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22 January 2010

Snippets

Prosport reports that Gabriela Dragoi and Anamaria Tamarjan have had their operation on the
12th of January in Targu Mures. Dragoi will need 2 months for rehab and Tamarjan a month and a half. Both have very little chance of competing at Europeans at the end of April but Nicolae Forminte is hoping that he can count on both of them for Worlds.
Gabriela Dragoi has been suffering from a tear in the tibia since the Olympics in Beijing and Anamaria Tamarjan had to have a cyst removed from her left knee.

After members of the National team had been in quarantaine because of Swine Flu, they are dealing with another scare as Amelia Racea has measles. She was put into quarantaine immediately and has to have a total break from training. Nicolae Forminte: 'We are waiting for the incubation time to be over and we will see if any of the other girls have been infected. We don't know how the situation is going to evolve but we have done everything to try and stop the spreading of the disease.'

With Anamaria Tamarjan, Sandra Izbasa and Gabriela Dragoi all in rehab, Europeans could mean the chance of the youngsters like Amelia Racea who's 15. Forminte: 'This break will be felt in Amelia's preparation for Europeans. We will have to rethink everything and hope that she will be able to recover. We really need her.'

15 December 2009

Sandra is back in Deva

Prosport reports that Sandra Izbasa is back in Deva, which is fabulous news. Sandra: 'It's so
good to be back, it's such a joy! Time has flown by really quickly and it seems like yesterday that I was in the hospital with my hand and foot in a plaster cast.'
Meeting up with her teammates and coaches, and being back in Deva, was very emotional for Sandra. When she walked into her room, she started to cry. She remembered with which thoughts she left and she wanted nothing more to come back. Everybody welcomed her with open arms.
Sandra gave Nicolae Forminte a bit of a fright when she climbed straight up on to the beam. He told her to get back down immediately as she's not allowed to force her foot!
Sandra: 'I'm not scared, everything that I felt after the accident has gone. I went on to all the apparatus and it's ok, even floor and whie before when I thought of floor, I felt an empty hole, now I miss doing my routine.'

Anamaria Tamarjan has had an operation on her right knee, to deal with the pinched meniscus
and is now getting ready for an operation on her left knee, where they have to remove a cyst which appeared after the accident in Stuttgart in 2007.
Nicolae Forminte: 'It will be a very difficult period for her. She will have to work so hard in coming back and you can't neglect the pain either, but I do think that she has the strength to do so.'







3 December 2009

Top Gym in Charleroi, Belgium By Nicole Citroen

As a spur of the moment kind of thing, we decided to go to Charleroi for the Top Gym
junior competition as the up and coming juniors of various countries chose to compete at this great competition.
The atmosphere is wonderful, you are welcomed by the organising committee with such enthusiasm and such warmth, it's a true delight to go there.

There was a training session on Friday the 27th of November. The Romanians Larisa Iordache and Diana Bulimar came in accompanied by Monica Micu and Cristian Moldovan, he is famous for all
the medals he won in aerobics (Trio) and now coaches the juniors together with his wife, former gymnast Lacramioara Filip. The girls and coaches relate so well together, chatting and smiling all the time. It was also nice to see that some of the aerobics moves have been added to the warm up sequence that the girls do on floor.

