Cottbus Finals Results

The first day of finals were today and the results are below:

Vault
1. Oksana Chusovitina 13.875
2. Kristina Vaculik 13.787
3. Renata Toth 13.625

Bars
1. Kristina Vaculik 14.050
2. Anysia Unick 13.775
3. Maria-Sophie Hindermann 13.750

Kristina Vaculik had a good day and she definetely looks like shes almost back to her best. Her bars routine included a high tkatchev, some really nice handstands and lines and finished with a stuck double front dismount. She performed 2 clean vaults (8.950 & 8.825 execution) both with 1 large step on the landing which were a Yurchenko full and a Yurchenko 1/2 on front pike off.

Marie-Sophie Hindermann had some really nice bar work with high realeases and beautiful form and would have scored a lot higher if she had not caught her pak too close to the bar.

Tatiana Solovyova could not repeat her excellent qualifying performance and had problems straight away on her first full piroutte and then had a fall on her double front dismount (12.700). I hope she can put that behind her and show what she is really capable of other wise I have a feeling that it is going to damage her European Championships hopes.

Renata Toth is a first year senior from Hungary. She performed a very nice handspring front pike 1/2 with an almost stuck landing (13.725) and yurchenko full with ok form (13.525). She also made the bars finals and performed a good routine but had problems on the double front dismount.

Oksana Chusovitina won vault with a good handspring pike front full and a fall on her tsukahara 1 1/2 because she had so much more difficulty than the rest of the competitiors. Credit to her for still being able to compete these vaults though and hope she cleans up for Euros.

International Gymnix

There are a few other gymnasts that are competing this weekend that I think are interesting. The first is Shae Zamardi she is competing in the Junior Cup for Canadian. I like that she makes an effort with the choroegraphy on floor and I think she has potential on bars. She lives with another family while she trains at Omega gymnastics and was plagued with injuries last year so she s definetley going to get better.


Elizabeth Price - She is competing in the International Cup and trains at Parkettes. She has potential on all events and I especially like her beam. There are no videos of her yet this year but her beam from the Parkettes Invitational last year is below:

Kristina Vaculik - As there is no World Cup for women she is competing in the International Cup continuing her comeback trail after winning the Nadia Comaneci Inviational. I hope she stays healthy so she can add more difficulty and we can see her at major international meets sometime.

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