2025 Junior Worlds Championships

[Passion]

16 year old Yang Lanbin's E-scores from the AA Final with links to each routine:

FX: 8.600
PH: 9.000
SR: 9.100
VT: 9.200
PB: 9.266
HB: 9.133

 

[Sasha]

Minamino Yume was an absolute delight. I came to watch Colas take over the world, but was not unhappy with the end result.

What's the name of the skill that Minamino does before the LO Jaegar 1/1, the sort of stoop through to giant? I feel like we haven't seen that in years in WAG.

 

[MaryClare]

What's the name of the skill that Minamino does before the LO Jaegar 1/1, the sort of stoop through to giant? I feel like we haven't seen that in years in WAG.

Jam dislocate? Memmel did it into her dismount. I think Chusovitina was the first female to do it, back in 1991 but it’s in the code as a Luo

 

[Sasha]

Thank you! Yang from elgrip is mind-boggling.

 

[Doug1233]

What is it with all the over exaggerated face in Japanese floor exercises?

 

[phoenix7]

What is it with all the over exaggerated face in Japanese floor exercises?

I think they are drawing on traditional Japanese theatre - like noh where the actors wear or imitate masks showing exaggerated expressions. The plays are quite difficult to understand because of their old fashioned language, and they were traditionally performed by candlelight, so storytelling through big gestures and dramatic expressions is important.

I really like the idea of Japan developing a style like this on floor. I hope they will sort out their selection processes and become a gymnastics superpower (in WAG too, I mean!)

 

[carlomkt]

Men's floor exercise final results:

1. Yang Lanbin (CHN) - 13.833
2. Simone Speranza (ITA) - 13.766
3. Karl Jahrel Eldrew Yulo (PHI) - 13.733
4. Arsenii Dukhno (AIN) - 13.633
5. Wang Chengcheng (CHN) - 13.566
6. Danila Leykin (USA) - 13.466
7. Nathan Roman (USA) - 12.733
8. Noam Berkovich (ISR) - 11.533

Yulo was a heavy favourite on this apparatus alongside Dukhno. But he sustained an injury during the AA finals, so it was kinda expected that he'd be out of medal contention. Dukhno's faulty 2nd pass proved to be a costly mistake.

Lanbin didn't really have to do anything different. The top 3 during qualifications (Dukhno, Yulo, Berkovich) clearly struggled.

 

[carlomkt]

Women's vault final results:

1. Lavi Crain (USA) - 13.683
2. Misa Nishiyama (JPN) - 13.633
3. Alexia Blanaru (ROU) - 13.566
4. Mia Proietti (ITA) - 13.483
5. Elena Colas (FRA) - 13.300
6. Yume Minamino (JPN) - 13.149
7. Aniela Tudor (ROU) - 13.049
8. Albina Aliyeva (AZE) - 12.466

 

[MaryClare]

Arseni Dukhno got a mention on the morning news in Moscow and they showed a bit of his floor exercise. I took a video but it’s too big to upload (it’s only 15 seconds).

 

[MaryClare]

UB Final. A lot of errors. The 3 medalists were the only ones to perform cleanly.

KAIUMOVA Milana AIN
6.100
7.833
-
13.933


2

PILIAROVA Lucia SVK
5.500
8.300
-
13.800
-0.133

3

MOREAU Caroline USA
5.300
8.033
-
13.333
-0.600

4

COLAS Elena FRA
6.100
7.100
-
13.200
-0.733

5

CHASSAT Lola FRA
5.000
7.900
-
12.900
-1.033

6

FINC Helena GBR
5.500
7.066
-
12.566
-1.367

7

JIANG Shuting CHN
5.400
6.966
-
12.366
-1.567

8

CRAIN Lavienna USA
5.100
6.266
-
11.366

 

[Matilda23]

Is Lavi Crain the first individual gold medallist at the world championships from GAGE gym?

 

[KorbutFan]

Arseni Dukhno got a mention on the morning news in Moscow and they showed a bit of his floor exercise. I took a video but it’s too big to upload (it’s only 15 seconds).

It looks like a lot of his routines are up on YouTube.

 

[RedBirdie]

Is Lavi Crain the first individual gold medallist at the world championships from GAGE gym?

I believe so.

 

[RedBirdie]

I just realized the US junior WAGs still have last season's leo kit. They didn't get the leos the seniors had for worlds. That's a change from the past and ai wonder why they did that.

 

[Sanzhirovka]

I love Piliarova medaling in second place on bars soooo much.

Just the best thing - can’t wait to see her at Euros next summer.

 

[MaryClare]

It looks like a lot of his routines are up on YouTube.

Yes I know. I meant the news report itself, and that it was interesting it was featured since junior worlds is not a very high profile competition.

 

[MaryClare]

I love Piliarova medaling in second place on bars soooo much.

Just the best thing - can’t wait to see her at Euros next summer.

She has really lovely technique but she doesn’t look ready yet to add the sort of difficulty to be competitive at senior level.

 

[Sasha]

Assorted thoughts and questions about today's final:

1. I know squat about men's floor, but Yang's tumbling was just so pretty.

2. Now that the scale requirement is gone, what do the men get for doing one? I enjoyed the well-performed Y-scales we saw today.

3. Women's vault was ... concerning? Some of those athletes did not look prepared to throw the skills they were throwing.

4. Do we know who Blanaru's coach is? With all the usual caveats about how people might change their behaviour in front of a camera, she really seemed to have a warm and positive rapport with her athlete. That kinda jumped out at me with all the bad news coming out of Romania.

5. I've never seen a PH final like that. Are the juniors normally more splatty on the event? Wang's flair work was beautiful though.

6. Piliarova's bars were stunning.

7. I enjoyed watching the gymnasts/coaches try to leave the kiss-and-cry and then obviously being told not to from behind the camera.

 

[phoenix7]

Do we know who Blanaru's coach is? With all the usual caveats about how people might change their behaviour in front of a camera, she really seemed to have a warm and positive rapport with her athlete. That kinda jumped out at me with all the bad news coming out of Romania.

Well, the national team membership, staff and structures seem to have disappeared from the FRG website, so who knows? Blanaru has been coming up steadily for a few years though. Hope she'll have a future.