Rewriting Russian Gymnastics

Galina at the Russian Federation's message board has now posted results of yesterday's event finals, kindly in English.  Aliya Mustafina gained two golds in the finals she competed, vault and floor.  Nabieva took bars, and Anna Pavlova took beam. In the junior competition Anastasia Sidorova won first in vault, beam and floor, leaving bars to Ukrainian Alina Vasilievna.  Sidorova did not qualify to bars final following a major break during a transition from high to low bar, but this was an otherwise dominant performance by this emerging young gymnast. Top three finishers are provided below.  All gymnasts were competing for Russia, unless otherwise stated. Senior competition Vault 1 Nabieva T         14.8 2 Chusovitina O    14.375 3 Pavlova A           14.25 A Bars 1         Mustafina A         ...

The competition took place this weekend in Penza. The Russian women's team for Rotterdam did not compete here, but the men's team did, partly as a pre-competition test. I am delighted to see that my favourite gymnast Barkalov won, and would like to announce that henceforth, he will be known as Barkalot on these pages. http://www.burtasy.ru/school/activities/event_64.html The Russian men's team announced so far includes Anton Golutsutskov, Maxim Devyatovskiy, Sergei Khorokhordin, Igor Pakhomenko, Andrei Cherkasov, Dmitri Barkalot, David Belyavskiy. The inimitable Pavlova, who could at this stage be considered the non-travelling reserve for the women's team for Rotterdam, won the women's competition.