Commonwealth Games 2014

Australia have announced their Commonwealth Games teams:

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Naoya Tsukhara - MAG
Lauren Mitchell - WAG

WAG

Lauren Mitchell
Larissa Miller
Olivia Vivian
Mary Anne Monckton
Georgia Rose Brown

MAG

Naoya Tsukahara
Jayden Bull
Luke Wadsworth
Michael Mercieca
Mitchell Morgans

2014 Sofia European Men's and Women's Artistics Gymnastics Championships

Results: Individual Event Finals - Men Senior

Photos: Rings and High Bar

Floor Exercise - Russia's Ablyazin won each event final he competed in (floor, rings and vault). On floor Ablyazin had the highest difficulty, and good execution to score 15.700. Greece's Kosmidis scored 15.533 to win silver. There was a tie for the bronze medal between Purvis (GBR) and Shatilov (ISR).

Pommel Horse - Whitlock (GBR) won Great Britain's only gold medal of the senior event finals: he scores a massive 16.166 to take gold on pommel horse beating Olympic champion Berki (HUN). Slovenia's Bertoncelj won the bronze medal.  “I’m happy with the result and most of all with my score on pommel horse; I understand it is the highest so far in the competition. We have trained very hard for this championships.” said Whitlock.

Rings - Ablyazin tied for gold on rings with his teammate Balandin. France's Ait Said won bronze. 

Vault - On vault Ablyazin had the highest difficulty of the entire field. Ukraine's Radivilov and Verniaiev won silver and bronze.

Parallel Bars -  Verniaiev (UKR) was first up on parallel bars and produced a fabulously executed and difficult routine. Nobody came close to beating him. Russia's Belyavskiy was second and Zonderland won the bronze.

High Bar - Olympic Champion Epke Zonderland (NED) easily won high bar after big rival Hambuechen fell. Zonderland scored 15.866, a full point more than silver medalist Sam Oldham (GBR) and bronze medalist Kristian Thomas (GBR).

Congratulations to all, gymnasts, coaches and officilals.

Results: All-Around Final Junior Friday May 23

2014 Sofia European Men's and Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships

1 WILSON Nile - GB

2 STARIKOV Valentin - RUS

3 BEVAN Brinn - GB

4 CORADI Sascha Alexander - SUI

5 LANDUYT - BEL

6 KHACHATRYAN - ARM

7 DEGOUY Paul - FRA

8 BARTOLINI Nicola - ITA

Congratulation to all the gymnasts.

Help and support Serbia

Serbia is fighting a hard battle against the disasterus floods in the country. The enormous amount of water leaves nothing on its path, causing massive damage and taking lives. Cities such as Obrenovac, Sabac, Sremska Mitrovica, Kostolac, Svilajnac and Jagodina are fighting desperately to survive. In these difficult moments all citizens of Serbia and the international communityare making every effort to help the people from the damaged areas.

An international appeal to help Serbia has already been launched and many famous elite athletes from all over the world have demonstrated their support.

We hope that International Gymnastics Community could also join the big effort to help Serbia in this difficult moment. Whatever you can do would be much appreciated!

Information about how to help can be found on the following addresses:www.floodrelief.gov.rs and www.redcross.org.rs

P.S. After many years Serbia has finally succeeded to put together and to take part in the European Men’s Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Sofia with both Junior and a Senior Team.

2014 Sofia European Men's and Women's Artistics Gymnastics Championships

Men's JuniorTeam - Results:

The battle  for the medals was a two nation competition with Great Britain determined to win their fourth consecutive European Junior Team Title, but a very impressive Russian squad had their eyes on the top prize too. GBR showed tremendous consistency and experience on the first five apparatus, while Russia impressed with their clean classic lines.

Britain managed to stay within 0.2 of the strong Russians on the first event, then continued to pull ahead throughout the competition giving themselves a 2.69 lead heading into the final apparatus, the pommel horse. Two uncharacteristic falls on the Britain’s best apparatus, put a bit of a damper on their mood, however the Russians could not catch up even after all the four gymnast in the team have hit their routines on the same event.

Great Britain takes the Team Gold for the fourth consecutive time following Lausanne, 2008; Birmingham, 2010 and Montpellier, 2012 (254.094). The Russians took the Silver (252.395) and France was thrilled to claim the Bronze Medal (246.194).

