Gymmin' Miel!

Okay so I need to wrap up the final day of competition from the 2014 EnBW DTB-Pokal Women's Team Challenge and Men's FIG World Cup which was held on the weekend before moving onto different competitions. The Women's team from Germany consisting of Nadja Schulze, Michelle Timm, Pauline Schaefer and Sophie Scheder won the Team Challenge competition over Russia and Switzerland. Austria's Lisa Ecker who competed for Team Schwabischer Turnerbund in the qualification did not compete in the final. Russia's Ksenia Afanasyeva top scored on the Vault and Floor Exercise, whilst Germany's Schaefer and Scheder earned top marks on the Balance Beam and Uneven Bars respectively. 

Ukraine's Oleg Verniaiev won the Men's FIG World Cup title by 1.166 points from Brazil's Sergio Sasaki Junior with the United States of America's Donnell Whittenburg picking up the bronze. Verniaiev was the top scorer on the Pommel Horse and Parallel Bars whilst Whittenburg outclassed the field on both the Floor Exercise and Still Rings. The top score on the Vault was achieved by Sergio Sasaki Junior with Germany's own Fabian Hambuechen schooling the field on how to do a Horizontal Bar routine. 

WOMEN'S TEAM CHALLENGE FINAL:

MEN'S FIG WORLD CUP ALL AROUND COMPETITION:

1. Oleg Verniaiev (UKR) (14.366, 15.566, 15.200, 15.366, 16.233, 15.000) 91.731
2. Sergio Sasaki Junior (BRA) (15.300, 15.166, 14.800, 15.500, 14.966, 14.833) 90.565
3. Donnell Whittenburg (USA) (15.466, 14.433, 15.366, 15.000, 15.533, 14.600) 90.398
4. Fabian Hambuechen (GER) (15.233, 13.033, 14.633, 15.033, 14.966, 16.133) 89.031
5. Yusuke Tanaka (JPN) (15.166, 14.466, 14.833, 14.400, 15.633, 14.133) 88.631
6. Nikolai Kuksenkov (RUS) (15.100, 13.866, 14.833, 14.466, 15.033, 15.066) 88.364
7. David Belyavskiy (RUS) (14.100, 14.933, 14.200, 14.866, 14.766, 14.433) 87.298
8. Yusuke Saito (JPN) (12.400, 13.600, 14.300, 14.566, 12.466, 14.033) 81.365

N.B: Team Scores calculated by adding the top two scores on each Event.

In the Women's Team Qualification, German Team 1 consisting of Lisa-Katharina Hill, Isabelle Marquard, Janine Berger and Pia Tolle topped the Russian team by 0.250. Japan finished in third. Pia Tolle, who was originally supposed to start in the second German team, moved up after Oksana Chusovitina withdrew due to a cold. Annabel Holzer moved up to start in German Team 2, whilst Canadian Jessica Dowling withdrew from the competition due to injury. The Switzerland squad also changed with Sarina Gerber and Romina Bertschinger replacing Caterina Barloggio and Nadia Baeriswyl and Russian Yulia Inshina did not compete. The top four teams from qualification move onto the Final to be held on the 2nd of December. Highest scorers on each event were: German Janine Berger (Vault), Russians Aliya Mustafina (Uneven Bars) and Kristina Goryunova (Balance Beam) with Japan's Wakana Inoue on Floor Exercise. 

In the Men's competition, Aleksandr Balandin came into the Russian squad as the fourth gymnast but did not compete, whilst Pablo Braegger and Pascal Bucher replaced Kevin Rossi and Oliver Hegi in the Switzerland team. The Canadian team consisted of Anderson Loran, Joshua Stewart, Robert Watson and Scott Morgan while the Dutch team saw Melvin Omek and Boudewijn de Vries replace Jorian Ilbrink and Anthony van Assche. The Qualification was won by the Japanese Team with Brazil and Great Britain rounding out the top three. The highest scorers on each Event were: Russian Nikita Ignatyev and Britain's Sam Oldham on the Floor Exercise; Japan's Kohei Kameyama on Pommel Horse, Brazilian Arthur Nabarrete Zanetti on the Still Rings and Vault (tied with Oldham), Japan's Kenya Kobayashi on the Parallel Bars, and German's Christopher Jursch on the Horizontal Bar. 

