The Medal Trio |
At the 33rd WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS of RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS 2014 (21 - 28 09) in Izmir, Turkey, where 300 gymnasts took part, proved again RUSSIA as the dominant lead nation in this discipline, fetched by team gold and also the maximum of all individual titles and medals and won alone so 7 gold medals. Only misadventures in the group qualification is needed the Russians with "only" a gold medal in the last of the group finals (3 balls / 2 ribbons). So BULGARIA triumphed in the group's all-around final and SPAIN in the group final with 10 clubs. Superior gymnast in the individual competitions was the successful defending all-around champion, Yana KUDRYAVTSEVA, with a total of four individual gold medals, only once defeated by her compatriot Margarita MAMUN.
Gymnasts from German-speaking countries play no role in the world rankings and did not reach the all-around final of the best 24. As currently the best scraped Austria's best Nicol Ruprecht, only to -0.65 points past the aspired finals.
Therefore the ninth place of the German group in the all-around and seventh-place and the 7th place in the clubs final earned high recognition and means more than the safe qualification in the upcoming Worlds at homeStuttgart 201 ...
Gold Medal in All-around: BULGARIAN Group, with Renata KAMBEROVA, Mihaela MAEVSKA-VELICHKOVA, Tsvetelina NAYDENOVA, Tsvetelina STOYANOVA and Hristiana TODOROVA.
* GROUP COMPETITIONS
* SUNDAY, Sep 28 - FINALS
* FINAL: 5 pair CLUBS
Crashed law rule was the leading nation Italy at the qualification the day before: Italy's group now ranked on 5th place, only! ... while the first runner SPANIARDS vehemently could increase by almost half a point and with 17.433 points were world champions, today. Also ISRAEL managed from fourth place yesterday on second, won with 16.983 points the silver medal. BELARUS, which took bronze with 16.600 points in front of all-around world champion Bulgaria and even the Italians to come next.
Joy reigned after the successful final placement with the German girls, though not quite reach their level of qualification, however, could argue again ranked 7th infront of Azerbaijan.
►► FINAL-Results 5 pairs Clubs;
* FINAL: 3 BALLS / 2 RIBBONS
In the last final competition of this Worlds in Turkey once again carried out a powerful performance of gymnastics nation's No. 1:
RUSSIAN QUINTET that surprisingly did not even by mistake in the first exercise (Rank 11 in qualification, yesterday) into the club finals and thus remained without a medal in the all around, today marked with the combined exercise with 17,950 the highest score of this Worlds, yet approximately one-tenth point better than at the previous day, thus the Russians securing altogether 7 of the 9 gold medals of this championship! With 17.616 points all-around world champion BULGARIA was pretty close to it, and also not far behind came for the BYELORUSSIANS (17.466) after the all-around and the clubs exercise now their third bronze medal in group's competitions. Again, the Italians remained behind Ukraine only the fifth place, in front of Israel, Japan and Azerbaijan.
►► FINAL-Results Balls/Ribbons
* SATURDAY, SEP 27, AA-FIN & Qualification
(1) - 5 pair CLUBS
Surprisingly failed at the Russians on Saturday a little nervous and the favored host group of the Worlds landed after the exercise with the 10 clubs still behind Greece on a disappointing 11th place, a point behind the best in its discipline by the Italians with 17,216 points, followed by Spain (17.183), Bulgaria (17.133) and Israel (16,800), before Belarus (16.750). The German girls were delighted with their excellent 7th place (16.433) and the resulting and realized the final.
> Qualification: 10 C l u b s
(2) - With 3 BALLS / 2 RIBBONS the Russians then showed a nearly flawless presentation and labeled with 17.816 daily maximum value, followed by Belarus (17,383) and in two exercises very resistant Bulgarians (17.316), followed by Italy, Israel and Azerbaijan leave behind .
The German group managed behind the Japanese women here as the 10th among the top ten (16,116) and thus took in the all around in ninth overall loose the first hurdle of the Olympic Qualification (- the best 23 groups). This was also the Swiss girls: with the 5 pairs of lobes rank 16 and they increased with balls / bands on rank 13 to also take 13th place at the end of the multi struggle. Behind the Swiss girls ranked the USA (14) and also Canada's group (21) took the first hurdle of the Olympic qualification.
Sad Austrian girls missed four places her ambitious goal of qualifying and ended up only ranked 28th.
> Qualification 3 Balls / 2 Ribbons
* (AA) - GROUPS All-around:
1. BULGARIA - 34,449
2. ITALY - 34,282
3. BELARUS - 34,133
4. RUSSIA - 33,949
5. ISRAEL - 33,766
6. AZERBAICHAN - 33,332
...
9. GERMANY - 32,549; 13. SWITZERLAND - 30,833 ; 28. AUSTRIA - 25,124
►► Mehrkampf/All-around;
* INDIVIDUAL ALL-AROUND FINAL
As expected, won Yana KUDRYAVTSEVA from Russia superior to the gold medal in the all-around with 75.266 points and pointed with over one point her compatriot Margarita MAMUN on the silver medal (74.149). Bronze won the Ukrainian Ganna RIZATDINOVA with 72.449 points.
On the following ranks came Son Yeon Jae (KOR; 70.933), Sen Deng Yue (CHN; 69.766) and Marina Durunda (AZE; 69.565).
>> FINAL Results
* Qualification
Russia's Yana KUDRYAVTSEVA and Margarita MAMUN lead the qualifiers list in the all around, followed by Ganna Rizatdinova (UKR), Son Yeon Jae (KOR), Melitina Staniouta (BLR) and Neta Rivkin (ISR). For the 24'er-finals of the German speaking countries could not qualify under the 108 gymnasts: The Best of Austria Nicol Ruprecht 26 was as "second substitute" (E-2) it lacked only -0.024 points to the finals; Jana Berezko-Marggrander (GER) was ranked on 28th place only (47.866, E-4).
►► AA-FINAL: LIVE-Results (Friday, Sep 26; intermediate results, after group B)
* APP. FINALS
Again dominated Russia and reached the only nation not only the full maximum of 8 FINALISTS; but also won the maximum possible precious metal, namely 3x gold by Yana KUDRYAVTSEVA and 1x Gold by Margarita MAMUN who also won 3x silver and one by Kudryavtseva.
Of the 4 "leftover" bronze medals are Ganna RIZATDINOVA (UKR) won two (clubs, ribbon), Melitina STANIOUTA (BLR; ball), and the Korean SON, Yeon Jae stand at once on the bronze podium.
* TEAM COMPETITION:
RUSSIA won, as expected, considering the team competition against Belarus and the Ukraine, followed by Israel, Azerbaichan and Spain.
* GROUP COMPETITIONS
The group competitions will take part on Saturday (qualifying and all-around) and Sunday (Finals).
* WCh 2014 - R E S U L T S
Friday, Sep 26 - LIVE-Results:
► FINAL All-around/Mehrkampf (intermediate results after group B)
> Qualifi. All-around / Mehrkampf
► FINAL Hoop/Reifen
> Quali. Hoop / Reifen;
► FINAL B a l l
> Quali. Ball;
► FINAL Clubs / Keulen
> Qual. Clubs/Keulen;
► FINAL Ribbon / Band
> Qual. Ribbon/Band
► TEAM-FINAL
* ... more on > gymnastics results
* Notes ... in our own right:
Unfortunately, we have yet again failed - not even from among our long time partners - to win as event sponsor for this highlight of rhythmic gymnastics.
Thus we will publish only after the qualifying days, from Thursday, September 25 on, short daily summaries.
- the Editors