An emotional Larisa Iordache at the 2017 European championships. Photograph: Silvia Vatteroni World of Gymnastika celebrates today i...
An emotional Larisa Iordache at the 2017 European championships. Photograph: Silvia Vatteroni
World of Gymnastika celebrates
today its fifth anniversary. In the
course of these five years our team has expanded, the number of people reading
us has dramatically increased, our website has widened and our passion for gymnastics
keeps growing (if that is even possible)!
As a way to celebrate our website on the day of its fifth anniversary, as well as to thank our numerous readership, re-live with us five of the most memorable moments in each
of the past five years of gymnastics!
Year 1 –
2013
1. The world was
introduced to the best gymnast in modern history, Simone Biles. Her senior debut was at the American Cup, where she
won silver behind teammate Katelyn Ohashi.
2. Olympic champion Kyla Ross, after helping the Fierce
Five win gold at the Olympics in 2012, achieved individual glory, winning three
silver medals at the World Championships, on bars, beam and in the all around.
3. After a disappointing
fourth-place finish on floor at the 2012 Olympics, Italy’s Vanessa Ferrari came back strong and determined in 2013, winning
silver on floor exercise at the World championships.
5. The University of Florida Gators, coached
by Rhonda Faehn, won their first NCAA title in history, led by amazing freshman
Bridget Sloan.
Year 2 –
2014
1. After a lot of drama,
Romania’s Larisa Iordache finally
won a well-deserved all around silver medal at Worlds.
2. China’s Yao Jinnan won a well-deserved World
title on the uneven bars, a year after failing to deliver on the same event.
3. After a career marred by
injuries and disappointments, Great Britain’s Becky Downie finally got redemption, and won an emotional gold
medal on the uneven bars at the European championships.
4. The University of Oklahoma Sooners, coached
by K.J. Kindler, won their first NCAA title, tied with Florida.
5. During the all around
award ceremony at the World championships,
Simone Biles was chased by a bee!
Year 3 –
2015
1. U.S. Simone Biles proved to be the best
gymnast in the world, becoming the first female gymnast to win three
back-to-back World all around titles!
2. Russia’s Viktoria Komova made a comeback and won
gold on the uneven bars at Worlds with a fabulous routine.
3. Switzerland’s Giulia Steingruber became the first
Swiss gymnast to become European all around champion.
4. At the World
championships, after Romania failed to directly qualify to the Olympic Games, Larisa
Iordache swallowed the disappointment and won an emotional bronze medal in
the all around.
5. Utah’s Georgia Dabritz scored back-to-back
perfect 10.0s on the uneven bars both in the NCAA semi-finals and in the Super Six
finals. The following day, she also won the individual NCAA uneven bars title.
Year 4 –
2016
1. U.S. Simone Biles, with the eyes of the
world watching her, delivered four beautiful routines to become the new all around
Olympic champion!
2. The United States had
an Olympic team to die for: three-time all around world champion and five-time
Olympic champion Simone Biles; the
2012 Olympic champion on floor, Aly
Raisman, who won the most well-deserved silver in the all around in Rio;
2012-all around Olympic champion Gabby
Douglas; rising star Laurie
Hernandez, who won silver on balance beam and later became also Dancing With The Stars champion; and Madison Kocian, who won silver on the
uneven bars and later became one of UCLA’s best gymnasts.
3. Russia’s Aliya Mustafina won gold on the uneven
bars at the Rio Olympics, repeating her London success. Earlier in the year,
she also became European champion on balance beam, her weakest apparatus, with
a stellar routine.
3.
Sanne Wevers
became the first Dutch gymnast to become Olympic champion on balance beam
with a fabulous routine, which included a triple spin.
4. Rio showed that gymnastics is not a four-powerhouse sport only anymore, as four gymnasts from less renowned countries won a medal: Sanne Wevers from the Netherlands won
gold on balance beam; Switzerland’s Giulia
Steingruber won bronze on vault; Germany’s Sophie Scheder won bronze on the uneven bars; and Amy Tinkler from Great Britain won
bronze on floor exercise.
5. History was made when Kyla Ross and Madison Kocian joined UCLA,
becoming the first Olympic champions to compete in collegiate gymnastics.
Year 5 –
2017
1. Belgium’s Nina Derwael became the first Belgian
female gymnast to become European champion on the uneven bars. Her routine is
worth a world title too!
2.
Ragan Smith,
after being named Olympic alternate to the 2016 U.S. Olympic team last year,
came back as the leader of the new young U.S. powerhouse, and in March became
the American Cup champion.
3.
Catalina Ponor
and Larisa Iordache proved that Romanian
gymnastics is still alive and proud, winning gold and bronze on beam respectively at the European
championships at home, in Cluj-Napoca, in April.
4. Oklahoma had the perfect
competition during the NCAA Super Six final last March to win their third
national title in four years, the second in a row.
5. Last March UCLA’s Kyla Ross became the first gymnast to
be Olympic (2012), World (2014) and NCAA (2017) champion!
Happy fifth anniversary,
WOGymnastikA!
By
Talitha Ilacqua
Keep up that awesome work people your page is amazing! ^^
ReplyDeleteThank you :)
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