Category: Gymnastics

USA Worlds team camp

Superstars. Team will be announced today.

 

 

Samir Ait Said is back

French Gymnast Who Suffered Horrific Leg Break In Rio Competes For The First Time

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Nellie Kim interview

Interesting.

Nellie’s world view certainly does not align with my own. I’m happy she’s no longer leading the FIG WTC.

NELLIE KIM ON JUDGING, FAVORITE GYMNASTS AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN RUSSIA AND U.S.

Charlie Tamayo interview

I really enjoyed GymCastic #267: Growing Up In Cuba with Charlie Tamayo

The first male gymnast to win a World medal for Cuba tell us what it was like to grow up in the Cuban gymnastics system.  …

Especially the story of how and why a Cuban superstar defected to the USA.

Click PLAY or watch Charlie training Tamayo on YouTube.

Charlie is one of the new coaches at Georgia this season.

GymCastic is now 5 years old. Time flies when you are having fun.

Japan Jr Finals

Vault
1 Angelina Simakova Russia 14.433
2 Maile O’Keefe United States 14.183
3 Emma Malabuyo United States 14.150

Bars
1 Chen Yile China 14.166
2 Maile O’Keefe United States 14.033
3 Emma Malabuyo United States 13.933

Beam
1 Maile O’Keefe United States 14.400
2T Emma Malabuyo United States 14.333
2T Ana Padurariu Canada 14.333

Floor
1 Emma Malabuyo United States 14.066
2 Maile O’Keefe United States 13.600
3T Li Qi China 13.533
3T Chiaki Hatakeda Japan 13.533

full results

Click through to see the MAG apparatus finals results.

gender equality in sport

Gender equality was at the centre of the discussions of the newly formed FIG Women in Gymnastics Commission, which held its first meeting in Lausanne this week …

FIG

Paris Challenge Cup results

Vault
Coline Devillard France 14.250
Boglarka Devai Hungary 14.025
Michelle Timm Germany 13.275

Bars
Nina Derwael Belgium 14.900
Melanie De Jesus Dos Santos France 14.100
Diana Varinska Ukraine 14.050

Click PLAY or watch Nina’s wild set on YouTube.

Beam
Larisa Iordache Romania 14.200
Marine Boyer France 13.600
Claudia Fragapane Great Britain 13.200

Click PLAY or watch Iordache’s prelims (15.0) on YouTube.

Floor
Claudia Fragapane Great Britain 13.900
Larisa Iordache Romania 13.650
Diana Varinska Ukraine 13.250

Click PLAY or watch Claudia on YouTube.

full results

Paris Challenge Cup Men’s results

Floor
Jorge Vega Guatemala 14.350
Petro Pakhniuk Ukraine 14.150
Marian Dragulescu Romania 14.100

Pommels
Takaaki Sugino Japan 15.200
Cyril Tommasone France 15.100
Saso Bertoncelj Slovenia 14.900

Rings
Eleftherios Petrounias Greece 15.500
Samir Aït Saïd France 15.250
Oleg Verniaiev Ukraine 14.800
Chen Chih Yu Chinese Taipei 14.800

Click PLAY or watch the Olympic Champ on YouTube.

Vault
Audrys Nin Reyes Dominican Republic 14.875
Igor Radivilov Ukraine 14.775
Oleg Verniaiev Ukraine 14.775

Click PLAY or watch Audrys on YouTube. A Worlds contender.

P Bars
Oleg Verniaiev Ukraine 15.250
Petro Pakhniuk Ukraine 15.000
Axel Augis France 14.450
Marcel Nguyen Germany 14.450

H Bar
Epke Zonderland Netherlands 14.800
Bart Deurloo Netherlands 14.750
Yusuke Tanaka Japan 14.450

Click PLAY or watch Epke on YouTube.

full results