This competition was interesting and I was impressed with the Canadians their gymnasts have improved a lot. The results of the Junior Cup team competition were:
1. Russia 208.825
2. Canada 1 206.300
3. Canada 2 203.075
4. Canada 3 193.700
5. Romania 161.100
AA Results:
1. Madeline Gardiner 54.225
2. Riley Cholod 54.050
3. Mariya Karpova 53.725
The Romanians were disappointing overall, Larisa Iordache appeared to be injured and watered down her floor and beam routines. She didnt seem like herself at all having a falls on beam and floor in the team competition. But she came back in Event Finals to get 2nd place on beam (14.025) which can be seen here. All I can say is I hope she recovers in time for Europeans so she can do herself justice. Diana Bulimar had an ok competition and the highlight for me was her gold medal winning floor routine from event finals (13.800) I just love that she seems to enjoy performing and hope she does well at Europeans.
I was impressed with the young inexperienced Russian Team during the team competition, unfortunately they seemed to fall apart during the event finals. I posted a few of my favourite routines below:
Ekaterina Shtronda - She has a new floor routine which I like because she is so elegant and has really solid landings, just needs to upgrade the tumbling. Below is her floor from the Team cup (13.525):
Ekaterina Baturina - Below is her beam routine which was really amazing she hit everything and finished it off with a stuck dismout to score 13.775. Unfortunatley she must have had some major problems during event finals as she only scored 11.350 and is going to have to improve her consistency in the next couple of years.
Riley Cholod - She really impressed me with her consistency, she placed 2nd AA (54.050), 4th beam (13.500), 5th floor (12.925) and won bars in event finals (13.250) and she actually scored better than that during the team competition (13.675). She has real potential on bars just has some minor form errors.
Jordyn Pedersen - She has some impressive tumbling for a 13 year old especially her first pass which is front layout into double front!. Her form and presentation need to be improved but she definetely has some talent.
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010
Tuesday, 23 February 2010
International Gymnix Junior Cup
As it seems like the World cup portion has been cancelled on the Womens side I decided to take a look at the Junior Cup and it looks like it is going to be an excellent competition!
There are many exciting gymnasts listed from Romania, Russia and Canada (no USA yet).
Probably the most well-known gymnasts are Larisa Iordache and Diana Bulimar from Romania. They both have entertaining styles and big skills. Larisa's best pieces are beam and floor, below is her beam routine from Topgym 2009 which includes 2/1 spin and round off+flick to two+triple twist dismount. She won with a score of 15.050.
Diana is also strong on floor and has a nice bar routine too. Her floor routine from Topgym 2009 included a piked full-in and 1 1/2 step out into double tuck back. She scored 13.550 to win second place.
The Russian team has a lot of younger, more inexperienced gymnasts but one of them includes one of my favourite gymnasts Ekaterina Shtronda. She is a really elegant gymnast with beautiful dance and leaps. Check out her floor routine rom the Russian Championship last year.
Another interesting Russian who is only 12 years old is Maria Karpova. She has excellent form and toe point and it will be interesting to see how she performs. Below is her compulsory beam routine from the Moscow Championships last year:
Another Russian I like is Ekaterina Baturina she is a tiny, elegant little gymnast. Below is her beam from the Russian Championships last year, apart from the falls she shows great potential and is deceivingly powerful!
The Canadians have many gymnasts entered my favourite of which is Sabrina Gill. Last year she placed 6th at Elite Canada, she has a really nice style and huge potential especially on bars. She recently posted a training video where she is working on arabian (beam), pak, stalder tkatchev and some eagle giants. She is only going to get better and that is going to be great for Canada.
Another interesting Canadian is Riley Cholod who has been having a lot of success recently winning Elite Canada in December and this weekend winning the Nadia Comaneci Invitational. She has clean form and seems able to deal with the pressure well during competition.
Victoria Moors - is a really powerful gymnast especially on floor where her tumbes include 1 1/2 step out into 2 /2, tucked full-in, triple twist and double pike.
So even if there is no World Cup for Women and even if the USA don't send anyone, the Junior Cup will be an interesting competition.
There are many exciting gymnasts listed from Romania, Russia and Canada (no USA yet).
Probably the most well-known gymnasts are Larisa Iordache and Diana Bulimar from Romania. They both have entertaining styles and big skills. Larisa's best pieces are beam and floor, below is her beam routine from Topgym 2009 which includes 2/1 spin and round off+flick to two+triple twist dismount. She won with a score of 15.050.
Diana is also strong on floor and has a nice bar routine too. Her floor routine from Topgym 2009 included a piked full-in and 1 1/2 step out into double tuck back. She scored 13.550 to win second place.
The Russian team has a lot of younger, more inexperienced gymnasts but one of them includes one of my favourite gymnasts Ekaterina Shtronda. She is a really elegant gymnast with beautiful dance and leaps. Check out her floor routine rom the Russian Championship last year.
Another interesting Russian who is only 12 years old is Maria Karpova. She has excellent form and toe point and it will be interesting to see how she performs. Below is her compulsory beam routine from the Moscow Championships last year:
Another Russian I like is Ekaterina Baturina she is a tiny, elegant little gymnast. Below is her beam from the Russian Championships last year, apart from the falls she shows great potential and is deceivingly powerful!
The Canadians have many gymnasts entered my favourite of which is Sabrina Gill. Last year she placed 6th at Elite Canada, she has a really nice style and huge potential especially on bars. She recently posted a training video where she is working on arabian (beam), pak, stalder tkatchev and some eagle giants. She is only going to get better and that is going to be great for Canada.
Another interesting Canadian is Riley Cholod who has been having a lot of success recently winning Elite Canada in December and this weekend winning the Nadia Comaneci Invitational. She has clean form and seems able to deal with the pressure well during competition.
Victoria Moors - is a really powerful gymnast especially on floor where her tumbes include 1 1/2 step out into 2 /2, tucked full-in, triple twist and double pike.
So even if there is no World Cup for Women and even if the USA don't send anyone, the Junior Cup will be an interesting competition.
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