Gymmin' Miel!

The International Elite Session of the 2014 WOGA Classic will be taking place on Saturday, February 8th in the Doctor Pepper Arena. The Doors Open 6.00pm with March In commencing at 6.45pm. A fantastic line up of Juniors and Seniors are set to participate and I cannot wait to see how they go!

Jessica Lopez top scored on the Vault and Balance Beam on the way to winning the Elite All Around title at the Houston National Invitational. WOGA Gymnastics Alyssa Baumann and Madison Kocian finished second and third in the All Around respectively. Kocian was the highest scorer on the Uneven Bars whilst Baumann earned top marks on the Floor Exercise.

 

ALL AROUND:

Japan's Naota Hayasaka won the 2012 Valeri Liukin Invitational Elite All Around title. The competition took place from the 7th to the 9th at WOGA's Frisco gym. Full results from all divisions can be seen at: http://woga.net/2012-valeri-liukin-results/. Ukraine's Oleg Stepko and Japan's Daisuke Suzuki rounded out the top three in the All Around. Highest placing All Arounder from the United States of America was Paul Ruggeri (US Gymnastics Development Center). Hayasaka was top on the Floor Exercise over Stepko and Rikii Hoshino (Sakae). Japan's Genichiro Kohzu was the highest scorer on the Pommel Horse with Hayasaka and Stepko rounding out the top three. Houston Gymnastic's Academy's Regulo Carmona won the Still Rings over Jesse Silverstein (US Gymnastics Development Center) and Suzuki. Suzuki topped the Vault over Ruggeri and WOGA's Fabian DeLuna. Oleg Stepko triumphed on the Parallel Bars with USOTC's Sean Melton and Hayasaka rounding out the top three. Whilst on the Horizontal Bar, Hayasaka and Suzuki tied for the top score with fellow Japanese competitor Hidetaka Miyachi in third. 

ALL AROUND RESULTS: 

VAULT RESULTS:

The 2012 Valeri Liukin Invititational will be held from the 7th to the 9th of December at WOGA's Frisco Gym in Texas, and will see Men's Artistic Gymnasts from Level 4 to Elite compete. The annual competition was first held in 1996. See the Schedule below as well as the Preliminary roster of the Elite Competitors for this year. 

SCHEDULE:

FRIDAY, 7TH DECEMBER:

SESSION 1:

LEVEL 7:

SESSION 2:

LEVEL 6 (7-8 YR OLDS); LEVEL 6 (9-10 YR OLDS)

• 12.30pm: Open Stretch
• 12.50pm: Line Up
• 1.00pm: Competition Begins
• Awards Follow Competition

LEVEL 6 ( 11 YRS AND UP); LEVEL 8 (11-12 YR OLDS & 15-18 YR OLDS)

• 5.00pm: Open Stretch
• 5.20pm: Line Up
• 5.30pm: Competition Begins
• Awards to Follow

SESSION 4:

LEVEL 8 (13-14 YR OLDS); LEVEL 9:

• 8.00am: Open Stretch
• 8.20am: Line Up
• 8.30am: Competition Begins
• Awards follow

LEVEL 10:

• 1.00pm: Open Stretch
• 1.20pm: Line Up
• 1.30pm: Competition Begins
• Awards to Follow

INTERNATIONAL ELITE:

• 5.00pm - 6.00pm: Open Warm Up
• 5.45pm: Doors Open
• 6.00pm: Line Up
• 6.15pm: Competition Begins
• Awards to Follow

SESSION 7: 

LEVEL 4:

• 9.00am: Open Stretch
• 9.20am: Warm Up 
• 10.15am: Line Up/Competition Begins
• Awards to Follow

LEVEL 5:

• 1.00pm: Open Stretch
• 1.20pm: Line Up
• 1.30pm: Competition Begins
• Awards to Follow

PARTICIPANTS:

ELITE:

