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Yep. A four way tie.
1. Viktoria Komova RUS (6.6 + 8.766 = 15.366)
1. Fan Yilin CHN (6.9 + 8.466 = 15.366)
1. Madison Kocian USA (6.6 + 8.766 = 15.366)
1. Daria Spiridonova RUS (6.7 + 8.666 = 15.366)
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Ties are not broken at Worlds. They are at the Olympics. It makes no sense to me either. 🙂
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1. Max Whitlock GBR (7.3 + 8.833 = 16.133)
2. Louis Smith GBR (7.2 + 8.833 = 16.033)
3. Harutyun Merdinyan ARM (6.7 + 8.8 = 16.500) … to Rio! 🙂
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3. Kaya Kazuma JPN (6.8 + 8.7 = 16.500)
Two fantastic routines for the home fans. I like the final ranking.
Louis Smith certainly got the job done in Glasgow. Respect.
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1. Maria Paseka (RUS) 15.666
2. Hong Un Jong (PRK) 15.633 to Rio! 🙂
3. Simone Biles (USA) 15.541
full results (The Longine’s result page only shows 1 vault.)
Questionable call. I felt Hong was clearly better than Paseka over the same two vaults.
It looked like Dipa from India might just medal. And qualify to the Olympics. But she had a poor landing on her 2nd Vault. (Kas + 1/1 twist)
Sadly Guilia was injured on landing. Looks like it was only a hyper-extended knee. This time.
FIG needs to change the competition mats. The one they use for Double-mini would be safer. New competition mats are too hard.
Mary-Anne Monckton knows all about these injuries. She calls for a return to the warm-up on the competition equipment just prior to competing.
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1. Kenzo Shirai JAP (7.6 + 8.633 = 16.233)
2. Max Whitlock GBR (6.8 + 8.766 = 15.566)
3. Santana Zapata SPN (6.7 + 8.500 = 15.200) to Rio! 🙂
full results
All hail. Without Denis Ablyazin in this final, Kenzo would have had to have fallen to lose the gold.
Zapata qualifies directly to the Olympic AA with that Bronze medal.
Personally I slightly preferred Deng Shudi’s routine. But am thrilled Santana will be there
It was terrific to see Larisa and Laura have a good AA Final. I’m certain Romania will qualify a full team for the Olympics at the Test Meet.
That’s important since top 3 AA at Worlds 2015 do not directly qualify a gymnast to the Rio Olympics. Neither Larisa Iordache nor Manrique Larduet have qualified. Yet. If either gets an apparatus medal in the Finals, they do qualify.
I doubt FIG ever considered the possibility that a gymnast from a non-qualifying nation might win an AA medal.
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… Barbara Slater, head of BBC Sport, represented Great Britain as a gymnast.
For the past four nights, audiences of up to 1.8 million have been tuning into BBC Two’s coverage. …
Gymnastics, it could be argued, is the ideal sport for the modern age. The bite-sized routines, which never exceed 90 seconds, are consistent with our dwindling attention spans. Yet the athletes still manage to pack in plenty of beauty and drama, not to mention physical risk. …
As often as I question whether GBR should be naming Louis Smith to their A-team, there’s no denying he’s a superstar in the U.K. We need more gymnasts with his level of charisma if we want recognition with the general public.
I’d love to see Louis win a Pommel medal at home.
Kohei was good in the post-meet Press conference.
He said the arena was too loud. As an example, he singled out the practice of the announcer asking the audience to “make some noise”.
I agree. They need to have a little more respect for the athletes while competing.
papaliukin, however, points out that Rio will be very, very loud. Especially since Cuba qualified a full men’s team.
–Congratulations! After your high bar routine, you fanned the audience.
Well, (although my high bar routine wasn’t perfect), I was able to stick the landing and win my 6th straight title, so I thought why not and I got carried away with myself (laughs).
–Your routines were amazing today; how do you feel?
I would’ve liked to do a more aggressive high bar routine, with a cassina, but I had discussed with Coach Moriizumi that it might be okay if I went (cautiously) for the win, and I’m pretty happy I was able to stick the landing.
I’m surprised to hear that Uchimura was willing to change his Horizontal Bar routine. It was good strategy, for sure. But I’m still surprised.
“It was a sweet moment”.
Click PLAY or watch a post-meet interview on YouTube.
more AA photos
related – US Aly Raisman Responds To Viktoria Komova’s Apology:
According to Aimee Boorman, Simone Biles’ coach, the Russian gymnast gave a personal apology to the American gymnasts during training.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
They are going to need a longer tunnel next year. 🙂
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