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The host Russians won three out of five gold medals Sunday as the 2013 European Gymnastics Championships ended in Moscow. …

Vault
1. Denis Ablyazin 15.383
2. Flavius Koczi 14.887
3. Artur Davtyan 14.866

P Bars
1. Oleg Stepko 15.766
2. Lucas Fischer 15.633
3. David Belyavsky 15.533

H Bar
1. Emin Garibov 15.433
2. Sam Oldham 15.133
3. Alexander Tsarevich 14.833

full results MAG & WAG with commentary on IG – Russians Rule as Moscow Europeans End

Great to see Oleg Stepko take Gold home to Ukraine. They need big results like this.

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… just before European Championships, Alexandrov’s name was replaced on the list of coaches for the Russian delegation, with the name of her beam coach, Raisa Ganin.

This raised speculation once again, that the relationship between the coach and gymnast has somehow deteriorated. …

However, when questioned by Sovetsky Sport yesterday, Mustafina insisted that the coaching change was merely because it made sense to have her bars and beam coach present, as these were the two events she most needed coaching with.

Just because Alexandrov did not accompany does not mean he ceased to be my personal trainer”, she said. “He was and will be.” …

Couch Gymnast – Mustafina on preparation, the Amanar, and Alexandrov

Update: Only 23 listed to compete.

6 scores will be averaged. That should solve the too-many-ties problem. Good solution.

They should use 6 judges in prelims, as well.

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Those who criticize Collegiate gymnastics scoring take note.

Friday’s judging panel were unable to come up fewer than 24 vaults for an 8 vault final.

See the full list of finalists. (PDF)

That’s embarrassing.

The good news — only 1 vault will be competed Sunday, unlike the scary past where finalists had to chuck some second vault they rarely train.

The bad news — Saturday’s Super 6 Team Vault judging panel was even less discriminating than Friday. 😦

Let’s see if they can manage not to have a 12 way tie for gold on Vault in apparatus finals today.

Click PLAY or watch Bridget Sloan’s Super 6 vault on YouTube.

Obviously they need to change Championships vault scoring. What works for a dual meet mid-season does not work with this many competitors.

Moscow
April 17th ­ 21st, 2013
5th EUROPEAN MEN’S AND WOMEN’S ARTISTIC

IORDACHE Larisa Andreea ROU 15.266
BULIMAR Diana Laura ROU 14.833
GRISHINA Anastasia RUS 14.366

full results (PDF)

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AFANASEVA Kseniia RUS 15.166
IORDACHE Larisa Andreea ROU 14.733
BULIMAR Diana Laura ROU 14.533

full results (PDF)

Bea Gheorghisor – Event Finals Report: Balance Beam and Floor

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Our European Champion could be more stretched. 🙂

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Full Twist has results with links to more of the top routines.

After beginning the meet with two falls on beam, the #1 ranked Florida Gators did the unthinkable in rallying back to win the program’s first ever NCAA National Title!

Click PLAY or watch the post meet interview on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/MjY3NzA2ODE0?related=1

Watch more video of 2013 NCAA Women’s Championships on gymnastike.org

The biggest difference from years past is Sloan. The routine hitting machine. Almost 4 guaranteed 9.9s.

They should have had her later up in the line-up. 🙂

Michigan 443.200
Oklahoma 440.100
Stanford 436.150

They simply ran into a buzzsaw this weekend. Oklahoma (440.10), that is. Their gutsy performance at the 2013 NCAA Championships fell short, as Michigan put together two straight days of consistently outstanding gymnastics. Nearly matching their Friday night score of 443.85, the Wolverines (443.20) overwhelmed the field of six at the meet hosted by Penn State …

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USAG via email:

… 2012 Olympian Sam Mikulak of Corona del Mar, Calif./Michigan, took the second NCAA all-around title of his career, posting a 91.150, while his Michigan teammate Adrian de los Angeles of Long Beach, Calif., finished second, 88.350. Stanford’s Eddie Penev of Penfield, N.Y., claimed the bronze medal with an 87.350 total. Mikulak, de los Angeles and Penev are all currently members of the U.S. Senior National Team. …

Congratulations!

Florida 197.575
Oklahoma 197.375
Alabama 197.350
UCLA 197.100
LSU 197.050
Georgia 196.675

The Gators had to come back from a counting fall on Beam. Impressive.

Bridget Sloan had a 39.75 AA. Perhaps slightly over-scored. But she is one routine hitting machine.

Close as the scores were, somehow the competition wasn’t as thrilling as prelims.

Judging seemed to be more erratic than Friday. Though this time Oklahoma got some credit for their wonderful Beam.

Florida had the top performer in all four events. Freshman Bridget Sloan had the top performance on both the vault and balance beam with 9.95s, junior Alaina Johnson scored a 9.95 on the bars, and sophomore Kytra Hunter had a 9.975 on floor—the highest score of the day. …

Florida wins first NCAA women’s gymnastics title

Adlerteg took Swedens first medal at Gymnastics for 50 years on April 20, 2013 … bars at the 2013 Europe Championships.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (silver)

Congratulations.

Did she come from nowhere to challenge Aliya? 🙂

Nope. Jonna Adlerteg won the bronze medal in bars at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore. …

(via The All Around Gymnastics News on Facebook)