2026 Russian Championships Performance Analysis WAG UB

 Part 2 – Women’s Uneven Bars: Difficulty Makes the Difference

Uneven bars produced some of the highest technical standards of the 2026 Russian Championships. The event featured the championship’s highest D scores in the women’s competition and rewarded gymnasts capable of combining complex release sequences and transitions with clean execution. Although several routines were closely matched for execution, difficulty ultimately proved decisive in separating the medal winners.  

The Podium

Medal	Gymnast	Region	Score
🥇 Gold	Lyudmila Arkadyevna Roshchina	Krasnodar Krai	14.633
🥈 Silver	Anna Dmitriyevna Kalmykova	Moscow	14.300
🥉 Bronze	Leila Dmitriyevna Vasilyeva	Vladimir Region	14.266

Highest Difficulty Scores

Rank	Gymnast	Region	Best D
1	Lyudmila Arkadyevna Roshchina	Krasnodar Krai	6.5
2	Anna Dmitriyevna Kalmykova	Moscow	6.4
2=	Viktoria Viktorovna Listunova	Moscow	6.4
4	Leila Dmitriyevna Vasilyeva	Vladimir Region	6.2
4=	Zlata Sergeyevna Osokina	Leningrad Region	6.2

Highest Execution scores

Rank	Gymnast	Region	Best E
1	Anna Dmitriyevna Kalmykova	Moscow	8.233
2	Lyudmila Arkadyevna Roshchina	Krasnodar Krai	8.133
3	Irina Denisovna Komnova	Tula Region	8.100
3=	Leila Dmitriyevna Vasilyeva	Vladimir Region	8.100
5	Maria Alekseyevna Tretyakova	Moscow	8.233 (Team Final)

Team rankings

Rank	Team	Score
1	Moscow	55.366
2	Krasnodar Krai	51.666
3	Vladimir Region	51.499
4	Saint Petersburg	45.899
5	Tula Region	45.565

Numbers That Matter

14.633 — Highest women’s bars score of the championships.

6.5 — Highest start value achieved.

8.233 — Highest execution score recorded during the championships.

0.367 — Margin between first and third place.

Three gymnasts scored above 14.2, underlining the depth of quality at the top of the field.

Performance Spotlight

Lyudmila Arkadyevna Roshchina

Roshchina’s winning routine combined the championship’s highest difficulty with execution that remained among the very best in the field. Unlike some high-difficulty routines that relied on Difficulty alone, her performance was balanced across both components, leaving little opportunity for rivals to recover through cleaner execution. It was one of the clearest examples at these championships of a gymnast successfully pairing ambitious composition with secure performance.  

What We Learned

Uneven bars emerged as the apparatus on which difficulty most clearly separated the leading competitors. While execution scores among the medal contenders differed only modestly, the higher start values of the leading routines created decisive scoring advantages. The event also demonstrated the depth of Russian women’s bars work, with strong performances coming from several regions rather than a single dominant programme.