Gymmin' Miel!

The Group from Russia dominated with both the 5 Clubs and 5 Hoops and won the Youth Olympic Games All Around title by a massive 2.500 points over the Group from Bulgaria. The Group from Kazakhstan picked up the bronze medal over Uzbekistan. 

Russian Irina Annenkova once again top scored with the Hoop, Ball and Clubs on her way to winning the Youth Olympic Games Individual All Around title. Maryia Trubach of Belarus managed to hold off American Laura Yihan Zeng by 0.200 points to capture the silver medal. Ana Luiza Filiorianu of Romania finished in fourth after scoring the top mark with the Ribbon.

INDIVIDUAL ALL AROUND FINAL (HOOP, BALL, CLUBS, RIBBON):

Finally catching up on some results from the Nanjing Youth Olympic Games.... the final day of event finals for Artistic Gymnastics. Great Britain's Giarnni Regini-Moran won the Vault title over China's MA Yue and Russian Nikita Nagornyy. Nagornyy narrowly earned the Parallel Bars honors over Hungarian Botond Kardos and Regini-Moran. Kenya Yuasa of Japan won the Horizontal Bar title with Belgian Luka Van Den Keybus in second and Regini-Moran adding another bronze medal to his name. Regini-Moran's higher execution score meant that he earned the bronze on the Horizontal Bar despite having the same score as Frenchman Zachari Hrimeche. China's WANG Yan was the Balance Beam champion over Brazil's Flavia Lopes Saraiva and Great Britain's Elissa Downie whist Lopes Saraiva triumphed on the Floor Exercise with Russian Seda Tutkhalyan and Downie finishing in second and third respectively.

MEN'S VAULT:

WOMEN'S BALANCE BEAM:

1. WANG Yan (CHN) 14.633
2. Flavia Lopes Saraiva (BRA) 14.000
3. Elissa Downie (GBR) 13.500
4. Iosra Abdelaziz (ITA) 12.933
5. Natallia Yakubava (BLR) 12.766
6. Veronika Cenkova (CZE) 12.633
7. Stephanie Marline Hernandez Hurtado (MEX) 12.358
8. Laura Jurca (ROU) 11.866

1. Nikita Nagornyy (RUS) 14.033
2. Botond Kardos (HUN) 14.016
3. Giarnni Regini-Moran (GBR) 14.000
4. Alec Yoder (USA) 13.633
5. Marco Pfyl (SUI) 13.541
6. Kenya Yuasa (JPN) 13.533
7. Phay Xing Jeremiah Loo (MAS) 13.366
8. Nils Dunkel (GER) 13.300

1. Flavia Lopes Saraiva (BRA) 13.766
2. Seda Tutkhalyan (RUS) 13.733
3. Elissa Downie (GBR) 13.466
4. Laura Jurca (ROU) 13.366
5. Antonia Alicke (GER) 13.066
6. Iosra Abdelaziz (ITA) 12.933
7. Sydney Townsend (CAN) 12.833
8. Tutya Yilmaz (TUR) 9.200

1. Kenya Yuasa (JPN) 13.700
2. Luka Van Den Keybus (BEL) 13.666
3. Giarnni Regini-Moran (GBR) 13.633
4. Zachari Hrimeche (FRA) 13.633
5. Andres Martinez Moreno (COL) 13.266
6. Botond Kardos (HUN) 13.166
7. Rene Cournoyer (CAN) 12.333
8. Nikita Nagornyy (RUS) 12.000 

The Rhythmic Gymnastics competition at the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympic Games is underway at the Nanjing Olympics Sport Center Gymnasium. Irina Annenkova of Russia top scored on the Hoop, Ball and Ribbon on the way to topping the Individual All Around Qualification. Laura Yihan Zeng of the United States finished second in the All Around standings and was the top performer with the Ribbon. Belarussian Maryia Trubach was third in the All Around. The top eight in the All Around qualification move onto today's All Around Final.

