29th TRAMPOLINE WORLDS* At last Rosie Mac Lennan triumphed over the Chineses!

British Golden Quartet

The first decision of these 29^thTrampolin World Championships in Sofia fell on Friday evening already :
The first title went to the men's trampoline team of China, which succeeded against Russia. This dominant leadership trio put between himself and the bronze medallist (Australia ) the difference of 44 (!) points. And at last on Sunday Canada's Olympic Champion Rosannagh MACLENNAN triumphed again over the Chinese duo ZHONG, Xingping and LI, Dan, winning silver and Bronze.
In the women's team category favorite Chinese women failed to itself: Gold won here in the UK in front of Canada and Belarus.
The first two gold medals went to the men's and women's double mini tramp team of the USA. Canada won silver again behind twice and then cheered the British women about their second title in the women's synchronized competition, got themselves Katherine Driscoll and Amanda Parker beating China and the Ukraine and on men's side the Japanese Maribu YAMAGUCHI & Yasuhiro UEYAMA won the gold at the final day 2.
Highlight of the final day 1 was the men's final in the Olympic pinnacle on the trampoline : Here sat down again Olympic champion DONG Dong in front of his Chinese compatriot TU Xiao. As a representative of the younger generation, Sergei Azarian secured for Russia the bronze medal ...

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** TRA - WOMEN's INDIVIDUAL FINAL (Sunday, 10.11.)
.Also like at the 2012 Olympic Games in London Canada's "Rosie" MacLennan gave the Chinese concurrents no chance and won with the most difficult exercise (15.4) and the highest flighttime (16,285) sovereign also her very firstWorlc champion title, and let the two Chineses ZHONG and LI "only" the silver resp. bronze medal.
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* Women's Semifinal (Sunday, 10.11.: > Start list)
China, Great britain an Canda were qualified with each two gymnasts in the final of the eight best. Th final roster were completed with each gymnast from Belarus (6th) and from Ukraine (7th).
China's top star HE, Wenna as the third ranked athlete of her country didn't qualified. Already in the preliminaries Rosannagh MacLennan risk the highest difficulty (15,4) as a very good test for the upcoming final decision ... the longest fligh realized ZHONG, Xiaoping from China (16,445).
> Results, Semifinal
* GYMvideo --: "Rosie" MacLennan won her first World's title!

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** TRA MEN's INDIVIDUAL FINAL (Saturday, 09.11.)
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* The two top favorites from China, Olympic champion DONG Dong (60.795) and his compatriot TU Xiao (60.580) were the only athletes who exceeded in the 60's-border points and won gold and silver in this order.
Here, the young Russian Sergei Azarian was able to keep up with neither difficulty nor the time of flight (total 58,900) and was by far came third in this Olympic Kings class , in which four of the eight finalists came from Asia.
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* MEN's Semifinal (Saturday: > Start list)
The two Chinese TU Xiao & Dong Dong was beyond all doubt: Both with difficulty 17.1 and both with 60 total points were the best of preliminaries again. Only their compatriot GAO Lei outplayed the highest difficulty of 17.6 (!!), but lost too much in the execution note (only - 22,500) and could be as a fourth behind the Japanese Isao Masaki (because as the third Chinese) do not qualify for the final.
>> Results, Men's Semifinal

* GYMvideo --:
With this "aesthetic fragrance brand" the Olympic champion DONG Dong had already set the mark for the later victory on the final day of qualifying!

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* MEN's TRAMPOLINE SYNCHRON FINAL (Sunday, Nov 10)
Japan remains the leading power in synchronous double play on the trampoline. Won gold at the last day of Marabo YAMAGUCHI & Yasuhiro UEMURA, who laid proud +1.2 points difference between them and the all the others concurrents with total 49.200 points.
Silver went to RUSSIA II, with Mikhail MELNIK / Sergei AZARYAN, and Denmark won bronze duo Peter JENSEN / Christian ANDERSEN, clearly deposed from the rest of the final field. Belarus, China, and Australia came to no happy end to their programs ..
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WOMEN's TRAMPOLINE SYNCHRON FINAL (Saturday)
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It resembled a small sensation, but highly motivated Katherine RISCOLL & Amanda PARKER from the British gold team, beat the Chinese duo in the final: No chance for ZHONG, Xingping & LI Dan with a - 0.3 points lower of difficulty not and also the significantly higher flight times with 47,500: 47,100 total points at the end only the silver medal!
Bronze won surprisingly UKRAINE 2 with Diana KUUTCHNIK / Natalia MOSKVINA (46,700 points).
The Canadianco-favorite duo Rosannagh MacLannan with her new partner Samantha Sendel failed after an early termination and came on eighth place only ....
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* FINAL - Trampoline-Team Competition (Friday, Nov 08)
The first decision of this Worlds in the category trampoline teams of the best five nations of men resp. womenn went on men's side to the highly favored Chinese, which clearly prevailed against Russia. This duo parted already lifted to bronze medallist with the gigantic difference of over 44 points ...:
1. CHINA    - 177,545
2. RUSSIA    - 171,180
3. AUSTRALIA - 126,390
4. JAPAN         - 125,245
5. PORTUGAL - 78,820
   > Detailed Results

