The vault final was one of exceptional quality: from the difficulty and diversity of the vaults shown, to the execution, everything was of the highest-level we could have asked for.
China’s Yan Wang won with an amazing Tsukahara double full followed by a Rudi. After nearly sticking her first vault it seemed too high a risk going for such a difficult 2nd vault especially since Yan had had a big mistake on that in qualifications. But it was a brave move that set her apart from her competitors, even though the 2nd vault was nowhere near the almost flawless execution of her 1st.
Ellie Downie came in 2nd place with a huge DTY followed by a pike Podkopayeva – she intended to do a layout one but was not awarded the stretched position. While Japan’s Sae Miyakawa placed 3rd with two beautiful vaults (out of 5.8 and 5.4).
The uneven bars competition proved to be a closer than expected race between Russia’s Seda Tutkhalyan and Italy’s Iosra Abdelaziz. Higher difficulty helped the Russian take the title, although in terms of execution the two were awarded similar scores. The Italian had the slightly better form throughout and she seemed capable of challenging Tutkhalyan but she lost important tenths on a visible break.
China’s Wang Yan had a 5.5 routine, difficulty wise competing with the top two ranked; she placed 3rd due to execution deduction, mostly attracted by her handstand position.
Complete results:
Vault
1 Yan Wang 14.783 (6.0/6.2) 2 Ellie Downie 14.566 (5.8/5.2) 3 Sae Miyakawa 14.566 (5.8/5.4) 4 Laura Jurca 14.249 (5.8/5.0) 5 Seda Tutkhalyan 13.816 (5.8/5.3) 6 Boglarka Devai 13.766 (5.0/5.2) 7 Sydney Townsend 13.750 (5.0/5.8) 8 Tutya Yilmaz 13.533 (5.0/5.8)
Uneven Bars
1 Seda Tutkhalyan 13.575 (5.6) 2 Iosra Abdelaziz 13.366 (5.4) 3 Yan Wang 13.066 (5.5) 4 Antonia Alicke 12.633 (5.5) 5 Sae Miyakawa 12.433 (5.1) 6 Ava Lorein verdelflor 12.333 (4.9) 7 Laura Jurca 11.133 (5.2) 8 Stephanie Hernandez 10.433 (4.9)
Article by: Bea Gheorghisor
Photo Cover: FIG