The Universiade event finals took place yesterday, with Japan's Yu Minobe taking two golds (bars and beam). The Japanese women put on a strong showing here, taking a total of nine medals throughout all stages of the competition (seven in the event finals, team gold and silver in the all around (Yamagishi)).
Russia showed their class on vault and floor, taking three medals in total. Alena Polyan, who shone at this spring's Russian Championships, dominated floor, taking the top score on this event each day of the competition. Along with her bronze all around and on beam, she has a good collection of medals from this event. 2010 European team champion Anna Myzdrikova took silver on vault. St Petersburg's Irina Sazonova performed pretty much as she did in qualifying on bars, finishing in sixth place, Ekaterina Skorodumova took a .6 penalty on floor to finish 6th there also. Yulia Lozhecko was the only Russian woman not to qualify to any final.
In the men's competition, Flavius Koczi made up for a disappointing all around performance by taking two golds, on floor and vault. No Russian man performed in event finals. Given Russinyak's performance at this spring's Russian championships, and before that at the European Junior championships, this must be a disappointment.
Full results of the events finals can be found here.
Russia showed their class on vault and floor, taking three medals in total. Alena Polyan, who shone at this spring's Russian Championships, dominated floor, taking the top score on this event each day of the competition. Along with her bronze all around and on beam, she has a good collection of medals from this event. 2010 European team champion Anna Myzdrikova took silver on vault. St Petersburg's Irina Sazonova performed pretty much as she did in qualifying on bars, finishing in sixth place, Ekaterina Skorodumova took a .6 penalty on floor to finish 6th there also. Yulia Lozhecko was the only Russian woman not to qualify to any final.
In the men's competition, Flavius Koczi made up for a disappointing all around performance by taking two golds, on floor and vault. No Russian man performed in event finals. Given Russinyak's performance at this spring's Russian championships, and before that at the European Junior championships, this must be a disappointment.
Full results of the events finals can be found here.
Found these interviews with Polyan and Myzdrikova (they're in Russian, obviously). Thought I'd share them in case you hadn't seen them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvHIm-YNKQs&feature=channel_video_title
ReplyDeleteI hadn't seen them - thank you very much for the link - will try to post later.
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