“I’m feeling very emotional. That means a lot to us and everything to me. We put a lot of time into it and we worked harder than any other nation to be the best team in Europe. Everything comes from preparation and practice. We stick to our plan and this gives us a competition spirit. The plan is to win the gold medal for a decade!” ( Barry Collie, National Coach of Great Britain )

Congratulations to all teams !

2014 European Men's and Women's Artistics Gymnastics Championships

Individual Event Results WAG Senior.

Larisa Iordache from Romania was voted as the most attractive gymnast in the Women`s European Championships in Sofia. Challengers for the title were also Vanessa Ferrari (ITA), Guilia Steingruber (SUI), Claire Martin (FRA), Aliya Mustafina (RUS), Catherine Lyons (GBR).

Vault
STEINGRUBER Giulia SUI - 14.666
PAVLOVA Anna AZE 1 - 14.583
IORDACHE Larisa Andreea ROU - 14.533

Uneven Bars DOWNIE Rebecca GBR - 15.500
MUSTAFINA Aliya RUS - 15.266
SPIRIDONOVA Daria - 14.966

Balance Beam
KHARENKOVA Maria RUS - 14.933
IORDACHE Larisa Andreea ROU - 14.800
MUSTAFINA Aliya RUS - 14.733

 Floor Exercise
FERRARI Vanessa ITA  -14.800
IORDACHE Larisa Andreea ROU - 14.800
STEINGRUBER Giulia SUI - 14.500  

Congratulations to all

Condolence to former rhythmic gymnastics champion of Greece

The international community of gymnastics mourn the loss of former rhythmic gymnastics champion Anna Pollatou (photo GRE), who was killed in a car crash on the Patras - Pyrgos highway in the afternoon of Saturday, May 17th. She was 30 years old.

Anna Pollatou was born on October 8th 1983 in Kefalonia and started her career at the AGS Eptanison gymnastics club. She stood out for her talent and got to become a member of the most successful group in the history of Greek rhythmic gymnastics. As a part of the group which aptly got the nickname ‘the golden girls’ by the Greek media, Pollatou won two gold and one silver medal at the 1999 World Championships in Osaka, as well as three gold medals at the 1999 European Championships in Budapest. One year later, she added to her tally the precious bronze medal at the Sydney Olympic Games, thus concluding a great career.

Pollatou officially retired in 2001, with just 17 years of age, but never got too far from the sport she adored. She constantly served as an ambassador for the annual Gymnastics for All International Festival of her island, Kefalonia, and during the last years she worked as a coach at Megara, trying to provide the Greek gymnastics with a young generation of champions.

The Malaysiagym blog  and Arbakgym Malaysia express sympathies and deep condolences to the Family, Friends and to the Hellenic Gymnastics Federation. 

2014 - European Men's and Women's Artistics Gymnastics Championships

Individual Event Finals - Results

The last day of the women’s tournament starts with the junior women’s event finals. The first eight qualifiers compete individually on each apparatus: vault, uneven bars, beam and floor. Russia, Romania and Great Britain are the teams with more medals in this finals.

Vault results

1. Downie (GBR) 14,633 (14,933-14,333)

2. Jurca (ROU) 14,383 (14,766-14,000)

3. Tinkler (GBR) 14,349 (14,733-13,966)

Uneven bars results

1. Skrypnik (RUS) 14,833

2. Melnikova (RUS) 14,766

3. Enderle (GER) 14,500

Beam results  

1. Melnikova (RUS) 14,575

2. Iridon (ROU) 14,433

3. Alt (GER) 14,200

Floor results

1. Lyons (GBR) 14,033

2. Tinkler (GBR) 13,966

2. Iridon (ROU) 13,966

Romania and Great Britain tie second place on Floor Exercise.

Congratulations to all.

FIG World Challenge Cup 2014

FIG World Challenge Cup will be held in Anadia ( PORTUGAL ) on May 29 - Jun , 2014.

Schedule:

Wednesday May 28, 2014
Training
Orientation Meeting

Thursday May 29, 2014
Qualification I MAG and WAG

Friday May 30, 2014
Qualification II MAG and WAG

Saturday May 31, 2014
Finals I MAG and WAG

Sunday June 1, 2014
Finals II MAG and WAG

2014 Sofia European Men's and Women's Artistic Gymnastics

Team Championships -

Women’s Senior

Romania successfully retained the European team title today. in commanding fashion. They commanded  on all events except the  uneven bars. Great Britain  silver and  Russia, who last won the team title in 2010 in Birmingham, had to settle for third place.