• Jeff Becker (Cypress Academy of Gymnastics)
• Mauro Martinez (Cypress Academy of Gymnastics/Argentina)
• James Brochero Gary (Houston Gymnastics Academy/Colombia)
• Regulo Carmona (Houston Gymnastics Academy/Venezuela)
• Ashton Hohit (Houston Gymnastics Center)
• Naoto Hayasaka (Japan)
• Genichiro Kohzu (Japan)
• Hidetaka Miyachi (Japan)
• Daisuke Suzuki (Japan)
• Jamie Da Silva Lugo (Puerto Rico)
• Emanuel Gomez Velez (Puerto Rico)
• Rafael Morales Casado (Puerto Rico)
• Angel Ramos Rivera (Puerto Rico)
• Sergio Ramos Rivera (Puerto Rico)
• Luis Rivera (Puerto Rico)
• Carlos Rivera De Jesus (Puerto Rico)
• Alexander Rodriguez (Puerto Rico)
• Ilan Rosario (Puerto Rico)
• Haruki Hino (Sakae)
• Rikii Hoshino (Sakae)
• Masaashi Nakatani (Sakae)
• Tenta Wakasa (Sakae)
• Santiago Tamez (Team Mexico)
• Logan Doughty (Texas Champion)
• Paul Ruggeri (US Gymnastics Development Center)
• Jesse Silverstein (US Gymnastics Development Center)
• Jacob Dastrup (USOTC)
• Sean Melton (USOTC)
• Petro Pakhnyuk (Ukraine)
• Oleg Stepko (Ukraine)
• Tristan Burke (WOGA)
• Fabian DeLuna (WOGA)
• Colton Howard (WOGA)

Anne Kuhm of Haguenau and Pierre-Yves Beny of Orleans have taken out the French Senior Elite All Around titles at the weekend's National Championships, which were held in Nantes. Delphine Ledoux of Calais dominated the Elite Rhythmic Gymnastics competition by taking out the All Around and all four event finals. For the Women, Youna Dufournet (Lyon) dominated the Uneven Bars event final, Kuhm won the Vault and Balance Beam titles with Viriat's Marine Brevet taking out the Floor Exercise title. Gael Da Silva (Bourges) won the Floor Exercise title, Cyril Tommasone (Lyon) won the Pommel Horse title, Danny Pinheiro-Rodrigues (Sotteville) won the Still Rings title, Raphael Wignanitz (Bourges) won the Vault title, and Hamilton Sabot (Juan Les Pins) won the Parallel Bars and Horizontal Bars titles. Paul Degouy of Noisy Le Grand won the Men's Junior All Around whilst Maelys Plessis (Le Mans) won the Women's Junior All Around. Full results from the competition, can be seen here but find below the Senior Elite results. The awesome Youtube user AureliaGym has uploaded videos from the Women's competition. 

WOMEN'S ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS:

SENIOR ELITE:

ALL AROUND:

VAULT EVENT FINAL:

1. Anne Kuhm (Union Haguenau) 12.875
2. Manon Cormoreche (Avenir Gymique Des Pins) 12.575
3. Johanna Cano ( Club Gymnique De Saint Giniez) 11.100

1. Youna Dufournet (Les Lucioles De Lyon) 15.550
2. Anne Kuhm (Union Haguenau) 13.950
3. Aurelie Malaussena (Elan Gymnique Rouennais) 13.925
4. Marine Brevet (Detente Et Loisirs De Viriat) 13.350
5. Sophia Serseri (Alliance Dijon Gym 21) 12.225

1. Anne Kuhm (Union Haguenau) 14.050
2. Aurelie Malaussena (Elan Gymnique Rouennais) 13.950
3. Youna Dufournet (Les Lucioles De Lyon) 13.300
4. Marine Brevet (Detente Et Loisirs De Viriat) 13.100
5. Manon Cormoreche (Avenir Gymnique Des Pins) 12.425

1. Marine Brevet (Detente Et Loisirs De Viriat) 13.750
2. Anne Kuhm (Union Haguenau) 13.350
3. Sophia Serseri (Alliance Dijon Gym 21) 13.025
4. Manon Cormoreche (Avenir Gymnique Des Pins) 12.950
5. Wendy Lejoyeux (Gymnastique Du Pays D'aix En Provence) 12.175

