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… Nebraska women’s gymnastics team captured their third-consecutive conference crown with a 197.800 at the 2013 Big Ten Women’s Gymnastics Championships. NU’s score was a conference championship school record and gave Head Coach Dan Kendig his 14th conference title at Nebraska. …
Nebraska 197.800
Michigan 197.225
Minnesota 196.775
Illinois 196.475
Ohio State 195.950
Penn State 195.825
Michigan State 195.450
Iowa 193.400
Fifteen-year-old Gabby Jupp (Sapphire) and 20-year-old Max Whitlock (South Essex) won their first senior all-around titles Saturday at the 2013 British Gymnastics Championships, held on podium at the Echo Centre in Liverpool.
… the British championships included competition for both women (junior and senior) and men (hopes, junior and senior).
Jupp looked extremely poised as she comfortably claimed the all-around title over fellow first-year senior Charlie Fellows (Sandbach Gymnastics) and Niamh Rippin (Notts). …
Jupp, the 2012 British junior champion, is coached by Steve Price at Sapphire School of Gymnastics in Hemel Hempstead near London.
… Whitlock grabbed the senior title with a solid 90.650, more than a point above the 89.400 he had scored three weeks ago at the English championships. He took gold medals on floor exercise (3 1/2 punch front full; 2 1/2 to Rudi; Thomas; Randi; triple twist; 15.300) and on vault (Yurchenko 2 1/2; 15.100). The double Olympic bronze medalist also scored 15.700 on pommel horse, his best event.
“I’m well happy!” he said. “To start the year by winning the English title, which has always been one of my main ambitions, and then to win the British is just crazy. I’m happy with all my routines, particularly vault, which I’ve worked hard to improve and it’s paid off. It’s been important to me to prove to people I’m an all-around gymnast, the pommel will always be my strongest piece but I wanted to go out and show I can do all-around …
2008 Olympian Daniel Keatings, who served as a frustrated alternate to Britain’s bronze-medal winning team at the 2012 Olympics in London, competed three events and grabbed gold on each. Keatings, the 2009 world all-around runner-up, scored 158900 on pommel horse, 15.600 on parallel bars and 15.150 on high bar. …
read more on Amanda Turner’s excellent IG wrap-up post – Rising Talent Rules British Championships
As usual, she has full results.
15.90 (9.6 execution)
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Triple would seem to be pretty easy for her. 🙂
Compare against Maroney’s in London. (VIDEO)
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I link far too infrequently to a terrific resource, Gymnastics Zone.
It’s a huge site.
Best starting point is their Topic Cloud.
Of the United States’ 2.9 million female high school athletes, only 3% are cheerleaders, yet cheerleading accounts for 65% of all catastrophic injuries in girls’ high school athletics.
Since the NCAA has yet to recognize cheerleading as an official college sport, there are no solid numbers on college cheerleading, yet when it comes to injuries, 67% of female athlete injuries at the college level are due to cheerleading mishaps.
LiveScience.com recaps new evidence showing that the most dangerous sport for high school and college females is cheerleading: Another study found that between 1982 and 2007, there were 103 fatal, disabling or serious injuries recorded among female high school athletes, with the vast majority (67) occurring in cheerleading. …
… In October 2009, the American Association of Cheerleading Coaches and Advisors (AACCA), a subsidiary of Varsity Brands, released a study that analyzed the data from Emergency Room visits of all high school athletes. The study asserted that contrary to many perceptions, cheerleading injuries are in line with other female sports. …
Varsity Brands, however, is the conglomerate that profits most from Cheer in the USA.
… Involvement in cheerleading activities includes its ownership of subsidiaries and programs that conduct competitions and camps. Notably, the breadth of influence Varsity Brands Inc. possesses over cheerleading activities has led to discussion of potential conflicts of interest including its interests related to the issue of the classification of competitive cheerleading as a sport in the United States. …
A better source is CATASTROPHIC SPORTS INJURY RESEARCH 29th ANNUAL REPORT – FALL 1982 – SPRING 2011 (PDF)
In that document, Cheerleading was by far the most dangerous High School sport for girls. (83 catastrophic injuries compared with 9 for both Gymnastics and Track.)
how dangerous is Cheer?
VERY dangerous. 😦
related – Penn and Teller (VIDEO) found 66 different Cheer “National Championships”, many of them owned or regulated by Varsity Brands.
(via Beautiful Gymnastics)
197.850 goes down as the highest score in Oregon State history, as does the 49.675 set on bars!
Congratulations.
… There will be no talking to Bars coach John Carney now. 🙂
OSU 197.85
UCLA 197.375
Utah 197.075
Stanford 196.625
Washington 195.875
Arizona 195.525
Cal 195.075
ASU 193.425.
Wow.
What a battle.
Florida edged out Bama and LSU to win the SEC title on Saturday. Florida posted a 198, just ahead of Bama at 197.8 and LSU at 197.7. UGA was 4th at 197.325, AU fifth at 196.55, Arkansas 6th at 196.4, Missouri at 195.525 and UK at 194.6.
Individually, LSU’s Rheagan Courville and UF’s Bridget Sloan tied for the AA title at 39.725.
Courville added a title on vault with a 10.0 and shared beam with UGA’s Shayla Worley and Brittany Rogers.
Sloan shared the bars title with Rogers and the floor title with teammate Kytra Hunter, Bama’s Diandra Milliner, and LSU’s Jessica Savona and Lloimincia Hall.
Greg on College Gym Fans
1. Florida – 198.000 (VT – 49.375, UB – 49.5, BB – 49.5, FX – 49.625)
2. Alabama – 197.800 (VT – 49.55, UB – 49.4, BB – 49.4, FX – 49.55)
3. LSU – 197.700 (VT – 49.525, UB – 49.175, BB – 49.375, FX – 49.625)
4. Georgia – 197.325 (VT – 49.225, UB – 49.55, BB – 49.5, FX – 49.35)
5. Auburn – 196.550 (VT – 49.100, UB – 48.875, BB – 49.275, FX – 49.300)
6. Arkansas – 196.400 (VT – 49.150, UB – 48.850, BB – 49.100, FX – 49.300)
7. Missouri – 195.525 (VT – 48.450, UB – 48.850, BB – 49.250, FX – 48.975)
8. Kentucky – 194.600 (VT – 48.825, UB – 48.150, BB – 48.500, FX – 49.125)
Day 2 of qualification …
Beam
1. Anastasia Grishina 14.050
2.Noel Van Klaveren 13.850
3. Vasiliki Millousi 13.800Floor
1. Anna Dementyeva 14.00
2. Silvia Colussi-Pelaez 13.450
3. Maegan Chant 13.450Vault
Shek, Wai Hung HKG 14,950
Dalton, Jake USA 14,700
Bulauski, Pavel BLR 14,687Parallel Bars
Fischer, Lucas SUI 15,050
Uematsu, Koji JPN 15,000
Tsolakidis, Vasileios GRE 14,950High Bar
Bretschneider, Andreas GER 15,175
Samiloglu, Umit TUR 15,025
Uematsu, Koji JPN 14,975Full Twist – Results: Cottbus Cup 2013 Qualification Day 2
read Brigid’s commentary – Cottbus Qualifications Results and Report: WAG BB and FX
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