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 one like this serious start Olympic cycle, everyone is looking at each other. This is like a foundation for the coming years.”
The composition of the national team is fully discussed coaching staff corresponded: there were many new faces on 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 so high international level arrived for the first time. 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 lineup and keeping in mind the controversial 2015 World Cup, where 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,” noted Valentina Rodionenko shortly before the start of the tournament.
The composition of the Russian national team at the World Championships artistic gymnastics 2017
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 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 best result decades, 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 a tournament with the largest number injuries in athletes. Fortunately, Russian team these misadventures passed by, but due to injury, for example, a three-time Olympic champion 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
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,” said the senior coach national team Valentina Rodionenko to journalists: “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
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):