Germany, fourth. Italy had a rough competition and finished in fifth place, Spain sixth, with  Belgium Seventh and Switzerland, eighth position.

WAG Team Results

Romania -  172.754

Great Britain -170.663

Russian Federation - 169.329

Germany - 166.796

Italy - 161.488

Spain - 160.921 

Belgium - 160.397

Switzerland  - 160.397

2014 Sofia European Men's and Women's Artistics Gymnastics Championships

Individual All Around Finals Women’s Junior

Russian junior Angelina Melnikova continued Russia's dominant performance today, 16 May, in the junior women's Individual All-Around final. With a score of 57.107, Second place went to Romania's Laura Jurca (55.698). Ellie Downie of Great Britain(14-year-old ) won the bronze medal, the first junior all-around medal for British Gymnastics, with a score of (55.332).

Catherine Lyons, also a member of the British team, fourth place (55.231
German junior Maike Enderle, ending in fifth place with a score of 54.498.and Seda Tutkhalyan, the Russian gymnast placed sixth with 53.932,she made costly mistakes on the uneven bars and balance beam. And eight place was His Loan from France with 53.898 points.

Individual All Around Finals Women’s Junior Results

1 MELNIKOVA Angelina RUS
2 JURCA Laura ROU
3 DOWNIE Elissa GBR
4 LYONS Catherine GBR
5 ENDERLE Maike GER
6 IRIDON Andreea ROU
7 TUTKHALYAN Seda RUS
8 HIS Loan FRA

pic: Angelina Melnikova RUS

2014 Sofia European Men's and Women's Artistics Gymnastics Championships

Russia with BONDAREVA Maria, DMITRIEVA Anastasiia, MELNIKOVA Angelina,  SKRYPNIK Daria and TUTKHALYAN Seda, wins again.

Junior Team Result.

Russian Federation ­  168.262
Great Britain ­  165.005
Romania ­  164.972
Germany ­  161.297Italy ­  160.036  
Belgium ­  160.029  

 Congratulations to all !!!

FIG Age Group Development Camp - Malaysia

A memorable evening at the Palace of The Golden Horses, Kuala Lumpur, with FIG expert Jeff Thomson.

Jeff at the FIG Age Group Development Camp for Malaysia on May 10 – 13, 2014.

Bon Voyage.

2014 European Gymnastics Championships, Sofia, Bulgaria.

At the first day of the Sofia Women European Artistic Gymnastic Championships , the junior women come into action today.

Each country can have 5 junior gymnasts in the team, of which 4 compete at each apparatus. The best 3 scores count for the results. Junior women are born in 1999 and 2000. 36 countries present gymnasts, 26 of them have a complete team.

Schedule of the day - 14th of May 2014
Subdivision 1 - 10h00 : Israël, Hungary, Slovenia, Denmark, Azerbeijan, Belarus, Austria and Ireland.
Subdivision 2 - 12h10 : Georgia, Luxembourg, Bulgaria, Norway, Spain, Lithuania, Cyprus, Finland, Belgium, Sweden and Slovakia.
Subdivision 3 - 15h20 : Iceland, Portugal, Latvia, Croatia, Czech republic, Turkey, Greece, Poland and Switzerland
Subdivision 4 - 17h30 : France, the Netherlands, Russia, Germany, Romania, Ukrain, Great-Britain and Italy.

pic: 

Team Italy

Team Germany

Team Russia

19h45 medal ceremony

FIG Age Group Development Camp - Malaysia

After completing an FIG Follow-up and Monitoring Camp for the Age Group Development and Competition Programme in Manila, Philippines on April 27-29 and followed immediately by one in Jakarta, Indonesia on May 1-3, 2014,Clinicians Jeff Thomson and Lilia Ortiz-Lòpez were assigned a similar camp for Malaysia on May 10 – 13, 2014.

The FIG Age Group programme includes a testing and monitoring programme for Men’s (MAG) and Women’s Artistic Gymnastics (WAG) physical abilities and technical skills as well as a complete competition programme with modified optional rules for age-group gymnasts and compulsory exercises for all ages. It also includes a variety of additional information related to developing a systematic gymnastics programme that can lead to high performance.

