Olympic medallist Denis Ablyazin was the star this week in Penza The spectacular events of beam, floor, vault, parallel bars and high bar took place last week and I am finally updating the blog with these results, which can be found in full on the RGF website ( WAG and MAG ). They were interesting results : over the two days of event finals, four different women won gold medals (Paseka, Grishina, Shelgunova and Afanasyeva). The absence of Komova from the competition, and the withdrawal of Mustafina and Grishina from beam and floor finals mean that these results cannot be considered to be the comprehensive book on Russian WAG form, but it is good news that the Russians have such plausible champions on each piece of apparatus. I am particularly pleased to see that Ksenia Afanasyeva is continuing at full force - her beam routine was especially interesting. For the men it was a stunning endorsement of the specialist work being done by the fiery Denis Ablyazin (gold on...
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