Cottbus Cup

There was very nice gymnastics at the Cottbus Cup this year. Many gymnasts from many different nations competed. Oksana Chusovitina won the vault with an average of 14.312. She did her normal vaults which are a Tsuk 1.5 and lay out front with a full. Giulia Steingruber of Switzerland competed a Rudi and a Tsuk full. And Nadine Yarosch of Germany got the Bronze medal with a Yurchenko 1.5 and a piked front. Yao Jinnan of China won the bars title with classic Chinese lines and skills. And Elisabeth Seitz got the Silver with her Def back in the routine and other big skills. And Kim Bui won the Bronze in her big come back meet. Yao Jinnan also won the beam title with huge skills and connections such as her huge bhs, bhs, layout. Celine Van Gerner earned the Silver with a clean routine and a new round off layout connection. And vetrran Vasiliki Millousi of Greece won the Bronze with a surprisingly solid routine. And the floor title also went to Yao Jinnan with her clean tumbling and dance. And the Silver went to junior stand out Tan Sixin of China, with a not so difficult routine, but clean tumbling and gorgeous dance and choreography. And the Bronze went to Elisabeth Seitz. Unfortunately no video of her routine has come out so I don't know what was in her routine. Some other stand out routines and gymnasts are Mariya Livchkova of the Ukraine, Natsumi Sasada of Japan, and Yulia Belokobylskaya of Russia. Mariya Livchikova had a lovely floor excerise routine that had a double front, triple twist, and a Memmel turn. She had a couple of steps out of bounds and large steps so she didn't make the final. Natsumi Sasada showed a very difficult bars and beam routine. Her bars was very difficult and unique with nice combinations and a jam. Her jam did not hit the hand stand, and she didn't have enough power to go over the bar and fell on the bar. She did her extremely difficult and unique mount on the beam, which is a lay out full, or a lay out Garrison. and then she connected it to a Korbut. And Yulia only made the bars final, when her specialty events are beam and floor, but she did show a huge piked stalder tkatchev. I will show videos on a different post since there are so many!