Skip to main content

Double gold for Ablyazin at Cottbus

By
Denis Ablyazin on rings at the 2012 Olympics

Ablyazin today staked his claim as Russia's leading event specialist with a strong showing on both floor and rings.  His explosive abilities on floor saw him tumble almost non-stop from start to finish, including some top level difficulty (7.1 D score) that with better execution must make him a contender for a medal at World Championships.  

He has now also overtaken his compatriot Alexander Balandin on rings (3rd here today behind Ablyazin and Greece's Eleftherios Petrounias) who despite his high D score (6.9 to Ablyazin's 6.8) had small errors.  

On pommel horse, won by favourite Kristian Berki, Nikolai Kuksenkov finished in 7th place after difficulties with the dismount marred his performance.

A video of Ablyazin's floor is available here http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cTOn2WdyHQs&feature=youtu.be

Denis on rings http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MHCG8kZO8e8&feature=youtu.be

No doubt you will find further videos at this user's channel (Marcos Aurelio, http://m.youtube.com/user/jackmcpheepr) 

In the women's competition, Russia's only representative, Anna Rodionova, took a creditable silver on bars behind Germany's Sophie Scheder.  Germany took both gold medals in today's WAG, dominating vault with Berger and Bui taking gold and silver respectively.

Anna Rodionova on bars - a beautiful combination of powerful swing and aesthetic form - http://youtu.be/dNLiaCgc8eg

Tomorrow's competition continues, with Ablyazin representing Russia on vault, and Maria Kharenkova competing on beam and floor.  Start lists can be found here - http://www.turnier-der-meister.de/db.php/anhang/1007/starting_list_2014.pdf

Good luck for tomorrow, gymnasts!  You are making a good and productive start to the year.  Keep on fighting!

You will find results here - http://cottbus-2014.dtb-liveticker.de.  Or can view them below if your eyesight is good!












Labels:

Comments

  1. Anonymous15 March 2014 at 23:19

    Is it only me who thinks that Anna Rodionova has improved A LOT on UB? I even think that she deserves more than 8.625 ... if she keeps improving like that on UB and BB I think she will be on the main team ... Good luck Anna
    and awesome work from the russian superman Ablyazin

    ReplyDelete
  2. Queen Elizabeth23 March 2014 at 18:30

    Hi, I agree, really like the progress Anna has made both in attitude and technique. hope this is matched on other apparatus, and that we will see more of her!

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Artistry versus acrobatics???

By
Watching videos of this weekend's competitions - the qualification and all around rounds of the Russian championships, medal winners from the American Cup - I am struck, more and more, by the huge difference between the American and Russian schools of gymnastics. It led me to ask the question : do artistry and acrobatics have to be mutually exclusive? (I am afraid that I think naming 'American' gymnastics a 'school' is perhaps lending an undeserved dignity to work which has become excessively obsessed with the difficult and the consistent, but I am using the word here so as not to label unfairly those individual gymnasts who are blameless in the direction of their training.) The FIG's vision for gymnastics is said to embrace more artistry; at least the publicity it has put about on the subject of its new Code makes that fairly plain.  So perhaps the Russians, with their inconsistent brilliance and superior body carriage (Mustafina, Komova, Grishina, Afanasy...
39 comments
Read more

Updates on Russia, and Russian gymnastics

By
  Kartsev: FX, PB, HB; Suedin: PH, PB, HB; Roschina : V, UB Kalmykova: V, FX; Vassilieva: BB, FX; Kaiumova: UB, BB At times, I have been at a loss as to what to say; I still am.  I don’t think that politics and sport make good bedfellows, but we live in a time of global confusion and sadness.  It has been more than twelve years since Russia has competed under its own flag at the Olympics, and for all I know it could be another twelve or more before things revert entirely to ‘normal’.  I don’t know how seriously to take any of the announcements being made recently, about junior athletes being allowed to compete as Russian, about athletes in the Winter Paralympics being allowed to compete under the Russian flag.  I’d like to see the athletes back and able to live their lives, for them to be able to show off a bit and feel pride in their accomplishments.  But I can’t ignore the bigger picture of death and destruction.  People are lucky if they can live in...
Post a Comment
Read more

Aliya Mustafina - 'each medal is very special'

By
'I'm very happy that everything turned out well today  ... Each medal is very special.  The UK team made mistakes, so there was a wide margin [of victory]... But naturally, [what I did] is not enough for the Olympics.  I prepared well for beam and bars but I am not ready for floor, I stepped up to help the team. ... To be honest, I did not look at the scores [when asked how the team reacted to the 6.5 gap before the final apparatus].  Gelya (Melnikova) is a good girl, she did everything and did not falter ... Seda fell on quite a complex element.  There is more work to do, but everything else went well.' [About a protest taken by the coaches on her beam score]. 'I am used to my protests being rejected, everything is normal!' Via vk.com I n other news , the UEG has confirmed that Spiridonova will replace Melnikova in tomorrow's bars final. No reason is given, but it is generally considered that Dasha has a better chance of gold.  This decision also means tha...
63 comments
Read more

RRG Archive - scroll by date, from 2024 to 2010

Show more