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EYOF - women's team results

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So far, the full results are not available, but Italy came first with a score of 110.95, narrowly ahead of the Romanians who had 110.55.  Germany took the bronze, with Russia in 4th place. 

I didn't see the final subdivision, but did manage to catch the online coverage of subdivision 3.  The Romanian team (Iordache, Badea, Gheorghe) was excellent overall and in particular on beam, where they recorded the top three scores of the competition. 

The Russians were a very young team hand-picked from the 1996/1997 generation.  Anna Rodionova, Evgeniya Shelgunova and Kristina Sidorova - all of whom have featured in recent domestic competitions in Russia - suffered a few disasters, not least a very nasty, head first fall on beam from Shelgunova, who admittedly has mentioned it as her bogey piece.  The team had started on beam, so this must have been a nervey experience for her.  Kristina Sidorova followed up with a rather erratic floor exercise, but Rodionova and Sheglunova saved the day with some good results on floor and vault.

The following information is all based on results after the third subdivision, and will undoubtedly have changed in light of the Italian team performance.  As soon as I have the full results I will comment but in the meantime this may be of interest:

Anna Rodionova in particular looked confident and mature in this competition, taking 2nd place in the all around qualifiers behind a much improved Larissa Iordache whose 15.5 on beam was the highest score of the competition. Shelgunova was the next best placed Russian at 5th, with Ukraine's Daryna Liubytska in 3rd and Scheder (GER) in 4th.  Right behind Shelgunova in the all around is Gheorghe.  The all around competition is clearly Iordache's to lose, but only .9 separates the gymnasts in places 3 to 8 so there will be a close match for the 'minor' placings.

In the individual apparatus finals, Iordache qualifies in the top two on all four apparatus, leading vault, beam and floor.  Germany's Sophie Scheder leads bars.  All being well, depending on the Italian placings, and assuming 8 progress, the following Russian girls will qualify to apparatus finals :

Vault - Shelgunova and Sidorova
Bars - Rodionova and Shelgunova
Beam - Rodionova
Floor - Rodionova and Shelgunova

The record doesn't show a mark for Sidorova's beam, which must be an error for she did perform, and to my eye did pretty well - I guess there may be an update.  It won't make any difference to the outcome of the team competition, though it may impact on the start lists for the apparatus finals.

Without the two Anastasias, Sidorova and Grishina, (both 1995 born, who are now competing as seniors in their homeland) the girls didn't dominate in the way they might have, but they still turned in some useful performances and have qualified themselves to a fair number of finals berths possible (with a query over the beam results).  All gymnasts make errors, let's just see how the girls react over the coming days and hope they can each take home an individual medal.  They will certainly have learned a great deal from their experiences here.

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