The TRA Nations Final won the British Team, followed by the women's team of Canada and Team Belarus.
After Ukraine China came on fifth, only!
1. GREAT BRITAIN - 164,845
2. CANADA - 159,995
3. BELARUS - 158,450
4. UKRAINE - 131,430
5. CHINA - 113,520
   > Detailed Results

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D O P P E L M I N I T R A M P
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* DMT- MEN's INDIVIDUAL FINAL (So, 10.11.)
1. ZALOMIN, Michail        (RUS) - 77,800
2. RENKERT, Alexander (USA) - 73,200
3. NOBRE, Bruno             (POR) - 69,200
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*MEN's DOUBLE MINI TRAMP, Team-Final
With a closed team of 3x performance significantly above 36.0 points, the U.S.team fought with the successful trio Alexander Renkert, Ryan Roberts and Austin White the gold medal in the DMT Nations Team competition with a total score of 110.200 points.
Canadian trio won silver with 107.800, while the superior Denis Vachon, who earned the highest rating of 37,700 individual points in the log.
Great Britain won bronze with already the second Worlds team medal with 106.500 points surprising in front of Russia, which had an unlucky Andrei Gladenkov in its team.
DMT nation Portugal remained only the 5th time Rank. Germany's DMT strategies disappointed with the last rank (9) already hopeless in qualifying.
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* DMT- INDIVIDUAL, WOMEN's FINAL (So, 10.11.)
1. LOWELL, Kristie    (USA) - 71,100
2. BALANDINA, Svetlana (RUS) - 70,000
3. SHORT, Jasmin (GBR) - 68,600
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* DMT - TEAM FINAL, WOMEN:
1. USA    (Erin Jauch; Tristan van NattaKristle Lowell)                                 = 104,400
2. CANADA (Corissa Boychuk; Tamara O'Brien; Alexandra Giesbrecht) = 102,200
3. RUSSIA (Anastasia Ignatewa; Polina Trojanowa; Swetlana Balandina) = 101,600
4. Portugal - 99,300
5. Great Britain - 98,800
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T U M B L I N G
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* TUM - MEN's INDIVIDUAL FINAL (So, 10.11.)
1. WILLERTON, Kristof (GBR) - 74,900
2. MURTAZAEV, Tagir   (RUS) - 74,800
3. NOSKOV, Grigori (RUS)   - 74,200
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* MEN's TEAM FINAL (Saturday, Nov 09)
1. RUSSIA - 110,70
   (Tagir Murtazaiev; Alexander Bezulev; Grigori Noskov)
2. CHINA - 109,900
(Liu, Longji; Yang, Song; Zhang, Luo)
3. GREAT BRITAIN - 106,400
(Daniel Lannigan; Greg Townley; Kristof Willerton)

4. KAZAKHSTAN - 104,300
5. U S A    - 102,300
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* TUM- WOMEN's INDIVIDUAL FINAL (So, 10.11.)
1. JIA, Fangfang (CHN) - 70,700
2. COLEBECK, Lucie (GBR) - 67,400
3. CHEN, Lingxi    (CHN) - 67,000
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* TUM - WOMEN's TEAM FINAL
1. CHINA - 104,400
   (Jia Fangfang; Chen, Lingxi; Cai, Qizi)
2. RUSSIA - 99,600
   (Victoria Danilenko; Ekaterina Gaas; Anastasia Iusupova)
3. GREAT BRITAIN - 98,000
   ( Yasmin Taite; Rachael Letsche; Lucie Coleback)
4. UKRAINE - 92,900
5. CANADA - 91,500
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