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Worlds finals day 2 recap
JUST THE GOOD STUFF: EVENT FINALS DAY 2
Simone Biles (USA) added gold and bronze medals in finals, tying the all-time record of 20 career world medals .
Five gymnasts take titles as Doha Worlds end …Gymnasts from 17 nations won medals in Doha.
The 49th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships take place 4-13 October 2019 in Stuttgart (GER).
Nina & Beth
Many compare 2018 World Champion Nina Derwael with the great Beth Tweddle who won Bars at 2006 and 2010 Worlds.
Both competed the most connected releases of the day. Both were astonishingly consistent.
Beth did many different routines.
Click PLAY or watch her 2012 Olympics set on YouTube. Fantastic. If only she’d stuck the dismount.
Nina is still improving. Having won Worlds I’m guessing she’ll be training upgrades in preparation for the Tokyo Olympics. She’ll certainly be able to qualify in the AA even if Belgium does not get there as a team.
Ana Padurariu’s silver medal
The whole world knows Ana Padurariu now. Like Shallon on Vault, Ana competed without her personal coach at this meet.
Click PLAY or watch the interview on Twitter. Mind blown.
And click PLAY or watch interview part 2. Ellie really helped the whole team.
Recall Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs was Bronze on Beam at the 2006 Worlds with coach Carol Angela Orchard.
Day 1 Finals recap
Spencer things:
Kenzo didn’t win!?!
CARLOS YULO, our new favorite Filipino hummingbird, took bronze, the first medal ever for the Philippines
Alexa Moreno took bronze! Her Rudi and Tsuk 2/1 showed the second-best execution of the final, enough for Mexico’s first ever WAG medal
gold medal to Xiao Ruoteng over Max Whitlock
Hooray for Lee Chih-Kai! … It’s a bronze medal for everyone’s favorite flair monster
Nina things
With a silver medal, Simone has now completed the gym slam, with a worlds medal on every event
Elisabeth Seitz getting her medal on bars—finally a bronze
And, like, rings was a thing
Bebop and Rocksteady took first and second place, as expected
JUST THE GOOD STUFF: EVENT FINALS DAY 1
Simone wins Worlds with 2 falls
That’s the big story.
Any of the next 6 could have ended up on the podium. It was a thriller.
1. Simone Biles USA 57.491🥇
2. Mai Murakami JPN 55.798 🥈
3. Morgan Hurd USA 55.732 🥉
4. Nina Derwael BEL 55.699
5. Angelina Melnikova RUS 55.698
6. Melanie De Jesus Dos Santos 55.599
7. Chen Yile CHN 54.632
Angelina and Artur Dalaloyan awarded the Longines Prize for Elegance. Good call. I would have been happy to see Nina Derwael awarded too.
エレガンス賞も最高かよ https://t.co/l1sXR9HXqm—
わかめ Wakame (@wkwk0827) November 01, 2018
Nikita kisses Artur’s GOLD
1. Dalaloyan (RUS) 87.598 ***
2. Xiao (CHN) 87.598 ***
3. Nagornyy (RUS) 86.331
Nagornyy told R-Sport that he wanted to win the gold but he is happy with Artur Dalaloyan taking it:
“My most important goal for today was gold in the all-around. It was won by Artur and not by me but we have the gold! ….
Of course, I wanted to prove that we can win. Artur has proved it, I got the third place. Two Russians on the all-around medal podium – I think this hasn’t yet happened before. And I am really proud of what we’ve done today”. …
Andrei Rodionenko said to the media that the Russian MAG team is finally restoring the winners mentality that they used to have during the Soviet times …
Nagornyy thought hard when asked to whom he dedicated his medal, looking down at the bronze for some time before deciding.
“If I had won the gold, I would have dedicated it to my whole team,” he said. “Instead, I dedicate it to my first coach, Olga Ivanovna Nechepurenko.”
The medals for Dalaloyan and Nagornyy are the first for the Russian men in the All-around since the late Yuri Ryazanov won bronze in 2009 in London (GBR).
Vasiliki retired … sob
Vasiliki Millousi (Greek: Βασιλική Μιλλούση) is a ten-time World Cup Series medalist on beam and represented Greece at the 2000 , 2012 and 2016 Olympics.
Now age-34, she was the second oldest competitor in Doha.
I feel blessed to have worn our national emblem and to have represented my home-country. I feel blessed to have had the people who guided me from beginning to end. I am full of experiences, sounds, and smiles. …
We’ll always have her fashion video.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
(via See_Me_Noww)
fan boy at Worlds
Tom Forster. 🙂
Canada 4th in qualifications
I’d say Canada hit best of every team at Worlds to finish an historic 4th in team qualification. Congratulations to the entire national team program.
Coming into Worlds 2018 expectations were modest for team Canada.
Crunching the numbers, Spencer had the Canucks ranked about 8th based on scores this year. Rose and Victoria Woo were injured, for example.
On the other hand, Ellie Black — Worlds silver medalist 2017 — has never looked better. Having all her experience in the line-up makes teammates more confident. Ellie’s improved like Simone. Her so-called bad apparatus is now excellent.
Without Bela Onyshko, Brooklyn Moors is now the second all-arounder. A happy surprise at Worlds last year, she’s now a fan favourite for her artistry.
Ellie and Brooklyn both qualified to the AA final.
Brittany Rogers is maybe, possibly finally retired. So this time it was Shallon Olsen flying in from Alabama to help her team qualify for Worlds 2019. Recall Brittany did the same in the past, flying up from Georgia to compete Elite. We’re so thankful those Universities support their Olympians this way.
An Olympic Vault finalist in Rio, Shallon’s even better now. With a catlike ability to land on her feet, Shallon not only upgraded to Cheng. But also competed it first vault (for team score) rather than doing the safer YDT first. Both Ellie and Shallon qualified to the Vault final.
Many have been waiting for the wonderful Junior Ana Padurariu to finally become a senior. She’s here. See her in the Beam final with Ellie. Ana was injured earlier in the season and is still only competing Bars and Beam. Ana’s coached by 1980 Olympic Champ Elena Davidova.
And we have to give a big shout out to Sophie Marois who was training as the non-competing alternate. Until her club teammate Laurie Denommée had an ankle injury in the days prior to competition. Sophie stepped in and did a fantastic job leading off on Floor and Vault.
It was a lot of fun cheering that performance.
The team competition should be epic. Anything can happen in 3-up, 3-count. 🙂
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