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Olympic hopefuls Giulia Steingruber and Christine (Peng Peng) Lee each qualified first on two events as the Osijek World Cup got underway Friday in Osijek, Croatia. …

Another Olympic hopeful from Canada, Nova Scotia’s Ellie Black, also qualified to finals on vault and floor, while Spain’s Silvia Colussi-Pelaez, who trains with Lee at Oakville Gymnastics in Ontario, reached finals on bars, beam and floor. …

Swiss, Croatian, Canadian gymnasts in front as Osijek World Cup begins

VAULT
1 STEINGRUBER Giulia SUI 13,763
2 DA SILVA SOUZA Lais BRA 13,738
3 BLACK Elisabeth CAN 13,725

BARS
1 LEE Christine CAN 5,700 8,950 14,650
2 PIHAN-KULESZA Marta POL 5,700 8,550 14,250
3 PEREYRA Valeria ARG 5,500 8,475 13,975
4 COLUSSI PELAEZ Silvia ESP 5,500 8,425 13,925

BEAM
1 LEE Christine CAN 6,300 8,000 14,300 K
2 DIACCI Jessica SUI 5,700 7,975 13,675 K
3 COLUSSI PELAEZ Silvia ESP 5,800 7,700 13,500

FLOOR
1 STEINGRUBER Giulia SUI 5,700 8,275 13,975 K
2 BLACK Elisabeth CAN 5,700 8,225 13,925 K
3 ERCEG Tina CRO 5,300 8,200 13,500 K
4 COLUSSI PELAEZ Silvia ESP 5,300 8,125 13,425

Peng also qualified in the Floor final. She’s on fire.

Full results (PDF)

He made it, winning the final trial today.

… Burnett is a six-time Canadian champion and earned a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He holds a world record for a degree of difficulty score in a routine.

He had failed in his previous attempt at the spot earlier this month when he needed a top two finish at the season-opening Elite Canada competition, but finished tenth instead that day. …

Canada’s Jason Burnett qualifies for London Olympics in trampoline

more Tramp photos by Grace Chiu on Facebok

On May 5 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado, 86 of the country’s top male gymnasts will compete in the last opportunity to qualify for the 2012 Visa Championships.

… A minimum of 14 gymnasts using the Men’s Program Committee 20-point system will advance to the Visa Championships, and additional athletes may be selected as needed to complete the 42-man Visa Championships field. …

2012 Men’s Qualifier set for May 5 at USOTC

The American Classic, which serves as one of two women’s qualifiers in to the 2012 Visa Championships, will be held May 5 at the U.S. Gymnastics National Training Center at the Karolyi Ranch …

Inside Gymnastics

USA Gymnastics Announces Field for 2012 American Classic

Finally. A Gymnastics Congress in my own backyard, Calgary, Canada.

Christophe Lambert, Alixa Sutton, Tony Retrosi, Beth Gardner, Frank Sahlein, Steve Greeley and Dave Ross.

Put the dates on your calendar, Oct. 11-14, 2012. I guarantee this will be an excellent event. Details.

Thanks Brett.

We don’t hear enough about the NAIGC (National Association of Intercollegiate Gymnastics Clubs)

Started 1988, it’s open to any American gymnastics club with college-aged participants. Here’s a full list of members in case you want to check if there’s one close to you.

Their annual championships just concluded.

The Texas A&M men & MIT women captured National Championship titles for the second year in a row in Salt Lake City. …

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Michael Bynum was the Men’s all-around winner

Zara Karuman the Women’s AA champion.

full results

(via Kurt Thomas Gymnastics on Facebook)

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He wants to be Olympic Champion, like these guys. Fortunately for Epke, FIG no longer seems to require toe point. 🙂

(via GymPOWER on Facebook)

International Gymnast:

… medals will be up for grabs in Brussels: senior team and individual apparatus, and junior team, all-around and apparatus.

Russia and Romania are expected to battle for the senior team supremacy, with Great Britain, Italy, France and Germany among the teams aiming for a podium finish.

Defending champion Russia is bringing its formidable trio of Aliya Mustafina, Viktoria Komova and Anastasia Grishina, plus newcomer Anastasia Sidorova. …

Competition begins May 9 with junior qualification, followed by senior qualification on May 10. Junior all-around final takes place May 11, followed by the senior team final on May 12 and apparatus finals on May 13.

250+ Gymnasts on Roster for Women’s Europeans

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Bernardo on Couch Gymnast looked at potential D-score for the Junior teams. Russia looks unbeatable:

1- Russia 89.5
2- Italy 86.2
3- Great Britain 84.3
4- Ukraine 84.0
5- Romania 83.5
6- Spain 82.9

Junior European D Score Predictions

related – THE ALL AROUND is weekly updating the top WAG scores worldwide.

Iordache, Larissa (ROU) 60,150 is the top EU Sr. all-arounder, by that ranking.

Click PLAY or watch her most recent Vault on YouTube.

Utah may have finished 5th at Championships. But in drawing a crowd to gymnastics, they’re still #1.

… here are the final rankings for average home meet attendance. As expected, Utah maintained their top ranking here with Alabama close behind.

Rank	Team	Average Attendance
1	Utah	13515.29
2	Alabama	12826.80
3	Georgia	8768.33
4	Florida	6200.40
5	Auburn	4519.60
6	Oregon State	4097.20
7	L.S.U.	3697.60
8	Arkansas	3080.83
9	Southern Utah	3069.75
10	Penn State	2249.75

Gymnastike – Final 2012 NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Rankings

Via Utah Gymnastics on Facebook.

The 2012 World Acrobatic Gymnastics Championships ended in a tie.

1. CHN – Jian Tang, Lei Wang, Yi Zhou and Yeqiuyin Wu
1. GBR – Dorian Walker, Jesse Heskett, Matthew Evison and Richard Hurst
3. RUS – Valentin Chetverkin, Maksim Chulkov, Anton Danchenko and Dmitry Bryzgalov

FIG – Acro Worlds conclude with panache in Lake Buena Vista

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Here’s Great Britain. (VIDEO)