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2025 Doha World Cup - Qualifications Day 2

Day two of qualifications are underway at the 2025 FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup event taking place in the Aspire Dome in Doha, Qatar. Hungary's Greta Mayer has top-scored on the Balance Beam to the final over Romania's Sabrina Maneca-Voinea and Australia's Kate McDonald. On the Floor Exercise, Maneca-Voinea outclassed the field to top the qualification standings over Kate McDonald, with Canadian Audrey Rousseau rounding out the top three. In the Men's competition, Ukraine's Nazar Chepurnyi topped the Vault qualification standings over Switzerland's Luca Giubellini and Armenian Artur Davtyan, whilst on the Parallel Bars, Australian Jesse Moore is the top qualifier to the final over Chepurnyi and Switzerland's Matteo Giubellini. On the Horizontal Bar, Kazakhstan's Milad Karimi and TANG Chia-Hung outclassed the field qualifying 1st and 2nd to the final over Matteo Giubellini. MEN'S VAULT: Nazar Chepurnyi (UKR) (14.300, 14.366) 14.333 Luca Giubellin...

DAY 1 Qualifications - Doha World Cup

Qualifications are underway at the 2025 FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup event taking place in the Aspire Dome in Doha, Qatar. Uzbekistan's Oksana Chusovitina has qualified first to the Vault final with Hungary's Greta Mayer and Teja Belak of Slovenia qualifying second and third respectively to the final. On the Uneven Bars, Australia's Kate McDonald has topped the qualification standings over Canada's Audrey Rousseau and Slovenia's Lucija Hribar. In the Men's Competition, Slovenian Anze Hribar top scored on the Floor Exercise over Kazakhstan's Milad Karimi and Great Britain's Sam Mostowfi, whilst on the Pommel Horse Armenia's Hamlet Manukyan earned the top marks over Kazakhstan's Nariman Kurbanov and HONG Yanming of China. YOU Hao of China outclassed the field on Still Rings to be the top scorer to qualify for the final over Armenia's Artur Avetisyan and Vahagn Davtyan. MEN'S FLOOR EXERCISE: Anze Hribar (SLO) 14.000  (with 0.1 bonus) Mi...

2024 Olympics - Gymnasts Chosen as Closing Ceremony Flag Bearers

Cyprus' Vera Tugolukova, who finished 16th in the Rhythmic Gymnastics All-Around competition. (Source:  https://in-cyprus.philenews.com/sports/rhythmic-gymnast-vera-tugolukova-to-carry-flag-in-olympics-closing-ceremony/ ) Carlos Edriel Yulo, of the Philippines has been selected along with bronze medalist Aira Villegas. Yulo won both the Floor and Vault titles here in Paris. (Source:  https://sports.inquirer.net/579663/carlos-yulo-aira-villegas-flag-bearers-for-closing-ceremony) . Captain of the Rhythmic Gymnastics group from Israel, Romi Paritzki has reportedly been chosen to carry the flag along with sailor Tom Reuveni. (Source:  https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-814136 ) From the Official List on Paris 2024 website (Source:  https://olympics.com/en/news/paris-2024-olympics-the-flagbearers-at-sunday-s-closing-ceremon y) British Trampoline Gymnast and 2024 Olympic Champion Bryony Page will carry the flag along with Triathlete Alex Yee. Kazakhstan Rhythmic G...

2024 Olympics - Rhythmic Group All Around Final

The final day of the Gymnastics competition at the 2024 Olympic Games has arrived at the La Chapelle Arena and it is the Rhythmic Gymnastics Group All-Around Final. 6-time French National Rhythmic Gymnastics Individual All-Around Champion and 2-times (1996, 2000) Olympian Eva Serrano performed the coup de baton. After the first rotation, the group from China leads from Ukraine and Italy. The Chinese group of DING Xinyi, GUO Qiqi, HAO Ting, HUANG Zhangjiayang, and WANG Lanjing win the 2024 Olympics Group All-Around title over Israel (Shani Bakanov, Adar Friedmann, Romi Paritzki, Ofir Shaham, and Diana Svertsov) with Italy (Martina Centofanti, Agnese Duranti, Alessia Maurelli, Daniela Mogurean and Laura Paris) finishing third.  GROUP ALL-AROUND FINAL (5 HOOPS, 3 RIBBONS & 2 BALLS): China  (36.950, 32.850) 69.800 Israel   (35.600, 33.250) 68.850 Italy   (36.100, 32.000) 68.100 Bulgaria  (34.100, 33.700) 67.800 Azerbaijan   (34.850, 31.600) 66.450 France ...

