The 2021 Japan Gymnastics World Championships began the first event final competition, and Melnikova, a talented girl from Russia, won the championship by beating two American athletes, and also broke the monopoly of the United States in the world championship in this project for ten years. Wei Xiaoyuan, a youngster from China, finished sixth.
Melnikova was able to pick up gold
In terms of scores, Wei Xiaoyuan scored a total of 52.699 points, including vaulting 13.200 points, ranking 20th among the 24 finalists, 13.366 points on the uneven bars, ranking 7th, balance beam 13.733 points in 3rd place, and free gymnastics 12.400 points in 16th place, which is nearly 2.4 points less than her 55.064 points for the All-Around Champion of the National Games. This is due to the fact that the overall difficulty is 0.4 less than that of the National Games, but it is more that the final play is unstable.
Wei Xiaoyuan finished sixth
In this competition, the uneven bar was 1.5 points less because of the bar drop, and the free exercise was also 0.8 points less because of multiple mistakes and difficulty problems. If he can play at the level of zero mistakes in the National Games, Wei Xiaoyuan still has the hope of winning a bronze medal.
Even if Wei Xiaoyuan plays perfectly, it still can't hide the gap between women's gymnastics and the world's top level, especially the vaulting horse and free gymnastics, and the champion Melnikova's vault is 14.466 points. Free gymnastics 13.833 points, these two items combined to surpass Wei Xiaoyuanjin 2.7 points, even our vault master Qi Qi this preliminary round is only 12.933 points ranked 18th, The National Games champion Yu Linmin is 13.970, not only compared to Melnikova, more than the 15 points of the Tokyo Olympic champion, the same, our free gymnastics national champion is 13.660 points, Tokyo Olympic champion is 14.366 points. It is in these two events that Russia has 6.766 points more than us in the Tokyo women's gymnastics team. What a jaw-dropping!
Biles is a gymnastics legend
From the beginning of The Biles unified women's gymnastics, it seems that the style and pattern of women's gymnastics in the world are undergoing tremendous changes, and a number of power players in the United States have the strength to compete for gold medals in almost all women's events, and the former overlords Romania and Russia have fallen to the altar.
Some people say that Byers made women's gymnastics lose its beauty, some people say that this is a contest between male players and female players, but it cannot be denied that she has brought women's gymnastics to a new height, difficult flips, steady landing, as long as she does not make mistakes, the champion is hers, not to mention, she rarely has serious mistakes. Even with a balance beam that was only 10 centimeters wide, he could still control her muscles and core strength on the verge of failure so that he would not fall.
On the other hand, our female athletes, slender, small, slender, their movement specifications are standard, their posture is beautiful, but they have achieved nothing in the power event, except for Cheng Fei, who appeared in the 08 Olympic cycle, which created our history in free gymnastics and vaulting events. And now, in these two projects, our gap is constantly increasing. And even without Cheng Fei, our female generals such as Liu Xuan, Zhang Nan, Yang Yilin, Yang Yun, Deng Linlin, and Deng Linlin have also made good achievements and achievements in free exercises or jumping horses.
So, what is causing this situation?
Personally, I think it is still a lack of strength and core training, these two projects are extremely demanding on leg strength and arm and even finger strength, running, jumping, bracing (floor) determine the height, distance of each jump, leaving room for the completion of the action, and the core strength determines that you can make movements for several weeks in ample space.
Let's talk about China's advantage projects, high and low bars and balance beams, although not a strength project, but the success of Biles and others has told us that strength is still the basis of these two, the leg strength of the balance beam can make you stand more stable, and the Brazilian star Rebecca won the first place in the two preliminary competitions of vaulting and uneven bars, which also tells you the importance of absolute core. And although we have difficulty, although we have technology, but in the game, either this bar drop or that drop wood, a very small mistake will lose the momentum of the next action.
But at present, in China, there seems to be no female player with good strength, is it possible that the training of balance beams and high and low bars must be in conflict with power sports such as vaulting and free gymnastics? Of course not!
Leaving aside Byers, the 2017 women's gymnastics all-around champion Morgan is typical of short, slender body, and the world champion Melnikova is also able to combine the beauty and power of gymnastics.
This is not to say, in recent years, Russia's rapid recovery, Melnikova, Ulazova, Akhimova are all all masters, the overall strength has completely surpassed the United States, and Melnikova in the all-around final Balance Beam 1st, the other three are 2nd. It can be seen that Russia has foreseen the future and development direction of women's gymnastics and worked hard for it.
And this, is it also worth learning from Chinese women's gymnastics?
Later, the Chinese women's team will also compete in balance beams and high and low bars, and wish the more and more beautiful Chinese girls good luck!