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1. D – 6,400 ; E – 9,575 ; Score 15,975
2. D – 6,000 ; E – 9,600 ; Score 15,600

Final score – 15,787

How can you beat a guy this clean?

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These days Vault may be the most difficult apparatus to win consistently. Yet Yang looks nearly unbeatable.

VAULT
1T. Ksenia Afanasyeva 15.125
1T. Hong Un Jong 15.125
3. Maria Paseka 14.950

BARS
1. Aliya Mustafina 15.200
2. Tatiana Nabieva 14.525
3. Lisa Hill, Germany 14.500

BEAM
1. Yellinzi Zhang 15.150
2. Aliya Mustafina 14.525
3. Ellie Black 14.400

FLOOR
1. Ksenia Afanasyeva 14.350
2T. Elsa Garcia 13.750
2T. Ellie Black 13.750

Gymnastike – 2013 World University Games Event Finals RECAP and RESULTS (videos)

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Gymnastics Canada – Ellie Black – Third Time’s The Charm:

KAZAN, Russia — After just missing the podium twice at the World University Games Canadian all around champion Ellie Black of Halifax (Alta) bounced back for two medals on the final day of competition Wednesday in women’s gymnastics.

Black placed a close fourth in both the all around and vault events, but wouldn’t be denied …

1T. Afanasyeva
1T. Hong Un Jong
3. Paeska

Andy Thornton:

This women’s vault final was great. What an incredible surprise to see that Afanasyeva has suddenly become a world medal threat on vault …

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Overall, this was one of the best international vault finals we’ve had in a long time…at least in terms of difficulty. We had three Amanars, two Chengs (one not landed), some laid out Podkopayevas, handspring rudis, and Tsuk double fulls. That Tsuk double full from Ellie Black was particularly good – much better than her handspring rudi. …

Finally, it feels so much more right to award two medals when there is a tie. The arbitrary tie-breakers that plagued the Olympics in London did nothing but taint Olympic medals with asterisks and turn pure Olympic moments into somewhat artificial ones. They caused far too much controversy and frustration, and seeing Hong Un Jong and Ksenia Afanasyeva share this gold medal at the World University Games confirmed to me that I am all in favor of handing out shared medals when the scores fall that way.

American Gymnast

She’s been the happy story of Universiade.

• All about Afan: Part one

• Twenty-five things you may or may not know about Ksenia Afanasyeva

Chris Saccullo:

Despite just recovering from a severe illness Aliya insisted on competing. Here are some highlights from her gold medal performance at the Individual All Around at the 2013 Universiade Games in Kazan.

Congratulations Aliya, your relentless and determined spirit inspires us all!

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These days there are fewer and fewer complaints about Marta Karolyi.

The biggest left, in my opinion, is that she’s unwilling to send gymnasts to international meets where they have any chance at all of being underscored.

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UPDATE: Commenters noted that The U.S. Universiade squad is selected by USIUSF (United States International University Sports Federation) who govern university sport. USAG may have very little input as to whether or not the USA attends.
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Could the USA have challenged Russia at Universiade?

Gymnastike picked a (hypothetical) 2013 World University Games Dream Team:

Bridget Sloan of Florida – All Around
Vanessa Zamarripa of UCLA – All Around
Jessie DeZiel of Nebraska – All Around
Kytra Hunter of Florida – VT, BB, FX
Mackenzie Caquatto of Florida – UB, BB

The oh-so-close Alternates:

Katherine Grable of Arkansas (VT, BB, FX, also capable of leading off on UB)
Georgia Dabritz of Utah (VT, UB, FX)
Brandie Jay of Georgia (VT, UB, possible FX)
Ashley Priess of Alabama (UB, BB)

Click through to see their potential lineups on each apparatus – Gymnastike’s 2013 World University Games USA Dream Team

The USA is at FISU in a few sports. Check how the Americans are doing in the medals table.

Despite being laid low by Flu, Aliya Mustafina won the FISU all-around with a fall on Beam.

RRG – Mustafina collects her second major all around of 2013 in Kazan

IF she could competed pike Tkachev, here’s one possible future routine.

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Here’s the clean 6.3 routine she competed yesterday.

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(via Couch Gymnast)

July 21-25, 2013

I can hardly wait. 🙂

Boys and Girls We’ve still got a few spots open.

REGISTER via the BROCHURE PAGE.

For more information, or to register, please call Dave at 208-664-0135 or Lisa at 208-691-1846.

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Tumbl Trak’s 1-day clinics celebrating their 25th Anniversary are rolling out over the summer. Focus is on best practice for precompetitive and advanced recreation girls coaches. For kids who are not (yet) competing.

Click through for details.

(via Tumbl Talk)

Amusing translation from Russian to English.

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(via TAA)

Vladimir Zaglada feels Afan might be ranked with the best Soviet / Russian Floor workers ever. High praise.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (AA Finals)

I don’t think I’d call her the second coming of Omelienchik, however. 🙂

Tumbling is VERY good, but not best in the world.

Choreography subtle and classy, but not out of the ordinary. Leap is clean.

The highlight for me are her turns.

That was linked from a nice wrap-up post by Bea Gheorghisor – Summer Universiade: Women’s All Around Report:

… The competition for the bronze medal was decided between Germany’s Kim Bui and Canada’s Elisabeth Black. Both very interesting but also very different gymnasts: Bui had to rely mostly on her execution scores rather than the difficulty of her routines while Elisabeth had the big tricks and was thus more prone to error. …

… the strategy of execution versus difficulty did win Bui the bronze medal: on floor, she was rewarded with a total of 13.50 while Elisabeth Black fell on her second pass, on a double tuck, and only received a 12.450 for her difficult routine (which includes a 2 1/2 to double full as first pass). …

Gymnastics Canada posted an interview with Ellie on Facebook.