The World Championships in Montreal became the first major tournament of the new Olympic cycle, a kind of initial stage of preparation for the 2020 Olympics. Before the start of the competition, the senior coach of the Russian national team emphasized this Valentina Rodionenko: “Our tasks are as follows: just don’t flinch and perform. This is the first such serious start of the Olympic cycle, everyone is looking closely at each other. This is like a foundation for the coming years.”
The composition of the national team fully corresponded to the speeches of the coaching staff: there were many new faces in the team. And if Nikita Ignatiev gymnastics fans remembered from their excellent performance at the European Games in Baku, then Sergey Eltsov And Arthur Dalaloyan This is the first time we have reached such a high international level. There were new faces in the women's team: Melnikova and Paseka, proven by the Olympics, joined the Canadian tournament Elena Eremina And Anastasia Ilyankova, ready to surprise the audience.
Looking at the updated squad and remembering the controversial 2015 World Championships, where the Russian men did not win a single medal, and the women won three titles at once, the national team coaches abandoned all kinds of plans and forecasts: “No medal plans are needed here, God forbid,” – Valentina Rodionenko noted shortly before the start of the tournament.
The composition of the Russian national team at the 2017 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
Victory for the President
The men clearly did not want to remain at the World Championships without awards, like two years ago. Having missed their chance in the all-around, the Russians planned to win back in certain events. Fortunately, we managed to qualify for five out of six finals. Unfortunately, Arthur Dalaloyan It was not possible to surprise the judges and spectators in the vault, but the more experienced gymnasts did what they do well. won silver in the pommel horse and bronze on the uneven bars, leaving behind only the Olympic champions in these disciplines. It is worth noting that for David these medals were the first at the world championships in seven years of his performances, and he won his third award - silver on the rings. And this time the Russian athlete lost to the Olympic champion, the Greek Petrunias, who has won all competitions for the third year in a row.
In the solid collection of medals, there was also a place for gold. , specializing in vault, managed to defend her world champion title in her favorite discipline. It is curious that the gymnast dedicated her victory to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was celebrating his next birthday on October 7. Surely the leader of the country was happy for Elena Eremina, who on the same day added silver on uneven bars to her all-around bronze. Anastasia Ilyankova was close to also climbing the podium, but, losing a little more than one tenth of a point to the Belgian Derval, she ended up in fourth place.
Repeating the record
As a result, the Russian team won six awards, repeating the best result of the decade shown in 2010, 2011 and 2014. In Canada, only the Chinese received the same number of awards, and no one else could. Such a start to the new Olympic cycle can only be encouraging. It is especially pleasant that new stars are shining in the Russian team: I want to believe that Eremina and Ilyankova will only improve over time. The same applies to the young team in the men’s team, even if they didn’t perform very well in Montreal.
However, the tournament in Canada will leave not only pleasant memories. The fact is that many athletes, coaches and heads of delegations had questions for the competition organizers, who, for the sake of television, did not give the athletes enough time to try out the equipment - hence the many mistakes and damages. Valentina Rodionenko noted that the World Championships in Montreal will go down in history as the tournament with the largest number of injuries among athletes. Fortunately, the Russian team was spared these misadventures, but due to injury, for example, the three-time Olympic champion dropped out of the fight Kohei Uchimura, preparing to compete for another couple of awards.
All medalists of the Russian artistic gymnastics team at the 2017 World Championships
(horse) – silver
(rings) – silver
(bars) – bronze
Elena Eremina (individual all-around) – bronze
(vault) – gold
Elena Eremina (uneven bars) – silver
Catalina Ponor, Getty Images
The 2017 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships have ended.
Let us remind you that the 2017 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships took place in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. It became successful for the Ukrainian team and its leader Oleg Vernyaev, who won two gold medals.
In floor exercises, Vernyaev took only seventh place. And the victory was won by the host of the competition, Romanian Marian Dragulescu, who became a 10-time European champion.
Floor exercise results (men):
In the women's all-around, Briton Ellie Downey won her first gold at the European Championships. It is noteworthy that representatives of 8 different countries were in the top 8.
All-around results (women):
In the women's vault, France's Colin Devillard won, ahead of Britain's Elissa Downey and Hungary's Bulgarian Devay.