The Group from Russia consisting of Daria Anenkova, Daria Dubova, Victoria Ilina, Natalia Safonova and Sofya Skomorokh dominated in the Group All Around qualification. The Groups from Bulgaria (Elena Bineva, Aleksandra Mitrovich, Emiliya Radicheva, Sofiya Rangelova and Gabriela Stefanova) and Uzbekistan (Sabrina Ramazanova, Gyuzal Raymanova, Komilabonu Rustamova, Irina Saleh and Karina Tagaeva) were second and third in the Qualification and move onto the Groups All Around final. Also advancing is the Group from Kazakhstan (Viktoriya Guslyakova, Amina Kozhakhat, Nuray Kumarova, Darya Medvedeva and Aliya Moldakhmetova).

INDIVIDUAL ALL AROUND QUALIFICATION (HOOP, BALL, CLUBS, RIBBON):

GROUPS ALL AROUND QUALIFICATION (5 CLUBS, 5 HOOPS):

1. Russia (14.750, 14.900) 29.650
2. Bulgaria (14.450, 14.750) 29.200
3. Uzbekistan (13.100, 11.600) 24.700
4. Kazakhstan (11.300, 12.000) 23.300
5. Canada (11.250, 11.300) 22.550
6. Egypt (11.200, 10.725) 21.925

Today sees the first day of Artistic Gymnastics Event Finals take place this evening at the Nanjing Olympic Sports Center Gymnastics. Giarnni Regini-Moran added a second gold medal to his name, taking out the Floor Exercise title over Japan's Kenya Yuasa and Myongwoo Lim of the Republic of Korea. China's WANG Yan won the Women's Vault title, whilst Great Britain's Elissa Downie and Sae Miyakawa of Japan finished in second and third respectively. I must say that whilst watching the live coverage on olympic.org that I am loving the display of sportsmanship that we are seeing. Absolutely lovely! Something else that I am loving is the leotards that we have seen throughout the competition, and that we continue to see this evening. Awww Elissa Downie towers over WANG Yan and Sae Miyakawa! Good friends Nikita Nagornyy of Russia and Vladyslav Hryko of Ukraine finished 1-2 on the Pommel Horse, with Uzbekistan's Timur Kadirov picking up the bronze. Mexican Stephanie Marline Hernandez Hurtado sat down her dismount, whilst Laura Jurca of Romania has to count a fall marking an unfortunate start to the Uneven Bars final. Solid routines for WANG Yan and Miyakawa. Solid routine for Tutkhalyan - hop forward on the dismount. Tutkhalyan earns the title over Iosra Abdelaziz of Italy and WANG Yan of China. I just want to say how lovely Ava Lorein Verdeflor's leotard and performance on the Bars was.... and how I still find it bizarre to see Yevgeny Marchenko in the Philippines tracksuit. Nagornyy won the Still Rings title over China's MA Yue and Hryko.

RESULTS:

MEN'S FLOOR EXERCISE:

WOMEN'S VAULT:

1. WANG Yan (CHN) (14.900, 14.666) 14.783
2. Elissa Downie (GBR) (14.866, 14.266) 14.566
3. Sae Miyakawa (JPN) (14.800, 14.333) 14.566
4. Laura Jurca (ROU) (13.833, 14.666) 14.249
5. Seda Tutkhalyan (RUS) (14.600, 13.033) 13.816
6. Boglarka Devai (HUN) (13.733, 13.800) 13.766
7. Sydney Townsend (CAN) (13.600, 13.900) 13.750
8. Tutya Yilmaz (TUR) (13.800, 13.266) 13.533

1. Nikita Nagornyy (RUS) 13.966
2. Vladyslav Hryko (UKR) 13.933
3. Timur Kadirov (UZB) 13.800
4. Botond Kardos (HUN) 13.566
5. Jakov Vlahek (CRO) 13.533
6. Giarnni Regini-Moran (GBR) 13.400
7. Alec Yoder (USA) 12.900
8. Phay Xing Jeremiah Loo (MAS) 12.866