ALL AROUND:

1. Pierre Yves Beny (Orleans) (14.650, 14.800, 14.450, 14.800, 13.800, 14.200) 86.700
2. Arnaud Willig (Sotteville) (14.450, 12.900, 14.500, 15.500, 14.700, 14.500) 86.550
3. Cyril Tommasone (Lyon) (14.800, 14.300, 14.050, 15.200, 15.100, 12.250) 85.700
4. Gael Da Silva (Bourges) (15.000, 12.000, 14.600, 16.100, 15.000, 12.650) 85.350
5. Jim Zona (La Madeleine) (14.350, 12.200, 13.800, 15.900, 14.750, 14.150) 85.150
6. Kevin Antoniotti (Juan Les Pins) (13.350, 13.700, 13.550, 15.100, 14.250, 13.750) 83.700
7. Axel Augis (Paris) (13.600, 13.850, 12.600, 15.250, 14.200, 14.150) 83.650
8. Brandon Prost (Chalon/Saone) (13.500, 13.100, 13.750, 15.400, 14.200, 13.150) 83.100
9. Guillaume Augugliaro (Juan Les Pins) (14.250, 11.100, 13.800, 15.200, 14.800, 13.750) 82.900
10. Cyril Vieu (Juan Les Pins) (13.800, 13.700, 13.750, 14.500, 14.450, 12.600) 82.800
11. Peter Bastian (La Madeleine) (12.400, 13.800, 13.600, 14.300, 14.200, 13.950) 82.250
12. Mathias Philippe (Sotteville) (14.250, 11.750, 14.400, 14.500, 14.000, 13.150) 82.050
13. Kevin Dupuis (Clamart) (14.550, 11.150, 13.750, 15.600, 13.150, 12.950) 81.150
14. Raphael Wignanitz (Bourges) (14.150, 11.950, 13.650, 14.250, 13.400, 13.500) 80.900
15. Julien Gobaux (Monaco) (12.450, 11.700, 13.350, 15.350, 13.850, 13.400) 80.100
16. Loris Balestriero (Clamart) (12.350, 11.550, 13.850, 14.450, 13.900, 13.100) 79.200
17. Matthieu Jordan (Clamart) (14.150, 10.150, 12.500, 15.400, 13.600, 12.800) 78.600
18. Amine Airour (Velizy) (13.150, 12.700, 12.400, 14.200, 12.800, 13.150) 78.400
19. Julien Saleur (Bourges) (13.400, 13.050, 13.000, 14.550, 12.100, 11.200) 77.300
20. Felix Poilane (Nantes) (12.650, 12.650, 12.200, 13.500, 12.950, 12.750) 76.700
21. Matthieu Chapron (Bourges) (13.200, 10.250, 13.000, 15.750, 11.800, 11.750) 75.750
22. Jeremy Hurel (Clamart) (12.950, 10.000, 12.750, 13.600, 11.500, 12.500) 73.300
23. Benoit Caranobe (Noisy Le Grand) (13.000, 14.300, 13.750, 0.000, 13.1000, 13.100) 67.250
24. Hamilton Sabot (Juan Les Pins) (0.000, 14.700, 14.450, 0.000, 15.550, 14.950) 59.650
25. Danny Pinheiro-Rodrigues (Sotteville) (0.000, 13.600, 15.850, 0.000, 15.100, 0.000) 44.550

1. Gael Da Silva (Societe Municipale de Bourges) 15.000
2. Kevin Dupuis (Clamart Gym 92) 14.800
3. Pierre-Yves Beny (Societe Municipale d'Orleans) 14.550
4. Cyril Tommasone (Convention Gymnique de Lyon) 14.350
5. Arnaud Willig (La Sottevillaise) 13.900

