European Jr Champ.
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Category: pommel horse
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?
Pommels – Rhys 8.766 v 8.200 Max
MCCLENAGHAN Rhys 6.500 + 8.766 = 15.266
WHITLOCK Max 6.700 + 8.200 = 14.900
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No handstand at the start.
Muscling into circles out of Flair.
BIG form break, hitting the horse. Twice.
8.200 is too high, I feel.
Max had 8.541 E-score winning Worlds 2017. Watch that routine.
Rhys McCleneghan 15.266 Pommels
6.500 + 8.766 = 15.266
It ain’t braggin’ if you can do it.
You could call him the favourite over the Olympic Champion. I won’t argue. 🙂
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training positions for Pommels
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Mersin World Cup Men’s FINALS
Floor
1 Ahmet Onder Turkey 6.0 8.450 14.450
2 Frank Baines Great Britain 5.8 8.600 14.400
3 Ferhat Arican Turkey 5.6 8.400 14.000
Pommels
1 Rhys McClenaghan Ireland 5.9 8.250 14.150
2 Frank Baines Great Britain 5.8 7.850 13.650
3 Justin Karstadt Canada 5.2 8.150 13.350
Rings
1 Ibrahim Colak Turkey 6.2 8.900 15.100
2 Andrei Muntean Romania 6.1 8.500 14.600
3 Yuri Van Gelder Netherlands 5.9 8.400 14.300
Vault
1 Rene Cournoyer Canada 14.150
2 Dimitar Dimitrov Bulgaria 13.950
3 Robert Ghiuzan Romania 13.900
P Bars
1 Andrei Muntean Romania 5.9 9.000 14.900
2 Ahmet Onder Turkey 6.4 8.350 14.750
3 Ferhat Arican Turkey 6.2 8.450 14.650
H Bar
1 Umit Samiloglu Turkey 5.5 8.450 13.950
2 Samuel Zakutney Canada 5.4 8.100 13.500
3 Frank Baines GBR 5.3 8.000 13.300
full results
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Michael Reid wants to compete for Jamaica
Michael was the 2015 NCAA Pommel champ for Oklahoma. Now graduated, he has applied to switch national affiliations to Jamaica. World Championships is a possibility. He also hopes to compete a new skill on Pommels.
Listen to an interview on Gymnasticsville.
Rhys is training in Dublin
Though the next World Cup. Long term he’s not yet sure.
Watch a BBC interview.
Rhys McClenaghan training in his yard
The Commonwealth Games gold medallist left his club when his coach Luke Carson was given three weeks’ notice. Rhys has a World Cup competition coming up.
Rhys’ club claims the decision was financial.
Read Rhys’ statement.
Watch the BBC news report.
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