1. Seda Tutkhalyan (RUS) 13.575
2. Iosra Abdelaziz (ITA) 13.366
3. WANG Yan (CHN) 13.066
4. Antonia Alicke (GER) 12.633
5. Sae Miyakawa (JPN) 12.433
6. Ava Lorein Verdeflor (PHI) 12.333
7. Laura Jurca (ROU) 11.133
8. Stephanie Marline Hernandez Hurtado (MEX) 10.433

1. Nikita Nagornyy (RUS) 14.000
2. MA Yue (CHN) 13.866
3. Vladyslav Hryko (UKR) 13.533
4. Vladimir Tushev (BUL) 13.500
5. Botond Kardos (HUN) 13.366
6. Ilya Yakauleu (BLR) 13.233
7. Zachari Hrimeche (FRA) 13.016
8. Myongwoo Lim (KOR) 12.733

China's ZHU Xueying dominated in the Women's Trampoline competition at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games. Rana Nakano of Japan won the silver medal whilst Maria Zakharchuk of Russia finished in third. For the Men, Dylan Schmidt of New Zealand won the Gold medal over China's LIU Changxin and Portugal's Pedro Ribeiro Ferreira.

WOMEN'S FINAL:

1. ZHU Xueying (CHN) 55.425
2. Rana Nakano (JPN) 52.370
3. Maria Zakharchuk (RUS) 52.360
4. Lea Labrousse (FRA) 51.150
5. Nicole Ahsinger (USA) 49.950
6. Abbie Watts (AUS) 49.170
7. Karina Cantu Martinez (MEX) 48.345
8. Zaynub Akbar (GBR) 44.655

MEN'S FINAL:

1. Dylan Schmidt (NZL) 57.340
2. LIU Changxin (CHN) 56.935
3. Pedro Ribeiro Ferreira (POR) 56.040
4. Luis Armando Loria Cetina (MEX) 55.815
5. Artsiom Zhuk (BLR) 54.415
6. Zachary Sheridan (GBR) 11.000
7. Pirmammad Aliyev (KAZ) 5.775
8. Colin Duda (USA) 5.960

Russian Seda Tutkhalyan won the Women's All Around title at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China yesterday. Brazil's Flavia Lopes Saraiva finished second, 0.200 points behind Tutkhalyan. Great Britain's Elissa Downie finished in third. Downie was the high scorer on the Vault (14.750) whilst Tutkhalyan was the top scorer on the Uneven Bars (14.050). Lopes Saraiva was the high scorer on the Balance Beam (14.050) and the Floor Exercise (13.800 along with China's WANG Yan). Downie was in second place after the third rotation but fell backwards on her piked Arabian double somersault. 

ALL AROUND FINAL RESULTS:

Russian starlet Seda Tutkhalyan topped the Women's All Around qualification on Tuesday at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China. Great Britain's Elissa Downie and Romanian Laura Jurca qualified in second and third respectively to the All Around Final. It was a changed field from the original list of competitors months ago with Flavia Lopes Saraiva replacing Brazil's original competitor Rebeca Rodrigues de Andrade, and Dutchwoman Wendy de Jong replaced by Isa Maassen. Two countries withdrew from the competition - Belgium and Poland (Wiktoria Lopuszanska). Downie topped the Vault qualification over Japan's Sae Miyakawa and Tutkhalyan whilst WANG Yan of China was the top scorer on the Uneven Bars over Italy's Iosra Abdelaziz and Tutkhalyan. WANG Yan dominated on the Balance Beam and Flavia Lopes Saraiva top scored on the Floor Exercisw. 

1. Seda Tutkhalyan (RUS) (14.600, 13.000, 12.900, 13.150) 53.650
2. Elissa Downie (GBR) (14.900, 11.600, 13.500, 13.500) 53.500
3. Laura Jurca (ROU) (14.400, 12.800, 13.350, 12.700) 53.250
4. Wang Yan (CHN) (13.950, 13.250, 14.750, 11.250) 53.200
5. Iosra Abdelaziz (ITA) (14.000, 13.100, 13.250, 12.800) 53.150
6. Flavia Lopes Saraiva (BRA) (13.750, 12.150, 13.200, 13.650) 52.750
7. Antonia Alicke (GER) (13.550, 12.350, 12.750, 12.750) 51.400
8. Stephanie Marline Hernandez Hurtado (MEX) (13.550, 12.150, 12.950, 12.450) 51.100
9. Sae Miyakawa (JPN) (14.750, 12.850, 12.000, 11.300) 50.900
10. Camille Bahl (FRA) (13.850, 11.900, 12.300, 12.450) 50.500
11. Gaia Nesurini (SUI) (13.600, 11.975, 12.650, 12.200) 50.425
12. Ava Lorein Verdeflor (PHI) (13.100, 12.450, 12.700, 11.950) 50.200
13. Sydney Townsend (CAN) (13.300, 12.025, 11.550, 12.500) 49.375
14. Nadine Joy Nathan (SIN) (13.500, 11.150, 12.300, 12.375) 49.325
15. Tutya Yilmaz (TUR) (14.050, 10.300, 11.800, 12.800) 48.950
16. Boglarka Devai (HUN) (13.650, 12.000, 11.150, 12.100) 48.900
17. Natallia Yakubava (BLR) (12.850, 11.650, 13.150, 11.050) 48.700
18. Veronika Cenkova (CZE) (13.200, 10.300, 13.100, 11.800) 48.400
19. Millie Williamson (NZL) (13.600, 11.150, 12.200, 11.400) 48.350 RESERVE ONE
20. Martine Rustoen Skregelid (NOR) (12.850, 10.550, 12.750, 11.850) 48.350 RESERVE TWO
21. Veronika Orlova (UZB) (13.700, 10.150, 11.850, 12.200) 47.900 RESERVE THREE
22. Paola Natalia Moreira Irizarry (PUR) (13.500, 10.500, 11.700, 12.100) 47.800 RESERVE FOUR
23. Rahma Al Dulaimi (QAT) (13.700, 10.900, 10.850, 12.150) 47.600
24. Arailym Khanseiitova (KAZ) (12.400, 10.700, 12.400, 11.950) 47.450
25. Isa Maassen (NED) (12.500, 11.000, 12.050, 11.550) 47.100
26. Nada Ayman Ibrahim (EGY) (13.500, 8.500, 12.700, 11.800) 46.500
27. Sara Sequeira Raposeiro (POR) (13.250, 9.800, 10.875, 12.350) 46.275
28. Agustina Santamaria (ARG) (12.800, 8.250, 12.450, 12.350) 45.850
29. Evangelia Monokrousou (GRE) (13.350, 9.950, 11.400, 11.150) 45.850
30. Laura Pardo Garzon (COL) (13.750, 10.650, 9.800, 11.400) 45.600
31. Ceyda Sirbu (AUT) (13.150, 8.825, 11.800, 11.800) 45.575
32. Katherine Mishell Godinez Reyes (GUA) (12.500, 8.950, 12.150, 11.300) 44.900
33. Mammule Rankoe (RSA) (12.350, 11.250, 10.600, 10.400) 44.600
34. Hana Park (KOR) (12.150, 9.750, 11.000, 10.825) 43.725
35. Ana Karina Mendez Reyes (PER) (13.325, 9.700, 8.700, 11.900) 43.625
36. Maria Monica Sileoni (FIN) (13.350, 7.450, 10.750, 12.050) 43.600
37. Morgan Lloyd (CAY) (11.700, 7.900, 10.350, 11.300) 41.250
38. Fatimah Saadi Al-Tameemi (IRQ) (12.350, 7.400, 10.200, 10.000) 39.950
39. Rahma Mastouri (TUN) (12.700, 8.300, 8.600, 10.000) 39.600
40. Fatima Ahlem Mokhtari (ALG) (12.550, 3.325, 9.500, 7.750) 33.125

Great Britain's Giarnni Regini-Moran dominated in the Men's All Around final at the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympic Games. Regini-Moran was triumphant by 1.675 points over Russian Nikita Nagornyy with Alec Yoder of the United States of America finishing with the bronze medal. Regini-Moran's high score on the Floor Exercise (14.900), Vault (14.850 also scored by Nagornyy) and Parallel Bars (14.400) aided in his gold medal performance. Alec Yoder high scored on the Pommel Horse (14.100) and the Horizontal Bar 13.850 along with Japan's Kenya Yuasa). Ma Yue of China was the highest scorer on the Still Rings (14.000).

MEN'S ALL AROUND FINAL:

The participants are know officially known and I cannot wait for the competition to get started! The 2nd 2014 Youth Olympic Games will be held in Nanjing, China from the 16th to the 28th of August. The Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre Gymnasium will be home to all Gymnastics events. The Artistic Gymnastics and Trampoline competitions are being held from the 17th to 24th with Rhythmic Gymnastics on the 26th and 27th. For full scheduling details see: http://www.nanjing2014.org/en/en_sports/scheduleResults.htm

WOMEN'S ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS:

SUBDIVISION ONE:

STARTING ON UNEVEN BARS:

SUBDIVISION TWO:

STARTING ON VAULT:

• TURKEY: Tutya Yilmaz 
• MEXICO: Stephanie Marline Hernandez Hurtado 
• CZECH REPUBLIC: Veronika Cenkova
• POLAND: Wiktoria Lopuszanska 
• BELARUS: Natallia Yakubava 
• EGYPT: Nada Ayman Ibrahim 
• SWITZERLAND: Gaia Nesurini

STARTING ON UNEVEN BARS:

SUBDIVISION THREE:

STARTING ON VAULT:

• QATAR: Rahma Al Dulaimi
• GREECE: Evangelia Monokrousou 
• BELGIUM: Jelle Beullens 
• GUATEMALA: Katherine Mishell Godinez Reyes 
• TUNISIA: Rahma Mastouri 
• COLOMBIA: Laura Pardo Garzon
• FRANCE: Camille Bahl 

STARTING ON UNEVEN BARS:

STARTING ON FLOOR EXERCISE:

• CANADA: Rene Cournoyer
• SLOVAKIA: Igor Takac
• PERU: Luis Enrique Pizarro Silva 
• MOROCCO: Hamza Hajjaji 
• GREECE: Antonios Tantalidis 
• ISRAEL: Artem Dolgopyat 
• FRANCE: Zachari Hrimeche

• SWEDEN: Kjell Kim Vanstroem
• COLOMBIA: Andres Martinez Moreno
• PANAMA (UNIVERSALITY PLACE): Kevin Jose Espinosa Castillo 
• CHINA: Ma Yue
• BRAZIL: Lucas Goncalves de Oliveira Cardoso 
• AUSTRALIA: Clay Stephens 
• MALAYSIA: Phay Xing Jeremiah Loo

• KAZAKHSTAN: Yerbol Jantykov
• ARMENIA: Vigen Khachatryan
• GERMANY: Nils Dunkel 
• SOUTH AFRICA: Muhammad Khaalid Mia
• BELGIUM: Luka Van den Keybus 
• MEXICO: Patricio Razo Padilla 
• RUSSIA: Nikita Nagornyy

• JAPAN: Kenya Yuasa 
• SWITZERLAND: Marco Pfyl 
• AUSTRIA: Johannes Mairoser 
• PUERTO RICO: Andres J Perez Gines 
• JORDAN (UNIVERSALITY PLACE): Yazan Abandeh 
• UKRAINE: Vladyslav Hryko
• CROATIA: Jakov Vlahek

• BELARUS: Ilya Yakauleu
• CYPRUS: Marios Georgiou 
• THAILAND: Nattipong Aeadwong
• REPUBLIC OF KOREA: Myongwoo Lim 
• INDIA: Abhijeet Kumar
• VIETNAM: Dinh Vuong Tran 
• ITALY: Andrea Russo 

• EGYPT: Mohamed Elhamy Aly 
• FINLAND: Emil Soravuo 
• HUNGARY: Botond Kardos  
• GREAT BRITAIN: Giarrni-Regini Moran 
• UZBEKISTAN: Timur Kadirov
• BULGARIA: Vladimir Tushev 
• UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Alec Yoder

• AUSTRALIA: Tara Wilkie
• SOUTH AFRICA: Shannon Gardiner
• MOROCCO: Basma Ouatay 
• BRAZIL: Mayra Luiza Tiago Sineriz 
• BELARUS: Maryia Trubach
• MEXICO: Edna Maryel Garcia Amor 
• KAZAKHSTAN: Yelizaveta Mainovskaya 
• MOLDOVA: Nicoleta Dulgheru
• UZBEKISTAN: Anora Davlyatova 
• JAPAN: Takana Tatsuzawa 
• UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Laura Yihan Zeng
• BULGARIA: Katerina Marinova 
• ROMANIA: Ana Luiza Filiorianu 
• RUSSIA: Iuliia Bravikova 
• ISRAEL: Linoy Ashram
• EGYPT: Hana Hassan Nafie
• UKRAINE: Valeriya Khanina 
• MALAYSIA: Qing Tong Tai 

• KAZAKHSTAN: Amina Kozhakhat, Aliya Moldakhmetova, Nuray Kumarova, Viktoriya Guslyakova, Darya Medvedeva
• BULGARIA: Elena Bineva, Aleksandra Mitrovich, Emiliya Radicheva, Gabriela Stefanova, Sofiya Rangelova 
• UZBEKISTAN: Gyuzal Raymanova, Irina Saleh, Komilabonu Rustamova, Karina Tagaeva, Sabrina Ramazanova 
• RUSSIA: Daria Anenkova, Victoria Ilina, Karina Katiukhina, Sofya Skomorokh, Natalia Safonova
• CANADA: Crystal Dimov, Emma Lozhkin, Vanessa Panov, Alyssa Klyushin, Cassandra Brand 
• EGYPT: Hania Hatem Khattab, Nadin Tamer Gaber, Sara Hany Ibrahim, Sherifa Mohamed Bayoumy, Zain Mohamed Saad

• GEORGIA: Teona Janjgava 
• NAMIBIA (UNIVERSALITY PLACE): Jivanka Kruger 
• RUSSIA: Maria Zakharchuk 
• QATAR: Nadeen Mammdoh Wehdan 
• EGYPT: Ashrakat Ismail
• GREAT BRITAIN: Zainub Akbar 
• JAPAN: Rana Nakano 
• UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Nicole Ahsinger
• AUSTRALIA: Abbie Watts
• MEXICO: Karina Cantu Martinez 
• FRANCE: Lea Labrousse
• CHINA: Xueying Zhu 

• RUSSIA: Oleg Selyutin 
• EGYPT: Mohab Ayman Hassan 
• UZBEKISTAN: Amiran Babayan 
• BELARUS: Artsiom Zhuk 
• KAZAKHSTAN: Pirmammad Aliyev 
• CHINA: Changxin Liu 
• NAMIBIA: Reinhardt Van Zyl 
• PORTUGAL: Pedro Ribeiro Ferreira 
• GREAT BRITAIN: Zachary Sheridan
• UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Cody Gesuelli
• MEXICO: Luis Armando Loria Cetina
• NEW ZEALAND: Dylan Schmidt