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More amazing graphics from the Gymneo team in France.

Best teach long kip before complicating it with the glide. Parallel Bars are ideal to introduce the action to girls.

Top 6 Execution scores Worlds 2013 All-Around Finals:

Kohei Uchimura 8.982
Ryohei Kato
Fabian Hambuechen
Andrey Likhovitskiy
Max Whitlock
Daniel Purvis

The top 3 in Execution were the top 3 AA.

Kohei’s goal was to score at least 9.0 on each apparatus.

If you like “clean” gymnastics, watch Andrey Likhovitskiy.

Top 6 Difficulty scores Worlds 2013 All-Around Finals:

Oleg Verniaiev 38.7 (15th AA)
Kohei Uchimura 38.1 (1st AA)
Sergio Sasaki 38.1 (5th AA)
Zhou Shixiong 37.7 (10th AA)
Lin Chaopan 37.4 (9th AA)
Ryohei Kato 37.4 (2nd AA)

Zhou and Lin had falls. Oleg … 😦

At the end of the day, the youngest competitor in Antwerp, Shirai Kenzo, posted the highest score on any event, but the title of hardest D still belongs to Mr. Epke Zonderland with his 7.7.

That all comes from Uncle Tim:

2013 World Championships by the Numbers: The Dudes

Why was this valued only a C-part?

It’s more complex and far COOLER than the D scissors through handstand.

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ELIZABETH LONG:

In the six men’s and four women’s finals contested, only three gold medals went to gymnasts not from China: Chen Chih Yu of Chinese Taipei won rings; Yusuke Tanaka of Japan was the gold medalist on high bar; and North Korea’s Hong Un Jong, the vault bronze medalist at this year’s World Championships, was victorious on that event. …

Vault
Hong Un Jong PRK 6.3 8.950 | 6.4 7.850 | 14.750
Tan Jiaxin CHN 5.8 8.950 .10 | 5.2 8.700 | 14.275
Ri Un Ha PRK 5.8 8.800 |5.2 8.650 .30 | 14.075

Bars
Tan Jiaxin CHN 6.2 8.550 14.750
Heo Seonmi KOR 5.8 8.350 14.150
Kang Yong Mi PRK 6.1 7.950 14.050

Beam
Tan Sixin CHN 6.3 8.700 15.000
Zhang Yelinzi CHN 6.2 7.450 13.650
Yuko Shintake JPN 5.3 8.350 13.650

Floor
Tan Sixin CHN 5.4 8.400 13.800
Sakura Yumoto JPN 5.4 8.350 13.750
Jiang Tong CHN 5.4 8.400 .20 13.600

Wen Zheng of China

Floor
Deng Shudi CHN 6.5 8.800 15.300
Huang Xi CHN 6.4 87 15.100
Tatsuki Nakashima JPN 6.3 8.6 14.900
Park Eojin KOR 6.6 8.4 .10 14.900

Pommel Horse
Huang Yuguo CHN 6.4 8.800 15.200
Liu Rongbing CHN 6.3 8.550 14.850
Shin Dong Hyen KOR 6.2 8150 14.350
Hsu Ping Chien TPE 6.0 8.350 14.350

Rings
Chen Chih Yu TPE 6.7 8.750 15.450
Ri Se Gwang PRK 6.8 8.450 15.250
Kim Jin Hyok PRK 6.6 8.550 15.150

Vault … Ri Se Gwang only 3rd
Huang Xi CHN 6.0 9.000 | 5.6 9.150 | 14.875
Yusuke Saito JPN 6.0 9.050 | 6.0 8.650 0.10 | 14.800
Ri Se Gwang PRK 6.0 8.200 | 6.4 8.900 | 14.750

Parallel Bars
Liu Rongbing CHN 6.7 9.000 15.700
Deng Shudi CHN 6.8 8.850 15.650
Kim Jin Hyok PRK 6.8 8.800 15.600

High Bar
Yusuke Tanaka JPN 6.9 8.900 15.800
Liu Rongbing CHN 6.9 8.650 15.550
Deng Shudi CHN 6.8 8.650 15.450

read more on TAA – China continues gold rush as East Asian Games conclude

East Asian Games

1. China, 360.200
2. Japan, 354.100
3. South Korea, 340.100

The Chinese men have depth.

