Training Day 3 Recap - USA, China, Russia, Italy, and Germany

Here’s what you need to know about training day 3 from American individuals, team China, Russia, Italy, and Germany

Apr 14, 2018 by Sarah Lorish

Training Day 3 Recap - USA, China, Russia, Italy, and Germany

USA

The U.S. Individuals trained four events this morning. On floor, we caught a glimpse of Tori Tatum’s tumbling passes—a huge tucked full-in, 2.5 twist to front pike, and a front double full punch pike.

Sydney Barros threw a huge double Arabian to stag jump, a double layout, and a double pike. So the U.S. will look for individual floor medals.

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Ragan Smith, a firecracker on every event, showed a bar set with a toe-full to toe-½ to Tkatchev, and a huge stalder Tkatchev to Pac, plus a full-in dismount.

Alyona Shchennikova brought her long lines and inbar work to training today. We saw an inbar toe-full to Shaposh to Tkatchev. Emma Malabuyo looked as clean and crisp as ever on bars today. She showed her full-twisting double layout dismount. Adeline Kenlin also cranked some inbar work along with her stalder Shaposh and double front ½-out dismount.

Olivia Dunne is ready for competition. She trained a Maloney to Gienger and a great piked Jaeger.

On beam, Kenlin looked ready to go, straight-up hitting her beam routine. She nailed her handspring step-out to handspring to layout.

Dunne showed gorgeous choreography on beam, along with a stuck handspring step out loso - loso, and a back handspring step-out back handspring double-tuck.

On vault, Malabuyo, Shchennikova, and Grace McCallum showed solid Y-2/1s. McCallum also trained her Y-½-on, tuck ½.

Italy

The Italian juniors trained today, and they look like they’re ready to get on the podium.

Asia D'Amato can vault. She does a Y-2/1 and a big Y-½ on, layout ½. She also has some nice bar sequences with L-grip giants to a double-front dismount.

Last year’s junior bar champ, Elisa Iorio is back on the scene and looking for a repeat win. Her stalder-½ to straddle-back-½ and L-grip double-front are wild for a junior.

Alessia Federici trained an L-grip Jaeger and a stalder-full to double pike.

Giorgia Villa is a junior with serious senior-level skills. She showed the longest bar combo ever (not actually, but you get it): stalder Tkatchev to Pac to Maloney to stalder-½ to straddle-back ½… and that’s just the beginning.

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Federici showed beam set highlighted by a front handspring step-out to front tuck on beam and a double turn. She also does a backward roll to handstand, you know, on the beam. Villa also showed a beam routine with lovely leaps and she also did the backward roll. It’s a thing now.

Russia

Melnikova turned heads on floor with a full twisting double layout, a huge double layout, and front tuck through to double-tuck. She gets OFF the table on her Y-2/1, and Y-½-on Layout ½-off, bouncing back out of both vaults.

Russia’s bars today was basically a master class on technique, starting with Melnikova. Her inbar toe-½ to piked Jaeger is Sub. Lime.

Iliankova also brings fire and flair to Russian bars, opening with a piked Hindorff, Maloney to uprise free-hip ½ to Pac ½.

Uliana Perebinosova showed up to bars with her Tweddle to Bhardwaj combo, and stalder full to Tkatchev to Pac.

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Kseniia Klimenko should be a solid anchor for the Russian Juniors. She’s got great handstands and pirouettes on bars and a big piked Jaeger to Pac. Her bar routine is already packed with big transitions and releases and a textbook double-front ½ out.

Elena Gerasimova, though new to the international stage, brings that impeccable Russian bar swing and a technically strong routine.

China

The Chinese juniors didn't bring too much difficulty on floor. Yin Sisi, He Licheng, Gian Xuejia, and Guo Fanting all showed triple-fulls, 2.5 to font pikes, double tucks, and double-fulls.

On vault, we saw a nice Tsuk 2/2 from Liu Jieyu and a Yurchenko full from Fanting.

Qian Xuejia showed a beam routine with her super springy handspring step-out to handspring to layout. Her legs do. not. bend in her front aerial and she showed oversplits in her leaps and jumps. Definitely in medal contention.

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Germany

German senior Carina Kroell vaulted a front handspring front tuck ½ with a strong block off the table and decent landing.

On bars, Sidney Hayn trained a toe-front half-out dismount, Aiyu Zhu showed some nice sequences and a Tkatchev, but Lara Hinsberger really showed some strength. She does a clean Maloney ½, stalder ½ to a huge piked Jaeger, and a toe-front half-out dismount.

The German juniors also had some moments on beam. Emma Malewski’s choreography has real rhythm and is worth the watch. Hayn mounted with a clean loso, a solid side aerial and handspring loso, and a side somi.

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