24. October 2021  
Kitakyushu, JPN  
Artistic Gymnastics

50th WORLDS of MEN's Artistic Gymnastics 2021

Two Asian newcomers fought a high-level duel at the men's 50th TURN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS in Kitakyushu (JPN).
The only 20-year-old and youngest all-around Olympic champion from Japan, Daiiki HASHIMOTO (87.964), was defeated by 21 years old Chinese ZHANG Boheng (87.981) only by a rocker stroke of -0.017 points, which despite outstanding efforts by China for the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2021, was not used became.
As in 2019 for the Worlds in Stuttgart and after compatriot Oleg Verniaiev (doping ban), now the best European, Illia KOVTUN, won the bronze again for Ukraine.
After Pablo Brägger's 12th place (2017), the Swiss Henji Mboyo surprised this time with the same placement at his first world championships. For the first time, like in Glasgow in 2015, German gymnasts had not been able to qualify for the best 24 finalists ....
* In the event finals, the two young all-rounders HASHIMOTO (JPN) and ZHANG (CHN) could not (yet) prevail, but the 21-year-old Philippino Carlos Edriel YULO on the vault, twice China's experienced HU, Xuwei (parallel bars + horizontal bar). A Chinese LAN Xingyu also won the rings. Pommel gold went overseas to Stephen NEDOROSCIK (USA) and Italy's men generally had strong performances, especially Nicola BARTOLINI as world champion on floor exercises. For the first time, like in Glasgow in 2015, German gymnasts were unable to qualify for the 24 best all-rounders, not even for one of the apparatus finals that were concluded on Sunday (October 24th). Austria's Vinzenz HÖCK came fourth on the rings and the Swiss Christian BAUMANN sixth on parallel bars ...
 

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POMMEL HORSE - Titelholder: Max Whitlock /GBR)


Apart from Croatia's vice-world champion(2014) and gymnastics veteran Philip UDE and Japan's WCh bronze pommel horse medallist Kazuma KAYA, who won the Olympic bronze in this summer in Tokyo, and also China's WENG, Hao (6th in Montreal 2017)  all the other 5 finalists are to the very first time qualified for a in a WCh pommel horse final:

  NEDOROSCIK, Stephen  (USA)  - (6.5) = 15,266
  WENG, Hao                    (CHN)  - (6.6) = 14,900
  KAYA, Kazuma                (JPN)  - (6.6) = 14,900
      4. KURBANOV, Nariman                (KAZ)  - (6.2) = 14,766
      5. YODER, Alec                               (USA)  - (6.5) = 14,766
      6. NATHAN, Joshua                       (GBR)  - (6.6) = 14,733
      7. UDE, Filip                                   (CRO)  - (6.1) = 13,833
      8. MERDINYAN, Harutyun            (ARM)  - (6.2) = 13,400

       Detailed Results

* REPORT --:
  Another novelty: The 23-year-old Stephen NEDOROSCIK (USA) surprisingly became world champion, but the two-time national champion is known as a downright pommel horse specialist, won the US Winter Cup in 2019, was World Cup winner in Melbourne last year and is the current USA horse champion - and now the new the surprisingly new World Champion! The former Russian and later USA gymnast, Alexander Artemev, won the last and only one pommel horse medal (Bronze, 2006 in Aarhus / DEN) for the USA!
With WENG Hao and (CHN) and Kazuma KAYA, Nedorosczik has pushed two top-class players from the international scene to the medal ranks!
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►► POMMEL HORSE World Champions ALL
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* Sunday, October 24 - FINAL DAY 2


  V A U L T I N G   T A B L E


> Qualification results;   > S t a r t  l i s t  Day 2

All three medal winners from the Olympic vault final were missing, including Nagorni and Souza, but three of the 8 Olympic finalists from Tokyo are in the WCh final, led by the young Phillipino Carlos Edriel YULO, who is the first to submit and who competes with the two preliminaries Nazar CHEPURNY (UKR) and the strong Korean YANG, Hakseon has to deal with - after all, the 28-year-old old master from Seoul was already twice world champion (2011, 2013) and in London (2012) Olympic champion ...!

