Category: Olympics

Omar Mohamed wins African Championships

Omar Mohamed was the African continental representative at the Tokyo Olympics.

Unofficially, he’s qualified for Paris, as well.

  1. 🥇 Omar Mohamed – Egypt
  2. 🥈 Mohamed Afify – Egypt
  3. 🥉 Luke James – South Africa

Results via UAG African Gymnastic Union.

Jana Mahmoud to Paris Olympics

Congratulations Jana.

Chinese Nationals – apparatus champions

Floor Exercise (FX): Su Weide scores 15.10 points.
Pommel Horse (PH): Zou Jingyuan achieves a score of 14.90 points.
Still Rings (SR): Liu Yang impresses with a score of 15.40 points.
Vault (VT): Huang Mingqi earns a score of 14.60 points.
Parallel Bars (PB): Zou Jingyuan demonstrates exceptional skill with a score of 16.166 points.
Horizontal Bar (HB): Shi Cong achieves a score of 14.666 points.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

David Kenwright steps down

David Kenwright, the British Gymnastics’ head coach for women’s artistic gymnastics, has stepped down just 3 months before the Paris Olympics. And immediately before European Championships.

Surprising.

I do know Dave quite well from his many Olympic cycles coaching for Canada.

Team GB’s women’s gymnastics head coach leaves before Paris Olympics

Liu Yang – Rings

The defending Olympic Champ looks stronger than ever.

Ukraine are European Champions

VERY narrowly over GBR (255.429)

Illia Kovtun, Oleh Verniaiev, Nazar Chepurnyi, Ihor Radivilov and Radomyr Stelmakh

Jade Carey American Classic champ

She said she was feeling super confident for this one.

  1. Jade Carey 55.000
  2. Myli Lew 53.900
  3. Marissa Neal 53.050

Gabby Douglas scored a 50.650 to place 10th (her highest score was a 14.0 on vault).

Suni Lee with a 13.250 on vault and 14.300 on beam.

Marios Georgiou is European Champ

Fan favourite, Marios Georgiou, put it altogether to qualify for the Paris Olympics through the Continental AA route.

🥇 Marios Georgiou, Cyprus, 84.265
🥈 Oleg Verniaiev, Ukraine, 84.031
🥉 Yumin Abbadini, Italy, 83.765