RESULTS:

WOMEN'S TEAM QUALIFICATION:

MEN'S TEAM QUALIFICATION:

1. Japan - 176.350
• Yusuke Saito (13.900, 14.400, 13.950, 15.600, 14.900, 15.050) 87.800
• Kenya Kobayashi (0.000, 14.700, 15.000, 15.400, 15.450, 0.000) 60.550
• Kohei Kameyama (13.000, 14.800, 13.250, 0.000, 0.000, 14.400) 55.450
• Koji Uematsu (0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 15.100, 12.600) 27.700
2. Brazil - 176.200
• Fellipe Arakawa Ferreira (11.550, 14.500, 13.250, 15.500, 12.800, 12.350) 79.950
• Arthur Nory Oyakawa Mariano (14.200, 11.650, 0.000, 15.700, 13.650, 14.500) 69.700
• Francisco Carlos Barretto Junior (0.000, 14.350, 13.800, 0.000, 14.600, 14.900) 57.650
• Arthur Nabarrete Zanetti (14.400, 0.000, 15.500, 16.100, 0.000, 0.000) 46.000
3. Great Britain - 175.300
• Sam Oldham (15.150, 11.600, 13.950, 16.100, 14.500, 14.850) 86.150
• Frank Baines (13.500, 12.750, 0.000, 15.000, 13.000, 13.400) 67.650
• Theo Seager (14.800, 0.000, 14.400, 15.550, 0.000, 0.000) 44.750
• Daniel Keatings (0.000, 14.100, 0.000, 0.000, 14.550, 14.600) 43.250
4. Russia - 173.650
• Nikita Ignatyev (15.150, 12.200, 14.950, 15.850, 14.650, 13.650) 86.450
• Andrey Cherkasov (13.300, 13.500, 0.000, 15.500, 13.700, 14.700) 70.700
• Denis Ablyazin (14.000, 0.000, 15.250, 16.050, 0.000, 0.000) 45.300
• Aleksandr Balandin (0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000) 0.000
5. Germany - 172.700
• Andreas Toba (13.800, 13.600, 14.100, 15.350, 0.000, 15.100) 71.950
• Christopher Jursch (13.650, 13.050, 0.000, 15.500, 14.050, 15.600) 71.850
• Philipp Herder (14.400, 0.000, 13.050, 15.200, 14.200, 0.000) 56.850
• Daniel Weinert (0.000, 12.900, 13.850, 0.000, 14.150, 13.300) 54.200
6. Switzerland - 169.950
• Simon Nuetzi (14.250, 0.000, 14.550, 15.450, 0.000, 13.800) 58.050
• Pascal Bucher (14.000, 13.400, 0.000, 15.300, 13.450, 0.000) 56.150
• Nils Haller (0.000, 13.550, 13.900, 0.000, 14.050, 10.650) 52.150
• Pablo Braegger (0.000, 13.100, 13.600, 0.000, 0.000, 14.250) 40.950
7. Puerto Rico - 166.600
• Luis Rivera (13.000, 14.200, 13.500, 15.000, 12.800, 13.400) 81.900
• Angel Ramos Rivera (13.200, 11.100, 0.000, 15.800, 13.800, 13.000) 66.900
• Nestor Rodriguez Colon (0.000, 12.750, 13.150, 0.000, 14.150, 12.750) 52.800
• Rafael Morales Casado (14.400, 0.000, 13.150, 15.250, 0.000, 0.000) 42.800
8. Canada - 166.450
• Anderson Loran (13.200, 13.900, 13.400, 14.800, 13.550, 14.700) 83.550
• Joshua Stuart (12.600, 13.250, 0.000, 14.450, 13.350, 10.350) 64.000
• Robert Watson (0.000, 13.100, 13.200, 0.000, 13.150, 11.450) 50.900
• Scott Morgan (15.000, 0.000, 14.550, 15.300, 0.000, 0.000) 44.850
9. Netherlands - 165.950
• Glenn Smink (14.450, 14.100, 12.550, 15.050, 10.650, 0.000) 66.800
• Bart Deurloo (0.000, 12.600, 13.450, 15.350, 0.000, 14.700) 56.100
• Melvin Omek (12.700, 0.000, 13.650, 0.000, 13.300, 12.600) 52.250
• Boudewijn de Vries (0.000, 12.150, 0.000, 0.000, 12.800, 13.800) 38.750
10. Mixed Group - 162.700
• Helge Liebrich (12.800, 12.200, 13.600, 15.850, 13.800, 13.550) 81.800
• Christian Auer (13.200, 0.000, 13.500, 14.250, 13.950, 13.350) 68.250
• Shakir Shikhaliyev (AZE) (13.600, 11.800, 0.000, 14.300, 0.000, 10.700) 50.400
• Alexander Maier (0.000, 11.800, 12.650, 0.000, 13.400, 0.000) 37.850