On to the apparatus and the training started on vault. Larisa Iordache did quite well with her vaults, it was Diana who was struggling a little bit so it was very unexpected when Larisa injured her knee during one of the landings. She just landed a little bit heavy on one leg. She fell sideways and stayed lying down on the mat. Monica and Cristi ran over to her and a shock went through the arena because Diana injured her ankle in last years Top Gym in the warming up
before the competition and couldn't compete! Surely this wouldn't happen again but now to Larisa?
Cristi shouted for an ice pack and picked Larisa up to lay her down on the mat beside the vault. She was crying and all the time he was comforting her, rubbing her shoulder and patting her on the stomach, trying to calm her down. He then picked her up and took her to the hospital for
x-rays.
You could clearly see this incident affected Diana. During her training session on bars, she missed her hand in a flight to the lower bar and smacked her side and ribs on the bar, which was
clearly very painful. Monica tried to calm her down, talking to her all the time.
On to beam where she fell off quite a lot during the elements and she was almost in tears. Then Larisa came back into the arena and Diana's face lit up. She walked over to Larisa and smiled and after that, she did so much better on beam, knowing that her teammate was ok and there was a chance that she would compete on the Saturday. The coaches were going to see if her knee
was swollen or not on Saturday morning. If it wasn't, Larisa would do a training session and they would see how she got on and they would make a decision after that.
Diana in the meantime was doing some physical training. The layers of carpet on the floor weren't stuck together very well in the part where she was standing and she wanted to jump up but her feet were stuck underneath a part of the carpet that was curled up so she hardly came of the floor. She looked down and laughed, explaining to the coaches what had just happened and they all laughed.
Time for the accreditation photos. Diana helped Larisa, who walked on crutches, to take her jacket off and the girls posed for the photographer. Some more stretching and off to a well earned rest.

The other gymnast that impressed was tiny Madison Kocian from America, who's only 12. She is from the same gym as Nastia Liukin and has great form in all her work. Top Gym was her first international competition.
Both Italian girls Arianna Salvi and Chiara Gandolfi looked good too, especially Arianna has a beautiful floor routine and both looked very fashionable in their legwarmers.
Scotland had sent two tiny tiny girls who compete at club level so this was a great experience
for them. It appeared that the Scottish girls and the English girls all came from the same club
but I could be wrong.


Saturday morning and of course everybody was wondering whether Larisa would be ok. The organisation must have sighed in relief when they saw her walk in, without her crutches but she still had to train. She warmed up carefully and bit by bit added more pressure on her knee. The coaches were watching her carefully, asking whether she was ok and she nodded she was.
She worked through all her routines on the apparatus, impressing on beam and floor. Things were fine so she was going to compete in the evening, which was great news. She did ice her knee after the training session, just to make sure it wouldn't start swelling all of a sudden.
While I was standing there taking photos, Diana came over to me, pointing at my press card. I wasn't really sure what she was saying to me so afterwards I asked the coach Monica what it was that she meant. Diana collects press cards etc. of all the competitions she takes part in and she was wondering if she could have mine so I promised to give it to her at the end of the day, as unfortunately we couldn't attend the competition on Sunday.

