08. November 2014  
WCh / WM 2014 Daytona Beach, Fl./USA

DAY 2 - more Qualifications, first Finals

Women's Medal Trio

Not the Canadian Olympic champion Rosannagh MacLennan, reciting the first three triple somersaults at the beginning, but the young aspiring Chinese LIU, Ling Ling won the Olympic trampoline disciplin of women with significantly better attitude score and 0.5 points ahead. The distance to bronze, the current European champion Hanna Harchonak from Belarus was there already more than one point.
Even China's men with DONG Dong and TU Xiao remained in synchro final extremely cool and also showed with their last exercise their absolute world class. Second place went to Belarus (Kazak / Hancharou) with the now-after all, already 40-year-old Nikolai Kazak. The Japanese Masaki / Ueyama slip with a-synchronous exercise from fourth place, making the duo from Poland (Zakrzewski / Adamczyk) rejoiced in bronze.
High spirits reigned supreme at the men's double mini tramp decision, because behind Mikhail SALOMIN from Russia won the US Boys with Austin White and Austin Nacey silver and bronze ...

... reges Publikumsinteresse schon bei den spannenden Qualifikationen !

♦♦ Overview - second Day
... next qualifications: n:
- Men's Trampoline-Synchro,  / - Men's Tumbling, Men & Women's  Double Minitramp /
- Women's Semifinale Trampoline
First decisions at the Saturday's evening:
* Men's Double Mini / Women's Tumbling
* Men's Trampolin-Synchro and * Women's Trampoline
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♦ FINAL - WOMEN's TRAMPOLIN

  1. LIU, Lingling (CHN)  - 55,990
  2. MACLENNAN, Rosannagh (CAN)  - 55,130
  3. HARCHONAK, Hanna  (BLR)  - 53,975
       ►► Detailed results
 

Over in the women’s trampoline final, 2012 Olympian Kat Driscoll performed a fantastic routine to finish in 4th place. Competing strongly in a world class final, Kat looked confident and consistent, putting her in a strong position less than two years out from Rio. Kat qualified to the final in 6th with Britain’s Pamela Clark just missing out in 9th after an impressive performance in her first senior World Championships. 2014 British Champion Bryony Page completed all ten skills with a clean routine but unfortunately some travelling and lack of height left her down in 14th.  Kat Driscoll said: “I am really, really pleased, it’s my third worlds final and the first I’ve walked away from and felt like I’d done all I could do. Tracy (coach) asked me what do you want to walk away from this competition with which is exactly what she asked me in London and back then I said I just want to walk away knowing I’d done all I could and be happy with ten skills. And soon as I got off the trampoline today I knew I had done that!” 
>> --- here the new world champion LIU, Lingling at her qualification:

♦ ... before: STRA, Women's Semi-Finale
       > Start list;     > R e s u l ts
       > Qualification, Day 1 (Friday)


♦ MEN' SYNCHRON - Männer

  1. CHN - DONG Dong
          & TU Xiao  - 51,700
  2. BLR - KAZAK, Mikalai
          & HANCHAROU, Vladislav  - 49,600
  3. POL - ZAKRZEWSKI, Artur
          & ADAMCZYK, Tomasz  - 49,400
       ►► Detailed results

♦ ... before: Men's Qualification SYNCHRO
China ahead of Japan and Australia, then New Zealand, USA and Poland and Belarus and Kazakhstan qualified for the men's final.
Both Russian couples broke off surprisingly! A similar fate befell the two German combinations. After a remarkable duty was followed by a non-synchronous long program of Immanuel Kober / Daniel Schmidt, so they slid back to 16th place. Worse still, it caught the German champion Martin Gromowski  and his partner Kyrylo Sonn. After also ordinary duty Kiri touched the frame pads laterally, which led to the forced demolition. They ended up as 31st in last place.
The Swiss duo Nicolas Schori / Jimmy Raimond managed a not quite perfect with preliminaries at the end of tenth place. Austria was not involved. It led the couple from China ahead of Japan and the tied neighbors Australia and New Zealand.
   > SYN, Men's Qualifications results

