TRA European Championships: last competition day!

This Saturday April 12th the last juniors and seniors finals of these 24th European Championships in Trampoline, Double Mini-Trampoline and Tumbling are on the programme.

 

Juniors DMT and TUM Finals 

As two years ago at the junior ECh in St. Petersburg, it is a Russian that wins the Junior European Champion title in DMT and the silver medal goes as well to a Russian.

 

DMT junior girls:

1-Evgeniia PAK (RUS) - 67.000

2-Veronika KOTOVSHCHIKOVA (RUS) - 66.200

3-Yael CAMPELO (ESP) - 64.800

 

In boys category, the Tumbling title defender was the Russian Alexander BEZYULEV but this time the gold medal goes to a Ukrainian tumbler.

 

TUM junior boys:

1-Oleg AKSAMITNYI (UKR) - 69.000

2-Mikhail KHOMCHANKA (BLR) – 67.400

3-Elliot BROWNE (GBR) - 66.200

 

The day starts very well for the host country of these Championships as the podium of this DMT boys final is in the colours of Portugal filling the hall with the sound of the Portuguese anthem and the singing crowd.

 

DMT junior boys:

1-Tiago Romao/POR – 70.500

2-Vladimir Chechushkov/RUS – 69.200

3-Marco Laginha/POR – 67.400

 

And Portugal continues to shine in the girls’ Tumbling category; the Portuguese climb again on two steps of the podium to receive the silver and the bronze medal. The European junior title is awarded to Rachel Davies (GBR).

 

TUM junior girs:

1-Rachel Davies/GBR – 65.800

2-Raquel Pinto/POR – 65.400

3-Beatriz Botelho/POR – 63.800

 

Seniors DMT and TUM Finals

The competition continues with the finals of the seniors on Double Mini-Trampoline and Tumbling.

 

At the end of this final we find the same three nations on the podium than 2 years ago: RUS – GBR and POR with Polina Troianova (RUS), Junior European title defender of the discipline, again on the top step of the podium as in 2012. Little change in the order of the second and third steps.

DMT senior women :

1-Polina Troianova/RUS – 67.900

2-Georgia Downing/GBR – 67.500

3-Sivia Saiote/POR - 66.600

 

The favourite of this final is the current world vice-champion and junior European Champion of 2012, Lucie Colebeck/GBR, who without surprise wins the title followed by two Russians.

 

Tumbling senior women :

1-Lucie Colebeck/GBR – 66.900

2-Anastacia Isupova/RUS – 64.600

3-Ekaterina Gaas/RUS – 63.800

 

In men’s Double Mini-Trampoline, the current World Champion was brilliant today again winning the European title with ease with 78.400 points, far ahead of the silver medallist from Spain, Daniel Perez who was 5th at the ECh 2012.

 

DMT senior men :

1-Mikhail Zalomin/RUS – 78.400

2-Daniel Perez/ESP – 71.500

3-Jonas Nordfors/SWE – 70.900

 

In the category men Tumbling, superb performance of Great Britain who garners the 2 first places of this final with the current World title holder in this discipline Kristof Willerton who is the crowned European Champion 2014 and followed by his teammate Greg Townley, 2nd of the juniors ECh in 2012 who wins the silver medal.

 

Tumbling seniors garçons :

1-Kristof Willerton/GBR – 75.800

2-Greg Townley/GBR – 74.200

3-Alexander Mironov/RUS – 74.000

3-Viktor Kyforenko/UKR – 74.000

 

The competition continue this afternoon with Trampoline.

 

After the break for lunch, it is up to the Synchro girls and boys  to battle out the finals.

 

Everything depends on one routine and some of those were shortened due to a fall. 

For boys, it was not until the last routine, with the perfectly well executed exercise of the Belarusians, that the podium places were known. BLR earns the highest place of the podium.

Ranking for the SYNCHRO juniors men final:

1-A. Smirnou & A. Zhuk/BLR

2-B. Kjaer & M. Christensen/DEN

3-E. Novelle & V. Torre/ESP

 

The 3 Synchro pairs on the podium today put up a great performance with a remarkable timing and perfect coordination.

 

Ranking for the SYNCHRO juniors women final:

1-A. Kuznetcova & A. Popova/RUS

2-B. Davies-Williams & O. Kenny/GBR

3-E. Bregatta & L. Labrousse/FRA

 

Synchro finals for seniors girls and boys

In boys finals, the russian duo, last ones to pass, win gold with a perfectly clean routine. The silver medal goes to POL and bronze to SUI.

 

In the girls’ category, everything was decided with the last 3 pairs.…

It is finally the Russian girls V. Voronina & Y. Pavlova that go home with gold, followed by the Ukrainian and the Bristish grils.

 

Ranking of the SYNCHRO seniors men final:

1-M. Melnik & S. Azarian/RUS

2-B. Hes & L. Tomaszewski/POL

3-N. Schori & S. Progin/SUI

 

Ranking for the SYNCHRO seniors women final:

1-V. Voronina & Y. Pavlova/RUS

2-M. Kyiko & N. Moskvina/UKR

3-J. Vallez & M. Jurbert/FRA

 

Individual Trampoline juniors finals for boys and girls

The russian Oleg Selyutin, which obtained the third place at the ECh for juniors in 2012 improves its performance and won the European title this year.

Boys:

1-O. Selyutin/RUS - 55.430

2-D. Zenkin/RUS - 55.065

3-P. Ferreira/POR - 54.695

 

Lea Labrousse keeps its european vice-champion title already obtained in 2012.

Girls:

1-I. Songhurst/GBR - 51.240

2-L. Labrousse/FRA - 51.010

3-M. Golota/RUS - 50.205

 

Individual Trampoline seniors finals for boys and girls

The Russian D. Ushakov does not manage to defend his title obtained in 2012 as he is outscored by the Belarusian U. Hancharou.

Ranking for men:

1-U. Hancharou/BLR - 60.125

2-D. Ushakov/RUS - 59.225

3-L. Strong/GBR - 58.860

 

Ranking for women:

1-H. Harchonak/BLR - 54.055

2-K. Driscoll/GBR - 53.285

3-M. Kyiko/UKR - 52.440

 

 

And that is the end of these Championships; See you for the next UEG events in a few weeks !

 

 

 

O. Do Rosario/UEG