Ostrava Quals

The Ostrava World Cup was held yesterday...the qualification round. Canada, Ukraine and many more were in the mix. Let's see the results for the event finals today:


Vault

1. Valeriia Maksyuta
2. Nastassia Marachkouskaya
3. Volha Makhoustova
4. Teja Belak
5. Tina Maddie Larsen
6. Angelina Kysla
7. Alina Fomenko
8. Joanna Litewka

Bars

1. Marta Pihan-Kulesza
2. Kristiyna Palesova
3. Bianca Dancose
4. Gabriela Janik
5. Barbara Gasser
6. Natalia Kononenko
7. Elisa Hammerle
8. Angelina Kysla

Beam

1. Katarzyna Jurkowska
2. Yana Demyanchuck
3. Bianca Dancose
4. Kristiyna Palesova
5. Sasa Golob
6. Nastassia Marachkouskaiya
7. Valeriia Maksuita
8. Barbara Gasser

Floor

1. Angelina Kysla
2. Elisa Hammerle
3. Valeriia Maksuita
4. Alina Fomenko
5. Maddie Larsen
6. Nika Janova
7. Katarzyna Jurkowsa
8. Kristiyna Palesova

Marta Pihan only scored 4.725 meaning that she might on been injured? I haven't seen any footage of the competition,so I'm not sure if she has. 

If she has, Vasilliki Millousi will take her spot in the bars final.

SHELGUNOVA TAKES TOP GYM!

A few days ago, the TopGym Gymnastics Tournament for the younger generation of gymnastics was held. After a great round, Yevgenia Shelgunova took the Gold medal for Russia. She scored a 14.65 for the vault. Italy's Alessia Leolini won the silver medal. Shallon Ohlsen, the young Canadian with a huge gymnastics talent, rose to 3rd with a 15.05 vault score.

HUANG VICTORIOUS

There wasn't any surprises that Chinese star Huang Qiushuang would take the title. Huang had won the DTB Pokal all-around event prior to the Tokyo competition.


Starting with vault, Huang pulled out a cracking DTY nearlly sticking it giving her a 14.933. Second highest scorer for vault was 10th place World AA finisher Nadine Jarosch. Kim Bui managed a 14.733! Kim has been great all year round!


Moving to the piece that is so hard physically, Uneven Bars.
Again, Huang was the top scorer on the Unevens with 14.633. No other girl could managed to score in the 14s, which meant second place went to Kim Bui. In 3rd, Mary-Ann Monckton.


To the event that is mentally impossible? Beam
It was a close beam top and second but again Huang Qiushuang pulled out all the stops to have the highest score and score in the 14s. Yu Minobe was the 2nd highest scorer with 14.2. Mary-Anne Monckton again was in the top 3.


Dance and Tumbling is the key to Floor success.


Huang Qiushuang won floor!


She's been truly great throughout the whole competition and therefore deserves the win.


Congratulations Huang!


Not only are you Tokyo Cup winner but you are 'Gymnast of the week'!

NANNING 2014!

The FIG have announced that the 2014 World Gymnastics Championships are going to Nanning, China. It was reported that Nanning was the only bidder but the announcement was 6 months late with additional negotiations. The event is scheduled for the 3-12th of October! Surprisingly, This is only China's second Worlds, following the 1999 Tianjin Worlds. 


The event is being held at the Guanxi Sports Center!

CHINESE CHAMPS:)

Hong Kong was the stage for the Chinese Individual Championships. No Teams just the girls and boys doing it for themselves. The Hong Kong National Team was also included in the event.

The All-around competition went to 2009 World Beam Champion Deng Linlin. Deng only competed a 1/1 (full) twisting yurchenko on vault but it was enough to secure her Gold. Huang Huidan was the second place finisher. Chen Shiuhua won the bronze medal. 

In the women's vault, National Champion Li Yiting showed that she wasn't ready to give her Champion Vault title away yet, blowing the field away with a 14.613 Average. Angel Wong couldn't answer to that level of Vaulting but still managed to get a Silver medal on home turf! 2010 Pacific Rim Vault Finalist Jiang Tong won the Bronze!