♦ FINAL - MEN's DOUBLE- MINITRAMP
  > Start liste
After a break in the middle and the invasion of 45 national flag bearers then the Worlds were officially inaugurated in a brief ceremony by FIG President Prof. Bruno Grandi.
Then pursued on the bleachers, many former world champions and top performers - not only from the United States - the exciting finals.
The men's double Mini-Tramp-final made first of all for a splendid mood, because at the end won the US team behind the Russian winner the other two medals.
* ... this is the video of the new Vice World Champion Austin WHITE (USA):

  1. ZALOMIN, Mikhail  (RUS)  - 78,100
  2. WHITE, Austin (USA)  - 77,500
  3. NACEY, Austin  (USA)  - 74,500
       ►► Detailed results

♦ ... before, on Friday: Men's Qualification DOUBLE MINITRAMP
 These competitions (without German participation, Swiss or Austrian athletes) began in Daytona Beach already on Friday evening at 7 pm and will finish on Saturday. In men's side Portugal is the European country with a big DMT tradition.
So also the Andre LICO sat first at the top of the qualifiers, but then he remained fourth, without a medal:


 ⇒ DMT Men's Qualifictions results
 

♦ FINALE - DOPPEL-MINITRAMP, Frauen (Sonntag)
   > Startlist;    > Live Results
 

♦ ... before: Qualification, Women's DMT, Frauen (Saturday)
 Host USA also showed strength in the Women's DMT qualifying : Eron Jauch was on first after qualification, followed by the South African Bianca Zoonekynd and Russia's Polina Troyanova. The only German gymnast, Christina Jansen, began with the connection Fliffis b - b half in halfout quite promising. Then they showed Fliffis c (landing at the end of the mat) and the following double somersault a, which in turn was not terminated completely and had a very unfortunate landing result. She injured his both feet very painful, was yet erstversorgt in the hall before the transport was carried to the hospital. At the end of last place for them among the 20 starters.
     >  Qualification results


♦  FINALE - TUMBLING, Frauen (Samstag)
The femal Tumbling Final brought a big surprise:
The Chinese JIA Fang Fang broke off, completely surprising ... (?) in leading position and dropped to rank 7 only and so Rachael LETSCHE from Great Britain won the gold medal.
China remained only silver by CHEN, Linxi and bronze went to Portugal, to Raquel PINTO.
Even Russia's Star Anna Korobeinikova was in sixth -3.4 points from the medal area away ...

  1. LETSCHE, Rachael  (GBR)  - 67,500
  2. CHEN, Linxi             (CHN)  - 67,300
  3. PINTO, Raquel        (POR)  - 66,100
       ►► Detailed results

Rachael Letsche made a sensational performance that saw her jump from 8th in qualification to the gold medal position in the final.
Competing first out of the top eight gymnasts, Rachael kept her cool and performed a solid first run which put her in a great position as the competition unfolded. She then stole the spotlight as she completed another well executed pass and after the only gymnast left to beat her from China failed to complete her final run, Rachael earned the crown. GBR’s Lucie Colebeck also competed in the final and finished in 8th place.

 

Rachel said: “It’s an overwhelming feeling I’m so shocked with the results. I came out with a strong first run and the second pass was quite simple. I was quite emotional at the end as I will be finishing tumbling this after this competition. Overall I'm happy, I just can't stop crying!”

 

♦ ... before, on Friday: Women's Qualification TUMBLING
... and here the incredible staccato of the Chinese JIA, Fangfang an the tumbling track :

 ⇒ TUM, Women's Qualification results

♦  FINALE - TUMBLING, Männer (Sonntag)
    > Startliste    > Live Results
 

♦ ... before, on Saturday: Men's Qualification TUMBLING
Spectacular performances were also in the preliminaries of the Men's Tumbling.
None of the leading Springer waived at the end of the eight-part exercise connection to a triple somersault. The promised for the finals on Sunday extreme tension. China's YANG, Song led before three Russians: Tagir Murtazev, Alexander Mironov and Timofey Podust ... then the second more Chinese. Britain's Christof Willerton just managed as Seventh placed the  Sunday's final.
    > TUM, Men's Qualification results