Vault results (women):
In the pommel horse exercises, Oleg Vernyaev also became only seventh. And the Russian David Belyavsky won the gold.
Horseback exercise results (men):
On the women's uneven bars, the strongest was the representative of Belgium, Nina Dervel, who was ahead of the Russian Elena Eremina and the same British Ellie Downey.
Parallel bars results (women):
The host of the competition, Catalina Ponor, won her fifth career gold at the European Championships in the balance beam competition. In total, she now has 8 gold medals at European championships.
Balance beam results (women):
Russian Angelina Melnikova won the women's floor exercise. Ellie Downey won her next medal, taking silver.
Floor exercise results (women):
On the men's crossbar, the strongest was the Swiss Pablo Bregger, who was ahead of the Swiss Oliver Hagy and the Russian David Belyavsky. Oleg Veryanev took only 8th place.
Results of exercises on the horizontal bar (men):
Today, April 23, the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships ended in Cluj (Romania). 12 sets of awards were raffled off. The Russian team won the team event with eight medals - three gold, three silver and two bronze. The Romanians were second (2-1-1), the Ukrainians were third (2-0-2), the British were fourth (1-3-2), the Swiss were fifth (1-1-0), the French were sixth (1- 0-1). In terms of the total number of awards, the first are the Russians (8), the second are the British (6), the third are the Romanians and Ukrainians (4 each). This was reported by the All Sport Agency.
Gold for Russia was brought by David Belyavsky (pommel horse), Arthur Dalaloyan (vault) and Angelina Melnikova (freestyle), silver by Dalaloyan (all-around), Dmitry Lankin (freestyle) and Elena Eremina (uneven bars), bronze by Nikita Nagorny (uneven bars) and David Belyavsky (crossbar).
Men. Personal all-around. 1. Oleg Vernyaev (Ukraine) - 85,866. 2. Artur Dalaloyan (Russia) - 85,498. 3. James Hall (Great Britain) - 84,664. 4. Nikita Ignatiev (Russia) - 83.964. Floor exercise. 1. Marian Dragulescu (Romania) - 14,500. 2. Dmitry Lankin (Russia) - 14,466. 3. Alexander Shatilov (Israel) - 14,000. Horse. 1. David Belyavsky (Russia) - 15,100. 2. Kriztian Berki (Hungary) - 14,900. 3. Harutyun Merdinyan (Armenia) - 14,833. Rings. 1. Eleftherios Petrunias (Greece) - 15,433. 2. Courtney Tulloch (Great Britain) - 15,066. 3. Igor Radivilov (Ukraine) - 15,033... 8. Dmitry Lankin (Russia) - 14,466. Vault. 1. Artur Dalaloyan (Russia) - 14,933. 2. Marian Dragulescu (Romania) - 14,733. 3. Oleg Vernyaev (Ukraine) - 14,649. Bars. 1. Oleg Vernyaev (Ukraine) - 15,466. 2. Lukas Dauser (Germany) - 15,366. 3. Nikita Nagorny - 15,266. 4. David Belyavsky (both - Russia) - 15,233. Crossbar. 1. Pablo Bregger - 14,933. 2. Oliver Hegy (both - Switzerland) - 14,500. 3. David Belyavsky (Russia) - 14,366.
Women. Personal all-around. 1. Eliza Downey (Great Britain) - 55,765. 2. Sofia Kovacs (Hungary) - 55.432. 3. Melanie de Jesus dos Santos (France) - 55,065. 4. Elena Eremina - 54.266... 9. Natalya Kapitonova (both - Russia) - 52.766. Vault. 1. Colin Devillard (France) - 14,467. 2. Eliza Downey (Great Britain) - 14,350. 3. Boglarka Devai (Hungary) - 14,317. 4. Maria Paseka - 14,283... 8. Angelina Melnikova (both - Russia) - 14,000. Bars. 1. Nina Dervel (Belgium) - 14,633. 2. Elena Eremina (Russia) - 14,300. 3. Eliza Downey (Great Britain) and Elisabeth Seitz (Germany) - 14,133 each. Log. 1. Catalina Ponor (Romania) - 14,566. 2. Ethora Thorsdottir (Holland) - 14,066. 3. Larisa Iordache (Romania) - 13,966. Floor exercise. 1. Angelina Melnikova (Russia) - 14,100. 2. Eisa Downey (Great Britain) - 14,066. 3. Etora Thorsdottir (Holland) -13,700… 8. Elena Eremina (Russia) - 13,466.
