As the reigning World and European AA champion, Nikita Nagorny came to Tokyo as a heavy favorite to win the all-around gold but had to settle for bronze. He qualified to the final in second place, over 0.5 behind Hashimoto Daiki...
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Nikita Nagornyy has been one of the strongest gymnasts in the World for a while, and his won his first senior medal at the European Championships back in 2015. However, his first individual medal at Worlds did not happen until...
Lilia Akhaimova first made the national team at the age of 18 – quite late for Russian elites who normally get noticed when they are still juniors. She trains at the same gym as Elena Eremina and Tatiana Nabieva but only...
In 2018, Artur Dalaloyan became the all-around World champion, the first champion from Russia since Nikolai Kryukov in 1999. This year, however, has been full of ups and downs for him. At the Russian Championships in March, he...
Despite being an Olympic silver medalist and multiple European winner and medalist in the all-around, Oleg Verniaiev had never won an all-around medal at the World Championships until last night. Verniaiev qualified to the...
In the all-around final, Angelina Melnikova managed to win her first individual medal at the World Championships. Last year, Melnikova finished 5th in the all-around final, only a tenth behind the second place. This year, while...
Last year, at the 2018 European Championships, Melanie De Jesus Dos Santos was the unofficial all-around winner (because no AA title was awarded). This year, she made it official. For De Jesus Dos Santos, it was a tough battle...
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...
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...