Cairo World Cup 2023, April 27-30

[J175]

If you only held events with a top class WAG competition there would be literally nothing other than the Olympics, Worlds and some continental championships. Is that a sustainable path for the sport? It might be where we are headed anyway. MAG clearly has no problem getting high quality gymnasts for these events, so maybe the criteria for hosting should be interest in the men’s side of things.

Holding it in the Americas would maybe attract a Brazil B team. The US and Canada are both already represented in Cairo (and really, outside of Ellie Black (injured) and Shallon Olsen (NCAA) do Canada have anyone really notable on any particular event?) The last apparatus event in the Americas (Sao Paulo Challenge Cup 2016) had three apparatus without even the full 8 entries for a final. Events in China and Australia were similarly bad, even when Australia was an Olympic qualifying event.

 

[makam]

So they only did two apparatus today?

 

[irichluck21]

do Canada have anyone really notable on any particular event?)

Sydney Turner is going to be one to watch headed toward Paris IMO

 

[RedBirdie]

Yes, vault and bars qualifications today, beam and floor tomorrow. Then vault and bars EFs Saturday, beam and floor Sunday.

 

[RichardL]

She’s really impressive. The judges love her on too. I just rewatched her TF floor routine from Worlds and she had basically .9 in landing deductions on her tumbling and still scored 13.100. And that 13.5+ on beam was clutch for the team too. She and Ellie Black carried that bronze medal.

 

[RedBirdie]

Qualification day 2 are underway: https://live.grbscoring.com/

 

[irichluck21]

She and Ellie Black carried that bronze medal.

They led the team, but it was a total team effort. Spence was consistent on her three events and her beam helped secure the bronze with Canada finishing 2nd on the event, Pedrick’s DTY was a big score on vault, and Denommee almost broke 13 on floor.

 

[RedBirdie]

Looks like possibly a fall for Roberson on beam. She’s currently second behind Norway’s Maria Tronrud.

 

[Kara]

7.5E would be awfully high for a fall; looks like she either took out or didn’t get credited with a lot of her difficulty; only a 5.3 here.

 

[RedBirdie]

Where are you seeing the score breakdowns? I’d love to see those! I’m just seeing the total score on the live page and taking a guess based on prior D scores.

 

[xxParkerxx]

Wait what happened to Ellie Black? I missed that one.

 

[RedBirdie]

Cat loose in the arena.

 

[RedBirdie]

EF Qualifiers

VT

1. Asia D’Amato ITA 14.016
2. Joscelyn Roberson USA 14.016
3. Camille Rasmussen DEN 13.383
4. Hillary Heron PAN 13.133
5. Oksana Chusovitina UZB 13.066
6. Rifda Irfanaluthfi INA 12.816
7. Patricie Makovickova CZE 12.616
8. Maria Tronrud NOR 12.583

UB

1. Alice D’Amato ITA 14.466
2. Giorgia Villa ITA 14.033
3. Yelizaveta Hubareva UKR 13.233
4. Ava Stewart CAN 13.033
5. Erika Pinxten BEL 12.933
6. Jessica Dowling CAN 12.766
7. Zala Trtnik SLO 12.600
8. Dildora Aripova UZB 12.500

BB

1. Asia D’Amato ITA 13.433
2. Maria Tronrud NOR 13.033
3. Joscelyn Roberson USA 12.833
4. Erika Pinxten BEL 12.666
5. Giorgia Villa ITA 12.566
6. Marta Pihan-Kulesza POL 12.400
7. Marie Rønbeck NOR 12.266
8. Zala Trtnik SLO 12.233

FX

1. Joscelyn Roberson USA 14.066
2. Alice D’Amato ITA 13.566
3. Aida Bauyrzhanova KAZ 12.733
4. Rifda Irfanaluthfi INA 12.500
5. Charlize Mörz AUT 12.400
6. Hillary Heron PAN 12.300
7. Nazanin Teymurova AZE 12.233
8. Lucie Trnkova CZE 12.200

 

[gymfan]

Roberson’s scores in this world cup are pretty consistent with DTB scores except bars. Italian slays in qualification.

 

[FrolovasDoubleLayout]

Loving that Marta Pihan-Kulesza is back!!!

 

[gymfan]

On men’s side, Illia has been shining in world cups. Donnell had two tough days, and unfortunately inconsistency issue is a disadvantage in MAG team selection.

 

[RedBirdie]

I’ve only been able to find video on twitter, but its something.

Big changes to Roberson’s beam. Alas, that “Onodi” is still in the routine.



Floor

 

[irichluck21]

Loving that Marta Pihan-Kulesza is back!!!

Me too!

Is this like her 5th or 6th comeback?

 

[Hatsumomo]

Roberson’s beam is just so janky. That Onodi is an insult at this point.

 

[gymfan]

How many deductions are in her Onodi? Perhaps she can do a front aerial instead if there are lots of deductions there.