tumbling, tramp, diving, acrobatics, circus, cheer, dance, martial arts, X sports … and more
No. 20 Cal shattered long-standing records in nearly every event en route to a program-best 197.325-195.325 victory over UC Davis on Sunday afternoon in Haas Pavilion. The Golden Bears upped their program-bests in the team all-around score as well as team vault and floor totals and saw career-highs on 14 of the day’s 24 routines. …
Toni-Ann Williams had another perfect 10 on Vault.
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Who is this guy?
Camjay says it’s Zapata from Spain, a Floor World’s finalist in 2014.
He posted another angle.
Our Olympic Floor Champion is very well spoken. A leader and role model.
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related – Aly Raisman will grace the cover of the April issue of Inside Gymnastics.
Have you ever seen or heard of this before?
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That’s Devy Dyson from Richmond Gymnastics Association in B.C.
Gem sends a link to Aljaz Pegan breaking the Bars at the 1999 Glasgow Grand Prix.
(via Dave Copeland)
Vault
1 Alla Sosnitskaya 14.800 (6.4, 5.8)
2 Maria Paseka 14.367 (6.4, 5.8)
3 Seda Tutkhalyan 13.867 (5.8, 5.0)
Bars
1 Daria Spiridonova 15.033 (6.7)
2 Ekaterina Kramarenko 14.600 (6.0)
3 Maria Paseka 14.567 (5.9)
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Beam
1 Maria Kharenkova 14.533 (6.6)
2 Daria Spiridonova 14.233 (5.9)
3 Seda Tutkhalyan 14.200 (6.6)
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Floor
1 Ksenia Afanasyeva 15.133 (6.4)
2 Evgeniya Shelgunova 14.033 (5.9)
3 Maria Kharenkova 13.967 (6.0)
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The biggest upset of the event finals was Viktoria Komova falling on both bars and beam. Komova looked to be in good shape on both events but will need a bit more repetitions and upgrades in order to compete with the likes of Spiridonova and Kharenkova on bars and beam respectively. …
See commentary, results and video on Couch Gymnast – Russian Championships Event Finals
Aliya is skipping Europeans.
At the conclusion of this weekend’s Russian Championships, Valentina Rodionenko named the nominative team for European Championships, just about a month away in France.
This year’s Euros are individual championships only, and Russia has opted to send the four apparatus gold medalists from Russian Championships – Alla Sosnitskaya (vault), Daria Spiridonova (bars), Maria Kharenkova (beam), and Ksenia Afanasyeva (floor). …
Overall, these championships were a mess, to put it frankly. But it’s not totally bleak. The little core group going to Euros should do very well there, and can realistically aim for at least one medal in every final, even without Queen Mustafina. And in addition to this group, there is so much promise. If everyone can stay healthy all year, they could have a considerable amount of depth going into Worlds.
Gymternet – The Russian Ladies at Championships
UPDATE: As is so often the case, Valentina Rodionenko spoke too soon.
Head WAG coach Evgeny Grebyonkin:
On the basis of their performance at the Russian Championships, Ksenia Afanasyeva, Maria Kharenkova and Daria Spiridinova have been confirmed for the team. Fighting for the final place will be Alla Sosnitskaya, Viktoria Komova, Maria Paseka and first year senior Seda Tutkhalyan. …
RRG – Komova, Tutkhalyan will fight for a place on Russia’s Euros team
related – Russian Men’s Team – Seven men compete for six places at Euros – Valery Alfosov
On YouTube.
… Missing ’06, ’09, ’10. If anyone could upload those again on Youtube it would be appreciated!
Former British Champion Dave Eaton has the best write-up I’ve seen on that topic:
• System
• Community Of Learning
• Olympic Bump
• X-Factor
• Size Matters… Great Britain is the size of the state of Oregon, with the population of California and Texas squeezed in to it. This made it much easier to unify a country around the Soviet system than would be possible here in the US. It allows national team members and coaches to come together every week at the national center to solidify the community of learning and ensuring everyone is working to the same beat of the drum, yet importantly allowing for a good “work-life” balance, which psychologically is so important. …
Though the Yanks beat the Limeys at their own National Training Centre recently, I’d say the two nations will be very, very close in the final team standings at Worlds 2015.
via Jake Dalton on twitter
Rod Floor to resi pit.
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Horizontal Bar. In training.
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I visited the Cirque du Soleil studios in Montreal on Tuesday. They are training nothing this crazy. 🙂
Cool.
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