Category: history

Teramoto Asuka retired

The 2012 (9th) and 2016 (8th) Olympian missed the Games in 2021 due to injury.

Thanks for all the good years.

R.I.P. Szilveszter Csollany

Szilveszter Csollany, a 2000 Olympic gymnastics champion, died Monday at the age of 51 after spending weeks hospitalized with COVID-19, Hungarian sports officials said.

… a gold medal in the men’s rings competition at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. He also won silver in 1996 in Atlanta and a world championship gold in 2002.

He was a six-time medalist at the European gymnastics championships, and the recipient of Hungary’s “Sportsman of the Year” award in 2000 and 2002.

Csollany had been hospitalized with COVID-19 since early December, and spent several weeks on a ventilator.

NBC – Szilveszter Csollany, Olympic gymnastics champion in 2000, dies after COVID infection

Watch his Olympic Rings routine on YouTube.

Celebrating Kohei Uchimura

Blythe Lawrence:

… back-to-back Olympic all-around golds in 2012 and 2016 (the first man to do so since Sawao Kato in 1972), six consecutive world all-around titles collected between 2009 to 2015 (in a sport where no other man has more than two), and 21 world medals (including individual titles on floor exercise, parallel bars, and horizontal bar.) …

“He’s my hero,” echoed Carlos Yulo, the reigning world champion on vault, who on his best days shares Uchimura’s crystal-clear sense of execution and extreme difficulty.

The Philippines-born 21-year-old, who trains in Japan, credits watching Uchimura compete at the London Olympics as a key moment in his childhood. …

In pursuit of perfection, ‘King’ Kohei created pure art
Japan’s Kohei Uchimura competes on the pommel horse during the men’s all-around final at the World Gymnastics Championships at the Hydro arena in Glasgow, Scotland, October 30, 2015. REUTERS/Phil Noble

Music professor Lasse Nettum created an original piece to accompany Uchimura’s horizontal bar routine from the 2011 World Championships.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

related – Magnastics – A History of Uchimura Kohei’s Winning Streak

Happy 101st Ágnes Keleti

A treasure.

Oksana … and the rest

… timeline of Oksana Chusovitina’s career lined up alongside the careers of every Olympic All-Around Champion from 1992-present …

The Medal Count – The Longevity of Oksana Chusovitina Visualized

Kohei announced his retirement

… The announcement was made through his management company.

He will hold a press conference in the coming days where he will detail his decision in his own words …

Olympics.com

top MAG International scores 2021

Magnastics:

As usual, the wonderful courtyard-tapir has been keeping a spreadsheet of all the highest international scores throughout 2021, and it is now complete with all the scores from every international competition! …

Top International Scores in 2021
  1. Hashimoto Daiki 88.531
  2. Nikita Nagornyy 88.330
  3. Xiao Ruoteng 88.065
  4. Zhang Boheng 87.981
  5. Sun Wei 87.798
  6. Kitazono Takeru 86.698
  7. Joe Fraser 86.298
  8. Artur Dalaloyan 86.248
  9. David Belyavskiy 85.864
  10. Ahmet Onder 85.665

Detailed Difficult and Apparatus scores.

top AA scores of the 2021 “quint”

Simone had the top 8 scores. But this list is BEST single score over the past 5 years.

  1. Simone Biles 60.965
  2. Sunisa Lee 57.433
  3. Rebeca Andrade 57.399
  4. Gabby Perea* 57.225
  5. Angelina Melnikova 57.199
  6. Vladislava Urazova 57.099
  7. Riley McCusker 57.050
  8. Grace McCallum 57.000
  9. Viktoria Listunova 56.932
  10. Maile O’Keefe* 56.900

See the entire list on theGymter.net

The Top International WAG Scores of the Quad

40 years of NCAA Gymnastics

Talitha Ilacqua posted a summary of the first 40 years of women’s Collegiate Gymnastics in the USA:

40 Years of NCAA Gymnastics

Read more season previews on College Gym News.