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Jr European Championships 2014

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Jr European Championships 2014

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5.8 + 9.133 = 14.933
5.2 + 9.133 = 14.333

Average 14.633 – 1st

Jr VAULT FINAL
1. Ellie Downie GBR
2. Laura Jurca ROU
3. Amy Tinkler GBR

Jr BARS FINAL
1. Daria Skrypnik RUS 6.3 8.533 14.833
2. Angelina Melnikova RUS 6.1 8.666 14.766
3. Maike Enderle GER 6.1 8.400 14.500

Jr BEAM FINAL
1. Angelina Melnikova RUS 6.1 8.475 14.575
2. Andreea Iridon ROU 5.8 8.633 14.433
3. Tabea Alt GER 5.7 8.500 14.200

Jr FLOOR EXERCISE
1. Catherine Lyons GBR 5.2 8.833 14.033
2. Amy Tinkler GBR 5.4 8.566 13.966
2. Andreea Iridon ROU 5.3 8.666 13.966

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IG – Amanda Turner has full results:

Melnikova, the all-around champion, is too young to compete at this summer’s Youth Olympic Games, lamented Russian coach Valentina Rodionenko. Female gymnasts must be born in 1999 to attend the Youth Olympics in Nanjing, while Melnikova was born in 2000.

Britain, Russia Divide Junior European Titles

I saw a rumour on the new GymScoop forum that piibunina (who was at Chinese Championships) said that Wang Yan will represent at Youth Olympic Games. Leave a comment if you can confirm that.

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That makes sense. They need better Tumbling and Vault. This mitey mite is built more like Shawn Johnson than Nastia Liukin. More and more of the upcoming elite stars are built like Shawn.

Check her Bars and Beam.

I previously linked to Yong Hwa Cha’s 2009 Hop 1/1 to Def.

Anne-Sophie reminded that the combination was made famous by the Olympic Bars Champion Athens 2004.

Emilie Le Pennec (France)

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Deng said he hopes to rise to the level of world and Olympic champion Kohei Uchimura, who won an unprecedented seventh consecutive Japanese national title on Sunday.

“I feel calm and really relaxed,” Deng said. “Actually, my Difficulty points are higher than Uchimura, around 40.4. It’s good enough that I could finish all the routines I have prepared, but I have to go after the quality. Once I have good enough quality to finish the routine, then I have the confidence to compete with him.” …

IG – Yao, Deng Win Chinese Championships

Amanda Turner has full results WAG & MAG via that link.

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D7.1 + E8.800 = 15.900

Over-scored, I’d say.

… Have you ever noticed you cannot find Amanda’s posts from the International Gymnastics magazine home page?

They are planning to update their site. Long overdue.

Congratulations Qatar.

… Rahma Mohammed Al Dulaimi, … has qualified to represent the country at this year’s Summer Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing.

She earned her place after finishing sixth in the all round at the Junior Asian Gymnastics Championship in Tashkent …

Doha awarded 2018 World Gymnastics Championships

Darling of the European Championships. Second all-around. Charming. And with personality. This girl has a future.

Click PLAY or watch her Beam on YouTube. One section will make you laugh out loud.

Some great photos are featured in this montage linked by Couch Gymnast.

TCG Junior Watch: Laura Jurca (March 2013)

via @theallaround at European Championships

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1/4 twist one direction, 1/2 twist back in the other direction.

shutupmckaylasvaulting posted the GIF.

We’ve yet to see anyone compete 3/4 twist in the same direction.

(via GymFever and WOGymnastika)

Queen E:

I personally think that winning the bronze was a great achievement for this inexperienced team. Aliya Mustafina proved that, even at 50%, she is 100% boss. Kharenkova established herself as a real little scrapper who is now a leader in the team and even in world gymnastics. Even with the unpredictable Komova I doubt Russia would have done much better today; it comes down not so much to the errors that were made, as to the low difficulty rating of those floor exercises. The team needs its Olympians for good floor scores, but they just aren’t available at present, nor perhaps in the future if I am reading Afanasyeva’s rather damning account of the handling of her injury correctly.

I wonder if there will be any fall-out or consequences after this result? No blame should lay at the gymnasts’ feet, they gave their all; only Anna Rodionova perhaps let the team down somewhat, but since when did a Russian team go error free in a team final?

Spiridonova is forgiven her beam error as she did so well elsewhere in her first big assignment. Sosnitskaya, Mustafina and Kharenkova couldn’t have done much more, and I think Mustafina and Kharenkova will both be going all out for gold in tomorrow’s event finals. …

Thoughts

Bronze or Silver was the expected result for Russia competing Yurchenko 1/1 and low difficulty Floor.

But Andrei’s usual line to the press is GOLD is the goal. Always.