| 16:35 04/23/2017 - European Artistic Gymnastics Championships 2017 David Belyavsky - bronze medalist of the European Championship on horizontal bar Today, April 23, the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships ended in Cluj (Romania). In the horizontal bar exercise, the Swiss took the first two places: Pablo Brögger took gold (14.933 points), and Oliver Hegi took silver (14.500). Russian David Belyavsky became the bronze medalist (14.366). This was reported by the All Sport Agency. |
| 16:07 04/23/2017 - European Artistic Gymnastics Championships 2017 Angelina Melnikova is the European champion in artistic gymnastics in floor exercises! Today, April 23, the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships continues in Cluj (Romania). Olympic medalist Russian Angelina Melnikova became the European champion in floor exercise with a total of 14.100 points. She was ahead of the British Eliza Downey - by 0.034. The bronze medalist was the Dutchwoman Ethora Thorsdottir (13.700), and the Russian Elena Eremina was eighth (13.466). This was reported by the All Sport Agency. |
| 15:32 04/23/2017 - European Artistic Gymnastics Championships 2017 Nikita Nagorny – bronze medalist of the European Championships on uneven bars Today, April 23, the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships continues in Cluj (Romania). Olympic medalist Russian Nikita Nagorny won bronze on uneven bars (15.266 points), two-time Olympic medalist, 2016 European champion on uneven bars David Belyavsky came fourth (15.233). The first was the Ukrainian Oleg Vernyaev (15.466), the silver went to the German Lukas Dauser (15.366). This was reported by the All Sport Agency. |
| 14:40 04/23/2017 - European Artistic Gymnastics Championships 2017 Romanian Ponor – European champion in beam exercise Today, April 23, the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships continues in Cluj (Romania). In the beam exercise, Romanian Catalin Ponor won gold, receiving 14.566 points for the exercise. Silver went to Dutchwoman Etora Thorsdottir (14.066), bronze went to Romanian Larisa Iordache (13.966). This was reported by the All Sport Agency. |
| 14:04 04/23/2017 - European Artistic Gymnastics Championships 2017 Arthur Dalaloyan is the European champion in artistic gymnastics on vault! Today, April 23, the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships continues in Cluj (Romania). Russian Arthur Dalaloyan became the European champion in the vault, scoring half the sum of two vaults - 14.933 points. Romanian Marian Dragulescu took silver (14.733), Ukrainian Oleg Vernyaev took bronze (14.649). This was reported by the All Sport Agency. |
| 16:25 04/22/2017 - European Artistic Gymnastics Championships 2017 Greek Petrunias won the Romanian European Ring Championships; Dmitry Lankin – eighth Today, April 22, the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships continues in Cluj (Romania). The Greek Eleftherios Petrounias won the rings exercise (15.433 points). The judges placed Briton Courtney Tulloch in second place (15.066), and Ukrainian Igor Radivilov in third place (15.033). Russian Dmitry Lankin took eighth position (14.466). This was reported by the All Sport Agency. |
| 15:48 04/22/2017 - European Artistic Gymnastics Championships 2017 Elena Eremina – silver medalist of the European Championships on uneven bars Today, April 22, the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships continues in Cluj (Romania). Russian Elena Eremina became the silver medalist on the uneven bars (14.300), Belgian Nina Derwel (14.633) took gold, and British Eliza Downey and German Elisabeth Seitz took bronze (14.133 each). This was reported by the All Sport Agency. |
| 15:20 04/22/2017 - European Artistic Gymnastics Championships 2017 David Belyavsky is the European champion in artistic gymnastics in the pommel horse exercise! Today, April 22, the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships continues in Cluj (Romania). Two-time Olympic medalist David Belyavsky became the European champion in the pommel horse exercise, receiving 15.100 points. Hungarian Krizhtian Berki (14.900) won silver, and Armenian Harutyun Merdinyan (14.833) won bronze. This was reported by the All Sport Agency. |
| 14:35 04/22/2017 - European Artistic Gymnastics Championships 2017 Maria Paseka is fourth at the European Championships in vault Today, April 22, the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships continues in Cluj (Romania). In the vault, two-time Olympic medalist Russian Maria Paseka was fourth (14.283). Frenchwoman Colin Devillard won (14.467). Silver went to Briton Eliza Downey (14.350), bronze went to Hungarian Boglarka Devai (14.317). Angelina Melnikova – eighth (14.00). This was reported by the All Sport Agency. |
