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AA JUNIORS: Two clear medals for Russia in the juniors’ competition


Dewiatkowski (rechts),
Golotsutskow (li).

As well Maxim Deviatovski as also his fellow gymnast Anton Golotsutskov were the two clear winners from Patras. In no part during the competition the other competitors could have beaten them. From the 2nd apparatus on they didn’t have any instabilities in their routines and only competed in their own Russian duel until the end of the competition. Only on the last apparatus Maxim Deviatovski managed to decide the competition in favour of himself: He presented on floor a routine with the score of 9.350 while Anton Golotsutskov only received the score of 8.725 on high bar. So only in this rotation the competition was decided by 7 tenth of a point. In the very near future these two boys will be a tremendous support of the Russian senior national team!  

Berlin’s René Piephardt today presented the best competition of his life – without any mistakes at all – he even improved his performance from the qualification! He couldn’t reach the 2 Russians who were in front of him but since the 4th apparatus René was on the 3rd place. However, all gymnasts up to rank 7 still had the chance to win the bronze medal, the difference was only about 2 tenth of a point. Even Fabian Hambüchen who was 5th after the first half of the competition only was about this difference behind “Piepe”. However, again the layout Jaeger with 1/1 turn from el-grip was a tricky point during his high bar routine and, not for the first time at this element, he fell from the bar. But Hambüchen managed to improve well on floor where he received the highest score of all competitors on this apparatus: 9.4. This secured him rank 7.
On the last apparatus it once again was a tight competition for René: After he securely nailed the landing of his layout Tsukahara dismount on high bar and received the score of 9.112 for this routine, Dmitri Savitsky form Belarus started on floor. He stepped out of bounds twice – and received the score of 9.200, but stayed the “tiny little bit” of 12 thousandths behind Piephardt:  


Piephardt

Bronze for Germany in the all-around, the last time this had happened was in 1994 (Sergej Pfeifer).

Comment from René’s coach from Berlin Jens Milbradt: “Now we both know that the last three years have been worth everything, even though they were absolutely not easy. To go through those fights, the persistence and consistency on both sides paid off in the end. I take my hat off to René who through this has proved  that in Germany there is not only Fabian Hambüchen or Waldemar Eichorn. This should also encourage other young gymnasts..!”

Eckhard Herholz
Infos: Jens Milbradt

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