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The Major Competitions in 2005 |
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Result
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2005 Natinal Championships Day
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Men's Team Competition
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by
T. Fujii & Masamune Yuasa
(web published on October 14, 2005) |
DATE: October 14, 2005
PLACE:Amagasaki Memorial Park Gymnasium
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| Tokushukai Gymnastics Club wins the team competition. |
Nippon Sports Science University (NSSU, the winner of the inter-college
championships), Tokushukai GC (the winner of the non-student
championships) and Konami Sports Club, which had two gymnasts of the
coming world championships roster, led the competition and performed some
amazing skills.
Konami came up in the first session (prior to the second session, in which
NSSU and Tokushukai would compete against each other head to head.) A
member of the world championships roster, Tatsuya Yamada, performed a back
roll to Maltese on rings, which he will probably perform in the coming
world championships, and scored 9.550. Yuki Yoshimura did a two and a
half twisting Tsukahara (equivalent to Driggs, 9.9 SV) and scored 9.500.
Akifumi Sasaki was excellent on horizontal bar. Yoshimura and Sasaki
were third and fourth in the all-around qualification, respectively.
However, the team could not score highly on pommel horse, horizontal bar,
or floor exercise because of mistakes.
NSSU started from horizontal bar, but they had some mistakes and did not
get good scores. The last performer, Takehito Mori, unveiled his Piatti
(Stalder-layout Tkachev), an SE skill, and scored 9.300. On floor, Makoto
Okiguchi hit layout double-double and scored 9.500, the best score of the
day on this event. On pommel horse, Hitoshi Aoyama, Kenya Kobayashi, and
Kazusa Fujita hit their excellent routines, but the other three missed and
the total was not so good, but was the best team total score on this
event. They showed their weakness on rings (lack of strength elements),
but Okiguchi hit his Lopez (double twisting Kasamatsu, 10 SV) to score
9.675 and Fujita performed a good peachbasket with full twist (SE) to
score 9.500 on vault and parallel bars, respectively. Thanks to these
high scores in the last two rotations, they edged Konami by 0.900.
Tokushukai missed its team leader, Isao Yoneda, due to a shoulder injury
(he will withdraw from the coming world championships, too), but Hisashi
Mizutori led the team well. Their first event, floor, was superb. Naoya
Tabara showed LAYOUT Lipinsky and whip to LAYOUT Thomas. Mizutori was good
in sequences of high bonus points to score 9.300. By contrast, they made
uncharacteristic mistakes on pommel horse; Mizutori, Tomoharu Sano, and
Shun Kuwabara fell. On rings, led by Ryuta Nakazato, they performed good
sequences of strength elements and scored well. On vault, Mizutori stuck
his Driggs and scored 9.650. Yasuhiro Ogawa performed the best Roche and
scored 9.325. After this event, they led NSSU and Konami and they
increased their lead on parallel bars; Sano missed peach half, but the
other five showed steadiness and Ogawa scored 9.600 with an excellent
execution on his peach sequence. They went to the last event, horizontal
bar, with a big margin over NSSU. The three could not score over 9.0, but
the last performer, Mizutori, did Kolman, layout Kovacs, and tucked Kovacs
and stuck his layout double-double dismount to score 9.500. Finally,
Tokushukai won their third consecutive championships since 2003.
As for the all-around qualification, Hiroyuki Tomita topped Mizutori.
Tomita started on rings including an SE skill (slow back roll from planche
to Maltese) and scored 9.725, the highest score of the day. He made small
mistakes on vault, horizontal bar, and floor, but he concluded the day
with a very strong routine on pommel horse: D-Russian & Flop combination,
Fedrchenko, Sivado travel, E-Flop, Stockli A to 3/4 twisting handstand to
3/3 travel dismount.
*Takehiro Kashima withdrew from the meet due to a shoulder injury. Even
so, he will compete in the coming world championships!!!
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