The gymnasts all came back in at around 4 in the afternoon for the official warming up as the competition was going to start at 17.30.
Larisa and Diana started on vault. After Friday's scare, Larisa did well on her full twisting Yurchenko which she nailed. The girls did 2 vaults and the highest score counted. (13.700).
Diana did a handspring somi forward. (12.750)
Madison Kocian had to start on beam and what went so well during the training sessions, didn't go according to plan in the competition. She fell off on a free front walk over and didn't really give herself enough time to compose herself as she went off straight away with her sheep jump. Her routine is packed with elements like forward somi, backwards somi, back handspring into
piked somi and she performs everything beautifully.
On to bars for the Romanians. Larisa showed a nice stalder, full turn into Tkatchev but had some problems on the lower bar, having to add some swings and turns. She finished really well with a high piked full in dismount. (11.550)
Diana had been struggling in training on bars so she looked a bit nervous but once she started, she did very well. Her form is good, legs stuck together and she showed a good stalder combination on the lower bar, high Tkatchev and a high double piked dismount. She landed and her face beamed a huge smile. (12.700)
On beam, Larisa showed a free walkover into flick to stepout layout, free cartwheel but almost fell off on her front somi but then straight after that, she performed a spot on double pirouette and finished the routine with a double twist. She had the highest SV of the field, 6.20. (14.750)
Diana has been outscoring her teammate on beam lately and her routine is absolutely packed
with difficulty, one element after the other but at the start she had a wobble after her free cartwheel and her free walkover to flick, stepout layout was not entirely connected and she fell off beam on her front somi. Her leaps and sheep jump are very high though and she also showed a nice split leap into piked back somi. (13.050)
Larisa had a little problem on floor during warming up after her 1 1/2 twist to front somi- front somi. She fell on the second front somi, looked at the coach and asked what went wrong. It's amazing to see how keen she is to get things right as she listened to what he said, nodded and took it aboard.
During her routine on Spanish music, she has lovely dance combined with difficult acrobatic skills. She started with a piked full, little stumble forwards, second series handspring to full twist, then the 1 1/2 twist to front somi front somi and she finished with a double twist. Larisa has good presentation on floor, smiling during her dance movements. (13.150) The gold medal was Larisa's.
Diana is so lightning fast on floor, it makes you smile. She too started with a piked full in, then
her second series was a flick to full twist step out to flick double somi. She fell out of her double pirouette with her leg up and stepped out of bounds after her 1 1/2 twist to punch front but she finished with a strong double piked somi. (13.050)
In the meantime, Belgium Julie Croket was creeping amongst the medal winners. She's got great choreography on floor but had to step out of bounds on her first series (full in) and almost fell on her punch layout front, she was very low. Julie, however, is a vault specialist and that's where she gained the advantage and won her a silver medal.
Madison Kocian, who started gymnastics in 2002, performed well on floor but finished with a double somi. Her routine is still a little bit on the childish side but what she does, she does very well and precise. She's certainly one to watch for the future as she won a bronze medal.

Unfortunately we couldn't make it to the Sunday competition due to travel times but this Top Gym competition is certainly a joy to visit with a lovely atmosphere all around.

Results:

1. Larisa Iordache (Rom) VT: 13.700; UB: 11.550; BB: 14.750; FX: 13.150 Total: 53.150
2. Julie Croket (Bel) VT: 14.250; UB: 13.400; BB: 12.650; FX: 12.550 Total: 52.850
3. Madison Kocian (USA) VT: 14.100; UB: 13.700; BB: 11.500; FX: 13.200 Total: 52.500
4. Lisa van den Burg (Ned) VT: 13.300; UB: 13.400; BB: 12.900; FX: 51.900 Total: 51.900
5. Diana Bulimar (Rom) VT: 12.750; UB: 12.700; BB: 13.050; FX: 13.050 Total: 51.550
6. Tess Moonen (Ned) VT: 13.300; UB: 12.200; BB: 13.450; FX: 11.850 Total: 50.700
7. Floriane Scianguetta (Bel) VT: 13.350; UB: 11.800; BB: 12.700; FX: 12.350 Total: 50.200
8. Joanna Adlerteg (Swe) VT: 13.400; UB: 13.150; BB: 11.950; FX: 11.450 Total:49.950

14 November 2009

Stuttgart World Cup - Ana wins gold on beam!

Ana did really well in the beam final, she only had a small wobble after her back somersault so
she won gold! with a 14.625. Brilliant result for her and it will definitely boost her confidence.

Result BB:

1. Ana Porgras (Rom) 14.625
2. Maike Roll (Ger) 13.575
3. Ksenia Semenova (Rus) 13.525
4. Luisa Galiulina (Uzb) 13.125
5. Elisabeth Seitz (Ger) 13.075
6. Valeria Maksiuta (Isr) 12.800
7. Marlies Rijken (Ned) 12.475
8. Jana Komrskova (Cze) 12.275

Qualifications:
Unfortunately Ana didn't perform well on bars, she came off the apparatus during a turn on the low bar and scored 13.175, placing her 10th and missing the finals.
She fell off beam on her side-somi but the rest of the routine was good and she qualified in third place for the finals with a 13.575. Ksenia Semenova (Rus) qualified first with a 13.925 and Luisa Galiulina from Uzbekistan second with a 13.850.

