USA Gymnastics athletes had an distinctive displaying on the 2023 DTP Pokal Staff Problem and Blended Cup over the weekend, leaving with a powerful 12 medals in any case was mentioned and executed.
Staff Problem
Within the Staff Problem competitors, each the U.S. women and men gained gold in head-turning early season performances that noticed the boys beat Japan and the ladies win by practically 7 factors.
Senior Males
Arguably probably the most spectacular results of the weekend was the U.S. males’s win within the senior division over a Japanese squad that included three members of the nation’s silver-medal profitable group from final 12 months’s world championships, together with Olympic all-around and excessive bar champion Hashimoto Daiki.
The U.S. was bolstered by the highest scores on vault and parallel bars and the second-best scores on the remaining apparatuses to beat Japan 258.800 to 253.950. Turkey was third with a 247.350.
On flooring, Yul Moldauer (5280) led a rotation the place each athlete within the lineup earned a 14.0 or greater, along with his 14.500 ending second solely to Japan’s Doi Ryosuke (14.900). He opened with a entrance 2.5 twist (Randi) with a hop ahead adopted by a entrance double full to full (small hop), caught double Arabian half, an intricate flairs sequence, double full to the aspect, caught 2.5 twist to format, and a caught triple full.
The boys have been in a position to get by pommel horse with little damaging fanfare – simply how you want horse to go – with Asher Hong (Stanford) main the way in which with a 14.250 for his set that features speedy aptitude parts. Hong continued his large day posting the highest rating on rings as properly with a 14.550, dismounting with a caught laid-out double-double. However arguably his greatest efficiency of the day got here on vault, the place he carried out two vaults together with a caught Ri Se Gwang (15.450) that you just need to see to consider. His 14.875 common led the group, however the remainder of the boys additionally put up nice scores within the mid-14s.
The U.S. was virtually lights out on parallel bars, the place Michigan freshman Fred Richard went 14.900, dismounting with a caught double entrance, and Shane Wiskus (EVO) earned a 14.750.
Regardless of errors from Hong on excessive bar, the boys have been in a position to comply with with three hit units to safe a virtually 5 level win over the reigning Olympic silver medalists. Reigning world excessive bar champion Brody Malone, who only in the near past returned to competitors after a short hiatus, anchored the rotation with a 14.350, catching a Cassina, Kolman, and dismounting with a laid-out double-double.
Sadly, Malone sustained a knee harm throughout the excessive bar remaining and acquired care at an area hospital earlier than touring residence with the group. The extent of the harm and his standing for the rest of the NCAA season is unknown.
Senior Ladies
The senior ladies’s group consisted of Nola Matthews (Airborne), Joscelyn Roberson (World Champions), Zoe Miller (World Champions), Ashlee Sullivan (WOGA), and Lexi Zeiss (Twin Metropolis Twisters).
Zeiss needed to withdraw from the DTB meet for “precautionary causes” after consulting together with her coaches and USA Gymnastics medical employees, however she was in a position to cheer her teammates on from the sideline.
Beginning on vault, Matthews opened with a caught full-twisting Yurchenko that earned a 13.100. Miller adopted with a clear Yurchenko 1.5, taking only a step ahead to earn a 13.900. Sullivan barely under-rotated her double-twisting Yurchenko, touchdown low and having to take a number of steps again (13.100). Roberson rounded out the rotation with two highly effective vaults – a half-on, entrance full off and double-twisting Yurchenko – to common a 14.075.
Miller headlined the second rotation, incomes a powerful 14.850 for her uneven bars set that included an inbar 1/1, floaty straddled Jaeger, stalder to piked Tkatchev to Pak Salto, Van Leeuwen, and a caught double format.
Sullivan led the U.S. beam rotation with a 13.800, together with one in all solely two 8.0+ execution scores of the meet (the opposite went to Matthews). She opened with a pointy double wolf flip earlier than encountering some hassle on her standing Arabian, however she pushed by the hiccup to hit her flight sequence that consisted of a again handspring format step-out to format step-out, with only a small bobble on the top. The next blended acro sequence was excellent and consisted of a entrance aerial to straddle leap to separate leap. She rounded the set out with an Onodi, swap leap, and a giant double pike dismount with only a stutter step again.
Roberson secured the dominant win on flooring, incomes a 14.150 for her routine. Some of the highly effective tumblers within the nation, Roberson executed a Moors (laid-out double-double), a flared out Chusovitina (full-twisting double format), rolled (actually) right into a triple wolf flip, solely had a small hop out of her entrance full to double again, and closed with a clear double pike.
The U.S. completed with the highest scores on every equipment and simply bested second-place finisher Belgium (155.950) and third-place finisher France (155.300).
Junior Males
The junior males’s group consisted of Solen Chiodi (Mini-Hops), Zach Inexperienced (Stanford Boys), Alex Nitache (GymTek), Danila Leykin (EVO), and Max Odden (North Valley).
The group edged Germany for the win 234.050 to 233.700, incomes the highest group scores on flooring, vault, and parallel bars and ending second on the remaining occasions.
It was a real group effort that noticed different nations end atop every particular person occasion besides parallel bars, the place Leykin earned a 14.000 with a powerful 9.000 execution rating.
Staff Problem Equipment Finals
The People added 9 extra medals to their haul throughout equipment finals, with Roberson profitable gold on vault (14.083 common), and silver on flooring (13.300). Miller gained uneven bars with a 14.633, displaying spectacular consistency on the occasion.
The 2017 world flooring bronze medalist, Moldauer as soon as once more displayed his energy on flooring, putting second with a 14.233. Hong took bronze on pommel horse with a 14.133.
The junior males led the U.S. with 4 equipment medals. Chiodi gained silver on vault with a 13.500 common and bronze on flooring with a 13.100. Inexperienced gained gold on excessive bar (13.600), and Leykin gained gold on parallel bars with a 13.733.
Blended Cup
Competitors concluded on Sunday afternoon with the electrical DTB Pokal Blended Cup. A 6-person group represented the U.S. and consisted of Jeremy Bischoff (Stanford), Landen Blixt (Michigan), Isaiah Drake (Navy), Addison Fatta (Status), Matthews, and Elle Mueller (Twin Metropolis Twisters).
The group posted a 157.330 after three rotations to qualify to the bronze remaining, in the end ending fourth.
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