I hope you’re all enjoying these videos I’ve been posting over the last few days. I am in Norman, Oklahoma visiting some friends (this is where I graduated from college!) and filming some stuff at the OU gym for gymnastike.org, so I took advantage of one of Tumblr’s awesome features - you can set posts to automatically post themselves at the time you choose! Pretty cool, huh? I could have just not said anything at all about being gone, lucky for you all I am feeling nice and honest! :P I’ll be back home in Dallas on Monday afternoon, the 12th, so perhaps we’ll get some news updates then. Maybe some CoverGirl Classic news? I know it’s coming up soon!
The Senior portion of the European Championships was as eventful as the men’s, with the host country again having a strong showing thanks to its stars Dan Keatings and Louis Smith. Notably Russia was missing from the competition, but I’m sure it was entertaining nonetheless.
Team Results:
- Germany - 266.150
- Great Britain - 263.025
- France - 260.100
- Spain - 258.80
- Switzerland - 257.15
- Italy - 254.975
- Romania - 254.675
- Greece - 253.225
Senior All-Around Results:
- Cyril Tommasone - FRA - 86.85
- Samuel Hunter - GBR - 85.975
- Roman Kulesza - POL - 84.875
- Paolo Ottavi - ITA - 84.725
- Fabian Leimlehner - AUT - 82.45
- Dimitrios Markousis - GRE - 82.225
- Helge Vammen - DEN - 82.225
- Sascha Palgen - LUX - 82.000
- Christos Lympanovnos - GRE - 81.70
- Gustavo Palma Simoes - POR - 80.825
Floor Champion - Matthias Fahrig - GER (15.65)
Pommel Champion - Daniel Keatings - GBR (15.60)
Rings Champion - Matteo Morandi - ITA (15.25)
Vault Champion - Tomi Tuuha - FIN (15.975)
Parallel Bars Champion - Yann Cucherat - FRA (15.275)
High Bar Champion - Vlasios Maras - GRE (15.40)
Amazing that six different people from six different countries won the event finals! It really shows the diversity that is coming into gymnastics, it’s not just the same few countries over and over again. Congrats especially to Tomi Tuuha from Finland and Vlasios Maras from Greece setting a wonderful standard for their countries.
