Saying Goodbye (Retirements)

[irichluck21]

Murakami Mai is retiring after Worlds. Only doing beam and floor

https://olympics.com/en/news/gymnastics-world-championships-japan-murakami-mai

 

[RichardL]

What a way to only do beam and floor! Skipping the AA still garnered Murakami and Andrade multiple EF medals.

 

[YurchenkoLoop]

Sharing this routine of Murakami’s to celebrate the end of an illustrious career. What an artist she has always been!!!

Many are familiar with her EF FX routine from the Junior Japan meet in 2009 in which she competed a DLO, Silivas, front full + Rudi + FF, and a triple full dismount. A lot of people don’t know she competed a 3.5 on floor in the AA competition. Cheers to one of the greatest dancers we’ve had in the open-ended code!!

 

[Hatsumomo]

I love that forward roll entry to her starting pose. She was so adorable.

And her happy “やった!” after nailing a quad turn on beam. Did she ever compete the skill?

 

[YurchenkoLoop]

I think the most she ever competed was an Okino

 

[irichluck21]

Teremoto Asuka has also retired:

 

[irichluck21]

Lilia Akhaimova is retiring due to chronic back issues.

 

[MaryClare]

Lilia Akhaimova is retiring due to chronic form issues

 

[irichluck21]

Laura Bechdeju, 2020 Olympian from Spain has retired.

Laura Bechdejú y Alexia Sentias ponen fin a sus carreras deportivas

rfegimnasia.es

 

[ArnoldRimmer]

Not my favourite, but one of the more interesting career trajectories we’ve seen. I thought she’d probably retire even before the ban settled the issue.

 

[irichluck21]

Alec Yoder (USA) retires



Kim Bui (GER) will retire after Euros (NOOOOO)

 

[irichluck21]

Ukraine loses both Diana Varinska and Anastasia Bachynska to retirement.

Diana Varinska announced her retirement

Ukraine’s Diana Varinska announced her retirement from competitive gymnastics to Suspilne. The 2020 European champion in the team competition and the 2019 European Games bronze AA and beam me…

eng.gymnovosti.com

Anastasia Bachynska retires from competitive gymnastics

Following Diana Varinska’s retirement announcement, another Ukrainian WAG star of the last few years Anastasia Bachynska announced her retirement from competitive gymnastics: “I’v…

eng.gymnovosti.com

 

[J175]

Jonna Adlerteg (report in Swedish, she’s going on some sort of TV game show for retired athletes)

https://www.gymnastik.se/Nyheter/Nyheter/2022/jonnaadlerteginastasasongavmastarnasmastare2

 

[J175]

Time for a 2024 edition of this thread?

Fien Enghels (represented Belgium at 2023 Worlds plus Euros in 2019,21,22 and 23) and Noemie Louon (21 and 22 Euros) have retired, probably not unrelated to Belgium's failure to qualify for Paris, though Louon hadn't competed since 2022

 

[Passion]

Definites:
Sam Mikulak
Epke Zonderland
Oksana Chusovitina
Kohei Uchimura
MyKayla Skinner

Never trust a Chuso retirement lol.

 

[irichluck21]

What do you mean??? I AM NEVER WRONG!