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The Romanian team missed the gold medal at the European Women’s Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Mersin, Turkey on Saturday, after dominating Thursday’s qualifiers. Romania came in second, after Ukraine, and gymnast Larisa Iordache, returned to competition after three years, barely controlling her tears at the award ceremony.
Instead, on Friday, Romania conquered in June team and individual compound gold medals at the European Women’s Artistic Gymnastics Championships held in Mersin.
On Saturday, the Romanian team (Larisa Iordache, Ioana Stănciulescu, Silvia Sfiringu, Antonia Duţă, Daniela Trică) added 154,496 points, being slightly surpassed by Ukraine (Anastasia Bacinska, Elizaveta Gubareva, Anastasia Motak, Anghelina Radivilova, Diana Varinska). obtained gold with 154,663 points.
The difference was marked by the low grade received by Ioana Stănciulescu in the parallels (9,800).
Hungary came in third place (Csenge Maria Bacskay, Dorina Boeczoego, Zsofia Kovacs, Mirtill Makovits, Zoja Szekely), with 151,597 points, reports Agerpres.
Watch the video of the award ceremony here.
Romania has lost the European title as in this year’s edition of the European Championship there are no more formidable teams, definitive candidates for medals, including Russia, France, Great Britain, Italy or the Netherlands.
Larisa Iordache, the only one of the Romanian team who played on all four machines
Larisa Iordache, 24, was the only one of the Romanian team to do all four devices, receiving 14,166 in jumps, 13,100 in parallel bars, 14,133 on the beam and 12,766 on the ground.
Silvia Sfiringu scored with 14,200 in jump, 12,166 in parallel and 12,366 in beam.
Antonia Duţă received 12,800 ashore.
Ioana Stănciulescu scored 13,500 on jumps, 9,800 on parallel bars and 13,033 on the ground, and Daniela Trica took 12,466 on the beam.
Ukraine, superior to Romania only in parallel
On machines, Romanian women had the best evolution in jumping, 41,866 points, and the weakest in parallel bars, 35,066.
In the beam the total was 38,965 and in the ground 38,599.
In fact, Ukraine was superior to Romania only in parallel, a device in which Hungary was, in fact, the best.
In the standings, Romania ranked first, with a total of 159,496 points, followed by Ukraine, with 154,896 points, and Hungary, with 154,129 points.
Romania has representatives in all finals on Sunday
Romania will have representatives in all the finals on Sunday.
Larisa Iordache qualified for four finals, jumping with the third average (13,716, after marks of 13,933 and 13,500), parallel bars with the second mark (13,566), beam with the first mark (13,633) and on the ground with the first. note (13,433).
Ioana Stănciulescu will also play the jump final, where she had the sixth average (13,383, after 13,700 and 13,066 marks), Silviana Sfiringu qualified for the beam final with the second mark (13,100) and Irina Antonia Duţă evolved in the final of land in which he managed to reach the second grade (13,200).
Editor: Luana Pavaluca
