Mersin Challenge Cup/ RomGym Trophy

[J175]

Two events this weekend as teams prepare for Worlds

The FIG need to do better with Mersin - as far as I can tell it has no scoring other than PDFs posted on social media, and while previous years finals have been streamed there’s no sign of that at the moment this year. The entry list is not the strongest.

The RomGym Trophy apparently does have streaming at this Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@slowtvsports1706/streams

Women’s competition is tomorrow afternoon. The entry list features all the Romanians as well as what might well be Spain’s team for Worlds and also groups from Finland, Norway and Poland. Shallon Olsen and Laurie Denommee are listed for Canada and Filipa Martins for Portugal.

 

[J175]

Mersin day 1 qualifying results
WAG:

 

[J175]

MAG

 

[blake]

International Gymnast posted a couple clips from both meets on their Instagram

https://instagram.com/intlgymnast?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

 

[J175]

RomGym MAG was today, featuring strong teams from Spain, Canada and Israel in addition to Romania.

Spain beat Canada by 0.25, and Nestor Abad won the AA by 0.05 ahead of William Emard.

https://frgimnastica.com/storage/2587/64f22dfebc1d7_Results-All-Around-MAG-1.09.2023.pdf

https://frgimnastica.com/storage/2586/64f22d66af61f_Team-Results-MAG-1.09.2023.pdf

 

[RichardL]

Daddy Penev has been looking good this year on FX…

 

[tsarinajen]

This channel is uploading Romanian routines.

 

[gymfan]

6.1D, but there is very little choreography and no connection to music.

 

[gymfan]

Romania looks really competitive. The Romanian team is not at podium level yet, but certainly can break into team final.

 

[OnoNoKomachi]

So annoying.

 

[MaryClare]

An unfortunate choice of word

Rape-Accused Bulgarian Gymnast Face Long Years in US Jail - Novinite.com - Sofia News Agency

A Bulgarian gymnast, who has been charged with rape and sexual abuse in the US, may have to spend more than ten years in jail under pressure from the victim's family.

www.novinite.com

 

[CameliasFingerpaint]

Romania went 160.75, counting two beam falls. Apparently judging was quite harsh. Their dropped UB score was a 13.15. They have a very good shot at qualifying a full team to Paris, possibly even the Team Final in Antwerp.

 

[tempest]

6.1D, but there is very little choreography and no connection to music.

she’s the Romanian Roberson

 

[Marcio_Custodio]

Voinea’s tsukahara layout is a complete No

 

[gymfan]

Roberson has much better connection to music, expression and eye contact. Voinea has cleaner form when she does Silivas.

 

[BB12]

The difficulty is promising but the artistry deductions should be the maximum you can take.

 

[J175]

The Netherlands WAG team also had their first trial for Worlds today (there will be a second in a couple of weeks)



There are some videos on this Youtube channel https://m.youtube.com/@Dutchgymnerd

Looks like there were a few falls on bars and floor, but I’d say that looks pretty good for them.

 

[RichardL]

YIKES. I was not aware of this. Wow.

 

[YurchenkoLoop]

I thought Maneca-Voinea’s routine was good until the choreo after her third tumbling run. She should do a Johnson 1/2 instead of the double tuck dismount and focus on better choreo. I saw Ghigoarta’s BB too but otherwise have yet to see routines. That’s so promising! Yay for Romania!

Great scores for the Dutch. Visser likely fell or had a major error on UB. Should be looking at a 55.0 for a clean program. That’s huge. Yay for Wevers hitting beam, too

this is way better than I expected. She twists fast



Um Ghigoarta’s Church?!

This is the Romanian team I would use in TQ
VT: (Ghigoarta) Cosman, Barbosa, Maneca-Voinea
UB: (Preda) Cosman, Ghigoarta, Barbosu
BB: (Cosman/Preda) Barbosu, Ghigoarta, Maneca-Voinea
FX: (Ghigoarta) Cosman, Barbosu, Maneca-Voinea
The only change I would make is having Ceplinschi or Stanciulescu instead of Preda, if Ceplinschi looks better after a month. Maneca-Voinea’s bars really can’t be used in TQ. Sucks for her but if the team wants to make Paris, then she needs to sit the event out

 

[rlayt]

IIRC he was placed on the banned list a long time ago.

Probably went to prison since he’s on the sex offender list.