Juniors,
Team results |
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ESP Jun |
25.913 |
24.350 |
22.675 |
25.200 |
98.138 |
GB Jun |
25.538 |
23.250 |
23.525 |
24.650 |
96.963 |
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Name |
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Lenika
de Simone |
8.913 |
8.475 |
8.725 |
8.200 |
34.313
(1) |
Patricia
Moreno |
8.850 |
7.925 |
7.250 |
8.850 |
32.875
(3) |
Tania
Gener |
8.700 |
7.550 |
7.350 |
8.325 |
31.925 |
Melodie
Pulgarin |
8.150 |
7.950 |
6.700 |
8.150 |
30.950 |
Sara
Alcala |
0.000 |
7.850 |
0.000 |
0.000 |
7.850 |
Name |
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Vanessa
Hobbs |
8.750 |
7.050 |
8.325 |
8.800 |
32.925
(2) |
Ashtone
Johnston |
8.375 |
7.975 |
8.150 |
8.200 |
32.700
(4) |
Melany
Roberts |
8.175 |
7.975 |
7.350 |
8.250 |
31.750 |
Helen
Gallashan |
8.413 |
7.300 |
8.025 |
7.950 |
31.688 |
Lamara
Robb |
8.450 |
7.375 |
6.950 |
7.900 |
30.675 |
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(reported by
GYMmedia correspondent York Smith):
Not a great day
for either team, nor for those gymnasts competing in the senior control
comp or as reserves for the juniors. Katy Lennon's ankle problem has
gotten worse, resulting in very watered down tumbling. Holly Murdock hurt
her back in warm ups and may have to miss europeans (I really really hope
not). Beth Tweddle and Rebecca Owen both missed vault and Beth missed bars
to rest their injuries. Caroline Gilbert and Jenna Sanders have retired.
Spain:
Started on beam with fall after fall and some very poor form from Tania
Gener in particular. She had very bent legs in her layout mount and her
layout on the beam. Melodie Pulargin did a cool tuck jump 1 1/2 and a huge
double back dismount. The only clean routine was from Lenika de Simone for
an 8.725, she mounted with a nice layout and dismount with a great double
twisting gainer. Team total - 22.675
GBR started on floor, much better than
at the trials last week. Vanessa Hobbs was best with a nailed routine for
8.8 including a huge and nailed arabian double, front to double pike and
double twisting front. Ashtone landed all her tumbles, but tucked the
front out of her 2 1/2 twist. Helen Galashan had the best line and the
best choreography, although I quite liked Nessa's Phantom routine. Total-
24.650
Spain on floor. I actually like this team's
choreography a lot more than I expected. I find their seniors too frantic
and busy, but there were nice routines from Patricia Moreno and Tania
Gener. Patricia was robbed... 8.85, disgusting. She tumbled (with pretty
solid landings) whip whip flic flic full-in, 3 1/2 twist, 2 1/2 punch
front layout, triple twist. And she had good dance and a couple of decent
jumps. She should have scored at least a 9.3 for a routine of that quality.
Melodie touched down on her full-in and under-twisted her front 2 1/2
twist. Lenika de Simone reminds me of Marta Cusido in her body type and
her twisting style.
Total- 25.2
GBR - vault
Vanessa's hristakieva was better this week, two long, high vaults for
8.75. Ashtone will hopefully twist her yurchenko at europeans, but did a
nice straight one here. Total - 25.538
Spain - vault
They defintely do spanish vault. I wouldn't say the girls were ready for
the kind of vaults they were doing. Only one Spanish girl was taller than
any members of the british team, and Patricia and Tania were slightly on
the 'too thin' side. Melodie faced two very scary DTYs for 8.150 (I'm very
dubious that her feet landed before her face on the second one). All the
others did quite flat yurchenko full-on pike offs. Not very good twists
on, the highest scoring one was Lenika's which got a 8.913 average. Total-
25.913 less than .4 ahead of GB despite a .9 cushion in start values.
GBR bars
Gotta love british judges stingy marking. Ashtone Johnstone was best on
bars. She made no mistakes today, geinger, ono linked to a healy but only
a double tuck dismount. Mel Roberts equalled her with a giant full to
geinger and an undershoot to HS. Neither broke 8 with 7.975 each. total -
23.250
Spain bars -
Not the best bars team either. Only one 8+ score, from Lenkia de Simone.
Every geinger the team did was somewhat poor technique, nothing like as
crisp as the seniors. There were also some very strangely shaped paks.
Tania Gener showed a nice stalder full on the low bar to a stalder shoot,
but they whole team struggled with the shoot moves, most muscling their
upstarts from a dead hang. Total- 24.35
GBR beam-
Vanessa Hobbs was great on beam, with a D and a C+C combo which weren't
there last week! She could be great on this piece if she works at it. She
used a switch side leap to shushunova 1/2, switch leap to chen, flic
layout, free walkover and a double twist dismount. She has also had a side
somie, arabian, front somie and a popa on the side in her routine. 8.325.
Ashtone was solid, but a little slow in a couple of connections for 8.150.
Helen Galashan had a great line a landed a nice 2 1/2 dismount for 8.025.
Total- 23.525
The actual totals, had they taken the best
3 scores, rather than the ones from the nominated gymnasts would have been
slightly higher, GB only .9 rather than 1.1 behind Spain, GBR 98.688. ESP
99.513.
Others:
Becky Owen did a nice bars for a nasty score. She was also very very
stable on beam for an 8.8, she missed her tuck back after her w-jump full
and probably didn't get the bonus for the chen after her front, but was
good nonetheless. On floor she landed a her tumbles well for a 9.025. Beth
Tweddle hit beam, strange but true
She was much more stable on her jumps and leaps. Bit of a weird landing
from her 2 1/2 twist dismount though. On floor she really needs to stick a
punch front after her double arabian, as she rebounded out of the floor
from it. She has a nice new middle-eastern style routine, which I prefer
to her last one. Sam Bayley was there watching with her dad and her coach,
she is on the roster on the Europeans website, so I hope she goes. GBR
would probably have been closer to or beaten Spain with her SV firepower.
Nicola Willis was also there watching and seemed in pretty good spirits.
Holly was a great supporter for the team, making a lot of noise for the
other girls.
On a side note, the fab Eva Rueda was a
judge for the Spanish delegation. I watched 89 worlds last week so it was
a cool coincidence.
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(from our
GYMmedia correspondent York Smith) |
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