13 November 2009

Ana Porgras and Anamaria Tamarjan are both struggling with injuries

The team has moved to Izvorani, near Bucharest for a change of scenary. Prosport reports that
3 weeks ago, Ana missed an element on beam and hit the beam with her leg and ribs. Ana: 'I
was frightened as it could have been a lot worse, that it could have meant another break. The medical test showed that it wasn't cracked, it was a relief.'
Ana: 'It still hurts but the bandage is holding it tight but I couldn't train for several days. It was terrible. I can't stay away from the apparatus.'
In order not to force things, Ana is only training on beam and bars, the apparatus on which she will compete in the last three competitions of this year. First one will be the World Cup in Stuttgart, Germany.

Next month she will turn 16 and shows a maturity that contradicts the innocent look on her face. She also knows exactly what she wants and she says that she came back from London with a
lot of experience, with the thought that anything is possible and that more training will mean more medals. She feels more mature but also more responsible in the way that she trains.

Her favourite apparatus is beam and she blames herself for falling at the World Championships
due to nerves and not paying attention. She thinks that in the future she will be able to deal
with her nerves better and that it will disappear through a lot of work. Ana: 'I'm not afraid of
these mistakes, on the contrary, it has motivated me more.'

Next year the focus is on Europeans and Worlds but then the team result is important to her,
not her own results. Ana: 'My job is to perform in the team and to help my teammates. My wish for 2010 is to win medals with the team and after that, win individual medals and that I'm healthy.'

She talks about gymnastics most of all and little about herself. Born in Galati in 1993, few people probably know what a tough life she has had so far. First of all, coaches Paul and Agripina Galea had to convince her parents to leave her in gymnastics as she was so talented, mostly Ana's father was very sceptical. Her father left the family when she was only 8. She doesn't know where her father is at the moment. 3 years ago, when she had just been selected for the
national team, her mother had to leave for Italy to work there. Ana's sister, who's 2 years older, is being taken care of by an uncle.

In her free time Ana likes to draw as it relaxes her a lot.

Anamaria Tamarjan has to encounter more bad luck in her career. Being prepared to undergo
an operation to remove a cyst on her left knee at the end of this year, she was also diagnosed with a pinched meniscus on her right knee. Anamaria: 'It's a big blow but it also motivates me even more. I want to continue and fight for my dream.'






21 October 2009


Ana Porgras wants to become the best gymnast in the world

'I love bars and I will continue to work hard on this apparatus. After I won the medal, I was constantly looking at it. I received hundreds of messages of support. My mother says that it's an achievement to come home with a medal after my first Worlds. I want to become the best gymnast in the world!,' said Ana for Sport.ro and she added that she had the worse nerves of
her life on beam.



Steliana Nistor is looking for talent

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Steliana (who's dyed her hair blond!) refused an offer to go to America to become a coach as
she wanted to stay in Romania. At the moment, she's dividing her life between the Faculty, friends and the process of getting the status as a coach.
In her new flat, you can see all the memories of her career, her trophies and medals, each one
of them has a story but Stela doesn't have the time to tell each and every one of them. She acknowledges that she struggled a lot trying to cope with the routine of her new life and what it required. Stela: 'I didn't know my own city. I had to learn about the circus and what it is that a person of my age does.'
At the moment she's busy with her study and she can't wait to begin the second year at the Faculty for Physical Education and Sport in Sibiu.

The reporter went to Rusciori with Stela, a place 10 km West from Sibiu, where she tested some children who would like to do gymnastics and she starts with a warming up which is so natural to her. Stela: 'Warm up your shoulders, turn your head, do a few bridges: two up, two down. Stretch your hand, feet apart......very good!' It was the first routine that Steliana did as a coach. Stela: 'Today I taught them some basic elements and it made me happy that they were alongside me. I asked her what they wanted to do and they told me that they want to learn how to do gymnastics.'
She wants to become a coach but first she has the intention to work as an instructor. Stela: I need to get all the diplomas and to start training, probably from next year. Until then, I am looking for kids with talent, ambition and with the wish to do sport.'

