Japanese Championships results

1. Natsumi Sasada 55.500
2. Yu Minobe 55.250
3. Mai Murakami 55.150
4. Asuka Teramoto 55.000
5. Yuki Uchiyama 54.400
6. Mizuho Nagai 53.750

1. Kohei Uchimura 182.350
2. Ryohei Kato 178.850
3. Yusuke Tanaka 177.300
4. Shogo Nonomura 176.800
5. Kenya Kobayashi 175.750
6. Tatsuki Nakajima 175.050

The competition also served as Japan’s trials for this summer’s University Games in Kazan, Russia. The women’s team will be Minobe, Mizuhi Nagai, Noda Sakura, Arisa Tominaga, Shizkuka Tozawa and Otaki Chinami. The men will be represented by Kato, Tanaka, Shogo Nonomura, Chihiro Yoshioka and Daiki Ishikawa.

read more on IG – Uchimura, Sasada Win Japanese Championships

Sasada

Russia does not rest

Rewriting Russian Gymnastics posted an excellent interview with Russian WAG head coach Evgenyi Grebyonkin:

… Who is training with the Russian team?

‘Aliya Mustafina, Ksenia Afanasyeva, Maria Paseka, Anna Dementieva, Tatiana Nabiyeva, Katya Kramarenko, Evgeniya Shelgunova, Anna Rodionova, Alla Sosnitskaya, Ekaterina Baturina, Olga Bikmurzina.’

Which athletes will participate in the Universiade?

‘It’s a mystery (smiles). We are currently training ten girls, and I do not want to single anyone out. All are prepared and understand who has more chances, who has less. It is clear that the top three contenders are Mustafina, Afanasyeva and Paseka. But Paseka is open to question – she has only two apparatus.

grips

Grebyonkin says that after her qualification fall on bars at Europeans, Afansyeva is now trying out hand grips. But she will not compete on bars at this summer’s Universiade in Kazan.

read more – Evgenyi Grebyonkin : ‘it would be risky to show our whole strategy in the first year of the Olympic cycle’

College Gymnastics home crowds

Average home attendance 2013

1 Utah 14348.60
2 Alabama 13421.60
3 Georgia 8720.67
4 Florida 5865.00
5 L.S.U. 5353.00 … a HUGE jump
6 Auburn 4408.00
7 UCLA 4070.80
8 Missouri 3714.20
9 OSU 3706.20
10 Arkansas 3440.20

see the rest of the NCAA team stats

Utah season tickets

Kohei Uchimura – Floor

Yet another example of how this Code of Points does not work.

A GREAT who’s competed triple double does not need any double somersaults to be competitive.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

When exactly did we lose the “overuse of one kind of skill” deductions? 😦

via GymFever

Uchimura dominates Japan Championships

Day 1 & 2 combined

1) Kohei Uchimura 91.850 + 90.500 = 182.350 AA
2) Ryohei Kato 89.800 + 88.55 = 178.350 AA
3) Yusuke Tanaka 88.050 + 89.250 = 177.300 AA

The Japanese Universiade team for 2013 will be Ryohei Kato, Yusuke Tanaka, Shogo Nonomura, Chihiro Yoshioka and Hiroki Ishikawa. I’m not sure if I got all the names right. …

Gymnast #391

Uchimura

That Team with a healthy Kohei will easily be the favourite to win the World University Games.

Oops. koko believes Kohei is not eligible for Universiade. Perhaps he’s graduated.

Some athletes register for University only to get eligible for FISU, then drop out of school. I’m not sure whether or not Kohei could have done that.

I’m sure host Russia was hoping the top guys from other nations wouldn’t be attending in this the “rest” year of the quadrennial.

related – Uchimura chosen Japan’s top athlete at 2012 London Games