Elisabeth Seitz is one of two German Women set to participate. (Image from Getty Images Europe)

The 30th edition of the DTB Pokal ENBW World Cup will take place from the 30th of November to the 2nd of December. This All Around World Cup will take place in The Porsche Arena Stuttgart, and also features the team competition as was introduced last year. The Schedule for the competition is below, as too is the exciting participant list! Out of the top 10 gymnasts from the Men's All Around Final from the Olympics, eight will be action at this competition.Including the three two medalists, Kohei Uchimura (JPN), Marcel Nguyen (GER) and Danell Leyva (USA). Seven Women will be in action, six of whom competed at the London Olympics, with the other gymnast being Elizabeth Price of the United States of America who was one of the three alternates for the Olympic Games.

UPDATED 23/11: Great Britain's Niamh Rippin replaces Romanian Larisa Andreea Iordache; as mentioned before Giulia Steingruber of Switzerland fulfilled the final empty spot. Switzerland's Claudio Capelli replaces Brazil's Sergio Sasaki Junior in the line up. Daniel Purvis of Great Britain replaces Kohei Uchimura of Japan

UPDATED 30/11: GET EXCITED BECAUSE KRISTINA GORYUNOVA IS SET TO REPLACE CANADIAN VICTORIA MOORS!!!!!

SCHEDULE:

30TH NOVEMBER, 2012:

1ST DECEMBER, 2012:

• 12.00pm: Hall Opens
• 1.00pm - 3.00pm: AA World Cup - Women
• 3.30pm - 6.00pm: Team Final - Men

• 12.00pm: Hall Opens
• 1.00pm - 3.00pm: AA World Cup - Men
• 4.00pm - 6.00pm: Team Final - Women

WOMEN'S ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS:

• Larisa Andreea Iordache (ROU) Niamh Rippin (GBR)
• Kim Bui (GER)
• Vanessa Ferrari (ITA)
• Elisabeth Seitz (GER)
• Giulia Steingruber (SUI)
• Victoria Moors (CAN) Kristina Goryunova (RUS)
• Rebecca Tunney (GBR)
• Elizabeth Price (USA)

• David Belyavskiy (RUS)
• Sergio Sasaki Junior (BRA) Claudio Capelli (SUI)
• Fabian Gonzalez (ESP)
• Kazuhito Tanaka (JPN)
• Kohei Uchimura (JPN) Daniel Purvis (GBR)
• Kristian Thomas (GBR)
• Danell Leyva (USA)
• Marcel Nguyen (GER)