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Russian Championships 2014 - Junior team results

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Central Federal District gymnasts Ekaterina Sokova and Angelina Melnikova were Russian team mates in Canada earlier this year, are now shining in their country's national championships

Central Federal District (drawing on three gymnasts from Viktoria Komova's home town, Voronezh) beat last year's winners Moscow to today's girls team competition.   Volga General District, whose most famous team member is the graceful Anastasia Dmitrieva, took the third team position for a bronze medal, ahead of St Petersburg.

There was an outstanding performance from Voronezh's Angelina Melnikova, who will turn 16 in July 2016 and was a medallist at the recent Gymnix International Junior Cup.  Melnikova scored a competition high 15.2 on beam, and also leads uneven bars and floor with scores of 14.8 and 14.537 respectively.  Muscovite Seda Tutkhalyan delivered the highest vault score of 14.733.

Working under the Russian Junior code, Melnikova totted up an impressive all around score of 58.767.  In second place came the powerful Seda Tutkhalyan with a score of 58.  These scores represent a significant improvement over last year's competition where the winning total (Maria Bondareva) was 56.  In Penza today, the top seven gymnasts cleared an all around total of 54, which only two gymnasts managed last year, perhaps suggesting more depth amongst this exciting up and coming generation.  Third and fourth places were taken by Anastasia Dmitrieva and Daria Mikhailova. 

These junior gymnasts will now look forward to the junior all around competition on Friday, and event finals on Sunday.  Complete results can be found at the Russian Gymnastics Federation's website, http://www.sportgymrus.ru/Admin/GetFile.ashx?get=1&id=43137.

Team competition result

1 Central Federal District      267.966
2  Moscow                           263.534
3  Volga General District       256.567
4  St Petersburg                   251.266

Leading vault scores (do not know if gymnasts performed one or two vaults so order for qualification may change)

1.  Seda Tutkhalyan               14.733
2.  Angelina Melnikova.          14.167
2= Anastasia Dmitrieva          14.167
4.  Elena Eremina                   14.1
5.  Daria Mikhailova                13.9

Leading bars scores

1.  Angelina Melnikova             14.8
2.  Seda Tutkhalyan                 14.533
3.  Daria Skrypnik                    14.5
4.  Ekaterina Sokova               14.1
5.  Elena Eremina                    14.033

Leading beam scores

1. Angelina Melnikova               15.2
2. Seda Tutkhalyan                   14.567
3. Maria Bondareva                  14.033
4. Elizaveta Kochetkova            13.767
5. Ekaterina Sokova                  13.7

Leading floor scores

1. Angelina Melnikova               14.567
2. Anastasia Dmitrieva               14.267
3. Seda Tutkhalyan                    14.167
4. Elena Likhodolskaya               14.133
5. Maria Bondareva                    14.033

Leading all around scores

1. Angelina Melnikova.                58.767
2. Seda Tutkhalyan.                    58
3. Anastasia Dmitrieva.               55.368
4. Daria Mikhailova.                    54.633
5. Ekaterina Sokova.                  54.5
6. Elena Eremina                        54.4
7. Maria Bondareva.                   54.399

Please comment if you see any errors!  I have spent a good hour poring over these results, till I am almost cross-eyed :-)





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  1. Alyssia2 April 2014 at 16:21

    Will the candidate master of sports and master of sports categories be separated during the AA finals on Friday? I think they did that last year right? Also I was wondering how much the Russian junior code is different from the FIG junior code? That would be a really interesting read, if you could find that out. Thanks for the nice read. :)

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  2. Queen Elizabeth2 April 2014 at 16:28

    Yes, I think they will be separated. So perhaps, judging by age, we have Npmelnikova and Tutkhalyan leading the CMS and Mikhailova and Dmitrieva the MS categories respectively.
    I think the Russians do award bonus for those elements and factors of performance they want to encourage ... I would live to carry the story you suggest - can anyone help?

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  3. Alyssia2 April 2014 at 17:06

    I checked the results again on the left of their names it says MC and KMC, so I think Melnikova and Tutkhalyan are in the MC category too, then Sokova and Eremina would be leading the KMC right? I haven't calculated all the results but that's what I deducted from the document haha. :) I have been diving into the RGF website over the last hour or so but I haven't found a document about the junior categories unfortunately. :(

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  4. Anonymous2 April 2014 at 20:15

    What happened to Bondareva? I mean she used to post scores higher than that two years ago!!!

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