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Men's Event Final results, Russian Nationals 8th April 2012 - Rodionenko confirms Olympics training squad

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Sergei Khorokhodin, David Belyavski and Alexander Balandin receive their awards on the parallel bars.  By kind permission of the RGF
The Russian Championships 2012 closed on Saturday as Denis Ablyazin confirmed his status as the outstanding individual apparatus gymnast of the competition with his second gold, this time on vault.  David Belyavski, who according to an interview in IG  is struggling at present with a neck injury, asserted his class with gold on parallel bars.  Konstantin Pluzhnikov, took the gold on his specialist piece, rings.

In the immediate aftermath of the competition Andrei Rodionenko confirmed the twelve strong membership of the training squad who will continue to the Europeans and beyond to the Olympics.  The names of the gymnasts are :

Emin Garibov
Nikita Ignatyev
Sergey Khorokhordin
Andrei Cherkasov
Igor Pakhomenko
Denis Ablyazin
Maxim Devyatovsky
David Belyavsky
Alexander Balandin
Konstantin Pluzhnikov
Anton Golotsutskov
Dmitriy Stolyarov

This is essentially the same squad as discussed by Albert in February with the omission of Gogotov and Russinyak.

Full results of the competitions can be seen below.




Do not forget that Albert has been posting videos on his Youtube Channel!

Good luck to the men who now work hard to prepare for May's European Championships. 
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