Men’s Worlds day 1 photos

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Dan Purvis

Here are some of Grace Chiu’s pics.

Gymnastics training snack breaks

Around the world most male gymnasts do not take one. Most female gymnasts do.

Average time of a snack break seems to be 10 minutes, based on one informal survey.

I recall arriving as the new Head Coach of one major Gymnastics Club. My first action was to cancel all snack breaks for all groups. (It wasn’t a very popular move with some parents.)

The girls would be allowed to grab a snack as needed, instead.

Snack breaks aren’t needed during a 4hr training, clearly. Many Gyms do not schedule them.

It’s a waste of valuable training time, in my opinion.

Leave a comment if you disagree.

healthysnacks for gymnast

Theatre of KÀ

If you’ve seen this Cirque show in Vegas, you know that the stage is the star.

Amazing technology.

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(When did Cirque get Morgan Freeman to do voice overs? 🙂 )

HERO of day 1 – Eleftherios Petrounias

Leading RINGS preliminaries, so far.

LIKE and SHARE this video on Facebook. His father recently passed away. 😦

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Men’s World Championships day 1

Half the gymnasts have competed. Four long, exciting sessions at #Glasgow2015.

Switzerland impressed me most. They were psyched. Hit a LOT of routines.

1. JPN 358.884
2. CHN 357.027
3. GBR 354.417
4. RUS 352.692
5. SUI 350.127
6. BRA 349.057
7. KOR 346.166
8. GER 345.717

Korea had the loudest, most enthusiastic fans.

Most of the other teams would take a do-over, if they got the chance.

For Japan and China prelims don’t matter much. They are focused on the 3-up, 3-count Final.

But prelims do decide the AA and apparatus finalists. That does matter.

related – preview of MAG day 2

Japan, China, GBR … so far

Men’s preliminary competition #Glasgow2015.

Team RESULTS

1 Uchimura Kohei JPN 90.564 (fall on FX)
2 Purvis Daniel GBR 88.956
3 Deng Shudi CHN 88.832
AA RESULTS

looking for his 6th title
looking for his 6th title

Women’s Worlds finalists confirmed

FIG has also confirmed the nations invited to the Rio Test meet early next year. Ireland, Croatia and Iceland grabbed the final spots. Colombia, India and South Africa are the reserves.

VAULT:
1. Simone Biles USA 15.633
2. Maria Paseka RUS 15.583
3. Un Jong Hong PRK 15.533
4. Giulia Steingruber SUI 15.316
5. Yan Wang CHN 15.099
6. Ellie. Downie GBR 14.949
7. Dipa Karmakar IND 14.900
8. Alexa Moreno MEX 14.899
R1 Seda Tutkhalyan RUS 14.816
R2. Brittany Rogers CAN 14.766

UNEVEN BARS
1. Daria Spiridonova RUS 15.466
2. Viktoria Konova RUS 15.300
3. Madison Kocian USA 15.233
4. Sophie Schäfer GER 15.033
5. Yilin Fan CHN 14.966
6. Gabby Douglas USA 14.750
7. Ruby Harrold GBR 14.666
8. Chunsong Shang CHN 14.666
R1 Loan His FRA 14.466
R2 Like Wevers NED 14.400

BEAM
1. Simone Biles USA 14.966
2. Sanne Wevers NED 14.766
3. Elsabeth Black CAN 14.600
4. Viktoria Komova RUS 14.533
5. Seda Tutkhalyan RUS 14.533
6. Yan Wang CHN 14.500
7. Pauline Schäfer GER 14.300
8. Eythora Thorsdottir NED 14.233
R1 Carlotta Ferlito ITA 14.233
R2 Jade Barbosa BRA 14.200

FLOOR
1. Simone Biles USA 15.966
2. Sae Miyakawa JPN 14.900
3. Maggie Nichols USA 14.700
4. Kseniia Afanasyeva RUS 14.633
5. Claudia Fragapane GBR 14.600
6. Giulia Steingruber SUI 14.533
7. Erika Fasana ITA 14.466
8. Ellie Downie GBR 14.400
R1 Chunsong Shang CHN 14.400
R2 Like Wevers NED 14.200

24th for the AA is Isabela Onyshko CAN 55.216.

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