Peiru, an upcoming junior, manged to pull out an amazing 14.925 Bars set and she also blew away the field. Huidan was hot on her heels but 14.650 is still a great score for silver! Xiao Kangjun, the Universiade competitor, was the bronze medalist.

In Beam, 

1. Huang Huidan

1. Feng Xiao

3. Xie Biying

Floor,

1.Deng Linlin

2. Lou Nina

3. Li Shanshan

Shame for Angel Ying Wong who placed 4th. :'( 

MARSEILLE MASS!

The Massila Cup was the most exciting Gym event this week, I would say.


Russians, French, Canadians, Belgians and more were all here!


In the teams,


Russia stormed to victory (not surprisingly) above France in second. The Canadian girls pulled out a Bronze medal performance.


In the all-around, It was the golden girl Viktoriya Komova who took the gold medal. I haven't seen any coverage but I've heard she performed a cracking beam set! Anyway, It was the Victoria's day because Victoria Moors, an uprising Canadian, managed to get a silver medal all-around. Breaking the chain, was Australia's Emily Little. She had a rough time at the DTB AA but not here. Bronze.


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GYMNAST OF THE WEEK RETURNS:)

Since, The World Gymnast moved to Blogger, we haven't done Gymnast of the week. I've decided that I must do it as we need to reward talent to International Gymnasts. A Gymnast could be Gymnast of the Week by winning a recent meet, coming back after injury or something else but it has to be recent.(1-2 weeks.)


I've decided to give the first 'GYMNAST OF THE WEEK' to THI HA PHAN OF VIETNAM!


As we all know, Vietnam isn't a huge nation in Gymnastics and they aren't up their with other countries but the good thing is, the gymnasts from the lower countries will fight until they get a medal on the World stage and start putting their country on the map. I think that Thi Ha is a perfect example of exactly that. She won the Gold at last year's Porto World Cup on vault but she was still hungry for more!


October 2011, The World Gymnastics Championships, the 2nd biggest World Gymnastics' event. With a great qualifying round, Thi Phan had managed to advance to the Final of the Vault, A first for any Vietnamese Gymnast. 


In the event final, she showed her lovely Handspring Rudi and 1 1/2 and landed in the Bronze medal position, also a first for any Vietnamese gymnast.


Recently, the Sea Games was held and she also stormed to victory on vault and also medaled with compatriot Thi Ngan Thoung Do, the 2008 Olympian, in the all-around.


Thi deserves this the most for this fortnight's work!


KEEP UP THE EXCELLENT WORK THI!

YVETTE MOSHAGE INJURY!

Yvette Moshage, a double representative at World Championship Level for the Netherlands, hurt herself on her beam dismount at this weekend's DTB Pokal Cup. An update in De Telegraf Telesport said that Moshage has had an MRI on her knee. There was too much fluid to have the correct extent of the inju
ry. 


I hope she has a quick recovery<3

12 YEAR OLD DOUBLE TWISTING DLO!

Simone Biles from Austin,TX has managed a double twisting double lay on tumbling! Into the pit, OF COURSE! It;s amazing:)


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HOLY FUJIII!

Japan's Yui Fujiii has completed a quintuple spin on beam. I know, you must be thinking 'HOLY CRAP!' But we've got video coverage!<3

Yesh! That's it! I <3 how the girls in the background go 'wooooooaaaah!'


That's it PEEPZ:) 

MUSTY STILL NOT READY:'(!

2010 World All-around champion Aliya Mustafiyna was scheduled to compete at the weekend's 'DTB Cup' in Stuttgart, Germany but had to pull out but her team still managed to go on and win the gold medal. Musty was on the roster for a competition in December in Mexico. The facebook page for the event has the line up but Mustafina doesn't appear. Instead, 2011 Floor World Champion Kseniia Afanaseva will take her place.


