Great Britain overpowers
On the first day of the 31st men’s artistic gymnastics championships, the junior men compete their qualifications and team final. As expected, Russia battled with Great Britain for the gold. France, Switzerland and italy did for bronze.
In the first subdivision Austria leads the field the whole time. Clean exercises gave them 236,220 points, ahead of sweden (233,254) and Romania (227,533). The Romanian didn’t get the same level as the women’s gymnastics of their country.
In the second subdivision countries Spain and Israel got into the top of the ranking. Spain led the ranking until the last apparatus, they performed less on the pommel horse and ended up 4th in the team ranking. Israel performed very constantly on every apparatus and rose very steadily towards the provisional first place.
The firework came at last: favorite teams Russia and Great Britain. They were in the same rotation, Great-Britain performed first, set a goal for Russia. The British gymnasts showed great consistency on every apparatus, showing both nice execution and high difficulty. The public liked the high bar flight elements a lot! Finally they won the golden medal, collecting 1,5 point more than Russia. The Russian gymnasts performed very firmly, using their body strength.
Some countries got chances to the third place. France was all-around the best of them, they got 0,300 point more than Switzerland. Belgium started very well, but had some failures in the second half of the competition. The young and promising team of Italy got a bit too short for the third place, they ended up 5th.
The link to the results can be found here.
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