36^th WORLDS Women's Artistic Gymnastics 2014
         - Nanning, China, October 10 -
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Simone BILES* - who was also victorious in Wednesday's women's team event - made a solid start in the vault with a score of 15.866 points, while fellow compatriot Ross and Russia's Aliya Mustafina provided her early competition.
YAO Jinnan of China also put herself in contention after the second rotation, the uneven bars. Biles set the pace with a score of 14.533, but Ross slipped to fifth.
Larisa IORDACE''s challenge built momentum during the balance beam with a routine that saw the judges award her 15.100 points, with Biles' advantage cut to just 0.133.
Aliya Mustafina was then left to rue a fall during her floor routine, while Yao also scored poorly. With the pressure on, Biles produced the best score of the rotation to confirm her gold medal as Iordache maintained her consistency to claim silver. Ross' score of 13.933 saw her take advantage of Mustafina and Yao's mistakes to climb back into the top three and seal her second medal of the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in China, as she also triumphed alongside Biles in the team event.
Vanessa Ferrari (ITA), the AA world champion 8 years ago (2006, Aarhus) came on a phantastic 6th place again, her same position (57,156) like one year before.

... the first voice after the final competition: Successful Title defender Simone BILES (USA):


 

... and Bronze medallist Kyla Ross (USA)


Great Britains Claudia Fragapane has finished 10th and Ruby Harrold 11th.
Claudia and Ruby, both multiple Commonwealth Games medallists this summer, preformed superbly throughout the final with no major errors under pressure. Claudia scored 56.098 with high points on floor and beam whilst Ruby excelled on bars with her score totalling 55.615, both girls delighted with their composed and consistent routines.

* Since Kim Zmeskal 1991 in Indianapolis followed with Shannon Miller (1993, '94), Chellsie Memmel (2005), Shawn Johnson (2007), Bridget Sloan (2009) and last Jordyn Wieber and the current defending champion Simone Biles additional 7 gold medals, which is now followes the total ninth!
In between was the rule of the incomparable Svetlana Khorkina, she sat the crown three times between 1997 and 2003, whereas in the new millennium, according to the glorious past times, succeeded no more Romanian ...