Cottbus World Cup 2023, February 23-26

[J175]

Nominative registrations now available for the first World Cup of the year, the first opportunity to score points towards World Championship qualification.

https://www.gymnastics.sport/asset.php?id=fidb_13319

MAG is strong as ever. Petrounias is on the list so hopefully we’ll see him at Worlds this year.

Highlights of the WAG list include Elisabeth Seitz, Ashikawa Urara and a very strong Italian team.

 

[onodian]

Maybe i should go to Cottbus i mean it’s pretty lazy of me, it’s like an hour from Berlin

 

[MaryClare]

When I lived in London I nearly didn’t go to the first day of Olympic EFs (I had tickets) because I couldn’t be bothered

 

[onodian]

That’s hardly the same tho, that should get you banned here tbh.

 

[irichluck21]

When I lived in London I nearly didn’t go to the first day of Olympic EFs (I had tickets) because I couldn’t be bothered

And now we know why Maroney sat her 2nd vault, she was overcome with emotion as to the lack of Mary Clare’s presence in the audience.

HOW DARE YOU!

 

[MaryClare]

Haha. No I did turn up, but I nearly didn’t. An hour before the competition I was still at home

 

[Passion]

Masterful lineup at Cottbus World Cup starts up Artistic Gymnastics World Cup season
02/21/2023
Ten titles are up for grabs in Cottbus (GER) 23-26 February as the 2023 FIG Apparatus World Cup series in Men’s and Women’s Artistic Gymnastics gets underway — and one of the largest and strongest fields in recent years will be pursuing them.

In the penultimate year before the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, this long-running “Tournament of Masters” is the place to be. Numerous champions-to-be have passed through the princely city southwest of Berlin en route to World and Olympic glory, a tradition highly likely to continue with the 46th edition.

Nearly 200 gymnasts from 50 nations registered to compete in Cottbus, and while future champions are almost certainly among them, many of the glittering names on the roster already know what it is to stand atop World and Olympic podiums.

More than medals are at stake in this World Cup series: also on the table is qualification to the World Championships in Antwerp (BEL) 30 September-8 October, where teams and individuals can qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The eight highest-ranked eligible gymnasts per apparatus will earn berths to Antwerp.

Champions everywhere you look​

The massively talented starting lineups includes four Olympic champions: Shin Jeahwan (KOR), Artem Dolgopyat (ISR), Eleftherios Petrounias (GRE) and Oksana Chusovitina (UZB), the eight-time Olympian who is aiming, at age 47, to earn one more ticket to the Olympic Games.

Also set to contend: World champions Artur Davtyan (ARM), Rhys McClenaghan (IRL), Ashikawa Urara (JPN), Carlos Yulo (PHI), Tin Srbic (CRO) and Kaya Kazuma (JPN).

Olympic medallists Srbic, Filip Ude (CRO), Lee Chih-Kai (TPE), Igor Radivilov (UKR) and Ferhat Arican (TUR) are in the mix as well.

As for the host of World medallists — the likes of Illia Kovtun (UKR), Elisabeth Seitz (GER), Ahmad Abu Al Soud (JOR), Andrey Medvedev (ISR), Alice D’Amato (ITA) and Elisa Iorio (ITA) — their performances are expected to light up the Lausitz Arena too.

Then there are the newcomers: among those making their Cottbus debuts include 2022 World finalist Laura Casabuena (ESP), Anna Lena Koenig (GER), Poppy-Grace Stickler (GBR) and former European Championships competitor Dorien Motten (GEO).

World Cup series kicks off​

Cottbus is the first of four FIG Apparatus World Cup events that will determine the 2023 FIG World Cup Series champions based on a point system that takes placements at individual World Cup events into account, in addition to serving as an individual qualification to the Antwerp Worlds.

After Cottbus, the series turns to Doha (QAT) and Baku (AZE) before wrapping up in Cairo (EGY) at the end of April.

Masterful lineup at Cottbus World Cup starts up Artistic Gymnastics World Cup season

Ten titles are up for grabs in Cottbus (GER) 23-26 February as the 2023 FIG Apparatus World Cup series in Men’s and Women’s Artistic Gymnastics gets underway — and one of the largest and strongest fields in recent years will be pursuing them.

www.gymnastics.sport

 

[ArnoldRimmer]

Qualification results day 1

MAG FX

• 1 Artem DOLGOPYAT - 14.833 ISR
• 2 Milad KARIMI - 14.600 KAZ
• 3 Benjamin OSBERGER - 14.066 FRA
• 4 Aurel BENOVIC - 14.000 CRO
• 5 Kazuma KAYA - 13.966 JPN
• 6 Sebastian GAWRONSKI - 13.966 POL
• 7 Dmitriy PATANIN - 13.966 KAZ
• 8 Milan HOSSEINI - 13.933 GER

WAG VT

• 1 Manila ESPOSITO - 13.383 ITA
• 2 Ruby EVAN - 13.200 GBR
• 3 Oksana CHUSOVITINA - 12.866 UZB
• 4 Laura CASABUENA - 12.799 ESP
• 5 Alice VLKOVA - 12.733 CZE
• 6 Laia FONT - 12.716 ESP
• 7 Agata VOSTRUCHOVAITE - 12.600 LTU
• 8 Dildora ARIPOVA - 12.549 UZB