European Championships 2014, Sofia, Bulgaria

This year, Israel’s top gymnast, Alex Shatilov is back to defend his floor title and and with a high bar final under his belt from Moscow will hope for the High Bar final as well, Apart from Shatilov in the men’s senior competition, Israel will be represented by Andrey Medvedev and Tom Arnon.

Medvedev is a vault specialist, a recent silver medalist from the Ljubljana World Cup meet, with two explosive vaults – a tucked double front, and a Tsuk double back piked.

Netzer woman gymnast from Israel  is recovering from a torn ACL, and will stay home, hoping to be back and ready for worlds later this year. Without Netzer, and with the recent retirement of Shaked Malec, Israel is sending only one senior woman – Gaya Giladi. Giladi is an all-rounder. She has strong legs, a lot of spunk and an affinity for the floor exercise. She will use the meet to gain experience, as she is expected to vie for an Israeli ticket to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.

68th Japanese Gymnastics Championships 2014

Kohei Uchimura (KONAMI  )and Natsumi Sasada (Nippon Sport Science University) defended their all-around titles at the 68th Japanese Gymnastics Championships which concluded on Sunday 11 May 2014, at Tokyo's Yogogi Gymnasium.

Uchimura, who led after Friday's preliminaries, became the first Japanese male to win seven consecutive national titles.

The other two Japanese  legends Masao Takemoto (1947-1951, 1954-1955) and Takashi Ono (1952-1953, 1956-60) – have won seven Japanese titles, but not consecutively. 

On vault, Uchimura crashed his Randi to his hands and feet. After the fall, his routines on parallel bars and high bar won by more than a full point over Shogo Nonomura (Juntendo University ). 2013 world all-around silver medalist  and Ryohei Kato (Juntendo University )was third.

In the women's competition, Sasada topped Asuka Teramoto (Chukyo University ) by half a point,. Yuna Hiraiwa (Mitsubishi Nourished Gymnastics School ), placed third

The Japanese championships serve as a qualifier to the NHK Cup, which will decide Japan's team to the World Championships and Asian Games.

Aerobic Gymnastics Championship South Africa.

The 12th African Gymnastics Championships in Aerobic and Trampoline gymnastics took place in Walvis Bay, 27 April-02 May 2014. The Championships saw countries Algeria, Angola, Congo, Egypt, Namibia, South Africa and Tunisia participate. Africa Championship crowns went to South African gymnasts in 13 categories across juniors and seniors.

South Africa & Africa's top senior male Aerobic gymnast, Wilson Mafona, who came home with 4 gold medals at Africa Champs Namibia. The most by a South African gymnast at the Championships!

2014 Australian Gymnastics Championships

The above championships will be held at the Hisense Arena, Melbourne Park, Australia. from Wednesday 21 May – Sunday 1 June. More than 1,200 of the nation’s best gymnasts will be in action as they compete for the prestigious title of Australian National Champion in five Gymsports — Men’s and Women’s Artistic, Rhythmic, Trampoline and Acrobatic Gymnastics.

600 officials,32 sessions,over 6000 routines and that’s just the beginning…

While national titles will be the focus for most, Men’s Artistic, Women’s Artistic and Rhythmic Gymnastics athletes will also be vying for selection to the 2014 Australian Commonwealth Games Team.

FIG Age Group Developement Camp

The Malaysian Gymnastics Federation will host FIG Follow-up and Monitoring camps for the Age Group Development and Competition Programme.begining 10 - 12 May 2014 in Kuala Lumpur.

These camps are intended to assure that the FIG Age Group Development and Competition Programme is properly understood and implemented by the coaches and gymnasts of the host country. The camps are held over a three-day period under the supervision of FIG experts..


FIG experts are Jeff Thomson of Canada and Lilia Ortiz Lòpez of Mexico

EUROPEAN ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS CHAMPIONSHIPS 2014 .

The President of the European Union of Gymnastics Will Open the Continental Championship in Sofia

George Guelzec, President of the European Union of Gymnastics, will attend the opening ceremony of the European Championship for boys and men, which will be held on May 21, at 2:30 pm, at Arena Armeec in Sofia.

NOMINATIVE REGISTRATION FOR 30TH WAG AND 31ST MAG IN ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS

WAG:
155 SENIORS, 37 NATIONAL FEDERATIONS
148 JUNIORS, 36 NATIONAL FEDERATIONS

MAG:
177 SENIORS, 39 NATIONAL FEDERATIONS
150 JUNIORS, 36 NATIONAL FEDERATIONS