*PARIS 2024 - MEN's ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS

♦♦ PARIS 2024 - MEN's ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS

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♦ Saturday, July 27:
♦ Qualification, Men's TEAMS  > Men's starting field
Subdision 1: (- CAN, GBR, GER, USA ...); 
         SUB 2:  ( - CHN, JPN, UKR, NED);  SUB 3: ( - ITA, SUI, TUR, ESP)
* Short Report --: No surprises at the top of the 3 leading nations in the men's event:
China, Japan and Great Britain are probably still fighting an open battle for the podium.
Remarkably, however, Ukraine has fought its way back up from 12th place and Italy has regained visual contact with the USA in third place, while both Switzerland and Canada have confirmed their positive development trend of recent years.
2021 world champion Zhang Boheng was the top All-Around and Horizontal Bar qualifier, while Zou Jingyuan finished in first place on two apparatus - Still Rings and Parallel Bars.
Japan was held back mainly by their slightly weaker scores on Still Rings and an uncharacteristic fall from Hashimoto Daiki on Horizontal Bar.
Early leaders Great Britain finished in third place, with a resurgent Ukrainian team pushing ahead of the USA to finish fourth. Two teams from the final subdivision, Italy and Switzerland, nudged Canada down into eighth place. The Canadians will still be delighted with this result - it is the first time they have ever made the Olympic team final, so history has been made here in Paris.

♦  Qualification Results - Teams:
1. CHINA- 263,028;    2. JAPAN - 260,594;   3. GREAT BRITAIN - 256,561;
4. UKR -   253,894;    5. U S A - 253- 229;  6. ITALY - 249,764;
7. SWITZERLAND - 249,662;    8. CAN- 247,794;  = ... qualified!
9. TUR - 247,559; 10. NED - 247,295; 11. GER- 245,395; 12. ESP - 241,294
    ► Detailed Results
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* Saturday, 2024, July 27
.♦ SHORT REPORT --: The battle for the Olympic all-around crown seems to be taking place within an Asian quartet:
China's former world champion Zhang Boheng (2021) as the preliminaries best and Xiao Ruoteng, Tokyo Olympic silver medallist (2021) versus Japan's current world champion and Tokyo Olympic champion Daiki Hashimoto and his ambitious Shinnosuke Oka (2019 junior world champion and 2023 Asian champion).
Whether and to what extent Europe's top stars from Great Britain, Jake Jarman and Joe Fraser, will be able to intervene or even whether the Olympic silver medallist from Rio (2016), Oleg Verniaiev, will have a chance of winning a medal remains the exciting question ahead of the all-around final ...
Switzerland's Matteo Giubellini (12th) is fighting for a place in the top ten, while Germany's ‘saviour of honour’ Nils Dunkel (24th) is fighting to improve Germany's badly battered gymnastics position.* Top three teams dominate  also the All-Around qualifications ...:
♦  Qualification, Individual All-around
1. ZHANG, Boheng      (CHN) - 88,597;     2. OKA, Shinnosuke (JPN) - 86,865;
3. HASHIMOTO, Daiki (JPN) - 85,064;      4. XIAO, Ruoteng     (CHN) - 84,898;
5. JARMAN, Jake,      (GBR) - 84,897);     6. FRASER, Joe        (GBR) - 84,666;
7. VERNIAIEV, Oleg    (UKR) - 84,631;     8, ABBADINI, Yumin     (ITA) - 83,933;
9. YULO, C. Edriel         (PHI) - 83,631;   10. RICHARD, Frederick (USA) - 83,498;
11. KOVTUN, Illia         (UKR) - 83,163;    12. GIUBELLINI, Matteo (SUI) - 83,066;
    ► Detailed Results
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P A R A L L E L  B A R S: *   Quali.: ►P. b a r s;    ►Start list
* last Olympic Champion: ZOU, Jingyuan  (CHN)
         * current World Champion: Lukas Dauser (GER)

ZOU, Jingyuan      (CHN) - (6.9)=16,200
KOVTUN, Illia        (UKR)  - (7.0)=15,500 
OKA, Shinnosuke  (JPN) - (6.5)=15,300
...  7. DAUSER, Lukas   (GER) - (6.0)=13,700
           ► Detailed Results
* * Short report --:  Illia KOVTUN (UKR) presented the most difficult routine (D=7.0) right at the start and, despite a few tiny details, received an impressive 15.500 points. China's ZHANG, Boheng was 0.4 points behind with difficulty and final score, but then came the absolute master of the "Holmengasse", . ZOU, Jingyuan delivered the second-highest difficulty (6.9), an absolute template for instructional films of modern, technically brilliant parallel bars gymnastics, and rightly took the unassailable lead with the highest E-score (9.3) and the day's highest score of 15.300 points: 16.200. Gold was already a certainty!
The current parallel bars world champion Lukas Dauser from Germany, whose qualification for the final after an injury handicap was already like a small miracle, was also aware of this: then a heavy touch on a bar during the "Tsolakidis", rhythm interruption and standing problems during the somersault dismount: no medal, but his 7th place in the final of the best parallel bars gymnasts in the world is still worthy of all honours !!!
The last competitor to claim a medal was 20-year-old Japanese all-around Olympic champion Shinnosuke OKA, who won the first Japanese final medal of these Games with his "Japanese quality clean spar technique" in bronze!


►History PARALLEL BARS
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R E C K     > Quali.:  R e c k   ►Startliste
* letzter Olympiasieger + aktueller Weltmeister: Daiki HASHIMOTO  (JPN)

  OKA, Shinnosuke    (JPN) - (5.9)=14,533
  BARAJAS, Angel     (COL)  - (6.6)=14,533
  ZHANG, Boheng     (CHN)  - (6.5)=13,966
  THANG, Chia-Hung (TPE)  - (6.5)=13,966
              ► Detaillierte Resultate
* * Short report --: In the men's high bar final, the otherwise enthusiastic audience in the sold-out Bercy Arena witnessed what was probably the weakest, almost catastrophic high bar final in Olympic history: believe it or not, the 8 finalists suffered a total of 8 (!) falls - only two athletes remained on the bar until the end of their routines without any major mistakes:
Even the starting gymnast TANG, Chia-Hung from Taipeh risked a lot with D=6.5 difficulty, but flew past the bar on "Cassina": (13.966).
Once again, it was Japan's 20-year-old all-around champion Shinnosuke OKA, who had just been honoured for bar gold, who took the lead with a captivatingly brilliant routine and a secure position despite the lower difficulty (5.9): 14.533!
And after him, another young Olympic debutant, the 17-year-old Colombian Angel BARJAS, made a promising mark: Cassina, Kovacs, Kolman - flight elements in series and at their finest - the Tsukahara dismount safely rammed onto the podium. D=6.6 and in the end the same score as Oka, but because of the lower E-score second place, ahead of the Chinese veteran ZHANG, Boheng, who shared the bronze medal with the same score and also Taipei's starting gymnast TANG, Chia-Hung, despite a fall.
But were these two young Olympic debutants Oka and Colombia's Barajas the only ones to remain fall-free...?
In fact, top athletes such as European all-around champion Marios Georgious from Cyprus, former world champion Tin Srbic from Croatia and China's unlucky faller SU, Weide went down in Olympic history as the "tumbling final of Paris" with falls in the serial Tsukahara dismount!
... whether it was also due to the fact that the extended duration of the competition with three final days took too much physical and mental strength - with all the hustle and bustle, cheering and the media productions ...?


►History HIGH BAR
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