Iulian Preda has known Steliana since the age of 3. The counselor of Sibiu wants his daughter, who's 3 years old, to follow in the footsteps of the former gymnast. Iulian: 'I hope the little one has talent. I hope that Steliana will become coach and that she will help other children to
achieve what she has achieved. Even though it means having to sacrifice, I want nothing but good things for my child.'






19 October 2009

Nadia Comaneci is excited about Ana Porgras

Nadia Comaneci was present at Worlds in London. For BBC, Nadia said: 'I think I was very impressed by her, I hadn't seen her before. She comes from the same part of Romania, from Moldavia, as I come from. The coaches are hesitant to compare her to me, yet. (She laughs)
I think she's the upcoming new star, she's very different from the style of gymnast that Romania usualy brings, very strong and tumbling usually but Ana has long lines and she's also strong at
the same time and she's very beautiful, she's very new. This is her 3rd big competition and she's very nervous.' (You see Nadia talk to Ana, trying to calm her down, holding her shoulders and Nicolae Forminte is standing next to them, smiling. Ana looks up to Nadia and nods every time
she says something. It's really sweet to see.)
Nadia: 'I just talked to her and she told me that she has competition nerves and that she's very scared. I said to her: 'Do you remember the best routine you've done in training and she said
yes, and I said 'This is the one you have to do today, you don't have to do more or less than
you know.'

Unfortunately Ana was still very nervous and fell off beam but it's all a learning curve. She performed beautifully on floor, she's a true ballerina on floor. She has a very bright future and then to think that she almost retired from gymnastics after her injury. She sat on the bench outside the gym with her bags packed and she was ready to go home but Steliana Nistor told
her not to give up and she listened to her and stayed in Deva.

After her bars routine in the apparatus finals, where she won bronze and that's the first time
that a Romanian gymnast has won any medal on bars at Worlds since Oana Petrovschi in 2002!, Ana said for Adevarul: ' I made it through my routine on bars and that was the most important thing. After the last gymnast Rebecca Bross from America performed her routine, I wasn't too sure but I sighed with relief in the end. It's a present for Mr. Forminte for his birthday. I didn't count on a medal on bars. I hope I won't be too nervous on beam, I think it will be ok if I work as well as I did on bars. I qualified first on beam so why wouldn't I finish first? I dedicate this bars medal to all the coaches who have trained me and to my family.'

About her fall off beam in the AA she said: 'I don't like to have to wait too long before I start my routine on beam but I could have been more attentive. I need to concentrate more and to
detach myself from what is happening around me so that it's just the beam and me. I had to
wait too long before the judges gave me the green light and I couldn't control my emotions.'

Nicolae Forminte said:' As I had explained already, before Sandra Izbasa's accident, Ana was ready for beam and bars for these World Championships but after what happened to Sandra, I had to change my plans at the last minute and she had to compete AA.' On Saturday, he
explained: 'Tomorrow she will compete in two more finals in which she has to do what I advised her to do today and she succeeded and I hope with all my heart that she will succeed to do her routines well on Sunday too.'

For Cotidianul, Nicolae Forminte explained: 'Anamaria Tamarjan competed well in the AA, without mistakes but she's a team player and not a gymnast for the AA. For Anamaria and for Gabriela Dragoi these Worlds could be the end of their career. Tamarjan expressed her wish to continue after Europeans but she was constantly swinging between continuing and retiring.
As far as Dragoi is concerned, she has these problems with her leg of which nobody knows how it will end. She seems to do ok but when she encounters too many problems, she struggles with thoughts of retiring.'