Here is the full line up;


Female

1. Kseniia Afanseva
2. Lauren Mitchell
3. Ana Porgras
4. Tan Sixin
5. Mai Yamagishi
6. Yessenia Estrada
7. Lexa Moreno

Male

1. Sergey Khorkokhorodin
2. Daniel Purvis
3. Rafael Martinez
4. Marius Berbecar
5. Liao Qiuhua
6. Masahiro Yoshida
7. Jorge Hugo Geraldo
8. Danell Leyva
9. Daniel Corral
10. Santiago Lopez

DTB TEAM FINALS!

Well! There was lot's of thrills and spills from the bits I saw of the TF at DTb Stuttgart! 


Russia won the event eventually, Yulia Inshina, Alyena Polan and Yulia Belo. The Australian camp were the second place winners. Lauren Mitchell did a great floor routine but she was most certainly flirting with the lines. Fortunately, the amount of times she did, she only landed on the line and she had already jumped out of the tumble! The Dutch were one girl down after the final rotation as Yvette Moshage had an awful landing and twisted her body to the ground. It look very painful! I also saw a stretcher on the sidelines. Yulia Belokobylskaya, from what I saw, was good. She had a nice bar set but It wasn't the hardest. Nikki Chung, unfortunately fell on her double pikes. On double somi falling subjects, I was upset to see Pia Tolle have a great routine then fall and only get 11.95.
She did have some lovely connections. 

DTB VID!

I'm so happy! I managed to find DTB Cup coverage on youtube. Thanks to GutsuFan, I'll show some of the routines. It's as amazing because Eli Seitz is in the commentary box!




Giulia Steingruber's vault scoring a whooping 15.2

Beautiful vault from Nadine Jarosch.

Bui's Handspring 1/2

Huang's 15.2 Bar Set

Bui's 14 bars set

Mitchell's Set

Huang Beam.

Nadine Jarosch

Marlies Rijken

Lauren Mitchell. Fell on her connection!

Yulia Inshina

Kim Bui.

Marlies Rijken

Nadine Jarosch

Em Little

Lauren Mitchell

Giulia.

Yulia Inshina

Huang Qiushuang(winner)

Thanks!


Credit to GutsuFan. See all the videos, on their channel!

QIUSHUANG VICTORIOUS!

Chinese Gymnast Huang Qiushuang has had an on-off sort of year this year but gladly she won the Women's all-around competition in the DTB Stuttgart World Cup. Huang was 3rd after the first subdivision. Giulia Steingruber was the highest scorer. But, Huang put that behind her and managed a whooping 15.2 bar set, giving her the lead at the half way mark. The closest score to match her's was Kim Bui's 14.033. Over to the shaky beam, Huang won the highest score also with 14.533. Yulia Inshina was right on her toes but wasn't close enough with 14.2. Moving, too the final event, Huang had achieved two highest scores and was in the lead. All that was required was an OKAY? set. She scored 13.966, not world class but she had done enough to secure her gold medal. It was a closely fought battle on floor with Bui receiving 13.6.

Well Done Huang!

The IntlGymnast has written that the team final event will be taking place today, meaning all those calculations I did won't be needed as their isn't en EF's! Aaah well! Lieke Wevers would have done amazing, she was in 3!

Remember to visit Steph's channel!

SWEDISH TEAM TAKES TEAMS & AA!

Yesterday, it was the Northern Euro's. Not the huge names of the European continent but Gymnastics didn't disappoint. The Swedish team won the team event. Their team was made up of Ida Rothe, Ida Gustaffson, Kim Singmuang, Jonna Adlerteg and Lovista Estberg. 4.5 points below, was the WELSH TEAM. Made from Lizzie Beddoe, Jessica Hogg, Georgie Hockenhull, Hollie Moore and Kiera Brennan. No Angel or Venus? Raer? Iceland was the third place finishing team. Dominiqua Belanyi, Thelma Hermansdottir, Agnes Suto, Hildur Olafssdottir and Freyja Josephsdottir. 


In the all-around event, Sweden wouldn't give away their top spot status away. They went one and two with Gustaffson and Singmuang. Kim had the highest vault score (13.4). Ida had the highest bar score (13.25). Kiera Brennan went away with the highest beam (12.85) and the highest floor scorer was a tie against the two Swedes.