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The AA competition is now split into two groups. The gymnasts who qualfied to this final in place 1-16 will compete this evening whereas the gymnasts ranked lower compete in the afternoon. 
The group only consists of 15 gymnasts because Alexander Kruzhylov from Belarus injured himself during team finals. Leon Tamayo (CUB) and Roman Zozulia (UKR) have the best chances for improvement in this competition. Both gymnasts had not competed ot their fullest potential in prelims. 
The German camp is eagerly awaiting Sven Kwiatkowski’s competition who can do something for the German men’s team image after their disappointing team competition.

Rotation 1:


Andrei Mikhailichenko

Swiss Dominik Däppen gets this group going by sitting down his Tsukahara with a doubel twist, still he scores 9,062. 
Sven Kwiatkowski (GER) receives a generous 9,162 for his doubel twisting Yurchenko with a step to the side. 
So far, Andrei Mikhailichenko (UKR) is best with a 9,3 on pommels. 
Roman Zozulia starts confidently on pommels but falls on a Stöckli. 
Leon Tamayo (CUB) shows the best floor routine so far with a high Arabian double front.
 
Current standings:

1.

Mykailichenko UKR 9,300

2.

Leon Tamayo CUB 9,262

3.

Maree FRA 9,200 
 

































Rotation 2:
Sven Kwiatkowski goes well on bars. 
Roman Zozulia’s rings routine is decent. The 9,35 can maybe boost his confidence for the next four rotations. 
Italian rings specialist Igor Cassina is disappointing on his forte. 
Ioan Suciu (photo) lives up the his reputation on vault. His 9,637 for a Tsukahara with 2 ½ twists is the highest scoe to date. 
Roman Schweizer (SUI) nails his Tsukahara double pike for a 9,475. 
Leon Tamayo has no real dismount on his pommel horse routine and has to be contented with 7,512. 


Ioan Suciu  

Current standings:

1.

Suciu ROM 

18,424

2.

Liu CHN 18,362

3.

Mounard FRA 18,312


Dominik Daeppen (SUI)

Rotation 3:
Ioan Suciu
(ROM) wobbles his way through his bars routine. 
After some minor hicups in the beginning, Leon Tamayo from Cuba shows a fantastic rings routine. 
The judges award him 9,562. 
Kwiatkowski just about holds on to his full-twisting Kovacs, his second Kovacs is perfect but he stumbles on his dismount: 9,075.  

Rotation 4:
Leon Tamayo
(CUB) lands his Cuervo with 1 ½ twists well (9,55). 
Ukrainians Mikhailichenko and Zozulia work bars confidentally. 
Liu Jinyu (CHN) circles high bar without a release move for a 9,012. 
Kwiatkowski rushes into his floor routine and has to make do with 8,412. 

Suciu (ROM) stumbles on his high bar dismount for his second missed routine. 
Johan Mounard (FRA) has had a very balanced competition so far, scoring aroudn 9 points on all routines.  
Current standings 3. rotation:

1.

Mykailichenko UKR 27,337

2.

Liu CHN 27,274

3.

Golding CAN 27,174
Current standings 4. rotation:

1.

Mykailichenko UKR 36,412

2.

Cano ESP 36,300

3.

Liu CHN 36,286

Rotation 5:

Roman Zozulia (UKR) uses his experience to get him through his high bar routine which is a little struggled. 
Sven Kwiatkowski (GER) puts in his best effort so far with a very smooth perfornance on pommels horse. His score is a well deserved 9,337. 
Three different Kovacs by Igor Cassina (ITA) finally get the audience going. 9,437 means that he moves up a little in the standings. 
Suciu (ROM) has a fantastic routine floor which he scores 9,425 for. 
Mikhailichenko, who has been in the lead until now, will drop a few places after falling on a full-twisting Kovacs. 
<<< Leon Tamayo (CUB) is the last gymnast of this rotation who shows some original elements on bars like a double front dismount. His 9,337 moves him up to third place.  
Current standings:

1.

Zozulia UKR 45,637

2.

Mounard FRA 45,248

3.

Leon Tamayo CUB 45,223

Rotation 6:
Sven Kwiatkowski finishes his championships on his weakest apparatus, rings, where he scores only 8,375. 
Matteo Morandi (ITA) gives an impressive display of strength on rings.- 9,625. 
Ioan Suciu is a tad better with a beautiful pommel horse routine with clean technique. 
Mounard has small breaks on high bar which result in his second score in the eights. 
Roman Zozulia is messy, but spectacular on floor with a double layout dismount and goes into the lead. He is at least able to combat some of is damaged image with 54,94. 
Leon Tamayo falls from hugh bar and in the ranking. 
Liu Jinyu misses his chance for a better ranking with a fall from pommel horse. 
Victor Cano can’t do any better on high bar.  


Roman Zozulia  

Conclusion:
There are a lot of falls in the first group of the AA. The only gymnasts to really improve on their performance in prelims are Sven Kwiatkowski (GER) and Roman Zozulia (UKR). Spain’s Victor Cano and France’s Florent Maree were disappointing.  

Current standings:

1.

Zozulia ROM 54,949

2.

Suciu ROM 54,624

3.

Mounard FRA 54,223


  (Report: Reinhard Linder; Translations: Nora Schuler;
Photos: Don Johnson,
Web editors: Eckhard Herholz/Sonja SchmeisserGermany)

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