Beam:

1. Deng Linlin (CHN) 15.000
2. Lauren Mitchell (AUS) 14.875
3. Ivana Hong (USA) 14.550
4. Kim Un Hyang (PRK) 14.450
5. Elisabetta Preziosa (ITA) 14.200
6. Koko Tsurumi (JPN) 14.100
7. Ana Porgras (ROM) 13.425
8. Yang Yilin (CHN) 13.125

Floor:

1. Elizabeth Tweddle (GBR) 14.650
2. Lauren Mitchell (AUS) 14.550
3. Sui Lu (CHN) 14.300
4. Anna Myzdrikova (RUS) 14.275
5. Rebecca Bross (USA) 14.125
5. Ana Porgras (ROM) 14.125
7. Deng Linlin (CHN) 13.875
8. Jessica Gil Ortiz (COL) 2.975








17 October 2009

Ana Porgras wins a bronze medal on bars

Ana Porgras performed 7th and did well, just slight mistakes on her leg form and she was a little late on her 1.5 turn on the high bar but she nailed her double layout dismount and finished 3rd, together with Rebecca Bross who was up last but also encountered some leg form problems and
a step on landing.
It's the first time since 2002 that Romania has won a medal on bars at Worlds.
He Kexin was the favourite to win and she did just that although she was crooked after her flight element combination.

Vault:
1. Kayla Williams (USA) 15.200 and 15.087: 14.975
2. Ariella Kaeslin (SUI) 15.075 and 14.525: 13.975
3. Youna Dufournet (FRA) 14.275 and 14.450: 14.625
4. Ekaterina Kurbatova (RUS) 14.725 and 14.337: 13.950
5. Hong Un Jong( PRK) 14.425 and 14.262: 14.100
6. Anna Myzdrikova (RUS) 14.275 and 14.225: 14.175
7. Brittany Rogers (CAN) 14.425 and 14.200: 13.975
8. Elsa Garcia (MEX) 14.000 and 13.287: 12.575

Bars:
1. He Kexin (CHN) 16.000
2. Koko Tsurumi (JPN) 14.875
3. Ana Porgras (ROM) 14.675
3. Rebecca Bross (USA) 14.675
5. Cha Yong Hwa (PRK) 14.650
6. Bridget Sloan (USA) 14.600
7. Larrissa Miller (AUS) 14.575
8. Serena Licchetta (ITA) 11.950







16 October 2009

Before Ana Porgras went to London, she said that her dream was to fight for a medal. She knew it was going to be difficult as she's naturally an emotive person and she knew she would be quite nervous. She really wanted to go to London and make everybody proud of her.
Well, needless to say that she did just that. Ana, who won the gold medal on beam at the Junior Europeans last year, had major surgery on her knee tendon following that competition and has fought so hard to get back to world level gymnastics. Even at the Romanian Nationals a few weeks ago, she was still getting used to competing on all 4 apparatus!
Before the AA, Ana said: 'I think my nerves will be my biggest opponent but I have to get
through it and do how I know to do best. No competition is the same and we all start from zero.'

Ana started on vault, her weakest apparatus. She performed a very good single twisting Yurchenko but the judges were a bit harsh on her this time and she only received a 13.675 which put her way down the field straight away as her main adversaries Bridget Sloan and Rebecca Bross performed a DTY and scored so much higher, respectively 14.825 and 14.525.
Anamaria Tamarjan started on beam and did so much better than qualifications for a 14.125.
Bars have been a weak apparatus for the Romanians for quite some time but Ana worked so hard on this apparatus and it is paying off. She showed good stalder work and a 1.5 pirouette to Jaeger and a slight hop on her double layout dismount for a 14.675 and it moved her up from
11th to 6th.
Tamarjan found another menace and this time it was floor where she only scored a 13.600
On to beam and it was here where she would have to make up ground as this is her favourite apparatus but unfortunately she was made to wait an eternity as the judges were struggling with Lauren Mitchell's score. She started well though but came to grief on her layout somi. The rest
of her routine was superb but the damage was done. She came off the podium and walked over to coach Lili Cosma and shrugged her shoulders while Lili kissed her on the forehead. She was
now in 5th position.
Tamarjan vaulted well, DTY for a 14.275.
On to floor where Ana performs so elegantly, it's a delight to watch her dance but she finished with a simple double tuck somi. (14.025) which put her into 7th.
The fight for gold and silver would be between the two Americans, the youngest and inexerperienced one being in the lead after 3 rotations. Sloan was up first though and nailed her routine. (14.200)
Rebecca Bross had a lead of 1.275 so surely her gold medal would be in the bag but nope, on her very last tumbling pass she fell on her barani and put her hands down, only getting a 12.875 so the gold was Sloan's by 0.05.