1. Cyril Tommasone (Convention Gymnique de Lyon) 15.700
2. Hamilton Sabot (Olympique Antibes Juan-les-Pins) 14.800
3. Pierre-Yves Beny (Societe Municipale d'Orleans) 14.400
4. Axel Augis (Unaffiliated) 13.550
5. Bastien Peter (Lille Metropole Jeunesse Sportive Madeleinoise) 12.450

1. Danny Pinheiro-Rodrigues (La Sottevillaise) 15.550
2. Arnaud Willig (La Sottevillaise) 14.850
3. Gael Da Silva (Societe Municipale de Bourges) 14.800
4. Pierre-Yves Beny (Societe Municipale d'Orleans) 14.300
5. Hamilton Sabot (Olympique Antibes Juan-les-Pins) 14.100

1. Raphael Wignanitz (Societe Municipale de Bourges) 15.025
2. Matthieu Jordan (Clamart Gym 92) 14.800
3. Kevin Dupuis (Clamart Gym 92) 14.775
4. Matthieu Chapron (Societe Municipale de Bourges) 14.250

1. Hamilton Sabot (Olympique Antibes Juan-les-Pins) 15.300
2. Danny Pinheiro-Rodrigues (La Sottevillaise) 15.150
3. Jim Zona (Lille Metropole Jeunesse Sportive Madeleinoise) 14.450
4. Cyril Tommasone (Convention Gymnique de Lyon) 13.550
5. Gael Da Silva (Societe Municipale de Bourges) 12.900

1. Hamilton Sabot (Olympique Antibes Juan-les-Pins) 14.750
2. Pierre-Yves Beny (Societe Municipale d'Orleans); Arnaud Willig (La Sottevillaise) 14.200
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4. Axel Augis (Unaffiliated) 12.900
5. Jim Zona (Lille Metropole Jeunesse Sportive Madeleinoise) 12.150

ALL AROUND:

1. Delphine Ledoux (Calais) (26.550, 28.450, 28.150, 27.300) 110.450
2. Kseniya Moustafaeva (Bourges) (26.425, 26.825, 26.975, 26.400) 106.625
3. Marine Letul (Sucy en Brie) (24.700, 25.300, 26.475, 24.325) 100.800
4. Julie Marques (Montpellier) (25.550, 23.700, 25.725, 24.325) 99.300
5. Lucille Chalopin (Sucy en Brie) (24.050, 23.425, 23.225, 23.950) 94.650
6. Marie Menuge (Calais) (22.400, 21.700, 23.825, 22.850) 90.775
7. Agathe Dumm (Thiais) (22.150, 22.700, 22.525, 20.500) 87.875
8. Ines Lakech (Evry) (19.900, 19.650, 19.350, 18.575) 77.475
9. Flore Majchrzak-Diriut (Orleans) (16.825, 18.750, 19.275, 17.925) 72.775

1. Delphine Ledoux (Calais) 28.050
2. Kseniya Moustafaeva (Bourges) 26.325
3. Marine Letul (Sucy en Brie) 25.125
4. Lucille Chalopin (Sucy en Brie) 24.350
5. Ambre Chaboud (Junior/Bourgoin Jallieu) 23.150
6. Julie Marques (Montpellier) 22.500

1. Delphine Ledoux (Calais) 28.600
2. Kseniya Moustafaeva (Bourges) 26.825
3. Marine Letul (Sucy en Bries) 26.025
4. Julie Marques (Montpellier) 24.800
5. Ambre Chaboud (Junior/Bourgoin Jallieu) 24.275
6. Nada Jennane (Junior/Bonseccours) 23.875

1. Delphine Ledoux (Calais) 28.350
2. Kseniya Moustafaeva (Bourges) 25.750
3. Marine Letul (Sucy en Bries) 25.225
4. Julie Marques (Montpellier) 23.825
5. Nada Jennane (Junior/Bonseccours) 23.775
6. Ambre Chaboud (Junior/Bourgoin Jallieu) 23.750

