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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 All-Around Final
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by
T. Fujii & M. Yuasa
(web published on October 20, 2005) |
DATE: October 15, 2005
PLACE:Amagasaki Memorial Park Gymnasium
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| Tomita wins his fourth all-around championships. |
Without three gymnasts, Isao Yoneda, Takehiro Kashima (both did not
compete at these nationals) and Daisuke Nakano (who failed to qualify for
the finals) from the gold medal winning team at the Olympics, Hiroyuki
Tomita and Hisashi Mizutori, the top 2 qualifiers, seemed to be
unbeatable. Konami Sports Club's excellent gymnasts, Yuki Yoshimura and
Akifumi Sasaki, were in the same group. Two collegiate gymnasts also
joined that group; Kenya Kobayashi, one of the competitors at the East
Asian Games, and Kensuke Murata, the inter-collegiate champion.
The top group started the day from floor, and Mizutori showed excellent
tumbling passes with 9.9 SV. Tomita had made a lot of mistakes in the NHK
Cup in July, but had good control here in bonus-gaining passes and scored
9.125 (9.7 SV).
On pommel horse, Mizutori and Kobayashi achieved 10 SV and scored 9.400
respectively on their favorite event, but Tomita's beautiful and strong
routine beat them with 9.625.
On still rings, all of the gymnasts in the group except Tomita showed
weakness on this event, and could not score to reach even the middle of
the nines. Mizutori had a wobble on his back uprise to Maltese and could
not hold it long enough. Tomita was apparently in a different class on
this event; back uprise to planche, slow back roll from planche to Maltese
(SE), Nakayama, pull-up to Maltese, and Azarian. These elements were
perfectly executed; his only mistake was a hop on landing (double layout
dismount). The score was 9.775, the highest score of the day!
On vault, every gymnast except Sasaki did a Driggs, and Mizutori was the
best among them and scored 9.600, showing good height and distance, and
completing the twist before landing. Kobayashi and Tomita almost stuck
the landings and scored 9.500 and 9.450, respectively.
On parallel bars, the top qualifier for the finals, Murata, wobbled on his
back uprise to handstand, and Mizutori did not hit handstands after
peachbaskets. Tomita maintained his steadiness on this event as usual,
and hit his routine, performing a series of peachbaskets to Belle,
Tippelt, and tucked Morisue. Moreover, he stuck his double pike dismount
ant scored 9.625. He increased his margin over the second place Mizutori.
On horizontal bar, Murata hit his routine, including Kolman, but his low
SV (9.6) brought him only 9.125. Sasaki did a beautiful Kolman and stuck
his layout full-in dismount to score 9.325. Yoshimura went the wrong way
after kip cast to handstand, but Mizutori by contrast hit his gorgeous
routine; layout Kovacs to one and a half twisting hop giant to mixed grip,
Kolman, and Kovacs. He had a small step on his landing but scored 9.500.
Even this good score did not threaten Tomita, the last performer of the
group; he had to score only 8.600 or more to top Mizutori. He showed a
beautiful Kolman and very nimble movement on his full twisting piked
Stalder to one and a half twisting piked Stalder. (He missed the latter
element in the prelims). He took a small step forward on his dismount, and
it was the only mistake in this routine. He scored 9.625 with 10 SV and
won his second consecutive championship.
Outside of the first group, two gymnasts in another group had very steady
performances and jumped up to higher ranks. Takuya Nakase, in the fifth
group, was strong on leg events; he stuck a strong tucked double-double
dismount on floor and did a very high two and a half twisting Yurchenko on
vault. Ryota Suzuki, the winner on horizontal bar at the DTB Cup in 2003,
was strong on floor and horizontal bar, and his lowest score was 8.950 on
rings. Neither of them made any big mistakes and tied for third after
Tomita and Mizutori.
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