EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP
Browser “SE” sums up the European Smotrin Russian team
Elena Vaytsehovsky
The male and female championships Europe, the last of which ended in Bern on Sunday, can be considered very successful for the Russian gymnasts start: youth and adult teams excelled in the continental championship in both men and women, the European champions have become personal forms David Bielawski , Nikita Nagorno and Aliya Mustafina , a total of gymnasts won nine gold individual awards.
it remains to understand what it means. In the sense that the pre-Olympic European Championship has historically been perceived by Russian coaches as a self-sufficient sport event. Rather, as a test event, a kind of application of the Olympic intentions.
From this point of view has not changed absolutely nothing in the gym. Still, it makes sense to look closely at the results more closely.
The breakthrough, and significant, has become the gold won by Belyavsky on the bars and his own money on a horse. These two species have long been considered a failure for Russian men: on the bars last victory was in 1998 Alexei Bondarenko , on horseback – in 1990 Valentin Mogilny , which is six months ago has died. So we can safely say: whether will be able to David to get into the Olympic triple in some of these species or not, did not detract from his personal progress
<. span> Similarly, the most superb epithets deserves Nikita Nagorno , won the floor exercise. Two years ago, a gymnast created a furore in the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, winning gold medals at the horse, rings and parallel bars. A year later, at the national championship title he shared the floor exercise and vault world champion Denis Ablyazin , and won his first adult European gold in Montpellier. In other words, the most difficult period of the career of any gymnast – the transition from the junior level to adult and thorough there adaptation athlete passes lossless
From the failure of discharge -. Performance in Bern Ablyazin – he had the first qualifying result in the vault, but was left out of the medal zone, and not selected for the finals on the floor exercise
. to it is time to grieve, because in these disciplines Ablyazin won medals at the Olympic games in London, but in fact there is no sense to panic: the task gymnast, and primary, were tested in competition Olympic and order complicated programming options for polishing have the time, and most importantly – as an athlete and his coach Sergey Starkin have repeatedly proved their worth at major competitions. The current European Championship to those not applicable.
The same situation is with the Olympic champion Aliya Mustafina . The leader of the women’s team won gold at least and on the balance beam and bronze on the uneven bars, but for the athletes of this level, both programs still look frankly “damp”. If we remember the championship four years ago in Europe, the picture was similar to the pain – with the only difference that is not trained gymnast Starkin and Alexander Alexandrov . Head coach Valentine Rodionenko in one of his interviews, then even said that it is not Mustafina , a young starlet Anastasia Grishina should be in the London Olympic team leader and certainly will make a splash at the Games. What happened next, I think everyone remembers.
Just because chronic revaluation talented Russian gymnasts at the turn of the junior career, I think I will refrain from epithets to address Angelina Melnikova . Russian champion in all-around took her first adult start more than adequately, although it remained without personal medals, received only gold in the team competition. Just team victory Russian girls over Englishwomen not mean in this case, absolutely nothing: the main contenders for team medals of the Olympic Games are concentrated not in Europe, and that says it all
<. span> in the meantime, the leaders of the national team on a European scale can be called Mustafina and Daria Spiridonov , which won the silver medal in Bern, on the uneven bars. A year ago the ward Tatyana Fomkina has become the world champion a program, that is, the global platform is not a novice. At the same time the gymnasts have a huge negative, if we evaluate its potential through the prism of the Olympic Games: have the asset is only one, albeit an incredibly winning the shell – too small to be considered valuable to fighter command
it turns out that the Mustafina – the only athlete, which you can make a full Olympic bid. Two-time world champion Ksenia Afanasyeva suffers injury, the absolute champion of the Junior Olympics Sedu Toutkhalian – the nerves, the vice-champion of the Games in London Victoria Komova has not yet He recovered after a long series of injuries. Therefore, to talk about the chances of Russian women in Rio de Janeiro is definitely not the time. Better to just enjoy the fact that in Europe, our girls did not have an equal.
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