVA, Maria RUS 13,766

Click PLAY or watch Cenyu Wang on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch Pauline on YouTube.

Floor
1. AKHAIMOVA, Liliia RUS 14,000
2. KHARENKOVA, Maria RUS 13,600
3. SCHAEFER, Pauline GER 13,500

Liliia is the most powerful Russian tumbler we’ve seen in … perhaps ever. 🙂

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Vault
1. ASATO, Keisuke JPN 14,966
2. RADIVILOV, Igor UKR 14,883
3. REMKES, Christopher AUS 14,816

P Bars
1. TAN, Di CHN 15,566
2. VERNIAIEV, Oleg UKR 15,166
3. NGUYEN, Marcel GER 15,133

Click PLAY or watch the super clean TAN, Di on YouTube. Front toss to long hang.

H Bar
1. BRETSCHNEIDER, Andreas GER 14,566
2. KIMBLE, Marvin USA 14,033
3. GIACHINO, Pietro NOR 14,000
– TAN, Di CHN 14,000

FIG – Ten take gold at Cottbus Individual Apparatus World Cup

One of the oldest international tournaments in Artistic Gymnastics, the event has been held in Cottbus annually since 1979.

judging angles on Bars

This is something like how a computer would do it.

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That last pirouette is probably OK, I’d say. There would need to be sensors on the rails to confirm time of regrasp on pirouettes.

“middle” loops on Pommels

Nick Blanton:

If you want to swing good Pommel Horse, master the middle loop early on!

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quad twist attempt

Japan’s Chiaki Hatakeda. Younger sister of Hitomi and daughter of 1996 Olympian Yoshiaki Hatakeda.

via Gymternet Clan

past U.S. male High School gymnasts needed

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Manrique – double front 1/1-out

He finally shows the new dismount … in the Mexican Gala.

Stick and butt wiggle.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (dismount at 121s)

(via Ono)

Turnier der Meister – results

Vault
1. Oksana Chusovitina UZB 14.283 (11th victory at Cottbus)
2. Lilia Akhaimova RUS 13,733

3. Tjasa Kysselef SLO 13,716

Bars
1. Elisabeth Seitz GER 14.900
2. Lou Jiaqi CHN 14,866
3. Wang Cenyu CHN 14,200

Floor
1. Roa Klarova SLO 14.133
1. Bram Verhofstadt NED 14.133
1. Kirill Prokopev RUS 14.133

Pommels
1. Wang Juwen CHN 15,200
2. Ryuhei Hashimoto JPN 14,933
2. Wang Juwen CHN 14,833

Rings
1. Igor Radilov UKR 15,133
2. Lei Peng CHN 15,066
3. Lan Xingyu CHN 14,633

China Claims Six Medals in First Day of Cottbus Finals

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VIDEOS 

PHOTOS

Sydney Gymnastics Training Centre clinic

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Stacey Umeh warming-up 250 athletes.