Elite Canada Gymnastics FINALS

Vault
Briannah Tsang 13.850 1
Ellie Black 13.600 2
Eliane Kulczy 13.475 3

Bars
Madeline Gardiner 13.200 1
Talia Chiarelli 13.150 2
Ti Liu Gymnix, 13.100 3

Beam
Madeline Gardiner 14.500 1
Christine Peng Peng Lee 14.250 2
Miranda Meyer 13.550 3

Floor
Mikaela Gerber 14.150 1
Christine Peng Peng Lee 13.850 2-T
Jessica Savona 13.850 2-T

Oakville sweeps the podium on Floor. Who’s the tumbling coach?

full results (PDF)

Once again, congratulations on the comeback to Peng Peng.

unique skills – Flair on Bars

I doubt this was ever repeated.

Charlotte Pipe from Seneca Gymnastics in Canada. (1988)

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Thanks betweentheolympics.

Leyva wins Liukin Invite

The Cuban-born Leyva, who trains at Universal Gymnastics in Florida, hit six clean events to take the title over Japan’s Sho Yokoyama and Jumpei Oka. He took the top score of the night on parallel bars (smooth Diamidov with an extra half pirouette) and was second on pommel horse and high bar. …

1. Danell Leyva 90.950
2. Sho Yokoyama 90.250
3. Jumpei Oka 88.550

For all results and commentary click through to IG – Leyva Wins 15th Valeri Liukin Invitational

Shallon Olsen … and the rest

In the youngest division of the Elite Canada competition, Shallon finished a Canadian mile (km.) ahead of the rest of the strong field. Congratulations.

I’ll post routines when they become available.

1. Shallon Olsen 118.70
2. Rose-Kalam Woo 111.80
3. Brianna Clark 111.15

full results (PDF)

Note: Combined results from 2 days are used for AA & event award

Shallon Olsen, Elite Canada Novice Champ

All the GraceClick photos will be posted on GraceClick.ca soon. Grace Chiu is actually JUDGING this competition, so there may be some delay in those photos getting posted.

Toyota Cup – Finals day 2

Beam
1.Lauren Mitchell 15.200
2.Aliya Mustafina 15.150
3.Sui Lu 14.975

More hardware for Lauren Mitchell. She’s competed non-stop since Worlds with no apparent problems.

DELHI, INDIA - OCTOBER 08: Lauren Mitchell of Australia celebrates winning the gold medal on the bar at IG Sports Complex during day five of the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games on October 8, 2010 in Delhi, India. (Photo by Julian Finney/Getty Images)

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Go home and celebrate Christmas!

Floor
1.Aliya Mustafina 14.625
1.Sui Lu 14.625
3.Jiang Yuyuan 14.175

… the co-winners both hit beautifully, but Mustafina took an out-of-bounds deduction

Vault
1.Thomas Bouhail 16.375
2.Denis Ablyazin 16.175
3.Koji Yamamuro 16.150

Uchimura fell on double front, showing he is actually human.

P Bars
1.Kazhuito Tanaka 15.650
2.Feng Zhe 15.200
3.Emin Garibov 15.050

H Bar
1.Zhang Chenglong 15.975
2.Kohei Uchimura 15.875
3.Paul Ruggieri 15.750

Uchimura hit. But long Zhang, with at higher D score, wins anyway. He really is the man to beat on this apparatus right now.

ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS - OCTOBER 24: Chenglong Zhang of China competes in the High Bar during the Apparatus Final of the 42nd Artistic Gymnastics World Championships at Ahoy on October 24, 2010 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. (Photo by Jamie McDonald/Getty Images)

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Full results on THE ALL AROUND. More commentary on Gymnastics Examiner.

Kudos to Paul Ruggeri. Two medals.

Victoria Moors wins Jr Elite Canada

Victoria Moors topped the field at … junior Elite Canada. Vivi Babalis placed second, with Jordyn Petersen rounding out the podium.

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Victoria Moors, Jr. Elite Canada Champion

Steph Davis – extreme psychology

Steph Davis is an American rock climber, BASE jumper and wingsuit flyer. …

A new video is getting wide circulation. Another insane wingsuit edit, unique to this one is how calm Steph is when her parachute tangles. No wonder she was able to free climb El Capitan.

Click PLAY or watch it on Vimeo.

http://vimeo.com/16551940

How does this woman control her emotions so easily?

Can it be trained? … Or was she born this way?

She divorced Dean Potter, incidentally.

original gymnastics skills / combos

GymnasticsHVmeets posted a long series of clips mostly from the 1970s to 1990s.

Back when originality was valued in our sport.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (15min)

Peng Peng Lee interview

Her goal was top 10.

Competing for the first time in more than two years, 17-year-old Peng Peng Lee of Toronto stepped back into the limelight as one of Canada’s most promising young gymnasts with a remarkable victory in the women’s all around event at the Elite Canada meet on December 10, 2010 in Gatineau, Quebec

Click PLAY or watch Peng Peng on YouTube.

(via Oakville Gymnastics Club)

Toyota Cup – Finals day 1

Vault
1.Aliya Mustafina 14.287
2.Rie Tanaka 14.050
3.Ekaterina Kurbatova 14.037

Bars
1.Jiang Yuyuan 15.475
2.Anna Dementyeva 14.375
3.Yu Minobe 14.250

Mustafina two falls.

Floor
1.Kohei Uchimura 15.650
2.Daniel Purvis 15.200
3.Paul Ruggieri 15.175

Pommel
1.Louis Smith 15.600
2.Chang Ju Ha 15.000
3.Kenya Kobayashi 14.975

Sellathurai fell

Rings
1.Yan Mingyong 15.825
2.Koji Yamamuro 15.550
3.Denis Ablyazin 15.250

read more on THE ALL AROUND – Toyota Cup closes gym year

The greatest all-around gymnast of all time.