Szombathely Challenge Cup results 2

AKA the Tonya Paulsson show. She’ll likely end up competing for Cal as well as Sweden.

Beam

🥇 Tonya Paulsson 🇸🇪 12.966
🥈 Leni Bohle 🇦🇹 12.866
🥉 Charlotte Booth 🇬🇧 12.433

Floor

🥇 Tonya Paulsson 🇸🇪 12.933
🥈 Greta Mayer 🇭🇺 12.900
🥉 Leni Bohle 🇦🇹 12.700

Vault

🥇 Assan Salimov 🇰🇿 14.300
🥈 Daniel Trifonov 🇧🇬 14.150
🥉 Enkhtuvshin Damdindorj 🇲🇳 14.083

P Bars

🥇 Edoardo De Rosa 🇮🇹 14.233
🥈 Krisztofer Meszaros 🇭🇺 14.066
🥉 Alexander Kunz 🇩🇪 13.233

H Bar

🥇 Krisztofer Meszaros 🇭🇺 13.900
🥈 Lorenzo Bonicelli 🇮🇹 13.766
🥉 Szilard Zavory 🇭🇺 13.300

coach Sam Mikulak

Great gymnast. Great coach.

Szombathely Challenge Cup results 1

Vault
🥇 Darya Yassinskaya 🇰🇿 13.166
🥈 Greta Mayer 🇭🇺 13.016
🥉 Leni Bohle 🇦🇹 12.833

Bars
🥇 Charlotte Booth 🇬🇧 13.266
🥈 Tonya Paulsson 🇸🇪 13.033
🥉 Celeste Mordenti 🇱🇺 12.933

Floor
🥇 Krisztofer Meszaros 🇭🇺 14.433
🥈 Filip Lidbeck 🇸🇪 13.833
🥉 Danny Crouch 🇬🇧 13.800

Pommel
🥇 Edoardo De Rosa 🇮🇹 15.133
🥈 Gabriele Targhetta 🇮🇹 14.933
🥉 Shiao Yu-Jan TPE 14.633

Rings
🥇 Nikita Simonov 🇦🇿 14.700
🥈 Lin Guan-Yi TPE 14.266
🥉 Sokratis Pilakouris 🇨🇾 14.100

Sports Psychology Has an Evidence Problem

Of course every coach uses methods from sport psychology to improve ultimate performances.

But we don’t really know how or why methodology works: self-talk, mental focus, attention, etc.

The brain is complex. Each athlete is different from the next.

A mental training plan for one might well be quite difficult for the teammate training beside them.

Sports Psychology Has an Evidence Problem

The benefits of training your mental skills are, by definition, all in your head. So how do we prove that it works?

Hardy Fink – Lifetime Achievement Award

I can’t think of any other person in Gymnastics history who’s done as much for the sport.

World Acrobatic Society did a nice job trying to sum up his career in their Lifetime Achievement Awards VIDEO.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

how HIGH can you GAINER?

I’ve seen Gainer contests for distance go badly wrong.

Going for height looks only barely safer.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.