| 13:58 04/22/2017 - European Artistic Gymnastics Championships 2017 Dmitry Lankin – silver medalist of the European Championship in floor exercise Today, April 22, the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships continues in Cluj (Romania). Russian Dmitry Lankin won silver in floor exercise with a total of 14.466 points. Gold was won by Romanian Marian Dragulescu (14,500), bronze by Alexander Shatilov from Israel (14,000). This was reported by the All Sport Agency. |
| 19:23 04/21/2017 - European Artistic Gymnastics Championships 2017 Elena Eremina – fourth in the all-around at the European Championships in Romania Today, April 21, the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships continues in Cluj (Romania). Britain's Eliza Downey won the women's all-around (55.765 points). Hungarian Sofia Kovacs (55.432) won silver, while Frenchwoman Melanie de Jesus dos Santos (55.065) won bronze. Russian Elena Eremina stopped one step away from the podium (54.266), Natalya Kapitonova was ninth. This was reported by the All Sport Agency. |
| 15:28 04/21/2017 - European Artistic Gymnastics Championships 2017 Arthur Dalaloyan – silver medalist of the Romanian European Championship in all-around Today, April 20, the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships continues in Cluj (Romania). In the men's all-around, Russian Artur Dalaloyan won silver with a total of 85.498 points. In the fight for gold, Ukrainian Oleg Vernyaev was ahead of Dalaloyan by 0.368 points. Briton James Hall won bronze, and Russian Nikita Ignatiev stopped one step away from the podium. This was reported by the All Sport Agency. |
| 22:21 04/20/2017 - European Artistic Gymnastics Championships 2017 Two-time Olympic medalist Maria Paseka is second in the European Championship qualification in vault; Russia was left without a balance beam final Today, April 20, the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships continues in Cluj (Romania). Women's qualification has ended. Two-time Olympic medalist Maria Paseka qualified second in the vault (14.412). Olympic medalist Angelina Melnikova reached the finals sixth on floor (13.233) and seventh on vault (14.166). Elena Eremina qualified third on uneven bars (14.466) and floor (13.633), as well as fourth in the all-around (54.698), Natalya Kapitonova was 12th in the all-around (52.898). Russia was left without a balance beam final. This was reported by the All Sport Agency. |
| 08:53 04/20/2017 - European Artistic Gymnastics Championships 2017 Two-time Olympic medalist David Belyavsky is second in the European Championship qualification on pommel horse and horizontal bar Yesterday, April 19, the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships started in Cluj (Romania). The men's qualification has ended. Two-time Olympic medalist David Belyavsky qualified second in the horizontal bar (14.266) and pommel horse (15.000), and fifth on the uneven bars (14.900). Olympic medalist Nikita Nagorny reached the final seventh on uneven bars (14.475). Arthur Dalaloyan qualified second in the all-around (85.198) and third on the rings (14.533), Dmitry Lankin was fourth in the floor (14.433) and sixth on the rings (14.766), Nikita Ignatiev was sixth in the all-around (82.498). This was reported by the All Sport Agency. |
| 11:13 04/18/2017 - European Artistic Gymnastics Championships 2017 Schedule of the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Romania Tomorrow, April 19, the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships starts in Cluj (Romania). At the championship, 12 sets of medals will be played - in the individual all-around and individual events (uneven bars, vault, floor and beam for women; floor, pommel horse, rings, vault, parallel bars, horizontal bar for men). The competition schedule is reported by the All Sport Agency. |
| 11:20 03/24/2017 - European Artistic Gymnastics Championships 2017 Olympic medalists Belyavsky, Nagorny, Melnikova and Spiridonova are in the Russian team’s entry at the Romanian European Championship The European Artistic Gymnastics Championships will take place on April 19-23 in Cluj (Romania). The Russian team's entry includes 10 athletes - six men and four women. The Russian team will be led by four 2016 Olympic medalists - David Belyavsky, Nikita Nagorny, Angelina Melnikova and Daria Spiridonova. The preliminary application of the Russian national team is provided by the All Sport Agency. |
The World Artistic Gymnastics Championships started in Montreal, Canada - the first in the four-year cycle of preparation for the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2020. This is an important enough start for athletes to strive to show their maximum, but at the same time the Games are still far enough away for young people to be tested at this tournament. Two-time Olympic champion and honored coach of the USSR Lidia Ivanova even called the upcoming world championship “reconnaissance in force.”
