As per our yesterday’s introduction, the Commonwealth Games have a slightly different format from what we are used to at major gymnastics competitions: the team final/qualifying round are separated into two days, with each team competing on vault and bars in the first day, and on beam and floor in the second.
In the team event, the rankings after the first day were saw favorite England at the top though perhaps not by the safe margin expected, after mistakes on their strongest apparatus, the uneven bars. Australia followed, next were Wales on 3rd and Canada on 4th after a disastrous bars rotation.
In the 2nd day the rankings did not change at the top: the team from England “won” both events. Floor was their stronger event with three performances in the top 8 from Fragapane, Harrold and Whelan. Claudia Fragapane was the star of the 2nd day for England posting the best routines on both beam and floor. On the latter she managed to match her huge score from Europeans – 14.733.
Australia maintained 2nd position through standout performances by Lauren Mitchell – 2nd best score of the day on both events. Team mates Mary Anne Monckton and Olivia Vivian managed to deliver solid scores on beam and floor respectively, but overall the team total hurt a bit through the lack of a 3rd competitive routine per event and lost important points in the fight for the gold medal.
The Welsh team managed to retain their bronze medal position through consistency and outstanding performances from leader Lizzie Beddoe. She contributed again a great deal managing to score in the top eight on both events; Lizzie is now qualified for four individual finals: bars, beam, floor and all around (the last on 4th place).
Team Canada finished roughly half a point behind Wales, on 4th place. Although the team outperformed both Australia and Wales on floor and had the 3rd highest total on beam (better than Wales), the gap “inherited” after the first two pieces of apparatus of the 1st day proved too big. Ellie Black continued to look strong both on beam and floor, qualifying into both event finals. She will also be a strong opponent for Claudia Fragapane for tomorrow’s all around final, for which Black qualified from 2nd place.
Team Final Results:
1 England VT 43.974 /UB 41.416 / BB 40.266 / FX 41.899 Total 167.555 2 Australia VT 41.566 / UB 42.316 / BB 38.332 / FX 39. 432/ T 161.646 3 Wales VT 41.566 / UB 39.866 / BB 39.565 / FX 39.432 / T 160.095 4 Canada VT 42.299 / UB 37.433 / BB 39.432 / FX 40.399 / T 159.563 5 Scotland VT 41.299 / UB 36.198 / BB 35.966 / FX 38.132/ T 151.595 6 South Africa VT 41.566 / UB 37.433 / BB 35.233 / FX 37.365 / 148.572 7 Singapore VT 39.774 / UB 34.733 / BB 37.166 / FX 36.899 / T 148.572 8 Malaysia VT 40.465 / UB 31.499 / BB 34.765 / FX 37.707 / T 144.436 9 Northern Ireland VT 38.399 / UB 32.366 / BB 33.999 / FX 35.565 / T 140.329 10 Isle of Man VT 39.466 / UB 30.066 / BB 32.949/ FX 36.999 / T 139.480 11 India VT 39.766 / UB 28.066 / BB 32.765 / FX 33.757 / T 134.354 12 New Zealand VT 41.232 / UB 35.365 / BB 24.466 / FX 26.424 / T 127.487 13 Sri Lanka VT 37.799 / UB 19.733 / BB 25.699 / FX 26.899 / T 110.130 14 Malta VT 35.699 / UB 16.099 / BB 19.600 / FX 21.232 / T 92.630
AA Qualifications, top ten qualified:
1 C Fragapane VT 14.641 / UB 13.333/ BB 14.033 / FX 14.733/ T 56.740 2 E Black VT 14.233/ UB 13.333 /BB 13.966/ FX 13.633 / T 55.165 3 R Harrold VT 14.733 / UB 13.400 / BB 12.466 / FX 13.466 / T 54.065 4 E Beddoe VT 13.900 / UB 13.533 / BB 13.166 / FX 13.166 / T 53.765 (5 H Whelan VT 14.300 / UB 12.333 / BB 13.033 / FX 13.700 / T 53.366)* 6 K Beckett VT 14.300 / UB 12.966 / BB 12.733 / 13.266 / T 53.265 7 M Chant VT 14.000/ UB 12.700 / BB 12.333 / FX 13.133 / T 52.166 8 G Hockenhull VT 13.666 / UB 12.666 / BB 13.333 / FX 12.366 / T 52.031 9 C Sullivan VT 13.800 / UB 11.766 / BB 12.766 / FX 13.466 / T 51. 798 (10 I Onysko VT 13.900 / UB 11.400 / BB 13.133 / FX 12.966 / T 51.399)* 11 P Vivian VT 12.533 / UB 13.800 / BB 12.166 / FX 13.166 / T 50.765 12 FA Abdul Hadi VT 13.933 / UB 11.700 / BB 12.166 / 12.833 / T 50.632
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Beam Qualifications:
1 C Fragapane 14.033 2 L Mitchell 13.966 3 E Black 13.966 4 G Hockenhull 13.333 5 R Downie 13.200 6 E Beddoe 13.166 7 I Onysko 13.133 8 M A Monckton 13.100 [
Floor Qualifications:
1 C Fragapane 14.733 2 L Mitchell 14.100 3 H Whelan 13.700 4 S Merkle 13.633 5 E Black 13.633 (6 E Harrold 13.466)* 7 C Sullivan 13.466 8 J Hogg 13.266 9 K Beckett 13.266
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