The junior British women recently won team gold at a four-way international meet against Germany, Italy and Brazil at Pipers Vale Gymnastics Club in Ipswich / Great Britain. The British team of Lucy Stanhope, Georgia-Mae Fenton, Alice Kinsella, Maisie Methuen, Abigail Solari and Latalia Bevan took the title with a score of 212.500 ahead of Germany in silver (212.150), Italy in bronze (211.800) and Brazil in 4th (208.250).
Best in individual all-around was Martina Maggio (54,60)...
Europe's except gymnast, the European champion and winners of the Ist European Games Oleg VERNIAEV (UKR) provided at the Universiade 2015 in Gwangju, Korea, for the most outstanding performance, winning superior with the sensational super score of 92.075 (!) points his next top all-around final and referred its main Japanese rivals Shogo NONOMURA (89.275) and Akash MODI (USA; 88.300) on the medal places. The sixth-placed in qualifying Fabian Hambuechen (GER) had renounced the aa final because of...
After the Opening Ceremony of the I. European Games 2015 in Baku/AZE on Fridy, June 12, also gymnasts of five different disciplines took place at this continental premiere up to the final day, Sunday June 21:
→ Artistic Gymnastics (men/women, teams & individual), which finished Saturday, June 20 already with the final events
→ Rhythmic Gymnastics (ind. & groups), → Trampoline (ind. & synchro),
→ Aerobic and → Acrobatic gymnastics.
Russia's Aliya MUSTAFINA won the first ever artistic gymnastics European Games all-around title!
Aliya Mustafina showed their dominance in this all-around final, both taking the lead in the second rotation and not letting go. Mustafina was outclassed on vault by Giulia Steingruber (SUI) but took the lead with a 15.500 for a gorgeous uneven bars routine. Her beam exercises was solid, except for a big hesitation on her side aerial. On floor she showed a double layout but...
In the moment Ukraine's European all-around champion Oleg VERNIAIEV was unbeatable: Once again he broke through the point's barrier of 90 as the only one athlete and won the all-around gold medal of the 1st European Games 2015 in Baku with a score of 90,332. But at the final day, he was qualified for five finals but he had power enough for the victory at one apparatus: He won gold at vault, but no more medal.
Second...