Gymnastics – International Women’s Day

In 2023 one of the top Olympic women’s sports is Gymnastics. One of the few domains where males are the minority.

Increasingly, leadership has been taken over by women. A good trend.

I’d say the most successful competitive division of WAG in the world is not FIG, but rather NCAA. And Utah led the way in making the College sport so big in the eyes of the general public.

Congratulations to all the ladies in Gymnastics on #progress. And thanks to Utah for building the sport.

Jr Worlds preview – Antalya (TUR)

Despite the earthquake hundreds of miles away, FIG kept the 2nd annual Junior WAG & MAG World Championships in Antalya, Türkiye as scheduled.

29 March-2 April, 2023

Olympic Champion Kyle Shewfelt recently called again for minimum age for Senior women to be raised to 18 — same as for MAG.

If that were to happen, Jr Worlds would be of even greater importance. And safeguards would need to be put in place to reduce instances of over-training of young children.

The first FIG Junior World Championships, held in Györ (HUN) in 2019, heralded future champions, including Tokyo 2020 Olympic Balance Beam champion Guan Chenchen (CHN), two-time World Uneven Bars champion Wei Xiaoyuan (CHN), 2022 World team champion Skye Blakely (USA), Olympic medallists Jennifer Gadirova (GBR) and Kitazono Takeru (JPN), and World medallists Kayla Di Cello (USA), Doi Ryosuke (JPN), and Illia Kovtun (UKR).

Meet the gymnasts who will compete at the Artistic Gymnastics Junior Worlds!

Note that we only have nominative registrations at this point. FINAL teams will no doubt have many changes.

Hezly Rivera – Beam

Jayla Hang is kinda good 😀

Jayla‘s from Pacific Reign Gymnastics in WA State.

Hezly Rivera and Jayla automatically qualified to the Jr World Championships 2023.

https://twitter.com/intlgymnast/status/1633153130442416128

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

U.S. Jr Worlds Teams

At the final trial:

🇺🇸 55.200 Hezly Rivera
🇺🇸 53.150 Izzy Stassi
🇺🇸 52.750 Kieryn Finnell
🇺🇸 52.600 Jayla Hang

Highest placing Canadian 🇨🇦 at the friendly dual meet was
50.250 – Cristella Brunetti-Burns.

NCAA rankings as of March 7th

If the season ended today, here are the top 4 teams at Regionals. All with NQS 197 and higher.

See the constantly updated rankings on GymCastic.

Russian Irina Viner banned for 2 years

Viner has been so controversial for so many decades, I wasn’t instantly sure why she was banned.

Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation President Irina Viner has been banned by the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) for two-years for her behaviour following the Olympic Games in Tokyo when Israel’s Linoy Ashram beat Dina Averina to the gold medal in the individual event and Bulgaria won the group event. …

The punishment will not begin until one day after Russia’s current ban from international competition …

Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation President banned for two years after Tokyo 2020 protest
Irina Viner is believed to be a close friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and introduced him to his mistress, Olympic rhythmic gymnastics gold medallist Alina Kabaeva 

Cassie St Clair – Kas + 1/2

Cool vault. Stuck.

Western Michigan University.

Michigan State is awesome

After the Nassar scandals. After getting rid of coach Kathie Klages.

MSU set their program record score.

Giorgia Villa – Bars