Russian Nationals 2024 : Part 2 WAG Team Finals and Individual Qualifiers

Injury was a main concern for the Russian women at this competition.  Of the Olympians, only Gerasimova competed at full strength.  Both Listunova and Melnikova were suffering with pain; you could see this on their faces and in their movement, by the end of the day's competition.  For Listunova, foot and back pain were problems, while Melnikova had severe achilles pain.  Melnikova is booked in for an MRI as soon as she returns to Moscow after a short break in Sochi, where she is staying with David Belyavski and his family.  

Slava Urazova didn't make the competition at all after injuring her knee in training.  Ilyankova has retired.  Both Diana Kustova and Alena Glotova are still recovering from chest infections and Kustova did not compete at all.  Up and coming gymnasts worth watching include Lyudmilla Roschina, Leila Vasileeva (a favourite of mine) and Maria Agafanova.  The standard of execution was generally good, although there were lots of mistakes, especially on beam.  Only Listunova and Melnikova demonstrated the highest levels of difficulty.  I wonder why, given their injuries?  

The results you find here are from Day One of competition, team finals and individual qualifications for the AA and EF.  I'll post the results of the remaining competitions separately.  I've transliterated the main results in this post and you will find the full results in Russian in a separate post.  You can watch broadcasts of the full competitions here.   Vilyam Gym's Youtube account has some great edits of the women's competition.

Team finals

1	Moscow	161.761	39.165	43.265	39.132	40.199
	Listunova, Viktoria		12.833	14.666	13.6	14.133
	Perebinosova, Yulia		13.266	14.666
	Shapovalova, Kristina			13.333	13.466	13.133
	Kalmkova, Anna		13.066	13.933	11.633	12.933
	Trykhina, Viktoria		12.433		12.066	12.4
2	Vladimir Oblast	155.863	39.566	39.132	38.332	38.833
	Vasileeva, Leila		13.866	13.433	13.1	13.5
	Semiukhina, Arina		13.7	13.766	12.366	12.9
	Gubenkova, Polina		11.8	11.933	12.866	11.833
	Maksimova, Aleksandra			11.9
	Kuznetsova, Violetta		12.00			12.433
3	Krasnodar Krai	153.629	39.599	38.265	37.132	38.633
	Biryulya, Yulia		13.5	12.666	10.4	12.633
	Lisyakova, Alena		12.466	11.133	11.866	11.733
	Roschina, Lyudmilla		12.833	13.466	13.066	12.7
	Us, Elizaveta		13.266	12.133	12.2	13.3
	Fishenko, Ekaterina
4	Novgorod Oblast	153.528	39.899	36.765	37.832	39.032
	Agafanova, Maria		13.00	12.466	13.366	13.7
5	Chuvask Republic	153.462	37.832	39.266	39.032	37.332
	Gerasimova, Elena		13.166	14.033	13.133	13.0
6	Voronezh Oblast	153.095	39.265	35.732	39.232	38.866
	Melnikova, Angelina		14.033	14.466	14.466	14.4
	Vorona, Yana		12.366		12.966	12.666

AA and EF

Leading the AA competition were Melnikova, Listunova, Vasileeva, Osokina, Andreeva, Gerasimova, Semiukhina, Agafanova, Shapovalova, Roschina.

Top gymnasts qualifying for the EF included:

Vault : Afanasyeva (Eleonora), Melnikova, Vasileeva, Biryulya, Osokina, Us, Kuzmicheva, Shklokova, Listunova

Uneven Bars : Perebinosova, Listunova, Melnikova, Andreeva, Gerasimova, Kalmkova, Osokina, Semiukhina

Balance Beam : Melnikova, Osokina, Andreeva, Listunova, Shapovalova, Agafanova, Glotova, Gerasimova, Vasileeva

Floor Exercise : Melnikova, Listunova, Agafanova, Vasileeva, Us, Shapovalova, Gerasimova, Kalmkova