  YULO, Carlos Edriel  (PHI)      = 14,916
     (1) - (5.6) - 14,800   //   (2) - (5.6) - 15,033
  YONEKURA, Hidenobu (JPN)  = 14,866
     (1) - (6.0) - 15,000  //  (2) - 5.6) - 14,733
  MEDVEDEV, Andrey  (ISR)       = 14,649
     (1) - (5.6) - 14,533  // (5.6) - 14,766
      4. GRASSO, Thomas   (ITA)        = 14,549
         (1) - (5.6) - 14,833  //  (2) - (5.2) - 14,266
      5. YANG, Hakseon  (KOR)           = 14,399
           (1) - (5.6) - 14,766  // - (5.6) - 14,033
      6. TULLOCH, Courtney   (GBR)    = 14,383
         (1) - (5.6) -14,300 //  (2) - (5.6) - 14.466
      7. CHEPURNYI, Nazar   (UKR)     = 14,149
         (1) - (5.6)- 14,866  //  (2) - (5.6) - 13,433
      8. EMARD, William  (CAN)           = 13,199
          (1) - (5.2) - 13,266  //  (2) - (5.2) - 13,133
               Detaillierte Resultate

** REPORT ----: Well, it finally worked: Although the first to jump, the entire subsequent competition bit their teeth at Carlos Edriel YULO's vault result: After the floor title two years ago, now also vault world champion at 21 years, too without a 6 points difficulty, but good technical presentation! 

►► VAULT World Champions ALL

 

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   H I G H  B A R


> Qualification results;     > S t a r t  l i s t  Day 2

Mit einem echten Paukenschlag werden diese Titelkämpfe wohl beendet werden. Mehrkampf-Olympiasieger Hashimoto (20)  trifft als Vorkampfbester u. a. auf den ein Jahrzehnt älteren Turn-Star und Landsmann Kohei Uchimura (32), der als 5. der Qualifikation seine unglaubliche Karriere möglichst noch mit einer WM-Medaille beenden will. Zu Olympia in Tokio war ihm das leider nicht geglückt ... dazwischen steht noch der 24-jährige chinesische WM-Debütant  und  vor allem der Asiensieger von 2019, HU, Xuwei ...!
Seit 2015 steht kein deutscher Turner mehr in einem WM-Reckfinale. Nach Fabian Hambüchen der 2013 mit Bronze seinen Medaillensatz komplettierte, war Andreas Bretschneider als 5. vor 6 Jahren der letzte Reckfinalist, denn bei seinem 3. Anlauf scheiterte der Chemnitzer diesmal im Vorkampf

  HU, Xuwei               (CHN)  (6.7) = 15,166
  HASHIMOTO, Daiki  (JPN)  (6.5) = 15,066
  MALONE, Brody      (USA)  (6.5) = 14,966
     4. MACCHINI, Carlo           (ITA)      (6.7)  = 14,966
     5. KARIMI, Milad                 (KAZ)      (6.4) = 14,833
     6. UCHIMURA, Kohei        (JPN)     (6.6) = 14,600
     7. KOVTUN, Illia                 (UKR)     (6.0) = 14,166
     8. GEORGIOU, Ilias           (CYP)     (5.8) = 13,666

           Detaillierte Resultate

* B E R I C H T ---: wider Erwarten  k e i n  japanischer Gerätesieg bei der Heim-WM, und dabei hatte der Mehrkampf- und Reck-Olympiasieger Hashimoto so lange geführt, aber dessen Schwierigkeit von (6.5) übertraf der Chinese HU, Xuwei als letzter Starter (6.7) - der sich gerade auch am Barren durchgesetzt hatte - und zog mit eben gleich guter Präsentation an Japans Hoffnungsträger vorbei, und wurde damit der einzige Doppelweltmeister diese WM.  Nach Pferdgold gab es dann noch Reckbronze für die USA durch Brody Malone - wie in Tokio kam Turn-Legende Kohei Uchimura auch diesmal nicht an den Medaillenbereich heran...


►►  HIGH BAR World Champions ALL