Results:

1. Bridget Sloan (USA) VT: 14.825; UB: 14.800; BB: 14.000; FX: 14.200; Total: 57.825
2. Rebecca Bross (USA) VT: 14.525; UB: 15.075; BB: 15.300; FX: 12.875; Total: 57.775
3. Koko Tsurumi (JPN) VT: 13.600; UB: 15.050; BB: 14.800; FX: 13.725; Total: 57.175
4. Lauren Mitchell (AUS) VT: 14.400; UB: 13.625; BB: 15.100; FX: 14.025; Total: 57.150
5. Youna Dufournet (FRA) VT: 14.300; UB: 14.600; BB: 14.450; FX: 13.300; Total: 56.650
6. Yang Yilin (CHN) VT: 14.700; UB: 13.950; BB: 14.225; FX: 13.700; Total: 56.575
7. Ana Porgras (ROM) VT: 13.675; UB: 14.675; BB: 14.125; FX: 14.025; Total: 56.500
8. Ariella Kaeslin (SUI) VT: 15.125; UB: 13.875; BB: 13.500; FX: 13.425; Total: 55.925
9. Anamaria Tamarjan (ROM) VT: 14.275; UB: 13.625; BB: 14.125; FX: 13.600; Total: 55.625







14 October 2009

Qualification summary: Ana Porgras is Romania's only hope for a medal

Ana Porgras and Anamaria Tamarjan were the gymnasts who were picked to do the AA for Romania, Diana Chelaru was going to do vault and floor and Gabriela Dragoi bars and beam.
Gabriela started in the 1st subdivision and showed a good toe on 1.5 to Jaeger but a low Gienger for a 14.150 (11th) and scored a 13.800 (18th) on beam so no finals for Gabi.
Diana Chelaru also competed in the first division. Her DTY scored a 14.225 but her second vault only received a 12.900 which put her 15th. On floor she only scored a 13.475 and finished 15th so she too didn't make it into the finals.
Ana Porgras competed in the 3rd subdivision and started on bars where she did very well,
showing a 1.5 pirouette to Jaeger, good stalder work and a high double layout dismount (14.575)
Her beam routine is just breath taking with free walkover flick to layout, high sheep jump, good change leg ring leap and a double pike dismount. (14.850)
Her floor routine is so elegant and the double spin with her leg along her ear is superb (14.175).
She only performs a single twisting Yurchenko on vault which will surely be upgraded in the
future. (13.700) Ana qualified as 2nd AA, 7th on bars, 1st on beam and 3rd on floor.
Anamaria Tamarjan was up in the next subdivision and started well on vault with a DTY (14.225). She wasn't as good as Porgras on bars (13.700) and fell off beam (12.900) and was also a little wobbly on her landings on floor (13.425) for 12th AA.

Results after qualification:

1. Rebecca Bross (USA) VT: 14.250; UB: 15.050; BB: 14.150; FX: 13.950; Total: 57.400
2. Ana Porgras (Rom) VT: 13.700; UB: 14.575; BB: 14.850; FX: 14.175; Total: 57.300
3. Lauren Mitchell (Aus) VT: 14.475; UB: 13.750; BB: 14.400; FX: 14.050; 56.675
13. Anamaria Tamarjan (Rom) VT: 14.225; UB: 13.700; BB: 12.900; FX: 13.425; Total: 54.250