Today, October 8, the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships ended in Montreal (Canada). 12 sets of awards were played. The Russian national team took third place in the overall team standings with one gold, three silver and two bronze medals. The Chinese prevailed (3-1-2), the second - the Japanese (3-0-1), the fourth - the Americans (1-3-1), the fifth - the Germans and the British (1-0-1 each). In terms of the total number of awards, the first are the Chinese and the Russians (6 each), the third are the Americans (5). This was reported by the All Sport Agency.

Maria Paseka became a two-time world champion in the vault. Silver was won by David Belyavsky (horse), Denis Ablyazin (rings) and Elena Eremina (bars), bronze - Belyavsky (bars) and Eremina (all-around).

Men. All-around. 1. Xiao Ruoten - 86.933. 2. Lin Chaopang (both - China) - 86.448. 3. Kenzo Shirai (Japan) - 86.431. 4. David Belyavsky - 86.315 ... 10. Nikita Nagorny (both - Russia) - 83.239. Free. 1. Kenzo Shirai (Japan) - 15,633. 2. Artem Dolgopyat (Israel) - 14.533. 3.Yul Moldauer (USA) - 14,500. Horse. 1. Max Whitlock (Great Britain) - 15,441. 2. David Belyavsky (Russia) - 15,100. 3. Xiao Ruoten (China) - 15.066. Rings. 1. Eleftherios Petrunias (Greece) - 15,433. 2. Denis Ablyazin (Russia) - 15.333. 3. Liu Yan (China) - 15.266. Vault. 1. Kenzo Shirai (Japan) - 14,900. 2.Igor Radivilov (Ukraine) - 14.899. 3. Hansol Kim ( South Korea) - 14.766 ... 8. Artur Dalaloyan (Russia) - 13.966. Bars. 1. Zou Jingguang (China) - 15,900. 2. Oleg Vernyaev (Ukraine) - 15.833. 3. David Belyavsky (Russia) - 15.266. Crossbar. 1.Tin Srbic (Croatia) - 14.433. 2. Epke Sonderland - 14.233. 3. Bart Durlot (both - Holland) - 14,200 ... 6. David Belyavsky (Russia) - 13,533.

Women. All-around. 1. Morgan Hard (USA) - 55.232. 2. Elizabeth Black (Canada) - 55.132. 3. Elena Eremina - 54.799 ... 16. Angelina Melnikova (both - Russia) - 51.341. Vault. 1.Maria Paseka (Russia) - 14,850. 2. Jade Carey (USA) - 14,766 3. Julia Steingruber (Switzerland) - 14.466. Bars. 1. Fan Iling (China) - 15.166. 2. Elena Eremina (Russia) - 15,100. 3. Nina Dervel (Belgium) - 15.033. 4. Anastasia Ilyankova (Russia) - 14,900. Log. 1. Pauline Scheffer (Germany) - 13.533. 2. Morgan Hard (USA) - 13,400. 3. Tabea Alt (Germany) - 13.300 ... 5. Elena Eremina (Russia) - 12.966. Free. 1. Mai Murakami (Japan) - 14.233. 2. Jade Carey (USA) - 14,200. 3. Claudia Fragapane (Great Britain) - 13.933.

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 fully corresponded to the speeches of the coaching staff: there were many new faces in the team. 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 2017 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

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 were planning to win back 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 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, for example, the three-time Olympic champion dropped out of the fight 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

It starts in Montreal, Canada, and for it will be an opportunity not only to test the youth, but also to see the state of the team leaders at the end of the first post-Olympic season.

Plus Eltsov

According to the regulations in 2017, the world championship will be held only in personal species... Thus, a total of seven sets of medals will be played for men and five for women. The composition of the Russian national team for the tournament was determined based on the results of the Russian Cup, which took place at the end of summer in Yekaterinburg, although even before this start it was almost completely formed. Young Sergei Yeltsov was added to Nikita Nagorny, Nikita Ignatiev and Artur Dalaloyan.

“He has excellent bars, he won them, the crossbar is also good. He is also strong in the exercise on the horse, but in Yekaterinburg he performed unsuccessfully in this discipline,“ failed. ”We, the coaches, are especially pleased that we have someone to choose from when determining the composition of the national team ", -.

For the Astrakhan gymnast, this will be the first start of this level in his career, but a confident performance on the uneven bars at the Russian Cup convinced the coaching staff to put the athlete in the national team for this particular projectile. In the individual all-around Russia will be represented by the two-time Olympic medalist in Rio de Janeiro Belyavsky and Nagorny, in the floor exercise - the 2017 European champion Dalaloyan, and the five-time Games medalist Ablyazin will perform on the rings. It is worth noting that Ignatiev joined the squad, whose return to the national team base for such tournaments was questioned by many fans.

Women's team problems

As for the women's team, it was much more difficult to decide on the four gymnasts who go to Montreal. If the candidacy of Elena Eremina was practically not subject to doubt even before the Russian Cup, then a number of questions arose about the other two athletes. The coaching staff decided to test the rising star of the Russian artistic gymnastics Anastasia Ilyankova, but literally three weeks before the start she had an exacerbation of an old spinal injury.

“We would like to try her out at this world championship, to show her, she is a contender for a medal on the uneven bars, - - We would like that, but everything will depend on her condition, you can’t take risks either.” Fortunately, Ilyankova managed to cope with the problems, undergo a model training and still go to the debut world championship.

The place of the world champion and Olympic medalist in the vault Maria Paseka in the team, given that only personal medals are played in Canada, there should have been no doubt about it. But the failure of the gymnast to summer Universiade, where she became only the third, losing, among other things, to her team-mate Lilia Akhaimova, made the coaches think. As a result, Paseka, with her work at the training camp, nevertheless proved coaching staff the expediency of its inclusion in the quartet.

Russians are able to win medals in almost all types of programs, but much will depend on competitors. Not all national teams arrived in Montreal with the strongest rosters, but the fact that the 2017 World Cup for the leading gymnastic powers lays the foundation for Tokyo 2022 does not give rise to any doubts about the highest competition on the Canadian platform.