Jonna Alderteg (SWE) Bars

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)

European MAG Finals 1

Rings
1. Samir Aït Saïd 15.466
1. Igor Radivilov 15.466
3. Danny Pinheiro­-Rodrigues 15.433
3. Matteo Morandi 15.433

5. Eleftherios Petrounias 15.400
5. Denis Ablyazin 15.400

After this crazy finals result, many are calling for tie-breaking. … Just the opposite of what they called for at the London Olympics. 🙂

Floor
1. Max Whitlock 15.333
1. Alexander Shatilov 15.333
3. Andrea Cingolani 14.900

Pommel
1. Daniel Keatings 15.600
2. Krisztian Berki 15.533
3. Max Whitlock 15.500

Pommels

Keatings, a 2008 Olympian, earned a stunning victory on pommel horse over Hungary’s Krisztian Berki, the reigning world, Olympic and European champion on the event. Keatings, who was left off Britain’s team to the 2012 Olympics

IG – British Men Win Twice in European Finals

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

European WAG Finals 1

Vault
1. STEINGRUBER Giulia SUI 14.750
2. van KLAVEREN Noel NED 14.466
2. IORDACHE Larisa Andreea ROU 14.466

full results (PDF)

Bars
1. MUSTAFINA Aliya RUS 15.300
2. ADLERTEG Jonna SWE 14.633
3. PASEKA Maria RUS 14.400

full results (PDF)

RRG – Mustafina, Paseka take medals on bars

Mustafina: “I cannot imagine life without gymnastics

Nice to see SWEDEN on the Bars podium. 🙂

EU Bars

NCAA Champion Bridget Sloan


1. Bridget Sloan 39.600
2. Rheagan Courville 39.575
3. Marissa King 39.525
3. Katie Zurales 39.525
3. Joanna Sampson 39.525
3. Emily Wong 39.525

On June 29, 2012, as Bridget Sloan tearfully explained that an elbow injury had ended her elite gymnastics career just minutes before she was set to compete in the U.S. Olympic Team Trials, there was one thing keeping her going.

“I’ll make it,” the 2008 Olympian and 2009 world all-around champion said, fighting through emotions. “I’ll head down to Florida, and I’ll have a great time, and I will win NCAAs … I’m really excited about it.”

Nearly 10 months later, everything has pretty much gone according to plan. …

Team USA

sloan

Alabama, Oklahoma, UCLA

Nice to see the hosts in the Super 6. But I’m feeling terrible for Michigan. They had an amazing season.

Alabama 197.350
Oklahoma 197.200
UCLA 197.200

Michigan 196.850
Utah 196.200
Arkansas 196.15

Super 6 Team Finals: Florida, Georgia, LSU, UCLA, Oklahoma and Alabama.

Jessica Savona - LSU
Jessica Savona – LSU

Penn, Stanford, Iowa

1. PSU 436.900
2. Stanford 435.850
3. Iowa 426.550 … after appeal

4. Cal 426.450
5. OSU 421.950
6. Temple 407.800

Initially Iowa and Cal were tied for 3rd.

The top 3 advance to Super 6 Saturday.

How about Iowa?

Head coach JD Reive is taking GymHawk program to new heights

Michigan, Oklahoma, Illinois

Session 1 prelims. Men’s NCAA Championships.

1. Michigan 443.85
2. Oklahoma 433.85
3. Illinois 426.90

4. Minnesota 424.70
5. Air Force 417.90
6. Nebraska 417.55

… The second-ranked Sooners finished behind No. 3 Michigan, who scored a 443.850. No. 7 Illinois finished third with a 426.900 to secure the third spot in tomorrow’s team finals. …

Sooner Sports

session 1

U-M Goes 70-Plus on All Six Events to Win NCAA Qualifier

De los Angeles went 89.650.

Oleg Verniaiev – Dragalescu

Europeans AA Finals.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via The All Around Gymnastics News on Facebook)

People have been comparing that stick to the great Dragalescu himself.

Marian’s 1st vault from the 2004 Olympic Finals is still the best ever.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Update. digo likes Zhang Zhongbo‘s leg form even better.

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2013 NCAA podium training

GREAT EDIT Gymnastike. 🙂

Gives a good feel for what it’s like to be at Championships.

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/OTUxNzA2MzE3?related=1

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

Cirque’s Marceline Goldstein remarked at how much the fitness of competitors has improved over the 10 years or so Cirque’s been attending.

Too bad we don’t keep stats on sticks. There were more sticks in Session 1 than I can recall at a Championships prelim session. And very few falls.