2024 Olympics - Individual Rhythmic Gymnastics AA Final

Can Italian Sofia Rafaelli complete the fairytale and again dominate in tonight's Individual All-Around final? Or will it be someone else who lands on the top of the podium? Rhythmic gymnastics is grace, beauty, wows, risks, and full of amazing and difficult performances; it really has it all. Tonight's coup de baton is performed by Kseniya Moustafaeva; a French Rhythmic Gymnast who was a finalist in Rio. At the end of the final, Germany's Daria Varfolomeev (who top scored with all apparatuses except the Ribbon) won the Olympic All-Around title 2.250 points clear of Bulgaria's Boryana Kaleyn with Italian Sofia Raffaeli winning the bronze.  ALL-AROUND FINAL (HOOP, BALL, CLUBS, RIBBON) Daria Varfolomeev (GER)  (36.300, 36.500, 36.350, 33.700) 142.850 Boryana Kaleyn (BUL) (35.850, 36.450, 34.550, 33.750) 140.600 Sofia Rafaelli (ITA) (35.250, 32.900, 35.900, 32.250) 136.300 Margarita Kolosov (GER) (34.600, 34.150, 33.950, 32.550) 135.250 Daria Atamanov (ISR) ...

2024 Olympics - Rhythmic Gymnastics Group AA Qualification

Group All-Around Qualification is underway at the La Chapelle Arena for Rhythmic Gymnastics. At the end of today's competition, the top 8 ranked groups move on to the Group All-Around Final. After the first rotation, Italy (Martina Centofanti, Agnese Duranti, Alessia Maurelli, Daniela Mogurean, and Laura Paris) leads over Bulgaria (Sofia Ivanova, Magdalina Minevska, Kamelia Petrova, Rachel Stoyanov and Margarita Vasileva) with France (Ainhoa Dot, Manelle Inaho, Celia Joseph-Noel, Justine Lavit and Lozea Vilarino) in third. After the second rotation, Bulgaria are the highest qualifiers to the All-Around final over Italy and the group from Ukraine.  GROUP ALL-AROUND QUALIFICATION (5 HOOPS, 3 RIBBONS & 2 BALLS): Bulgaria  (37.700, 32.700) 70.400 Italy  (38.200, 31.150) 69.350 Ukraine  (35.450, 33.500) 68.950 France  (36.600, 32.200) 68.800 China (35.500, 32.400) 67.900 Israel  (35.250, 31.900) 67.150 Uzbekistan  (33.550, 30.450) 64.000 Azerbaijan ...

2024 Olympics - Individual Rhythmic Gymnastics Qualification

Rhythmic Gymnastics is underway at the Porte de La Chapelle Arena, with the Individual All-Around Qualification taking place.  The top 10 in the All-Around rankings at the end of today's competition will head into the All-Around Final.  At the halfway point, after two apparatuses, Italy's Sofia Rafaelli leads over Bulgaria's Boryana Kaleyn and Ukraine's Taisiia Onofriichuk. Heading into the final rotation, Rafaelli has a 1.9 points lead over Onofriichuk, with Kaleyn sitting in third. Rafaelli is the highest qualifier to the final over Germany's Daria Varfolomeev and Kaleyn. INDIVIDUAL ALL-AROUND (HOOP, BALL, CLUBS, RIBBON): Sofia Rafaelli (ITA) (35.700, 34.450, 35.000, 33.950) 139.100 Daria Varfolomeev (GER)  (32.500, 36.450, 35.250, 32.650) 136.850 Boryana Kaleyn (BUL) (35.350, 34.600, 33.600, 32.900) 136.450 Taisiia Onofriichuk  ( UKR) (34.250, 35.250, 33.750, 32.500) 135.750 Margarita Kolosov (GER) (34.550, 33.000, 33.800, 30.150) 131.500 ...