“The competition at this championship will be very serious, as always. Moreover, we passed the Olympics last year, and this championship will be of particular interest to the national team coaches and those responsible for the development of our team, in order to conduct reconnaissance in force,” R-Sport quotes.
“We need to widen our eyes, open them wide and study what our competitors are preparing - we have always had and will have many of them.
We always need to push back and try to demonstrate advanced gymnastics to some extent.”
This is what the coaching staff of the Russian national team did. The maximum possible team composition went to Canada - six men and four representatives of the fair sex. As part of the “testing” of the younger generation, David Belyavsky, Denis Ablyazin, Nikita Nagorny and Arthur, who had already proven their skills, were joined by 20-year-old Sergei Eltsov, who had never competed at this level before, limiting himself to participation in the Russian Championship and the National Cup.
“Sergei has excellent parallel bars - he won them at the last Russian Cup, and the high bar is also good.
He is also strong in pommel horse exercise. We, the coaches, are especially pleased that we have someone to choose from when determining the composition of the national team,” this is how the senior coach of the Russian national team commented on the choice of young Eltsov.
It was decided that the national team debutant would perform in the uneven bars and pommel horse exercises. In the traditionally difficult individual all-around event, the country was represented by Belyavsky and, who won silver medals at Rio 2016 in the team competition. In the floor exercises, the honor of Russia was entrusted to the 20-year-old Dalaloyan, who made his mark relatively recently, in the spring of 2017, when he performed brilliantly at the European Championships in Romania, winning silver in the all-around and gold in the vault. Five-time Olympic medalist Ablyazin had to show himself on the rings, and Ignatiev - on the horizontal bar.
As for the female composition of the Russian national team, difficulties arose. Initially, only two candidates were clear - the 17-year-old (silver at Rio 2016) and the 16-year-old, who performed successfully at the last European Championship, taking second place there. The remaining two places were vacant.
It was impossible to count on the main star of Russian artistic gymnastics in recent years, Aliya Mustafina: she is just getting into shape after giving birth and will have time to return, at the very least, to the Russian Championships 2018.
As a result, the coaching staff decided to test the strength of 18-year-old Anastasia Ilyankova, who took first place on the uneven bars at the Summer Russian Cup. The girl accelerated her recovery from an old spinal injury, which suddenly made itself felt three weeks before the World Cup, and still came to Montreal.
The last place in the lineup was filled by the experienced Maria Paseka, who was given a chance to make amends for her failure at the Summer Universiade. It is in this composition that our girls will soon enter the fight for awards in the vault, floor exercises, as well as in competitions on the uneven bars and balance beam.
In total, about 500 participants from 80 countries arrived in Canada, but now the competition has begun only for men - they are in the midst of qualifying for the finals.
Of the Russians, Belyavsky is currently performing best, taking third place in the individual all-around qualification, scoring 85.839 points after completing six exercises. David easily qualified for the finals of the competition, which will take place on the night of October 5-6, Moscow time. The Russian also reached the finals in exercises on individual apparatus - high bar (14.208 points), uneven bars (15.066) and pommel horse (14.666).
