Oka Shinnosuke
It’s solely been about six weeks since Oka Shinnosuke shocked to defeat the 2 frontrunners for the all-around gold medal within the males’s competitors on the Olympic Video games, however the 20-year-old hasn’t skipped a beat, profitable gold once more at yesterday’s All-Japan Senior Championships.
Oka topped the ground and excessive bar standings on his method to an 86.331, down solely half a degree in comparison with his whole in Paris after going 14+ on each equipment however rings, the place he nonetheless managed a 13.399. The Olympic champion had some very sturdy competitors right here, together with from 2020 Olympian Kitazono Takeru, who gained the silver medal with an 85.599 after topping the parallel bars standings, and from Matsumi Kazuki, a flooring standout who gained the bronze with an 85.364.
Rounding out the highest eight on this tremendous gifted area had been Kawakami Shohei in fourth to narrowly miss the rostrum with an 85.264, Hasegawa Tsuyoshi in fifth with an 85.065, Miwa Teppei in sixth with an 84.731, Tanigawa Kakeru in seventh with an 84.599, and veteran two-time Olympian Tanaka Yusuke – who gained a silver medal as a part of the 2012 workforce and a gold with the workforce in 2016 – in eighth with an 84.232, exhibiting his typical high-level performances on parallel bars and excessive bar.
Along with Oka, we additionally noticed 2024 Olympians Tanigawa Wataru and Sugino Takaaki competing right here, with Tanigawa going up on each occasion however vault and exhibiting his greatest work on parallel bars, whereas Sugino competed on flooring, pommel horse, vault, and excessive bar, exhibiting sturdy units on every together with his 14.7 on pommel horse the second-best of the meet.
Notably lacking on the high of the all-around area was 2022 world medalist Doi Ryosuke, who competed effectively on his first three occasions however then injured his shoulder on excessive bar, forcing him to withdraw from the remainder of the meet. Program standout and four-time Olympic medalist Hashimoto Daiki was additionally anticipated to compete right here, however withdrew previous to the occasion’s begin to give attention to recovering from accidents.
The day after the all-around competitors, this meet featured an extremely unique “tremendous specialist” championships, a glorified occasion closing the place the very best guys on all six apparatuses bought to battle to see who can be the very best. Matsumi gained the gold on flooring with a 14.3, Tanigawa Kakeru gained pommel horse with a 15.0, Kaneda Kiichi gained rings with a 14.5, Kabeya Hinata gained vault with a 14.399 common, Oka gained parallel bars with a 15.4, and Sugino gained excessive bar with a 14.833.
Within the girls’s competitors, two-time Olympian and 2024 Olympic alternate Sugihara Aiko gained the all-around with a 53.498, placing up the very best scores of the day on vault with a 13.966 and on flooring with a 13.366.
Taking the silver medal was Matsunaga Arisa with a 52.532, exhibiting her greatest work on vault, whereas Iwasa Nodoka gained the bronze with a 52.199, exhibiting the second-best bars routine of the day with a 13.166. Rounding out the highest eight had been Banba Sari in fourth with a 51.732 along with tying Sugihara for the highest vault rating, Tokita Akiho in fifth with a 51.465, Takezawa Kaoruko in sixth with a 51.266, Honda Shanogi in seventh with a 51.199 whereas topping the bars area with a 13.2, and Iwasaki Natsume in eighth with a 51.099.
A complete of fifty girls ended up competing right here, together with 2024 Olympian Okamura Mana on each equipment however bars. She struggled a bit on vault and flooring, however had the very best efficiency of the day on beam, incomes a 14.033.
Full Outcomes
All-Japan Senior Championships | Males’s All-Round
All-Japan Senior Championships | Girls’s All-Round
Tremendous Specialist Championships
Article by Lauren Hopkins