Russian vault and rings start Denis Abliazin had to miss the 2018 World Championships in order to preserve his eligibility for a nominative spot he’s trying to earn through World Cups. This year, he won gold on both rings...
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Russian men’s team won its first-ever gold medal in the team final at the World Championships. The USSR won the team gold in 1991, the last team competition at Worlds before the country ceased to exist. Russian team won...
2018 was difficult for the Ukrainian men’s team. With Oleg Verniaiev, Yevgen Yudenkov, and Petro Pakhniuk injured most of the year, the team without Yudenkov and Verniaiev and with Pakhniuk only doing three events placed...
Russian team came to Stuttgart quite depleted. First, an injury kept Aliya Mustafina out of the running. Then, Angelina Simakova who was on the nominative team, got injured during the training camp. They ended up having to bring...
In 2013, when Azerbaijan started building its artistic gymnastics program, they managed to recruit quite a few gymnasts, mainly from Russia and Ukraine. Marina Nekrasova was not one of their top recruits on the women’s side...
Taiwan’s team (or, rather, Chinese Taipei’s as the Olympic Committee chooses to call it) made history at these Worlds by not only qualifying to the Olympics but also making the men’s team final. Taiwan beat such...
Ukrainian women’s team is on the rise and they have been collecting medals all season. At the European Championships, both Diana Varinska and Anastasia Bachynska finished in the top 10 in the all-around. At teh European...
Andrey Medvedev, the silver medalist on vault at this year’s European Championships, had bing plans for the Worlds. He upgraded his vault for Euros and planned to upgrade his second vault and have two vaults with 6.0...
Israeli women’s gymnastics has had some bad luck in the past month. First, Ofir Netzer, who placed 4th at the vault final at the European Games and was very likely to qualify to the Tokyo Olympics, tore her ACL at the...
Angelina Melnikova came to the World Championships at the end of a very good season. She won silver on bars and bronze on floor and in the all-around at the European Championships and then won two gold and two silver medals at...