“I’m very pleased with Belyavsky and the fact that we returned him to the all-around,” said Valery Alfosov, senior coach of the Russian men’s artistic gymnastics team. — 2018 is our qualifying year, we will try to get a license for the Olympic Games, and all-around athletes will be worth their weight in gold.
We are very pleased with Belyavsky’s performance today. On Europa he only made two shells, but now he’s already making six, it was a big step.”
Russia's second representative in the all-around, Nagorny, unexpectedly failed, taking only tenth place in the qualifications with 82.598 points, but still has a chance to advance to the decisive stage of the competition: the 24 best gymnasts get there, but we still need to wait for the performance of the last group of participants.
“Nagorny, the winner of the Russian Cup, was the best prepared for the tournament, but he absolutely failed. Of course, we are unhappy with his performance, very unfortunate. Nikita grabbed his back after an unsuccessful landing on the vault? There is no injury. When you don’t know what to say, grab your back as if it hurts,” commented on the performances of the gymnast Alfosov, who in general is not very happy with the way the World Championships are going.
— The performances of the gymnasts were uninteresting - neither the Chinese, nor the Japanese, nor the Americans, nor the British, nor ours. There are a lot of falls, a lot of injuries.”
Dalaloyan also did not perform very well, showing only the ninth result (14.683) on the vault. He definitely doesn’t make it to the finals, since only the top eight athletes are allowed there. In floor exercises, the Russians will also not be able to compete for a medal - Belyavsky showed the highest result, and this was 15th place (13.933). Unfortunately, young Eltsov has not yet been able to show himself in all his glory, taking only 14th place in the uneven bars exercise and 54th on the pommel horse.
“We also brought new gymnasts to Montreal, Eltsov. There was no task before him.
He is the champion of the Russian Cup, they brought him for sporting reasons, they wanted to see how he could psychologically withstand this whole gymnastics “mess”. Let’s see how the judges perceive him, he’s an interesting guy, we’re also planning him for Tokyo 2020. Dalaloyan also couldn’t show his level, which is also a shame,” Alfosov complained.
The only truly positive moment - besides Belyavsky's brilliant performance - was Ablyazin's second place in the rings exercises (15.333), thanks to which he confidently qualified for the finals. You can cheer for him on October 7 and 8, when the decisive stages of the competition in individual events will take place.
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April 21, 2017.
All-around. Men.
In the men's all-around, Russian Artur Dalaloyan won silver with a total of 85.498 points. In the fight for gold, Ukrainian Oleg Vernyaev was ahead of Dalaloyan by 0.368 points. Briton James Hall won bronze, and Russian Nikita Ignatiev stopped one step away from the podium.
All-around. Women.
15-year-old Elena Eremina took fourth place in the all-around. Britain's Elissa Downey won, Hungary's Zsofia Kovacs was second, and France's Melanie De Jesus Dos Santos was third. Another representative of Russia, Natalya Kapitonova, finished ninth.
The coaching staff of the Russian national team is outraged by the judging of the women's all-around at the Championship.
“Absolutely incomprehensible decisions were made that deprived Elena Eremina of bronze,” senior coach of the national team Valentina Rodionenko told reporters: “We were outraged by the way the three leaders were judged at the end of the competition, when they could not decide who took third place. Here they show Eremin that she won bronze, and then suddenly she was dropped to fourth place. This outraged us terribly. We still cannot understand what happened there. The Frenchwoman who eventually took bronze came out of nowhere. She was nowhere close. She failed the bars, failed the beam, and then ended up in third place.
We thought about it and did not file a protest; there are still competitions on individual apparatus ahead. There is no use arguing with the judges. If we sum up the performance of our girls in the all-around, today Eremina did what she was capable of. The only thing is that she had no right to make mistakes on the balance beam. The same applies to Kapitonova. But for the first start at such serious competitions as the European Championships, this is quite normal.”
Rodionenko also emphasized that the Russians’ mistakes on the beam will be a separate topic for analysis: “The only thing that didn’t suit us was their falls from the beam. But this will be a separate topic for analysis. Otherwise, the girls did what they needed to do. They have better marks on bars, decent floor exercises.”
Based on materials from the Russian Artistic Gymnastics Federation
Photo by Pascal Pamfil, Adrian Radulescu
