Category: Gymnastics

World Floor Champion Mai Murakami

1. Murakami Mai JPN 14.233 Exe. : 8.333 | Diff. : 5.900
2. Carey Jade USA 14.200 Exe. : 8.500 | Diff. : 5.700
3. Fragapane Claudia GBR 13.933 Exe. : 8.333 | Diff. : 5.600
full results

Mai was disappointed in a 4th place finish in the AA. This will be great motivation in the Tokyo Olympics build-up.

Jade’s tumbling is astounding. Claudia’s routine excellent aside from the landing on her first tumbling pass.

Thais Santos was 4th with an excellent routine. Brooklyn Moors 5th with the second highest E score after Jade.

Legend Vanessa Ferrari was the final competitor. She opened with her usual strong double double. But fell badly on her second pass, shocking for the gymnast who’s been the best “lander” on Floor over the years. That routine was stopped. Let’s hope she’s going to be OK.

When is FIG going to do away with required numbers on leos? So unartistic. #MTL2017GYM

Zou Jingyuan wins P Bars

Greatest routine all time at Worlds?

Oleg got close with a near perfect routine of his own.

1. Zou Jingyuan CHN 15.900 Exe. : 9.100 | Diff. : 6.800
2. Verniaiev Oleg UKR 15.833 Exe. : 9.133 | Diff. : 6.700
3. Belyavskiy David RUS 15.266 Exe. : 8.866 | Diff. : 6.400
full results

Redemption.

This will easily be the best final at #MTL2017GYM.

Japanese journalist watching Kenzo

Excitement leading up to 2020 Olympics.

Click PLAY or watch it on Instagram.

2 medals for Germany on Beam

1 Schaefer Pauline GER 13.533 Exe. : 8.033 | Diff. : 5.500
2 Hurd Morgan USA 13.400 Exe. : 7.800 | Diff. : 5.700 | Pen. : -0.100
3 Alt Tabea GER 13.300 Exe. : 7.600 | Diff. : 5.700
full results

Beam medalists

Mai Murakami 4th. Again. So sad. She had the 3rd highest E-score 7.666.

Very severe judging. Much tougher than any other FIG meet I can recall.

People were shocked at the low scores. FIG needs communicate exactly what’s happening. Or modify deductions so scores fall in line with the other apparatus.

E score on Vault is generous, in comparison.

I felt Tingting’s E score of 7.366 was too low. They may have killed her dismount.

Pauline competed first and still won Gold. I love it when that happens.

Kenzo wins Vault

#MTL2017GYM Vault Final

Sadly the 2012 Olympic Vault champion withdrew from the final. Yang Hak-seon has had a lot of injuries over the years. Dalaloyan was added.

Kenzo near stuck Yurchenko triple twist. Time to spot and untilt before landing. Made it look easy. Opted not to do his 3 1/2 with Hak-seon out..

1. Shirai Kenzo JPN 14.900
2. Radivilov Igor UKR 14.899
3. Kim Hansol KOR 14.766
full results

The highlight vault was Igor’s stuck Dragulescu. Zero landing deduction from this MAG judge. The top two virtually tied. (Igor actually had 14.8995, but the FIG truncates the results.) E-score over D-score this time around.

Kim correctly took the Bronze.

It was close between legend Dragulescu (4th) and my man Jorge Vega Lopez (5th) from Guatemala. Most armchair pundits had Jorge slightly ahead.

There were only 3 super dangerous landings out of 16 total. That’s good for an FIG final these days. It’s Russian Roulette with FIG rules providing too much incentive for risky vaults.

Tabea Alt – Beam

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

Worlds Apparatus Finals day 2 preview

Miyachi on H Bar the most anticipated routine.

Click PLAY or watch the GymCastic preview on YouTube.

Start lists and LIVE scores.

GymCastic WORLDS audiocasts

Last night I was guest GymNerd on GymCastic Episode 275: World Championships Day 1 – Event Finals

GymCastic has been posting podcasts every day during #MTL2017GYM. You can catch up on the inside poop by listening to those at GymCastic.com.

You are beautiful, you are lovely, go out there and enjoy this!

Even better are the GymCastic Worlds videos. They have a team of GymNerds working non-stop behind the scenes putting together highlight clips and  non-boring interviews with athletes and coaches.

Are those your real eyelashes?

Check those on the GymCastic YouTube channel.

related – Worlds Apparatus Finals day 1 – Photos, Photo Galleries

Oksana Omelianchik – 1985 Floor

One of the greatest routines all time. Worlds Montreal 1985.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Okasana is judging Vault here I understand.