MEN’S ALL-AROUND FX PH SR VT PB HB TOTAL
1. Liu Rongbing 15.000 15.050 14.350 14.850 15.700 15.700 90.650
2. Deng Shudi 15.150 14.450 14.800 15.050 15.450 15.450 90.350
*3. Huang Yuguo 14.900 15.400 14.650 14.900 15.100 14.450 89.400
**4. Shogo Nonomura 13.800 14.650 14.700 14.650 15.250 15.150 88.200
5. Kenya Kobayashi 14.450 13.850 14.750 14.350 15.100 14.800 87.300
6. Yusuke Tanaka 14.850 12.700 14.500 13.200 15.500 15.750 86.500

That from IG – China Dominates East Asian Games at Home

AGU – MAG Team, All-Around Finals and Qualif for East Asian Games 2013

…

Gigi: What was your favorite moment in Antwerp?

Larisa: The most beautiful moment in Antwerp was when I stepped on podium, it was an unique feeling

Gigi: You are one of the best beam workers and you are capable of hitting your beam routine, what happened in the all around and beam final?.

Larisa: I can’t explain what happened during that moment, to be honest I don’t really know but I do know that I was in a rush and that’s what happened. In gymnastics you need to be focused on every single movement you make.

Gigi: Who impressed you the most in Antwerp?

Larisa: I was pleasantly impressed by Simone Biles because she is a very strong competitor from all points of view and I appreciate that in her.

read the full interview

Blanton’s Gymnastics Consultancy:

A great drill with numerous applications for different elements.

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https://www.facebook.com/video/embed?video_id=10202396632696621

World & European Bars Finalist, Ruby Harrold, talks through her unusual and crowd pleasing bars routine.

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Uncle Tim has been crunching the numbers from the Women’s Competition at 2013 Worlds.

You must suspend disbelief and trust that judges got the numbers right in order to look at results statistically.

I’d argue that many routines could score 1.0 more or less.

EXECUTION Commentary:

1. As we saw with the men, execution matters. The top three all-arounders were the best executioners out there.

2. If elegance and execution are synonymous, then, Kyla Ross earned the Longines Prize for Elegance.

3. Those who rag on Simone Biles’s execution, please stop. Compared to her competition, Simone’s execution was quite good. Kyla Ross out-executed Simone by only 0.216, and Simone out-executed Aliya Mustafina by 0.540.

Vanessa Ferrari, Larisa Iordache, Carlotta Ferlito, Yao Jinnan and Noemi Makra are a few others with good Execution.

Noemi Makra from Hungary is stunning. Beautiful toe point. Sharp lines. It’s impossible to watch her and not be reminded of how you felt watching Henrietta Onodi.

DIFFICULTY Commentary:

1. … Simone Biles has over a 0.500 advantage on the majority of her competitors …

2. … Mad props to Giulia Steingruber, for instance. Since prelims at the European Championships, she has upgraded her difficulty by 0.900. Similarly, Noemi Makra upgraded by 0.600 since prelims at the European Championships.

… Simone Biles was the female equivalent of Kohei Uchimura. Compared to their competitors, both have exceptional difficulty and exceptional execution. …

details – 2013 World Championships by the Numbers: The Ladies

During #WChAntwerp I tweeted:

Gymnastics is so EASY for Simone Biles. She reminds me of Moustafina in 2010. Or Shawn Johnson in her prime.

related – TCG Junior Watch: Noemi Makra

CHEERS to Uncle Tim for keeping his 2013 database. The All Around plans to resume keeping their own for the rest of the quadrennial. No doubt there are others out there with similar databases.

October 6, 2013 – October 15, 2013, Tianjin

TEAM
1. China
2. Japan
3. North Korea

AA
1. Sixan Tan CHN 55.500
2. Yelinzi Zhang CHN 54.600
3. Un-Hyang Kim DPR 54.350
4. Wakana Inoue JPN 54.050
5. Chinami Otaki JPN 53.500
6. Wen Zheng CHN 53.100

full results and photos on Blossom

Hong Un-Jong – Amanar

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6.3 – 9.200