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UTRS (Uncle Tim Ranking System) was updated Sept 9th.

Best D Scores of the Top 15 All-Arounders:

1. Simone Biles USA 24.9 Jesolo
2. Katelyn Ohashi USA 24.6 American Cup
3. Mykayla Skinner USA 24.5 Secret Classic
4. Brenna Dowell USA 24.2 Secret Classic
5. Aliya Mustafina Russia 24.0 European Championships
5. Peyton Ernst USA 24.0 U.S. Nationals
5. Shang Chunsong China 24.0 Chinese National Games
8. Giulia Steingruber Switzerland 23.9 Swiss Championships
8. Kyla Ross USA 23.9 U.S. Nationals
8. Larisa Iordache Romania 23.9 European Championships

related – Beautiful Gymnastics commentary – Cranking numbers for Antwerp and more news (Sept 5th)

That post notes that Shang Chunsong could be top of the list with an upgraded Vault at Worlds. Strong on Floor, it’s surprising she only competed FTY at National Games.

Of the apparatus, Bars has changed most:

Best D Scores
1. Yao Jinnan China 6.9 Chinese National Games
2. He Kexin China 6.8 Chinese Nationals
3. Shang Chunsong China 6.7 Anadia
3. Tan Jiaxin China 6.7 Chinese National Games
5. Huang Huidan China 6.6 Chinese Nationals
5. Rebecca Downie Great Britain 6.6 Dutch Friendly
7. Rebecca Tunney Great Britain 6.5 Dutch Friendly
8. Kyla Ross USA 6.4 GER-ROU-USA Friendly
8. Wu Liufang China 6.4 Chinese Nationals
8. Anastasia Grishina Russia 6.4 Anadia
8. Fan Yilin China 6.4 Chinese National Games
8. Tan Sixin China 6.4 Chinese National Games

Women’s UTRS: The Best Scores of 2013 Updated September 9

Peyton Ernst

related – Inside Gymnastics – Previewing Antwerp

… summer workout was filmed at Capital Gymnastics in Cedar Park, Texas and features some of the top gymnasts in the country including former elites Mackenzie Brannan, McKenzie Wofford, and Nicole Lehermann.

Wofford is a former member of the US Women’s Senior National Team and 2013 JO National Champion on Uneven bars. Wofford is a freshman at the University of Oklahoma and is expected to compete for the Sooners in 2014.

Lehrmann is a 2013 J.O. All-Around and Uneven Bar champion. Lehrmann plans to join Wofford at the University of Oklahoma in 2016.

Brannan is the 2013 JO National Champion on floor and committed to the University of Alabama.

Watching it on this page is a better user experience than clicking over to Gymnastike. (Two simultaneous preroll video ads is one too many ads for me.)

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Some interesting elements, including Air Flare.

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28yr-old Xiao Qin, the 2008 Olympic Pommel Champ, took the Gold at Chinese Games 2013.

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UTRS 2013 WAG & MAG

Chinese Games Finals Vault & Bars | Beam | Floor

Bea Gheorghisor has a good wrap-up post on the Chinese National Games with links to previous Qualifications and All around and event final posts:

It was a showdown of double twisting Tsukahara’s and Rudi’s for the top three places of the vault final. In fact, of the 16 vaults presented, five were double Tsukaharas and five were Rudi’s while only two gymnasts chose to present double twisting Yurchenkos. Interesting.

Also note that, of the eight vault finalists, Wang Yan was the only gymnast who qualified for another event final – floor. There, she placed sixth with 13.600/5.5. …

V
1 Li Yiting 14.967 ( D 6.0 and 6.2)
2 Deng Yalan 14.650 ( D 6.0 and 6.2)
3 Yang Pei 14.500 ( D 6.0 and 6.2)

Bars
1 Shang Chunsong 15.367 (D 6.7)
2 Yao Jinnan 15.200 (D 6.5)
3 Huang Huidan 14.867 (D 6.6)

Beam
1 Tan Sixin 15.100 (D 6.4)
2 Sui Lu 14.834 (D 6.1)
3 Shang Chunsong 14.667 (D 6.1)

FX
1 Shang Chunsong 14.667 (D 6.1)
2 Sui Lu 13.834 (D 5.5)
3 Tan Sixin 13.734 (D 5.4)

Couch Gymnast – Chinese National Games: Event Finals

Here’s Tan Sixin’s Beam from Team Finals. (14.967)

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FIG Floor scoring is pretty random. Still, 15.1 seems high to me.

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15.600?

Gym Blog Brazil compiled a partial list of possible Worlds contenders who will not be in Antwerp. Most of them injured, or recovering from injury.

Gabriella Douglas – CAN
Viktoria Komova – RUS
Evgeniya Shelgunova – RUS
Ksenia Afanasyeva – RUS
Diana Bulimar – ROM
Erika Fasana – ITA
Elizabetta Preziosa – ITA
Giorgia Camapana – ITA
Katelyn Ohasi – USA
Lexia Priessmann – USA
Madison Kocian – USA
Jonathan Horton – USA
Danell Leyva – USA
Chris Brooks – USA
Nadina Jarosch – GER
Lisa Hill – GER
Kim Bui – GER
Janine Berger – GER
Marcel Nguyen – GER
Ana Lago – MEX
Céline van Gerner – NED
Lisa Top – NED
Gabby Jupp – GBR
Adrian Gomes – BRA
Jade Barbosa – BRA
Julie Croket – BEL
Maria Livchikova – UKR

Is this more than usual?

I’m not sure. Artistic Gymnastics is a very dangerous sport. At any given moment something like 1/3 of elite Senior women are unable to train full out.

Of all World Championships, the year after the Olympics is least important. Top athletes missing Antwerp don’t feel they are letting down their “team”.

Olympic medalists Marcel Nguyen and Danell Leyva voluntarily withdrew their names from consideration.

I recall when Kyle Shewfelt requested to skip this Worlds. He wanted a “training year” in the quadrennial. That turned out to be a good move for him.

Not only injury.

…Another serious concern for a Russian National Team …

Andrei Rodionenko:

‘Our training centre ‘Ozero Krugloe’ has somehow received a very serious virus. The whole women’s team has suffered from it to a different degree. Even the most tough ones have fallen ill’ –

That’s an interesting interview. I wish Andrei spoke to the media more.

I was hoping Istanbul would win the Olympics. Hosting the Games in an Islamic nation might have been very good for the world.

The city should keep bidding.

On the other hand, I’m confident that Tokyo will do a terrific job.

This will provide even more incentive to clean up Fukushima power plant radiation. Tokyo is only 238 kilometres from Fukushima.

Japan is COOL. 🙂

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related – The Last Time Tokyo Hosted The Olympics

The All Around Gymnastics News:

Giulia Steingruber posts a massive 59.400 to win her third consecutive Swiss AA title. 2. Ilaria Käslin 55.650, 3. Sara Metzger 51.950. …

Full Twist:

A source tells us that Giulia Steingruber looked “fantastic” and showed a new floor routine. …

Giulia Steingruber 59.400
Ilaria Kaslin 55.650
Sara Metzger 51.950

She won all 4 Swiss apparatus finals.

Giulia finished 14th at the Olympics with 56.148.

At 2013 Europeans she tied for 4th with 57.065.

A 59.400 at Worlds could get her on the AA podium.

In one interview Giulia said she hoped to qualify for the AA, Floor and Vault finals in Antwerp.