2023 World Junior Gymnastic Artistic Championships (3/29-4/2, Antalya, Turkiye)

[RedBirdie]

MAG happening now. Live results are not exactly user friendly. Here’s a team results, hopefully they keep updating: https://gym.longinestiming.com/2023/Artistic-17242/en-us/Default/Phase/Ranking/00001501000100010020

 

[irichluck21]

Halfway through the meet that is a big result for Armenia as a team but with 3 up 2 count, they used two huge pommels scores to rank 3rd as a team at the moment. Ahead of France, USA, Germany, Great Britain.

Also impressed with Iran. 10th at the moment and consistent 25s across five events.

 

[RedBirdie]

Colombia’s Angel Barajas is leading all-around, and I don’t believe anyone in this last subdivision will catch him.

 

[irichluck21]

Colombia’s Angel Barajas is leading all-around, and I don’t believe anyone in this last subdivision will catch him.

Tsunogai Tomoharu has a chance but will need to average 13.7 on high bar and floor.
But yeah that is the only challenge left in this subdivision and subdivision 4 there is no one that can challenge IIRC.

 

[RedBirdie]

Somehow I thought this was the last subdivision. This is taking forever!

 

[MaryClare]

This is taking forever

Every single time I watch MAG

 

[irichluck21]

Colombia’s Angel Barajas is leading all-around, and I don’t believe anyone in this last subdivision will catch him.

The top 9 are separated about 2 points from 1st to 9th, it will definitely be an exciting AA final.
Wonder if Barajas can hold on or if Tsunogai will take over. He would be leading by over half a point if he didn’t have the issues on vault.

 

[irichluck21]

Top 24
Armenia just misses the bronze medal, still an amazing achievement for them and bodes well for their future senior teams.

Italy and France will be happy with the top 5 results which will solidify both teams’ depth toward Paris.
Italy seniors were 4th and France seniors were 14th, so new seniors next year could help them in Paris should they both qualify. France will be hoping to sneak into the top 9 (beside CHN, JPN, GBR) to qualify a full team for their home Olympics.

Egypt finishing 9th, Turkey 10th, and Iran 15th ahead of multiple countries also speaks well for their future and further demonstrates the rise of gymnastics (at least for MAG) in the Middle East.
I definitely see these three programs making it into a team final or Olympic qualification in the next few quads. Turkey looks most likely to do so, but Egypt has come come along way super fast.

Disappointing meets for Brazil (20th) and South Korea (16th) both would have wanted more from the junior group, though it seems Brazil had many mistakes judging by some of the execution scores. Brazil was a team that really should have been in the top 8, and not finishing ahead of Canada, Argentina, and Mexico will hurt considering how close they were to Canada at Pan Ams last summer and they had beaten Mexico and Argentina.

Taiwan will also likely be disappointed with 30th place as it doesn’t mirror the success of the senior team the last 6 years.

 

[Yarotska]

It looks like she overshot the takeoff angle. The RO BHS is pretty good, if not casual for a DLO, but the mechanics don’t look bad. Just needs some tweaking. If it keeps looking like this, they should go another direction.

 

[J175]

This competition is apparently using a really stupid rule that you have to do AA in qualification to be eligible for event finals.

Lithuania’s Kristijonas Padegimas (2022 EYOF PH champion) recorded the second highest score on pommels but doesn’t qualify because he doesn’t do AA.

 

[RedBirdie]

Really stupid rules are a FIG speciality.

 

[MaryClare]

I do kind of see the point. Junior specialists shouldn’t be something to encourage

 

[J175]

I can see that argument for WAG, especially with the juniors being younger, but MAG is full of specialists and it enables a lot more smaller countries to be competitive.

The Kazakh gymnast who will be in the pommels final did a 1.6D vault and 1.9D floor routine, which were of no use to his team and obviously his AA score isn’t relevant, so why?

 

[rlayt]

 

[Bob]

Noooooooooo Hezly Rivera slipped on vault and got a zero in qual. That means she is out of the AA. Should make event finals. That is a disaster for her. What a shame!

Team score should be ok as only need 2 scores.

 

[Bob]

Ajalla from Argentina has fallen on floor, one of her best pieces. Sounds like an exciting competition from the tweets coming out.

 

[MaryClare]

It is. But she’ll never, ever do it again. That’s why junior international competitions are important

 

[J175]

Rivera’s vault didn’t affect the USA team score, but falls on bars and beam did - their counting scores on beam are 12 and 11.4, with an 8.733 dropped.

They have just seen off Italy (who only needed 23.8 on beam in the last rotation), so it could be that the US juniors are so far ahead of the rest of the world that they can have the sort of day they’ve had today and still win. Anyone know how good the Chinese team are?

The combination of that vault and the 8.733 on beam for Jayla Hang do mean the second spot in the AA final is in question though - Hang is 9th after 2pc with four subdivisions to go.

 

[RedBirdie]

Eek, really not a good day for any of the US girls.

I saw video of Rivera’s vault mishap. WTF happened to Hang on beam?

 

[Rich]

No she qualified

• 12 HANG (USA) - 47.565