Friday 18 November 2011

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!

Tuesday 15 November 2011

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

Monday 14 November 2011

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

Sunday 13 November 2011

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.