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UPDATE – The first 12 are official.
1 YULO Carlos Edriel PHI
2 LARDUET Manrique CUB
3 EDALLI Ludovico ITA
4 KARIMI Milad KAZ
5 FRASCA Loris FRA
6 TVOROGAL Robert LTU
7 SHATILOV Alexander ISR
8 ARICAN Ferhat TUR
9 DAVTYAN Artur ARM
10 HUDDLESTON David BUL
11 DEURLOO Bart NED
12 CORRAL Daniel MEX
Absolutely do not book your flights to Tokyo until FIG names the rest.
But here’s who Lauren Hopkins thinks will eventually be named.
Team Final at Worlds contested between the top 8 teams.
1. Russia
2. China
3. Japan
4. Ukraine
5. GBR
6. Switzerland
7. USA
8. Chinese Taipei TPE Taiwan
9. Korea
10. Brazil
11. Spain
12. Germany
Particular congratulations to TPE and Spain. Few pundits were predicting they’d get through, particularly after Zapata withdrew from the Spanish team.
They replace France and Netherlands who competed in Rio 2016.
Oleg was back to near 100%. Ukraine would not be denied.
It’s great to see Germany get the last spot — in Germany. And they deserved it.
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1. United States
2. China
3. Russia
4. France
5. Canada
6. Netherlands
7. Great Britain
8. Italy
9. Germany
10. Belgium
11. Japan
12. Spain
There were thrills.
And spills.
More MAG day 1 photos.
As always, the Men’s competition was more exciting and unpredictable than WAG.
FIG – Russian men romp to early lead at Stuttgart Worlds
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related – Lauren’s summary on theGymter.net.
The biggest story of World Championships 2019 will be the astonishing performance of Chinese Taipei.
That’s the name recognized by the China (PRC) for events like Olympic Games.
Sadao Hamada:
“I think a 250 [team score] will get us into the Tokyo Olympics,” he said. …
Chinese Taipei last qualified to the Olympic Games in 1964, also held in Tokyo, where they placed 17th. The team has two World medals in history; the silver on Pommel Horse won by Lee Chih-Kai‘s silver medal on Pommel Horse last year in Doha came 25 years after a silver on Vault from Feng Chih Chang.
FIG – ‘Harvest day’: Chinese Taipei turns in Tokyo-worthy performance
Like last year, we weren’t sure the Olympic Champ was going to compete. Injuries.
Happily, he did. Not his strongest routine, but he will get through to the Final.
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Scores should be higher this year as teams peak for Olympic qualification, but I’m penciling in TPE for Olympic team qualification. No number crunching pundits predicted that. They were 17th last year.
Senior coach Sadao Hamada, who coached Stanford for decades, says he only has 15 guys at the National Training Centre, an excellent facility. Therefore they need do everything right to have this kind of success.
250 was their goal.
Netherlands worked together like there was no tomorrow it paid off. Eythora, Sanne, Lieke, Vera, Tischa and Naomi were fighters in the arena and they killed it.
Also 2 other gymnasts Daymon and I work with qualified for an individual spot for the games……Mandy Maghoub (EGY) and Elisa Haemmerle (AUT). There was only one chance to make it to the top 20 All-arounders and that was hit 4 out of 4 and Mandy and Elisa did. …
1 SARAIVA Flavia BRA
2 STEINGRUBER Giulia SUI
3 GODWIN Georgia AUS
4 VARINSKA Diana UKR
5 LEE Yunseo KOR
6 KOVACS Zsofia HUN
7 DOMINICI Martina ARG
8 MORENO Alexa MEX
9 FRANCIS Danusia JAM
10 KIM Su Jong PRK
11 HOLASOVA Aneta CZE
12 VIDIAUX Marcia CUB
13 HOLBURA Maria ROU
14 HAEMMERLE Elisa AUT
15 ALISTRATAVA Anastasiya BLR
16 ABDUL HADI Farah Ann MAS
17 MOHAMED Mandy EGY
18 SAVRANBASI Nazli TUR
19 MOKOSOVA Barbora SVK
20 MARTINS Filipa
On 12 and 13 October, the three highest placed eligible gymnasts (not already qualified in another way) in each apparatus final in Stuttgart will also book their Olympic tickets.
The specialists have another opportunity to qualify with the current Apparatus World Cup series that ends in March 2020. The four women’s and six men’s winners on each apparatus – a ranking decided by taking the best three results of each participant in the series – will be Tokyo-bound (on the condition that these gymnasts have not actively participated in the qualification of their respective teams).
There will be the possibility of gaining extra individual places for the competing countries via the 2020 All-around World Cup series – these will be available to the top three countries in this four-stage series running in March and April of that year.
The final qualifying opportunity will come at the continental championships in spring 2020 when there will be two individual places at stake for each of Africa, America, Europe and Asia and one place for Oceania.
The most important 2 days — top 12 team qualification to Olympics 2020 Tokyo.
Here are the top 8 teams, so far. I’d say day 2 has more of the best teams including China and Japan, who are already booked for Olympics.
1. RUS 259.928
2. TPE 250.093
3. BRA 247.236
4. ESP 246.727
5. GER 246.508
6. ITA 245.966
7. FRA 245.127
8. TUR 244.652
https://twitter.com/russiangymstan/status/1180916971925323777
Some will be asking, who’s TPE?
That’s Chinese Taipei, a squad that none of the media predicted to qualify to Tokyo. They killed it in the very first session of day 1.
Russia was fantastic. China v Russia team final will be epic.
Spain and Italy had great performances. They’ll be celebrating.
Germany and Brazil had big problems on their first apparatus, then fought their way back into Olympic contention.
It’s a large, knowledgable crowd. The kind that cheers for great Pommel routines.
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Turkey will be disappointed. With a perfect meet today it was possible to finish top 12 at the end.
One of the few problems at this event is how FIG put together groups. Some have only 2 competitors. Some 7 gymnasts. That slowed down the competition. #FixIt
I’ll be commenting LIVE via Twitter @GymCoaching. And partnering this year with @kensleyanne Kensley Behel. We both will be guest MAG pundits on the GymCastic podcasts this week.
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