Omelianchik was a member of the first place Soviet team at the 1985 World Gymnastics Championships in Montreal, but struggled in the team competition and did not qualify for the all-around final.
However, Soviet team officials (Rodionenko) decided to pull Olga Mostepanova and Irina Baraksanova, who had both qualified for the finals, and substitute Omelianchik and her teammate Shushunova. The decision proved to be sound; the two Soviet gymnasts tied for the all-around gold and became Worlds Co-Champions. …
She was traveling alternate to the 1988 Olympics. Retired 1989.
Omelianchik remains heavily involved in gymnastics as a choreographer, coach and judge. She heads the women’s technical committee for the Ukrainian Gymnastics Federation and choreographs routines for many of Ukraine’s top gymnasts …
Is that still the case after Ukraine’s last round of budget cuts?
Head Coach Janna Ball at CGC is training some of the best Beamers in Canada.
related – Janna brought in Steve Arkell from Gymnastics Plus in Panama City, Florida, to assist her girls at Nationals. No doubt the slow competition & complicated rules were an eye-opener for Steve.
Difference between those routines is less than a point.
Yet it’s obvious to anyone. Any 8 year old gymnast — that Shang’s routine was HIT near perfect. That Liu’s routines had many major wobbles and balance checks. Both had a landing deduction.
There should be a far greater difference in E Score than 1.0.
The new Code doesn’t work because FIG allows judges to box the scores. The cleanest gymnasts in each competition suffer. It’s not fair.
Bruno Grandi so often talks about justice.
Why doesn’t he mandate the FIG Technical Committees to start applying the rules as written?
Six-time Italian champion Enrico Pozzo has filed a legal inquiry into the judging panel at last weekend’s national championships in Ancona, Italian media reported Tuesday.
Pozzo filed his complaint with a federal prosecutor over the presence of one judge, “La Stampa” newspaper reported. One of the judges in Ancona was a regional director, although the Italian Gymnastics Federation’s rules forbid regional directors from judging at national championships …
Pozzo came just shy of capturing his seventh national all-around title in Ancona, finishing second all-around to Ludovico Edalli by .05. After Saturday’s competition, Pozzo did not mince words and said the scoring was politically motivated. He also withdrew from Sunday’s apparatus finals.
Pozzo’s six titles (2003-2005, 2007, 2011-2012) put him in tie with the legendary Jury Chechi (1989-1993, 1995) and Franco Menichelli (1960, 1962-1966) as Italy’s second-most decorated national champion in men’s gymnastics. Guido Figone holds the all-time record with eight titles, won from 1948-1955.
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