April 21, 2017.

All-around. Men.

In the men's all-around, Russian Arthur Dalaloyan won silver with a total of 85.498 points. In the fight for gold, Ukrainian Oleg Vernyaev was ahead of Dalaloyan by 0.368 points. Bronze was won by Briton James Hall, and Russian Nikita Ignatiev stopped one step away from the podium.

All-around. Women.

15-year-old Elena Eremina took fourth place in the all-around. British Elissa Downey won the victory, Hungarian Zofia Kovacs was second, and French Melanie De Jesus Dos Santos was third. Another representative of Russia, Natalya Kapitonova, became the ninth.

The coaching staff of the Russian national team is outraged by the refereeing of the women's all-around at the Championship.

“Absolutely incomprehensible decisions were made that deprived Elena Eremina of the bronze,” head coach of the national team Valentina Rodionenko told reporters: “We were outraged by the way three leaders at the end of the competition, when they could not decide who took third place. Here Eremin is shown that she won bronze, and then suddenly she was lowered to fourth place. This angered us terribly. We still cannot understand what was happening there. The Frenchwoman who eventually got the bronze came out of nowhere. She was nowhere near. She flunked the bars, flunked a log, and then ended up in third place.

We thought about it and did not file a protest, there is still competition on separate apparatus ahead. Swearing with the judges is useless. If we sum up the performance of our girls in the all-around, then Eremina today did what she was capable of. The only thing, she had no right to make mistakes on the log. The same goes for Kapitonova. But for the first start at such serious competitions as the European Championship, this is quite normal. "

Rodionenko also stressed that the mistakes of Russian women on a log will become a separate topic for analysis: “The only thing that did not suit us was their fall from the log. But this will be a separate topic for analysis. The rest of the girls did what was needed. They have the best marks on the uneven bars, worthy of floor exercises. "

Based on the materials of the Russian Artistic Gymnastics Federation
Photo by Pascal Pamfil, Adrian Radulescu

World Championship in Montreal became the first major tournament new Olympic cycle, a kind the initial stage preparation for the 2020 Olympics. Before the start of the competition, this was also emphasized by the senior coach of the Russian national team. Valentina Rodionenko: “Our tasks are as follows: just do not flinch and speak. This is the first such serious start of the Olympic cycle, everyone is looking at each other. It's like a foundation for the years to come. "

The composition of the national team is completely speech coaching staff corresponded: the team had a lot of new faces. And if Nikita Ignatieva gymnastics fans remembered for their excellent performance at the European Games in Baku, then Sergey Eltsov and Arthur Dalaloyan to such a high international level we got there for the first time. There were new faces in women's team: they joined Melnikova and Paseka, proven by Olympiada, at the Canadian tournament Elena Eremina and Anastasia Ilyankova prepared to surprise the audience.

Looking at the new roster and mindful of the controversial 2015 World Cup, where Russian men did not win a single medal, and the women won three titles at once, the coaches of the national team abandoned all sorts of plans and forecasts: “No medal plans are needed here, God forbid,” said Valentina Rodionenko shortly before the start of the tournament.

The composition of the Russian national team at the World Cup artistic gymnastics 2017

Victory for the President

Men clearly did not want to remain at the World Cup without awards, as two years ago. Having missed their chance in the all-around, the Russians planned to recoup in certain events. Fortunately, they managed to qualify for five of the six finals. Unfortunately, Arthur Dalaloyan It was not possible to surprise the judges and spectators in the vault, but the more experienced gymnasts did what they are good at. won silver in horseback exercises and bronze on uneven bars, leaving only the Olympic champions in these disciplines ahead. It is worth noting that for David, these medals were the first at the world championships in seven years of his performances, and he won his third award - silver on the rings. And this time Russian athlete lost to the Olympic champion - the Greek Petrunias, who won all the starts for the third year in a row.

There was also a place for gold in a solid collection of medals. , specializing in vault, managed to defend the world champion title in her favorite discipline. It is curious that the gymnast dedicated her victory to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was celebrating another birthday on October 7. Surely the head of the country was glad for Elena Eremina, which on the same day added silver on the uneven bars to the bronze of the all-around. Anastasia Ilyankova was close to climbing the pedestal too, but, losing just over one tenth point to the Belgian Derval, was in fourth place.

Record repetition

As a result, the Russian national team won six awards, repeating best result of the decade, featured in 2010, 2011 and 2014. In Canada, only the Chinese won the same number of awards, and no one could win more. Such a start of a new Olympic cycle can only rejoice. It is especially pleasant that new stars are lit up in the Russian team: I want to believe that Eremina and Ilyankova will only add up over time. The same applies to the young change in the men's team, even if they did not perform too brightly in Montreal.

However, the tournament in Canada will leave not only pleasant memories. The fact is that many athletes, coaches and heads of delegations had questions to the organizers of the competition, who, for the sake of television, did not give the athletes enough time to test the apparatus - hence a lot of mistakes and injuries. Valentina Rodionenko noted that the World Cup in Montreal will go down in history as the tournament with the most injuries among athletes. Fortunately, Russian team these misadventures were bypassed, but due to injury he dropped out of the fight, for example, a three-time Olympic champion Kohei Uchimura, preparing to compete for the next couple of awards.

All medalists of the Russian national artistic gymnastics team at the 2017 World Championships

(horse) - silver
(rings) - silver
(bars) - bronze
Elena Eremina (personal all-around) - bronze
(vault) - gold
Elena Eremina (uneven bars) - silver

Catalina Ponor, Getty Images

The 2017 European Artistic Gymnastics Championship has ended.

Recall that the 2017 European Artistic Gymnastics Championship was held in the Romanian Cluj-Napoca. He became successful for the Ukrainian national team and its leader Oleg Vernyaev, who won two gold medals.

In floor exercises, Vernyaev took only seventh place. And the victory was won by the host of the competition - Romanian Marian Dragulescu, who became the 10-time European champion.

Floor Exercise Results (Men):

In the women's all-around, Britain's Ellie Downey won her first gold at the European Championships. It is noteworthy that representatives of 8 different countries were in the top 8.

All-around results (women):

Colin Devillard of France won in the women's vault, ahead of Briton Elissa Downey and Hungarian representative Bulgarian Devay.

Vault results (women):

In horse exercises, Oleg Vernyaev also became only seventh. And the gold was won by the Russian David Belyavsky.

Horseback exercise results (men):

On the uneven bars for women, the strongest was the representative of Belgium Nina Dervel, who was ahead of the Russian Elena Eremina and the same Briton Ellie Downey.

The results of exercises on the uneven bars (women):

The owner of the competition, Catalina Ponor, won her fifth career gold in the European Championships in the balance beam competition. In total, she now has 8 gold medals at the European championships.

Balance Beam Results (Women):

Russian Angelina Melnikova won the women's floor exercise. Ellie Downey won her next medal with a silver medal.

Floor Exercise Results (Women):

Pablo Bregger from Switzerland turned out to be the strongest on the men's crossbar, ahead of Swiss Oliver Hague and Russian David Belyavsky. Oleg Veryanev took only 8th place.

The results of exercises on the bar (men):