Artur Dalaloyan finished this competition as the most decorated MAG gymnast – in addition to his silver in the team final and gold in the all-around, he also won gold on floor, silver on vault and bronze on parallel bars...
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For Artur Dalaloyan, this has been a pretty busy competition. He competed on all six events in the qualification and the team final where Russia placed second. Then he won the all-around final. He also won the Longines Prize for...
Oksana Chusovitina has won nine World medals on vault, with her first in 1991 when she still represented USSR and her last one exactly 20 years later in 2011 when she represented Germany. Now she hopes to win another one in 2019...
Aliya Mustafina is a two-time Olympics champion on uneven bars but, strangely, enough, she’s never won gold on this event at Worlds. She won silver on bars at her first Worlds in 2010 and then a bronze in 2013. She is still...
Yesterday, Irina Alexeeva competed in the all-around final as the second Russian all-arounder in addition to Angelina Melnikova. Alexeeva’s difficulty doesn’t yet allow how to fight for AA medals at major competitions...
When a Russian gymnast misses out on a medal by less than 0.1, you just know Valentina Rodionenko will have things to say. And she did. Rodionenko claimed that the judging was not objective and the head judge on beam has been...
Angelina Melnikova has struggled with consistency throughout last year and did not have a great performance at her first World Championships in Montreal. However, this year she has been extremely consistent and it looked like she...
Translation from Chinese by Daniel Rothwell In an interview with CCTV following qualifications at the 2018 World Championships, the Chinese women’s team and head coach, Qiao Liang (also known as Chow) gave their thoughts on...
For Nikita Nagornyy, today’s final was a redemption for both the team final in which Russia lost to China by 0.05 and the last year’s AA final in which Nagornyy finished 10th despite having the highest...
Artur Dalaloyan won the first Worlds AA medal for Russia in nine years (Yuri Ryazanov won bronze in 2009) and the first gold in 19 years (Nikolai Kryukov was the World AA champion in 1999). Nikita Nagornyy won the bronze medal...