Cottbus Cup – day 2

Prelims.

BEAM
1. Millousi (GRE) – 14,300
2. Galuilina (UZB) – 13,950
3. Izurieta (ESP) – 13,925

FLOOR

1. Chelaru (ROU) – 14,025
2. Pegg (CAN) – 13,875
3. Menendez (ESP) – 13,525

VAULT
1. Botella (ESP) – 15,975
2. Gonzales (CHI) – 15,962
3. Kaspiarovich (BLR) – 15,925

P BARS
1. Sabot (FRA) – 15,600
2. Stepko (UKR) – 15,425
3. Nguyen (GER) – 15,400

H BAR
1. Ruggeri III (USA) – 15,725
2. Maras (GRE) – 15,200
3. Orozco (USA) – 15,175
4. Zonderland (NED) – 15,000

Epke Zonderland and Jeffrey Wammes are competing, both trying to prove they are the most deserving of the sole Olympic spot for Netherlands.

David Kenwright, Dominique Pegg, Brittany Rogers, Dave Brubaker

results (German)

better Russian Championships video

@theallaround:

Some high quality summary video from Russian Championships Team final yesterday …

Starts with Mustafina’s Bars.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

… bars routine starting from a value of 7, only the third woman of this Olympiad to achieve that (Beth Tweddle and He Kexin are the other two). …

… Aliya says that this was her first serious competition since coming back from injury. She managed to do everything she had planned, and all went well. She was not at all nervous. …

Rewriting Russian Gymnastics – Results, pictures and video links

Liz Chetkovich resigns WAIS

Executive Director of the Western Australian Institute of Sport

Steve Lawrence:

I write to advise that Liz Chetkovich has tendered her resignation from the position of WAIS Women’s Artistic Gymnastics Performance Manager. …

details on Australian Gymnastics Blog

After 24yrs, end of an era.

official announcement

Survivalist’s Guide to Compulsories

A funny post by Diana Gallagher:

March is a tough month in my state. Here, the meets are stacked up and then peter out come April. But the championships are in May, June, and you have to stay strong. …

In the beginning of the season, it’s cute to watch the kids work their way through the compulsories. There’s drama: Will she make her kip? Will she forget the floor routine? Will she accidentally start doing the Level 4 instead of the Level 5 beam routine? Will she make it over the table, although she failed in every warm-up attempt? …

read more on Couch Gymnast

Chunsong Shang – Bars

Having attended Chinese Championships in 2011, I can confirm there are dozens of excellent Bar routines there. All using the same difficulty parts: elgrip giants, elgrip Endo, Jaeger … that’s about it.

Yet here’s a fantastically exciting and varied routine.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Tweddlesque.

Unfortunately it includes the traditional Chinese poor amplitude low to high transfer.

(via American Gymnast)

Shewfelt: CHN v AUSSIE v CAN

The highlight session goes tonight at the University of Calgary. A friendly Sr. Team Invite.

CHINA
Bo Wang
Xiaodong Zhu
Xuezhang Chen
Yang Zhang

AUSTRALIA
Broday Jai Hennessey
Joshua Jefferis
Sam Offord
Thomas Pichler

CANADA
Anderson Loran
Jackson Payne
Kevin Lytwyn
Nathan Gafuik

Brandon O’Neill competing as an independent.

The women’s competition is well underway. Girls love this meet.

One of the many nice touches are tweet outs to individual athletes:


@ShewfeltGymFest Open Bars Champion from P3 Novice Emma Shewfelt of Mountain Shadows wins a new pair of grips! #ksgf2012

kyleshewfeltgymfest.com

GBR Olympic uniforms

GymNiceTic:

Stella McCartney designed all of Great Britain`s uniforms for this years Olympic Games. …:

How does this look to you?

related – Examiner – British athletes discuss 2012 Olympic ‘kit’

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. Includes Louis Smith.

Cottbus Cup – day 1

The first day of qualifications got underway Thursday at the Cottbus Challenger Cup in Cottbus, Germany, with the men competing on floor, pommel horse, and rings, and the women on vault and uneven bars. Originally scheduled for one day, the large field necessitated the addition of a second day of qualifying.


VAULT
1. Maksiuta, Valeriia ISR 14,025
2. Rogers, Brittany CAN 13,937
3. Menendez Gonzalez, Claudia ESP 13,912
4. Pegg, Dominique CAN 13,812

BARS
1. He, Kexin CHN 7,1 8,125 15,225
2. Van Gerner, Celine NED 6,0 8,125 14,125
3. Kononenko, Nataliya UKR 6,4 7,625 14,025

FLOOR
1. Boy, Philipp GER 6,2 9,050 15,250
2, Gonzalez Sepulveda, Enrique Tomas CHI 6,6 8,575 0,1 15,075
3. Whitlock, Max GBR 6,5 8,525 0,1 14,925

POMMEL
1. Keatings, Daniel GBR 6,7 8,800 15,500
2. Whitlock, Max GBR 6,6 8,750 15,350
3. Bertoncelj, Saso SLO 6,0 9,300 15,300
4. Likhovitskiy, Andrey BLR 6,4 8,900 15,300

RINGS
1. Nabarrete Zanetti, Arthur BRA 6,5 9,175 15,675
2. Chen, Yibing CHN 6,8 8,825 15,625
3. Van Gelder, Lambertus NED 6,4 8,900 15,300

Chen Yibing was bested on Rings! … How about that.

That’s from ALBERT on TAA – Cottbus Challenge Cup: Qualification Results Day 1