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...
Tag - Worlds 2019
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...
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...
For a while, it looked like Daria Spiridonova would become an alternate on the Russian team, just as she was the last year. Maria Paseka is the reigning European champion on vault and for Spiridonova, the Worlds became the first...
Eythora Thorsdottir is known for her expressive floor routines. Her new floor routine, she hopes, will resonate with many people and they’ll be able to put their own emotions into it: “This time we decided not to...
Laney Madsen was first supposed to compete for Bulgaria at the 2018 World Championships but got injured shortly after arriving in Doha. This year, she used the European Championships and Games to prepare for Worlds and hopes to...
Petro Pakhniuk has been having quite a good season so far, winning silver on parallel bars at the European Championships and bronze on floor at the European Games. In 2016, he represented Azerbaijan at the Olympic Games in Rio...
At the World Championships, Oleg Verniaiev hopes to help the Ukrainian men’s team qualify to the Olympics. So, he’s going to give it his all despite having two surgeries earlier this year and not quite being...