1. Delphine Ledoux (Calais) 27.500
2. Kseniya Moustafaeva (Bourges) 26.025
3. Marine Letul (Sucy en Bries) 25.100
4. Lucille Chalopin (Sucy en Bries) 23.600
5. Nada Jennane (Junior/Bonseccours) 22.800
6. Ambre Chaboud (Junior/Bourgoin Jallieu) 21.250

The 2012 Elite Autumn Challenge for Women's Artistic Gymnastics in Western Australia was held on the 21st and 22nd of April. Full results can be found below. Competition was held in IDP Level 5, IDP Level 6, IDP 8, IDP 10, Junior International and Senior International. Emily Little took the Senior title 0.350 over Nikola Chung. Little was the top scorer on Vault, whilst Nikola Chung was the top Uneven Bars scorer. Lauren Mitchell topped the Balance Beam and Floor Exercise. Molly McKenzie was the only Junior International, and only competed on the Uneven Bars. IDP 10 competition saw Franceska Fusha win the All Around with a combined Prelims/Final score of 98.750. High scorers over the two days were Fusha (13.100) on Vault, Balance Beam and Floor Exercise, and Gillian Chan on the Uneven Bars. Darcy Norman of Spirit Gym Sports and WAIS was the winner of the IDP 8 All Around title, with Brooke Callcott (Star-Mites/WAIS) and Paige James (Jednorog/WAIS) rounding out the top three. Highest scores in this division over the weekend, were Norman on Vault (16.950), Uneven Bars (16.050), Callcott on the Balance Beam and Madeleine Clark-Carlile on the Floor Exercise. Amy Mackay won the all around in the IDP Level 6 division over Lily Gresele and Anna Mackay. Taylah Rafferty won the IDP Level 5 All Around over Niamh Collins and Sophie Mahoney.

RESULTS:

SENIOR INTERNATIONAL:

JUNIOR INTERNATIONAL:

1. Molly McKenzie (Vital/WAIS) (Prelims: 0.000, 9.600, 0.000, 0.000) (Finals: 0.000, 9.300, 0.000, 0.000) 18.900
2. Sophie Ward (West Coast/WAIS) (0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000) 0.000

1. Franceska Fusha (Star-Mites/WAIS) (Prelims: 13.100, 12.000, 14.900, 12.600) (Final: 12.500, 9.450, 11.950, 12.250) 98.750
2. Gillian Chan (T.J.'s/WAIS) (Prelims: 12.500, 12.950, 11.600, 0.000) (Final: 12.250, 10.150, 10.250, 9.250) 78.950
3. Li-Anne Ng (Spirit/WAIS) (Prelims: 0.000, 10.250, 0.000, 0.000) (Final: 0.000, 9.600, 0.000, 0.000) 19.850
4. Crina Ciupac (NDGC/WAIS) (0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000) 0.000

1. Darcy Norman (Spirit/WAIS) (Prelims: 16.950, 16.050, 14.550, 12.550) (Final: 14.350, 15.000, 13.750, 13.850) 117.050
2. Brooke Callcott (Star-Mites/WAIS) (Prelims: 16.450, 13.900, 17.550, 12.200) (Final: 13.550, 14.750, 14.850, 11.900) 115.150
3. Paige James (Jednorog/WAIS) (Prelims: 16.150, 15.450, 13.750, 13.750) (Final: 13.200, 14.600, 13.300, 14.300) 114.500
4. Madeleine Clark-Carlile (NDGC/WAIS) (Prelims: 16.050, 14.150, 14.550, 13.100) (Final: 13.300, 14.500, 12.950, 14.800) 113.400
5. Nikita Hains (Star-Mites/WAIS) (Prelims: 16.100, 14.250, 15.600, 13.000) (Final: 12.150, 14.150, 13.700, 13.300) 112.250
6. Aya Meggs (College Park/WAIS) (Prelims: 15.500, 14.300, 13.000, 12.350) (Final: 13.600, 14.600, 13.200, 13.300) 109.850
7. Yasmin Collier (Star-Mites/WAIS) (Prelims: 16.050, 13.200, 13.400, 11.150) (Final: 13.300, 13.500, 13.300, 12.700) 106.600

