Category: pommel horse

World Champs Dalaloyan, Xiao Rutoeng, Petrounias

Floor
1. Artur Dalaloyan (RUS) 14.9
2. Kenzo Shirai (JPN) 14.866
3. Carlos Yulo (PHI) 14.6

You could argue that Yul Moldauer (USA) 14.566 should have been Bronze.

Yulo is the biggest happy surprise of Worlds 2018. Congratulations Philippines. πŸ™‚

Pommels
1. Xiao Rutoeng (CHN) 15.166 ***
2. Max Whitlock (GBR) 15.166 ***
3. lee Chih Kai (TPE) 14.966

Second ever Worlds medal for TPE.

Max hit 3/3 in Doha. He lost the tie break due to having lower E-score.

Click PLAY or watch the Gold on YouTube.

Rings
1. Eleftherios Petrounias (GRE) 15.36
2. Arthur Zanetti (BRA) 15.100
3. Marco Lodadio (ITA) 14.900Β 

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

Petrounias was doubtful to compete Worlds. He has shoulder surgery scheduled in 3 days.

Zanetti was fantastic. You might argue he was even better thanΒ Petrounias. There’s not much to separate the very best Ring men.

Click PLAY or watch Zanetti on Twitter.

Men’s qualification highlights

FIG put together a highlights package of what happened day 2 qualifications.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

… or you could catch-up on by listening to GymCastic MAG day 2 – THE POMMEL-POCALYPSE

Median scores for all apparatus went up from Worlds 2017 to Worlds 2018. That’s expected over the quadrennial. … BUT median score on Pommels dropped 1.167. That’s no statistical fluke. There’s something wrong with that horse.

related – Russia, Xiao top men’s qualification at Doha Worlds

Men’s qualifications – results day 1

Half the competitors have finished in 5 sessions. Though judges were very quick, it was a long day.

Click on links to see full results … so far.

Team – top 12 advance to the team final. Top 24 can bring a full team to Worlds 2019.
RUS – Russian Federation 258.402
NED – Netherlands 245.663
SUI – Switzerland 245.186
UKR – Ukraine 243.651
ESP – Spain 241.261
FRA – France 241.203

AA – top 24 advance to the final.
NAGORNYY Nikita 87.098
DALALOYAN Artur 84.572
BELYAVSKIY David 83.332
ABAD Nestor 81.507
YULO Carlos Edriel 81.230
BRAEGGER Pablo 80.764
VERNIAIEV Oleg 80.522
HEGI Oliver 80.248

Floor – top 8 qualify to the Apparatus finals
DALALOYAN Artur RUS 14.833
NAGORNYY Nikita RUS 14.800
YULO Carlos Edriel PHI 14.766
DOLGOPYAT Artem ISR 14.400

Pommel
KURBANOV Nariman KAZ 14.466
TOMMASONE Cyril FRA 14.241
NAGORNYY Nikita RUS 14.000
BELYAVSKIY David RUS 14.000

Rings
RADIVILOV Igor UKR 14.733
SIMONOV Nikita AZE 14.633
NAGORNYY Nikita RUS 14.633
GOOSSENS Dennis BEL 14.533

Click PLAY or watch Igor on YouTube.

Vault
RI Se Gwang PRK 14.966
DALALOYAN Artur RUS 14.766
NAGORNYY Nikita RUS 14.683
YULO Carlos Edriel PHI 14.499

https://twitter.com/intlgymnast/status/1055481231800967169

P Bars
VERNIAIEV Oleg UKR 15.458
DALALOYAN Artur RUS 15.041
BELYAVSKIY David RUS 15.033
NAGORNYY Nikita RUS 14.966
PAKHNIUK Petro UKR 14.800

H Bar
ZONDERLAND Epke NED 14.400
SRBIC Tin CRO 14.300
DALALOYAN Artur RUS 14.166
DEURLOO Bart NED 14.033

Click PLAY or watch highlights on YouTube.

Max training Pommels in advance of Worlds

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long Pommel Flair sequence

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(via twoflips-threetwists.tumblr)

Kohei goes 87.75

Wins All Japan.

Still the man to beat in Doha, I’d say. If he hits 6/6 he’ll be tough to beat.

Click PLAY or watch him on Tumblr.

https://www.tumblr.com/twoflips-threetwists/178115415862/labflapper-kohei-uchimura-wins-all-japan-senior

Men’s Pan Am team Championships results

From qualifications. Results have been slow coming out of Lima, Peru.

1 Cuba 245.335
2 USA 245.231
3 Brazil 244.301
4 Canada 242.868
5 Colombia 240.231
6 Mexico 237.066
7 Venezuela 235.266
8 Argentina 234.799
full results

These 8 qualify for the team final and for Pan Am Games 2019.

Click PLAY or watch Manrique’s P Bars on YouTube.

https://t.co/VpaWEguvT4

Edoardo De Rosa – Pommels

European Jr Champ.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/UEGymnastics/status/1028632983434084354

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.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/UEGymnastics/status/1028656424665182208

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?