MAG PH

• 1 Nariman KURBANOV - 15.200 KAZ
• 2 Chih Kai LEE -15.033 TPE
• 3 Gagik KHACHIKYAN - 15.000 ARM
• 4 Abdulla AZIMOV - 14.800 UZB
• 5 Rhys MC CLENAGHAN - 14.733 IRL
• 6 Ahmad ABU AL SOUD - 14.600 JOR
• 7 Matvei PETROV - 14.600 ALB
• 8 Kazuma KAYA - 14.600 JPN

WAG UB

• 1 Alice D’AMATO - 14.500 ITA
• 2 Elisabeth SEITZ - 14.100 GER
• 3 Elisa IORIO - 13.766 ITA
• 4 Meolie JAUCH - 13.700 GER
• 5 Lucija HRIBAR - 13.033 SLO
• 6 Yelyzaveta HUBAREVA - 12.766 UKR
• 7 Azuki KOKUFUGATA 12.733 JPN
• 8 Julie ERICHSEN - 12.700 NOR

MAG SR

• Eleftherios PETROUNIAS - 14.733 GRE
• Mahdi AHMAD KOHANI - 14.666 IRI
• Adem ASIL - 14.633 TUR
• Ibrahim COLAK - 14.600 TUR
• Artur AVETISYAN - 14.533 ARM
• Vahagn DAVTYAN - 14.500 ARM
• Ali ZAHRAN - 14.400 EGY
• Vinzenz HOECK - 14.300 AUT

 

[RAFIKI]

Some quality MAG final line ups there.

 

[J175]

Qualification day 2:

MAG Vault:

1.	Artur DAVTYAN	14.949	ARM
2.	Wai Hung SHEK	14.600	HKG
3.	Artem DOLGOPYAT	14.516	ISR
4.	Juancho Miguel BESANA	14.433	PHI
5.	Tom SCHULTZE	14.416	GER
6.	Mahdi OLFATI	14.399	IRI
7.	Wei-Sheng TSENG	14.266	TPE
8.	Illia KOVTUN	14.166	UKR

P-Bars:

1.	Carlos Edriel YULO	6.5	14.933	PHI
2.	Illia KOVTUN	6.3	14.900	UKR
3.	Ferhat ARICAN	6.5	14.700	TUR
4.	Kazuma KAYA	6.3	14.666	JPN
5.	Nils DUNKEL	5.7	14.466	GER
6.	Ilias GEORGIOU	6.0	14.366	CYP
7.	Matteo LEVANTESI	5.9	14.333	ITA
8.	Glen CUYLE	5.6	14.033	BEL

High bar:

1.	Carlo MACCHINI	6.2	14.233	ITA
2.	Kazuma KAYA	5.9	14.166	JPN
3.	Shohei KAWAKAMI	6.2	14.000	JPN
4.	Illia KOVTUN	5.7	13.900	UKR
5.	Alexander MYAKININ	6.0	13.700	ISR
6.	Martijn DE VEER	5.6	13.566	NED
7.	Maxime GENTGES	5.5	13.466	BEL
8.	Mathias PHILIPPE	5.6	13.433	FRA

 

[J175]

Beam:

1.	Mana OKAMURA	5.7	13.666	JPN
2.	Hua-Tien TING	5.6	13.633	TPE
3.	Maria TRONRUD	5.0	13.233	NOR
4.	Urara ASHIKAWA	5.5	13.133	JPN
5.	Martina MAGGIO	5.0	13.033	ITA
6.	Filipa MARTINS	5.0	13.000	POR
7.	Dildora ARIPOVA	5.2	12.966	UZB
8.	Ruby EVANS	4.7	12.833	GBR

WAG Floor:

1.	Azuki KOKUFUGATA	5.2	13.566	JPN
2.	Ruby EVANS	5.4	13.500	GBR
3.	Alice D’AMATO	5.2	13.466	ITA
4.	Manila ESPOSITO	5.5	13.333	ITA
5.	Tisha VOLLEMAN	5.0	13.133	NED
6.	Poppy-Grace STICKLER	5.1	13.066	GBR
7.	Anna Lena KOENIG	5.0	13.000	GER
7.	Laura CASABUENA	5.0	13.000	ESP

 

[onodian]

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Very nice rhythm to the exercise, splits are a little off but then the switch ring looked better to me in real time? Anyways, nice routine, and totally cute-ing her way into our hearts with the salute

 

[Gymfan93]

Stream for finals. just started now:
https://sportdeutschland.tv/dtb/weltcup-cottbus-final-i

 

[makam]

Im living for them playing Star Trek music as the winners come out.

Hot take: men’s fx should just take place on a double ended tumble track. Tumble one way, do a strength move, tumble the other way, do the splits, etc.

 

[RAFIKI]

Im living for them playing Star Trek music as the winners come out.

I know! Never expected to see a Voyager-gymnastics crossover

 

[tsarinajen]

 

[J175]

Working out who qualifies for Worlds from this World Cup series is going to be impossible because AFAIK we haven’t heard how the FIG came up with the list of qualifiers last year. Women’s floor, for example, all of the Cottbus finalists are from countries which will qualify teams, so are points going to be redistributed or not? Last year people were assuming not, but that didn’t tally with the final list.

 

[makam]

Kokufugata looks like she would make Simone look like an NBA player.

 

[ArnoldRimmer]

Really? That sounds both incomprehensible and interminable. I’m already excited.

Also, I’m working on the assumption that Chusovitina is going to be one of the the qualifiers for vault however they do it. Will be interesting to see whether she goes this year.

 

[onodian]

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Pretty good Ri in vt finals today

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2021 BB World Champion!

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And very good beam by ashikawa, even if i can’t quite bring myself to really liking this routine