1. Amy Mackay (Spirit/WAIS) (Prelims: 14.666, 13.766, 12.866, 13.966) (Final: 14.600, 13.450, 12.866, 13.200) 109.380
2. Lily Gresele (Spirit/WAIS) (Prelims: 14.266, 12.166, 13.900, 13.433) (Final: 14.366, 13.800, 14.366, 12.000) 108.297
3. Anna Mackay (Spirit/WAIS) (Prelims: 14.666, 13.266, 12.600, 12.133) (Final: 14.933, 12.450, 13.733, 12.300) 106.081
4. Cerys Bell-Bedlow (Swan Districts) (Prelims: 14.666, 14.166, 10.633, 13.266) (Final: 15.033, 12.900, 10.033, 13.400) 104.097
5. Sarah Stacey (Spirit/WAIS) (Prelims: 14.533, 10.866, 11.566, 12.633) (Final: 14.800, 10.600, 12.100, 12.750) 99.848
6. Dayna Sulaiman (Spirit/WAIS) (Prelims: 14.266, 8.033, 12.100, 11.900) (Final: 14.100, 9.400, 12.300, 12.300) 94.399
7. Zali Nash (Spirit/WAIS) (Prelims: 13.900, 8.133, 13.366, 13.266) (Final: 13.900, 7.550, 8.500, 0.000) 78.615

1. Taylah Rafferty (NDGC/WAIS) (Prelims: 14.700, 14.666, 12.866, 15.000) (Final: 15.166, 14.100, 13.900, 14.750) 115.148
2. Niamh Collins (Star-Mites) (Prelims: 14.033, 13.433, 14.633, 13.100) (Final: 14.100, 13.250, 14.233, 13.500) 110.282
3. Sophie Mahoney (T.J.'s/WAIS) (Prelims: 14.033, 14.566, 13.200, 13.366) (Final: 14.666, 14.100, 13.800, 12.300) 110.031
4. Sophie Prince (Star-Mites/WAIS) (Prelims: 13.700, 13.900, 13.433, 13.300) (Final: 14.166, 13.900, 12.300, 13.550) 108.249
5. Bridget Meade (Star-Mites) (Prelims: 14.366, 11.666, 13.066, 12.900) (Final: 14.600, 10.700, 13.700, 14.400) 105.398
6. Caitlyn Newlands (Star-Mites) (Prelims: 14.200, 13.400, 10.366, 13.066) (Final: 14.600, 11.700, 11.066, 12.450) 100.848
7. Taylor Cummings (Star-Mites) (Prelims: 14.000, 10.700, 12.000, 12.066) (Final: 13.900, 10.600, 12.600, 11.700) 97.566
8. Ebony Rowland (Swan Districts) (Prelims: 13.966, 9.866, 11.366, 12.933) (Final: 14.266, 9.650, 12.866, 11.750) 96.663
9. Phoebe Levis (Star-Mites) (Prelims: 14.066, 10.333, 10.933, 11.266) (Final: 14.466, 10.600, 10.833, 12.900) 95.397
10. Summer-Rose Tocock (Swan Districts) (Prelims: 14.000, 11.033, 11.566, 11.300) (Final: 14.266, 10.600, 10.466, 10.900) 94.131

Japanese Junior National team member Jumpei Oka took out the Elite Men's All Around title at the 2011 Valeri Liukin Invitational, as well as winning both the Floor Exercise and Horizontal Bar honours. United States Gymnastics Development Center's Jesse Silverstein came second in the All Around tying with USOTC's John Orozco (who has excitingly announced he is going Pro!!!). Orozco also scored the highest mark on the Still Rings whilst Ryan Lieberman of Team Ryan rocked the Parallel Bars. Universal Gymnastics (home to World Champ Danell Leyva) had an awesome day with Edward Mesa taking 4th in the All Around and the title on Pommel Horse and Charles Tamayo winning the Vault title!! Well done to all gymnasts and coaches!! For full results check here.

ELITE (JR/SR) AA: