Olympic Hopefuls Competition, Bryansk, 19-24 December 2010

I promised last year to update the site with some results from this competition. Especially interesting now as we have seen the inclusion of some of these gymnasts (Polina Spirina, Olga Valekzhanina in particular) in the national squad listing. Names which crop up here repeatedly include Polina Spirina, Dariya Mikhailova, Olga Valekzhanina, Yulia Biriyulia. Remember these names, or write them in a notebook somewhere - born in 1999, they won't become eligible for senior international competition until 2015, assuming they hold their interest and avoid injury.

I don't understand the format of the all around competition; I wonder if anyone knows, and could add an explanatory comment? A virtual box of chocolates to you, if so. The composite score used to determine ranking seems to be made up of an execution score and a full all around score. I'm therefore recording these results as a composite score, with the all around figure in brackets afterwards.

The original, full versions of the results are here.

All Around competition, girls born in 1999

1 Dariya Mikhailova 87.05 (52.65)
Trains at Moscow CSKA with coach O. E. Sikorro

2 Polina Spirina 86.85 (53.3)
Trains in Novosibirsk with coaches S. V. Krepkaya, M. Y. Kozyrov, V.M. Kozyrova

3 Olga Valekzhanina 86.22 (52.3)
Trains in Sterlitamak with coach G.G. Saricheva

4 Yulia Biriulya 86.22 (49.67)
Trains in Leninsk-Kuznetski with N.I. Loshakova

5 Anastasia Dimitrieva 85.95 (49.97)
Trains in Toliatti with O.E. Larioshkina, E.V. Kamenskaya,
T.I.Liucheva

Individual apparatus finals

Vault

1. Valekzhanina Olga 13.500
2. Spirina Pauline 13.175
3. Ivanova Xenia 12.950
4. Tyazhchenko Oksana 12.900
5. Lopatina Daria Nizhnekamsk 12.675
6. Himenkova Maria 12.500
7. Biriyulia Yulia 12.275
8. Mikhailova Dariya 12.200

Bars

1. Spirina Polina 12.800
2. Biryulya Yulia 12.100
3. Valekzhanina Olga 11.830
4. Kaygulova Ellina 11.700
5. Mihaylova Daria 11.500
6. Tuthalyan Seda CSKA Moscow 11.200
7. Dmitrieva Anastasia 10.700
8. Lopatina Daria Nizhnekamsk 9.300

Beam

1. Biryulya Yulia 13.600
2. Guryashova Taisiya 13.230
3. Dmitrieva Anastasia 13.130
4. Spirina Polina 13.030
5. Lopatina Daria 12.900
6. Mihaylova Daria 12.800
7. Himenkova Maria 12.400
8. Valekzhanina Olga 12.400

Floor

1. Spirina Pauline 13.300
2. Dmitrieva Anastasia 13.250
3. Dmitrieva Xenia 12.750
4. Mihaylova Daria 12.450
5. Tuthalyan Seda 12.100
6. Goryunova Valeria 12.050
7. Guryashova Taisiya 11.750
8. Tyazhchenko Oksana 10.550

In the event finals for girls born in 2001, Novosibirsk's Elizaveta Arefeva won vault, Elena Eremina from St Petersburg took bars, Anastasia Ilyankova (Leninsk Kuznetsk) won beam, and Anastasia Fadeeva from Moscow won floor.


All Around competition - Master of Sport Boys (born 1998)

1 Nikita Letnikov 128.95
2 Mikhail Kudryashov 127.7
3 Alexei Podkopaev 126.8
4 Nikita Vasiliev 125.
5 Alexander Sitsugov 124.3

All Around competition - Candidate Master of Sport Boys (born 1999)

1 Matvei Tsugankov 121.4
2 Marat Khabibulin 121
3 Alexander Checherov 119.8
4 Nikolai Kishkilev 119.2
5 Amir Idrycov 118