The competition for the European all-around crown of the modern men's artistic gymnastics today ruled the top favorite and Rissian local hero David Beliavsky in an impressive competition for themselve.
The only one of the top quartet he could increase towards the qualifying competition. With 89.799 points he referred to the British best of preliminaries Max WHITLOCK (89.106) finished second, while the strongest rival on the title, the Ukrainian Oleg VERNIAIEV in the last rotation on pmmel  horse too much risked descent...

The 34th WOMEN's Artistic Gymnastics European Championships 2013, - the 5th since 2005 as so-called "Individual ECh", began this morning in the Great Hall of the Olympic Sports Complex in Moscow with the qualifying rounds.
After completion of the preliminary fights, there was the expected dominance of Romanian gymnasts larisa Iordache and Diana Bulimar and the Russian hosts, with Anastasia Grishina, Aliya Mustafina and Ksenia Afanasieva.
Best on vault was the Swiss Giulia Steingruber and a strong impression...