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Osijek World Cup Finals 2

Gymnasts from five nations won gold medals Sunday as competition concluded at the FIG Challenger Cup in Osijek, Croatia. …

Vault champion Ellie Black (Canada) took her second gold medal of the competition with the women’s floor exercise title. Black outscored Steingruber and Ontario’s Silvia Colussi-Pelaez, who represents her parents’ native Spain. …

IG – Canada’s Black Grabs Second Title in Osijek

BEAM:
1. Giulia Steingruber
2. Vasiliki Millousi
3. Jessica Diacci

WOMEN’S FLOOR:
1. Ellie Black
2. Giulia Steingruber
3. Silvia Colussi-Pelaez

MEN’S VAULT:
1. Enrique Tomas Gonzalez Sepulveda
2. Marek Lyszczarz
3. Ruslan Panteleymonov & Kristian Thomas

P BARS:
1. Daniel Corral
2. Mitja Petkovsek
3. Marius Berbecar

H BAR:
1. Vlasios Maras
2. Yann Cucherat
3. Andreas Bretschneider

Click PLAY or watch Ellie’s FX on YouTube.

Only 3 tumbling passes. Unique choreography. NOT boring.

A year ago most fans worldwide would not recognize the name Ellie Black. They know her now. 🙂

related – Gymnastics I Love – Ellie Black Attack

Read Blythe’s commentary – Ellie Black, Giulia Steingruber on top as Osijek World Cup ends

is Romania ready for Europeans?

More ready than Russia, perhaps.

At their last competition in Ulm, Germany:

… Romania arrived with all of their top guns, including Larisa Iordache, who has consistently been staking her claim as a serious all-around medal threat for London these past weeks, and Olympic champions Catalina Ponor and Sandra Izbasa. Izbasa warmed up with the team but then withdrew citing an injury to her left foot. …

Iordache zipped through four strong routines for an all-around total of 59.750. She left out the double-double on floor but posted a massive 6.8 D score on beam for a routine that included a ff-full, a double turn and a triple twist dismount. The number of skills she manages to confidently cram into ninety seconds is astonishing even if it leaves no room for choreography. …

TAA – Romania Dominates, Jarosch in Doubt for Europeans (results, videos)

Click PLAY or watch Larisa’s Beam on YouTube.

Chris was at the meet for Couch Gymnast – ROU-GER-GBR Meet Report

related – American Gymnast – Diana Bulimar…The Overlooked Romanian

In that post, Andy Thornton likes Raluca Haidu as Romania’s potential Bar specialist, if that’s not an oxymoron.

Olympics – van Gerner or Masela?

… Days after a judge ruled she should still be in contention for the Olympics, Céline van Gerner was back in competition on two events. Van Gerner notched the top mark on uneven bars, 14.900, and scored 12.900 on beam. …

On Monday, a Dutch judge ruled in favor of van Gerner, who filed a lawsuit stating the Dutch federation’s selection of Wyomi Masela for the team’s sole Olympic berth was premature. The judge ruled that the federation should wait to decide until after the European championships in May and Ghent Challenger Cup in June. The ruling was the same in the case brought earlier by Jeffrey Wammes, who successfully sued the federation after it named Epke Zonderland as its representative for London. …

… Masela, meanwhile, averaged 14.275 on vault (14.550 for double-twisting Yurchenko and 14.000 for Podkopayeva) and scored 13.650 on floor exercise in Waalwijk. Masela, third on vault at the Olympic test event, said she was happy with her performance Saturday. …

IG – Dutch Earn Double Victory at Waalwijk Tri-Meet

That link has WAG & MAG scores from a Netherlands v Belgium v Sweden friendly.

Click PLAY or watch van Gerner’s Bars on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch Masela’s Floor on YouTube.

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Note that those videos can be expanded to full screen. For some reason I now need to post the full embed code rather than the “short code” to get all the YouTube features to work.