World Cup Portugal Finals

Women’s Vault Final
1. Jade Barbosa 14.825
2. Oksana Chusovitina 14.512
3. Adrian Gomes 14.112

Bars Final
1. Anastasia Grishina 6.4 8.350 14.750
2. Lisa-Katharina Hill 6.1 8.325 14.425
3. Shang Chunsong 6.7 7.475 14.175

Men’s Floor Exercise Final
1. Diego Hypolito 6.4 8.975 15.375
2. Mathias Fahrig 6.3 8.875 15.175
3. Sam Mikulak 6.2 8.900 15.100

Pommel Horse Final
1. Jhonny Muñoz 6.4 8.800 15.200
2. Max Whitlock 7.1 8.000 15.100
3. Gustavo Simões 6.2 8.400 14.600
3. Eduard Shaulov 5.6 9.000 14.600

Still Rings Final
1. Arthur Zanetti 6.8 9.000 15.800
2. Yan Mingyong 6.8 8.950 15.750
3. Federico Molinari 6.7 8.850 15.550

day 1 FINAL – IG – Brazil Best at Anadia World Challenge Cup

BALANCE BEAM FINAL
1. Larisa Iordache 6.9 8.750 15.650
2. Shang Chunsong 6.5 8.650 15.150
3. Diana Bulimar 5.9 8.750 14.650

Click PLAY or watch Larisa’s Beam on YouTube.

Compare that with Shang Chunsong — 0.4 lower start score.

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Who should have had the higher execution score?

WOMEN’S FLOOR EXERCISE FINAL
1. Larisa Iordache 6.1 8.550 14.650
1. Diana Bulimar 5.9 8.750 14.650
3. Shang Chunsong 6.1 8.025 14.125

MEN’S VAULT FINAL
1. Tomas Gonzalez 14.925
2. Igor Radivilov 14.838
3. Diego Hypolito 14.825

PARALLEL BARS FINAL
1. Anton Fokin 6.6 8.975 15.575
2. Jossimar Calvo 6.9 8.300 15.200
3. Samuel Piasecky 6.2 8.900 15.100

B BAR FINAL
1. Sam Mikulak 6.5 8.775 15.275
2. Angel Ramos 6.5 8.100 14.600
3. Igor Pakhomenko 6.2 7.725 13.925

day 2 FINAL – IG – Iordache Takes Two Titles at Anadia World Cup

starting an Aerobic club

The 2012 British Aerobic Senior Champion talks winning the title, overcoming injury and setting up her own gymnastics club.

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Italy wins Mediterranean Games

1. Italy 165.396
2. France 158.895
3. Greece 148.597

Amanda Turner has results and commentary from the Mediterranean Games in Turkey — Italian Women Best French in Mersin.

Ferrari discusses her possible retirement. She leads the AA from prelims.

Italy

related – Couch Gymnast – Italy wins Med Games & Ferrari considers future

Chinese Jr Nationals

Sarah:

From the 17th to the 21st of June, groups of young Chinese junior gymnasts competed in the Chinese Junior Nationals, in the Changzhou province of China. The competition was split into two age groups, with Group A having gymnasts aged 14-15, and Group B with gymnasts 13 and under. More than two hundred gymnasts …

Couch Gymnast – Chinese Junior Nationals: Recap and video

Piibunina was there, uploading to youku.

Check out group B all around champion Lu Jiaqi’s Gold medal Beam on youku.

6.0 + 8.55 = 14.55

http://player.youku.com/embed/XNTcyOTkyNDY0

Luo Huan’s Bars scored 14.2. Watch them on youku.

http://player.youku.com/embed/XNTcyOTg5ODIw

making sense of Rhythmic

Though I’ve followed the sport since it was introduced in the 1984 Olympics … I still can’t explain it.

trivia – who won the 1st Olympics?

It’s got more in common with dance and contortion than Artistic Gymnastics.

Mina decided to go to Vienna for the 29th European Championships in Rhythmic Gymnastics.

… In rhythmic gymnastics the Europeans are almost as good as Worlds as the top nations like Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and even Azerbaijan etc. all participate. …

In the end, the very young Russian gymnasts, Yana Kudryavtseva, Daria Svatkovskaya (daughter of the famous Oxana Skladina, who refused to congratulate silver-medal-winning Carolina Pascual at the 1992 Olympics) and Margarita Mamun not only won the team event (two to three gymnasts from each country show altogether two routines per apparatus) but all of the gold medals in event finals and three silvers, too. (There‘s been no all-around competition this year.)

… (starting) 2013 gymnasts are allowed to use one piece of music which has vocals with words. (I think) all of the gymnasts used this new rule and while some shone even brighter doing their difficult elements and great artistry work to the wonderful voice of Adele, Lana del Rey or even Shakira, other performances were just smothered by the singing and couldn‘t really live up to their own music choice. All in all I really liked the new rule …

Couch Gymnast – Impressions of the European Rhythmic Championships

Mina’s top 6 routines from that competition are linked. Including this one …

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related – GymCastic episode 37 features a lengthy audio interview with 2012 Olympian Julie Zetlin. Charming and eloquent.